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Egyptian Mummies Reveal
Heart Disease as Ancient Affliction
A new study finds that atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, was common in ancient Egyptians, challenging a belief that vascular disease is a modern affliction caused by current-day risk factors such as stress and sedentary lifestyles. Dr. Michael Miyamoto, assistant clinical professor at the School of Medicine, recently returned to the U.S. following an expedition to Egypt to evaluate the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. Results of his work were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Campus Celebrates Opening
of Sustainability Resource Center
 Hundreds of students, faculty and staff gathered Friday at the Price Center theater for the opening of the Sustainability Resource Center, a one-stop sustainability shop where students can learn about green jobs and courses on sustainability-related topics, how to conserve energy and water, or find eco-friendly products.
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Undergraduate Team Dukes
it Out in ‘BattleBots’ Competition
 Last fall, 10 self-professed robotics geeks with very different backgrounds rallied behind a common mission: to create a robot so limber and so destructive that it would take no prisoners. The team, a group of UC San Diego undergraduates named Triton Robotix, competed in the first ever BattleBots college division contest, in which remotely controlled robots try to tear one another apart in the name of glory.
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Alumna Returns to Scripps
to Share Adventures in Space
 Almost everyone takes a few pictures when they go on a trip. Almost no one, though, comes back with the kind of material gathered by Megan McArthur. McArthur, who received her doctorate from UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 2002, made her first return to campus Nov. 5 since taking part in the historic voyage of Space Shuttle Atlantis in May.
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Board of Overseers Joins with Community Members, Elected Officials, Students to
Strategize on Improving Campus Diversity
 UC San Diego’s Board of Overseers joined with community members, local elected officials and about two dozen high school students Saturday morning for a conference aimed at improving campus diversity.
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Week of Celebrations Shines
Spotlight on International Education
 They donned the flags of Brazil, China, Palestine, Canada, Sweden, and Chile and marched down Library Walk with the UCSD pep band, all in the name of international education. UCSD’s fifth annual International Education Week kicked off with a flag parade, the first of a series of events dedicated to enhancing international awareness across campus. More
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Campus Passes $100 Million
Mark for Federal Stimulus Funds
 UC San Diego has received more than $100 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds, with numerous proposals for additional support still being evaluated. More
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Research Team Wins SC09 ‘Storage Challenge’ Award
A research team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has won the Storage Challenge competition at SC09, the leading international conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis.
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Museum of Contemporary Art, UCSD Form Partnership
 The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and UC San Diego have formed an innovative new partnership that will expand student and faculty access to more than 8,000 visual art catalogues and related materials, and provide museum curatorial staff with access to the vast holdings of the UC San Diego Libraries.
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Study Finds Bees Can Learn
Differences in Food’s Temperature
 Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that honeybees can discriminate between food at different temperatures, an ability that may assist bees in locating the warm, sugar-rich nectar or high-protein pollen produced by many flowers.
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New CEO Named at Medical Center
 Thomas E. Jackiewicz has been named as the as new CEO of the UC San Diego Medical Center, effective November 23. Jackiewicz joined UC San Diego Health Sciences in 2001, most recently serving as associate vice chancellor and chief financial officer.
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UC Regents
Approve Fee Increases
Faced with a state funding gap of $1.2 billion next year, UC Regents voted Nov. 19 to increase student fees and adopt a financial plan that asks the state to fully fund the university's needs.
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Call for Nominations: UCSD Alumni Association Awards
for Excellence
The 2010 Awards for Excellence will mark the 32nd year the UCSD Alumni Association has recognized the accomplishments of outstanding alumni and faculty.
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Upcoming
Staff Education and Development Courses
Microsoft Word 2007 Bullets & Numbering
12/01/09
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Intermediate Microsoft Excel 2007
12/01/09 and 12/03/09
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Effective Business Writing
12/03/09
8:30 a.m to 4:30 p.m.
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22: number of mummies from the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Egypt examined for cardiovascular disease by Dr. Michael Miyamoto, a graduate of the UC San Diego School of Medicine and an assistant clinical professor there |
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45 years: minimum age, at death, of the mummified individuals with the highest degree of vascular calcification |
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Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks
By Page duBois
Think Ancient Greece and its philosophy were all about togas, columns and bearded old dudes? Think it’s the kind of subject you wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole? Think again. While juxtaposing the Greeks with Vedic India, the Han dynasty in China, and the empires that survived Alexander the Great, Page duBois examines that Greek civilization through postcolonial, psychoanalytic, and postmodern filters. Her analyses are poised to shake up conventional understandings of both those ancient people and these modern approaches. Socrates, the alpha dog of rabble rousers, would be proud.
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