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Increasing Number of Undergraduates
Seeking Place in Green Economy
Undergraduate education at UC San Diego took on a deeper shade of green this year in most academic areas. In some cases, more teaching-assistant resources were needed, and some labs and classrooms ran out of space for the ever-increasing surge of students seeking environmentally focused majors, minors and classes they need to prepare themselves for jobs in the green economy. More
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With Solar Suitcase, Undergrads
Dive into Humanitarian Engineering
When you board an international flight, you usually don't pack a pair of 50-watt solar panels in your checked baggage. But that's what four undergraduates from the Jacobs School of Engineering did when they traveled to Mbita, Kenya as part of the Global TIES — Teams in Engineering Service — program.
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Two Campuses Celebrate Decade
of Cross-Disciplinary Innovation at Calit2
In the span of a single decade, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) has emerged as one of the world's most advanced test beds for scientific visualization, virtual/physical collaboration and 'green' computing.
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Campus Installing 2.8 Megawatt
Fuel Cell to Anchor Energy Innovation Park
Construction of a fuel cell with enough capacity to power 2,800 homes has begun on campus as part of a renewable-energy project with the City of San Diego and BioFuels Energy to turn waste methane gas from the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant directly into electricity without combustion.
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Panko-crusted Cod Loin and Apple-Gouda Pasta?
A Food Revolution Comes to Campus Preschool
Roast beef with wild mushroom sauce; salmon Nicoise salad; apple-gouda chicken pasta; herbed panko-crusted cod loin with mixed vegetables. It sounds like a menu from an upscale downtown eatery. But it's actually the new menu for children ages 1 to 6 at UC San Diego's Early Childhood Education Center.
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Sony, Intel Awards Technology Packages
to Former Foster Youth at UC San Diego
For the second year in a row, former foster youth attending UC San Diego received top-of-the-line technology packages from Sony Electronics, with the support of Intel. The gifts are designed to support the students' studies at a time when technology plays a crucial role in academic success.
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Largest Study of Benefits of Brain
'Cooling' After a Stroke Now Underway
Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine — along with the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Los Angeles — have launched the largest clinical trial of hypothermia (brain cooling) for stroke to date. The study will look specifically at whether hypothermia can be used safely in stroke patients who also receive an FDA-approved intravenous “clot-busting” drug. More
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Metabolism Models May Explain Why
Alzheimer's Disease Kills Some Neuron Types First
 Bioengineers from UC San Diego have developed an explanation for why some types of neurons die sooner than others in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease. More
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New Observations of Exploding Stars Reveal
Pauses, Flickers and Flares Not Reliably Seen Before
Astronomers have traced the waxing and waning light of exploding stars more closely than ever before and seen patterns that aren't yet accounted for in our current understanding of how these eruptions occur. More
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Holiday Health Check
From overeating to exercise and alcohol, UC San Diego Health System nutritionists, trauma specialists and poison experts offer insights for a healthy holiday. The holidays make it so easy to overeat. Hanukkah celebrations kick off with Auntie’s latkes. Grandma’s sweet potatoes are a Christmas tradition. And then we wash it all down with one of Dad’s annual eggnog creations. Sound familiar? UC San Diego Health System nutrition experts say “Savor the seasonal offerings — just do it sensibly.” More
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A Children's Book Shelf for the Holidays
In time for the holidays, we asked Seth Lerer, dean of Arts and Humanities, to recommend his top 10 list of must-have children’s books. His own book, “Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter,” won the 2009 National Book Critics Circle award for criticism. More
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UC San Diego Volunteer50 Helpers
Pitch in for Toys for Tots During the Holidays
 Teddy bears, soccer balls and board games: 25 members of the UC San Diego community sorted toys for the Marine Corps' Toys for Tots program Dec. 11 as part of the campus' Volunteer50 initiative.
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Warm Pancakes Comfort Students During Finals Week
More than 1,000 students turned out for the Associated Students' highly anticipated Pancake Breakfast, which kicked off at 10 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Price Center West Ballroom. A popular event that launches the start of finals week, the breakfast is a UC San Diego tradition that provides a study break for stressed students. Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and Vice Chancellor Penny Rue were on hand as pancake servers.
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Physician-Researcher Chosen as Distinguished
Scientist by American Heart Association
 Dr. Michael H.Criqui, chief of the Division of Preventative Medicine at UC San Diego, was honored as a Distinguished Scientist by the American Heart Association. This is the highest honor given by the organization. More
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Two UC San Diego Computer
Scientists Recognized for Contributions
in Computer Systems Security, Bioinformatics
 For contributions to bioinformatics and computer systems security, computer science UC San Diego professors Pavel Pevzner and Stefan Savage are among 41 computer scientists named as 2010 Association for Computing Machinery Fellows. More
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In the 24-hour news cycle era, the Deepwater Horizon oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico already feels like an event from yesteryear, an event that had its 15 minutes of news domination during the summer of 2010 then made room for the next big story once the wellhead was capped.
