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Cancer Center Receives $6 Million Contract
to Identify Vaccine-Enhancing Substances
Researchers at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have received $6 million from the National Institutes of Health to spend the next five years looking for, testing and developing chemicals called “adjuvants” that they hope will make current vaccines more effective. More  |
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Rare Procedure Documents How
Human Brain Computes Language
 A study by researchers at the School of Medicine reports a significant breakthrough in explaining gaps in scientists’ understanding of human brain function. The study demonstrates that a small piece of the brain can compute three different things at different times – within a quarter of a second. More
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Students Welcomed to Campus by
New Mural Celebrating Chicano History
 To Lorena Ruiz, a new 15-by-50-foot mural depicting Chicano history is like a huge campus welcome sign. “Where I come from, I see art like this. It reminds of home,” Ruiz said. “It is not just a wall of color to me. It is a dream come true.” More
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Alumna Named Finalist for
Goldwyn Screenwriting Award
 UCSD theatre MFA graduate Jennifer Barclay, ’09, was acting in Chicago and Europe after she received her bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University, but when she couldn’t find enough dynamic female characters to play, she decided to create them herself. More
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Apocalypse When? Theoretical Physicist, Author
Speaks on How Long the Human Race Will Survive
 Four horsemen or one huge asteroid? A bang or a whimper? Wrought from on high or caused by humanity itself? When it comes to predicting how the world will end, most sane people would call all bets off. But there’s sane, there’s insane, and then there’s Dr. Willard Wells, a theoretical physicist who has developed a statistical model that he believes predicts with unprecedented accuracy not just how humanity will collapse, but when. More
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Scientists Discover Protein
Receptor for Carbonation Taste
 How do people taste the carbonation bubbling in their glass of champagne or soda? In last week’s issue of the journal Science, researchers at UC San Diego report that they have discovered the answer in mice, whose sense of taste closely resembles that of humans. More
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Stimulus Grant of Nearly $9 Million to
UC San Diego Funds Study of Young Brains
 Thanks to a grant of nearly $9 million provided through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, UC San Diego researchers looking for the biological bases of differences in human behavior will use sophisticated gene-mapping tools and imaging technology to collect a wealth of data about brain development in children. More
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Conrad Prebys Music Center Wins Award
for Construction and Design Excellence
 The newly-opened Conrad Prebys Music Center has been named the best “Higher Education/Research Facility” in Southern California for its construction and design by California Construction. More
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New Exhibition Explores Art and Activism on the Border
 Seven artists from either side of the border dividing San Diego and Tijuana are represented in an exhibition this fall that deals head-on with politics, immigration, the environment and other hot-button issues – through the lens and sensibility of artists working in multiple media. “Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface” opened Oct. 15 in the gallery@calit2 on the first floor of Atkinson Hall. More
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Poet Named National Book Award Finalist
 UC San Diego poet Rae Armantrout’s most recent book, “Versed,” has been selected as a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award. A professor of writing and literature at UCSD for more than two decades, Armantrout is one of five finalists in the poetry category and one of 20 overall. More |
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Preuss School Teacher Named among
Five San Diego County “Teachers of the Year”
 Kelly Kovacic, social studies department chair at UC San Diego’s Preuss School, has been selected as one of five San Diego County “Teachers of the Year” and will contend in state Teacher of the Year awards next month. More |
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October 19, 2009 |
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Academic Senate
Leaders Talk Issues
with UC President
UC President Mark Yudof traded insights with faculty on a range of issues the university is grappling with — including furloughs, retention and future planning — at an Oct. 14 meeting of the Assembly of the Academic Senate.
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Give Your Input on the Future of the University of California
Members of the UC community are invited to participate in the work of the UC Commission on the Future. The commission was formed recently to develop a new vision for the university within the context of its mission, budget, and commitment to quality, access and affordability.
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Upcoming
Staff Education and Development Courses
Academic Personnel: Introduction to Academic Personnel
10/22/2009
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Web Design Part 2: Intermediate HTML
10/27/09 and 10/29/09
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Academic Personnel: Preparing the Biobib
10/28/2009
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46,000: size, in square feet, of the center, which includes classrooms, recording suites, computer music labs, a 150-seat lecture and recital hall and a 400-seat concert hall |
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The Importance of Being Iceland
By Eileen Myles
This collection of essays documents the author’s status as a moving, thinking, perceiving subject in the middle of urban ecosystems around the world. From La Jolla to New York to Iceland, Myles studies crowds, cities, their art, their culture and their discontents, articulating a contemporary form of flanerie that is, like its Parisian antecedent, rooted in liminality and transience. But her opinions on Daniel Day-Lewis, filmmaker Sadie Benning, Henry David Thoreau and avant-garde poetry are likely to make a lasting impact.
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