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UCSD Community Speaks Up Against Racism
Teach-in among campus responses to racially themed off-campus party
More than 1,000 members of the UC San Diego community turned out Wednesday for a teach-in at the Price Center to discuss why events that draw on racial stereotypes still take place and the impact they have on the community. The forum was designed to help the community heal after a racially themed off-campus party and an unauthorized broadcast by Koala TV. More
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Center to Study the Meaning Behind
Interactive Media in Learning and Entertainment
 UC San Diego researchers are reaching across disciplines to push the envelope of cultural and learning opportunities in the age of social networking and digital media. They have established a new Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning. It will focus on grassroots creativity and learning while promoting research that combines artificial intelligence with interactive and participatory media to allow people to be more creative, informed and make better decisions in educational as well as entertainment environments. More
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Triton Women's Basketball Team
Clinches Regular Season Crown
 Chelsea Carlisle scored 11 points and Tiffany Hunter finished with 10 to lead a balanced offensive attack, as the UC San Diego women's basketball team defeated visiting Sonoma State 68-52 on Wednesday night at RIMAC Arena. The Tritons improved to 14-0 on their home floor in 2009-10 and clinched their second consecutive California Collegiate Athletic Association Championship with the win. More
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Blue Ribbon Task Force Report: Preserving
Our Digital Knowledge Base Must be a Public Priority
 Addressing one of the most urgent societal challenges of the Information Age — ensuring that valued digital information will be accessible not just today, but in the future — requires solutions that are at least as much economic and social as technical, according to a new report by a Blue Ribbon Task Force. More
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Video Games May Help Combat
Depression in Older Adults
 Research at the Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging at the School of Medicine suggests a novel route to improving the symptoms of subsyndromal depression (SSD) in seniors through the regular use of “exergames” — entertaining video games that combine game play with exercise. In a pilot study, the researchers found that use of exergames significantly improved mood and mental health-related quality of life in older adults with SSD. More
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What’s Next for High-Performance Computing?
 As researchers in all major science domains struggle to keep up with the exponentially growing amount of digitally based data, the HPC (high-performance computing) community will evolve to include HPD, or high-performance data, to benefit researchers who need to access, analyze, and store extremely large data sets in significantly shorter amounts of time. More
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Neuroscientist Honored with
Award For Alzheimer's Research
 Dr. Edward H. Koo, professor of neurosciences at the School of Medicine was among four scientists honored at a luncheon in Washington, D.C. Feb. 25 for their work on complementary approaches to Alzheimer’s research. Koo is also co-director of the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at UC San Diego, one of the five original centers for Alzheimer’s research established by the National Institute on Aging. More
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UCSD Officals Committed to Addressing
Campus Diversity
UC San Diego officials are committed to working with the Black Student Union to address and implement positive change on the campus. “We are hopeful that we will be able to come to agreement on the climate issues that have been raised by students over the last few weeks,” said Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. More
Academic Senate Rejects Discriminatory Acts
Responding to recent student behaviors that have tainted the campus with charges of racism, UCSD’s Academic Senate on Tuesday put a resolution reaffirming the Principles of Community and rejecting acts of discrimination at the top of its agenda. More
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The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America
By Rebecca Jo Plant
In the early 20th-century United States, to speak of 'mother love' was to invoke an idea of motherhood that served as an all-encompassing identity, rooted in notions of self-sacrifice and infused with powerful social and political meanings. Sixty years later, mainstream views of motherhood had been transformed, and Mother found herself to blame for a wide array of social and psychological ills. More
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