Study Recommends Athletics
Program Transition to Division I
A recent study assessing UC San Diego's Intercollegiate Athletics program recommended the university reclassify from the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) Division II to Division I. Initiated by the Associated Students, the study also reviewed the potential feasibility of adding a football team and determined the campus does not have the resources to support the sport. More

Next Stop: UC San Diego
Route for trolley project being finalized
Plans to bring a trolley line to UC San Diego are shaping up. After considering several options, the San Diego Association of Governments adopted a route for the project. A group of staff members, faculty and students is working on plans for two on-campus stations. The line could be up and running by 2015 to 2017 and would serve close to 9,000 riders on campus. It will connect UCSD with Old Town, downtown and much of south San Diego County. More

Times Higher Education Ranks UC San Diego
30th Best University in World by Reputation
UC San Diego was ranked 30th in the World Reputation Rankings, a new ranking from the London-based Times Higher Education. The reputation rankings are a subsidiary of the publication's annual World University Rankings released in September 2010, where UC San Diego's overall world ranking was 32nd for its learning environment, ground-breaking research and economic impact. More

UC San Diego Opens New Down Syndrome Center
Doctors and scientists at the School of Medicine will soon open one of the first programs in the United States to combine academic research with the treatment of adults with Down syndrome. The Down Syndrome Center for Research and Treatment officially launched yesterday with a reception hosted by the Down Syndrome Association of San Diego. More

UC San Diego Launches Nation's
First Non-Supplement Study on Prostate Cancer, Diet
The vegetables most boys wanted to avoid in childhood—such as kale and broccoli—just may be the answer to staving off prostate cancer growth in adulthood. A new clinical trial at UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center will evaluate whether or not a change in diet, reinforced with telephone counseling and exercise, can stop or delay the progression of prostate cancer. More

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Free video game recreates U.S. internment camps
More than 100,000 Japanese Americans during WWII were forced from their Pacific Coast homes to "War Relocation centers" in the U.S. interior. Now, two UC San Diego researchers are turning one of the darker chapters of U.S. history into an educational and interactive game, one that not only teaches about the past (lest it be repeated) but also tacitly poses a difficult question that still resonates today: “Is it ever OK to compromise the civil liberties of some for the ‘good’ of the nation as whole?” More

Blogger Marks One-Year Anniversary
of Decision to Attend UC San Diego
After almost a year on the UC San Diego campus, freshman Brian Bose has acted on stage, joined a hip-hop dance team and made new friends. Last year, Bose had chronicled his college admissions journey in The New York Times. He is still happy that he chose UCSD over DePaul University and The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, he says. More

OptIPortables Bring High-Tech
Collaboration to San Diego Communities
Two communities in underserved areas of San Diego County have a new tool to improve education and long-distance collaboration thanks to researchers at UC San Diego who hope the device will help mitigate at least one problem caused by San Diego's 4,500 square miles of urban sprawl—the distance between communities. More

UC San Diego Chapter of Engineers
for a Sustainable World Wins Solar Grant
Joseph Ocampo, a UC San Diego sophomore and a member of the campus chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW), is leading a team of fellow ESW student volunteers that has won a $10,900 grant to develop a mobile solar-powered station. The team plans to use the grant from the national ESW organization to develop the “solar tree on wheels” that will be used to charge batteries in laptops, cell phones, campus electric utility vehicles and other devices. More