Your Web Surfing History is Accessible
(Without Your Permission) via JavaScript
The Web surfing history saved in your Web browser can be accessed without your permission. JavaScript code deployed by real websites and online advertising providers use browser vulnerabilities to determine which sites you have and have not visited, according to new research from computer scientists at UC San Diego. The researchers documented JavaScript code secretly collecting browsing histories of Web users through "history sniffing" and sending that information across the network. More

Alumni Celebrate 50 Fabulous Years
at Founders' Day and Weekend Activities
UC San Diego alumni celebrated the university’s 50th anniversary with a weekend full of Founders’ Day programs and events. Academic divisions, schools, colleges and other university friends teamed with Alumni Affairs staff and alumni leadership to plan the three exciting days of festivities. More

Campus Marks World AIDS Day
with Performances, Quilt Viewing
They blended in like students just going about their business at lunchtime. But as soon as music came on the speakers at the Price Center Plaza, they started dancing. They were part of a flash mob performance put on by the Butterworth Dance Company to mark World AIDS Day at UC San Diego Wednesday. More

UC San Diego Women's Soccer
Team Defeated in National Championship Match
The No. 12 UC San Diego women's soccer team fell, 4-0, to No. 5 Grand Valley State in the NCAA Division II National Championship Saturday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky. The loss marks the Tritons first loss in regulation since Sept. 17 and they will finish the year with a 19-3-3 overall record, their best mark since the squad finished 20-2-2 in 2006. More

$750,000 Gift Brings Student Musical
Performances to San Diego Senior Adults
A new concert series at UC San Diego is bringing the joy of music to senior adults in San Diego. Undergraduate and graduate students in the university's department of music are presenting the "Gluck Series," a concert series bringing monthly performances to senior citizens throughout the county. More

Campus Ranked in the Top Ten
in Nation for Students Who Study Abroad
UC San Diego ranked 10th in the nation among research institutions for the number of students who study abroad for a full academic year, according to the Institute of International Education Open Doors. More

Trials Use Technology to Help
Young Adults Achieve Healthy Weights
Sometime in the first half of 2011, nearly 400 overweight or obese university students will be recruited by researchers at UC San Diego to test if technology can help the young adults lose weight. More

Scripps Scientist Urges Action to
Better Communicate Climate Change
As climate change takes center stage in two upcoming international events, UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography Distinguished Professor Emeritus Richard Somerville and colleagues argue that scientists have a duty to communicate their findings in a way that facilitates informed policy decisions. More

Researchers Report Surprising AIDS Treatment Benefits, Prevention Strategy in Epidemic Regions of Africa
Two teams of researchers at UC San Diego and other U.S. and African universities and the World Bank have documented significant spillover benefits of a drug therapy to combat AIDS symptoms and a novel prevention strategy that focuses on girls in Sub-Saharan Africa, an area with two-thirds of the world's HIV infections. More

UC San Diego Archaeologist Featured
in NOVA/National Geographic Documentary
A new television documentary featuring the work of UC San Diego archaeologist Thomas E. Levy proves that extensive copper production took place in Jordan during what is believed to be the Biblical era of David and Solomon — suggesting that there is some historical veracity to the Hebrew Bible's (Old Testament) portrayal of their kingdom and that of neighboring Edom in southern Jordan. More

New Wave of Planning for Coastal Zones
Among the traits they share in common — proximity to the coast, popularity among tourists, renowned, painterly light — Venice, Italy, and San Diego also share one all-too-disturbing similarity: They are both in considerable danger if climate change leads to a predicted rise in sea levels. More

Arsenic-Polluted Water Toxic to Bangladesh Economy
The well-reported arsenic contamination of drinking water in Bangladesh — called the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history" by the World Health Organization and known to be responsible for a host of slow-developing diseases — has now been shown to have an immediate and toxic effect on the struggling nation's economy. More

Genomic Fault Zones Come and Go
The fragile regions in mammalian genomes that are thought to play a key role in evolution go through a "birth and death" process, according to new bioinformatics research performed at the UC San Diego. The new work could help researchers identify the current fragile regions in the human genome — information that may reveal how the human genome will evolve in the future. More

Chancellor Shares Her
Medal of Science With Local Children
Children at the Mesa Child Development Center recently paid a visit to Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, who graciously reenacted receiving her National Medal of Science for them. The children gave Fox an art piece they had created in her honor. Fox told the children about the award and about some of the other scientists who received it.

'Stellar Scholar' Chosen as
New Vice Chancellor for Research
Sandra A. Brown, a member of the UC San Diego faculty since 1984, has been named the new vice chancellor for research at the university, effective Dec. 8. More

Leading Scholar on Japan Chalmers Johnson
Left Lasting Legacy at UC San Diego
Chalmers Johnson, an internationally prominent scholar on Japan and international relations and an emeritus professor at UC San Diego's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, died Nov. 20 at his home near San Diego. He was 79. More