Chancellor Fox Receives the National Medal
of Science from President Obama at the White House
"Ladies and gentlemen, the recipients of the 2009 Medal of Science." With these words, UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and nine fellow researchers stepped onto the stage at the White House Wednesday to receive the highest honor the U.S. government bestows on the nation's scientists. Fox, a chemist, was recognized for her contributions in the fields of solar energy conservation, material science and environmental chemistry. More

View the video of Chancellor Fox receiving the National Medal of Science

Celebrate50 Raises
Funds to Support Student Scholarships
Nearly 700 members of the UC San Diego community recently paid homage to the campus at Celebrate50, a fundraising event in celebration of UC San Diego's 50th Anniversary. The interactive Nov. 13 event, chaired by UC San Diego Foundation trustee Carol Chang, benefited Invent the Future: The UC San Diego Student Support Campaign. Guests experienced, through music, dance and video, the historic events and people that marked UC San Diego's transformation from ship to shore. View Celebrate50 slideshow

Clinton Global Initiative University
to Bring Students, Nonprofit Leaders, Social Entrepreneurs and Celebrities to Campus in April
Applications are now available for the 2011 annual meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) April 1 to 3 at UC San Diego. President Bill Clinton founded CGI U to empower undergraduate and graduate students to create tangible solutions to pressing global challenges. More

Journalist James Fallows
Optimistic About U.S.-Asia Relationship
Magazine journalist, author and Emmy Award-winning documentary producer James Fallows, who is also an expert on Asian politics and business, hedged his predictions about China in a Nov. 16 talk at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. More

Meteorite Hunter
UC San Diego Alumna and Cosmologist
Headlines International Education Week
Over the past 35 years, UC
San Diego alumna Candace Kohl has hunted for meteorites in Antarctica, Africa, South America and right here in the United States. She also collects the rocks and owns some that come from the moon and Mars. She was the keynote speaker for this year's International Education Week festivities. More

Regents Approve New Clinical and Translational
Research Institute Building on UC San Diego Campus
The UC Board of Regents Tuesday approved the budget for capital improvements and external financing for a Clinical and Translational Research Institute building to be constructed on the medical campus of UC San Diego in La Jolla. The new building, currently slated for completion in late 2016, will comprise more than 300,000 square feet. The projected cost of the project is $269 million, which will be primarily paid for with external funding sources rather than state dollars, according to UCSD administrators. More

UC San Diego Vehicle
Fleet One of America's Greenest
In the seventh annual Government Green Fleet Awards, a competition of environmentally friendly vehicle-fleet operations that is open to all federal, state and local governments in North America, UC San Diego's Fleet Services ranked 22nd and UC Davis' vehicle fleet ranked fourth. The two UC campuses were the only college campuses ranked. The city of San Diego's vehicle fleet ranked 19th. More

NanoEngineers Aim to Grow
Tissues with Functional Blood Vessels
UC San Diego nanoengineers won a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop the tools to manufacture biodegradable frames around which heart tissues—functional blood vessels included—will grow. Developing methods for growing tissues that mimic nature's fine-grained details, including vasculature, could lead to breakthroughs in efforts to grow replacement cardiac tissues for people who have suffered a heart attack. More

Cholesterol-Lowering Statins
Boost Bacteria-Killing Cells
Widely prescribed for their cholesterol-lowering properties, recent clinical research indicates that statins can produce a second, significant health benefit: lowering the risk of severe bacterial infections such as pneumonia and sepsis. More

Scripps Scientist Honored with Roger Revelle Award
Acknowledging his tireless efforts promoting stewardship of the sea, marine ecologist Ed Parnell, from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, has been honored with the 2010 Roger Revelle Award from the San Diego Oceans Foundation. More

Roger Reynolds Honored by
Concerts, Symposia at 50th Anniversary
Celebration of ONCE Music Festival
Roger Reynolds, UC San Diego's Pulitzer-Prize-winning composer, was among four composers honored by concerts and symposia in early November at the 50th anniversary celebration of the influential ONCE festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Reynolds was a co-founder of the festival, along with fellow composers Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, and Donald Scavarda. More