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Looking Forward to 2011
A Green Open House and an Innovation Day Expo and Symposium, as well as a visit by former President Bill Clinton, whose Global Initiative University will head a conference for university students, are among the highlights of the upcoming year at UC San Diego. As the university wraps up its 50th anniversary celebration and continues to grow, it will open a new cardiovascular center and more student housing and campus researchers will have access to a new stem cell research facility. Read on to find out what is in store in the next 12 months at UCSD. More
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Gov. Brown's Proposed Budget Includes $500 Million Cut to University of California
Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a balanced, deficit-closing 2011-12 state budget today that relies on painful cuts in state services including a $500 million reduction in support for the University of California. The 16.4 percent drop in state general fund support for UC would result in a historic shift in how California's public research university is funded. "The crossing of this threshold transcends mere symbolism and should be profoundly disturbing to all Californians," said UC President Mark G. Yudof, calling it a sad day for California. More
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Kiplinger's Recognizes Campus
as California's 'Best Value' Public University
UC San Diego is the 'best value' public college in California, according to Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine. The list of the top 100 best values public colleges and universities will appear in the February 2011 issue of the publication. Kiplinger's ranked UC San Diego 12th in the nation, above UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine, based on its academic quality, affordability and financial aid resources. More
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SIDS Spikes on New Year's Day
Not a happy holiday thought, but an important one: The number of babies who die of SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, surges by 33 percent on New Year's Day. The suspected reason? Alcohol consumption by caretakers the night before.
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Global Seminars Program Brings
Academics to Life for Students
On her first day of class in Turkey's capital, Istanbul, UC San Diego freshman
Jessica Ko attended a lecture about Hagia Sophia, the city's famous cathedral turned
mosque turned museum. Then, she and her classmates went to visit the monument,
built in the fourth century. More
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NFL Charities Awards Research Grant
to School of Medicine Researcher
NFL Charities, the charitable foundation of the National Football League owners, has awarded more than $1.6 million in grants to support sports-related medical research at 16 organizations. Of these grants, nearly $100,000 will go to a team of researchers at the School of Medicine who are studying novel methods of detecting brain injury. More
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Babies Process Language in a Grown-Up Way
Babies, even those too young to talk, can understand many of the words that adults are saying — and their brains process them in a grown-up way.
Combining the cutting-edge technologies of MRI and MEG, scientists at UC San Diego show that babies just over a year old process words they hear with the same brain structures as adults, and in the same amount of time. More
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Genetic Abnormalities Identified
in Pluripotent Stem Cell Lines
A multinational team of researchers led by stem cell scientists at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Scripps Research Institute has documented specific genetic abnormalities that occur in human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cell lines. The published findings highlight the need for frequent genomic monitoring of pluripotent stem cells to assure their stability and clinical safety. More
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Researchers Discover Human
Immune System Has Emergency Backup Plan
Research by scientists at the School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences reveals that the immune system has an effective backup plan to protect the body from infection when the "master regulator" of the body's innate immune system fails. More
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New Study Upends Thinking
About How Liver Disease Develops
In the latest of a series of related papers, researchers at the School of Medicine, with colleagues in Austria and elsewhere, present a new and more definitive explanation of how fibrotic cells form, multiply and eventually destroy the human liver, resulting in cirrhosis. In doing so, the findings upend the standing of a long-presumed marker for multiple fibrotic diseases and reveal the existence of a previously unknown kind of inflammatory white blood cell.
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Record Crowd Expected to Brawl
and
Play at Campus Winter Game Fest
More video games, sponsors, attendees and $7,000 worth of prizes, will be featured at the seventh annual Winter Game Fest Jan. 22 and 23 on the campus. The two-day video game tournament is free and open to the public and has become one of the largest competitions of its kind in Southern California.
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What Will You Do This Year?
Students talk about their New Year resolutions
At the beginning of the academic year, the UC San Diego Alumni Association asked students about their plans for the future. We decided to catch up with a few of them at the beginning of this new calendar year to learn more about their New Year resolutions and their experiences at UCSD so far. Here's what they had to say. More
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UC San Diego is Named by U.S. News and World Report
as one of the Top 10 'Best Colleges to Avoid Winter'
The temperature may only run in the 60s, but it's still sunny here in San Diego. So, vote for UC San Diego as one of the best colleges to avoid winter and help the campus get recognized for its amazing weather.
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Chancellor Fox and Martin Wollesen
Named Among "50 People to Watch"
In its January 2011 issue, San Diego Magazine announced its annual list of "50 People to Watch," ranking Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and Martin Wollesen, artistic director of UC San Diego ArtPower!, among the city's top "movers and shakers." More
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No Grinch This Season: Mrs. Seuss Honors UCSD's 50th Anniversary with $2M Gift
UC San Diego received an unexpected and generous gift from longtime campus supporter Audrey Geisel in honor of the university's 50th Anniversary. The $2 million donation will be used to jumpstart the renovation of University House, the currently uninhabitable private residence for the UCSD Chancellor. More
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Composer Katharina Rosenberger
Inspired by Geometry and Plant Forms
Visual art, geometry and plant forms inspired seven new works by UC San Diego composer Katharina Rosenberger. One of these pieces will premiere at UCSD on Jan. 12, performed by the highly regarded Wet Ink Ensemble from New York City. More
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