1. The holidays will see UCSD's Housing and Dining Services donate three special cookie decorating events at the Polinsky Center for Children. Student and staff volunteers will bring all the materials to help youngsters at the shelter make and bake the holiday cookies.

2. Michael Davidson, Literature Department, will offer a creative writing seminar for members of the community with disabilities.

3. Daphne Brooks, Literature Department, will lead a workshop for high school youth on African-American music and films.

4. Computer artist Adriene Jenik, Visual Arts Department, will lead an on-line, interactive game-theatre workshop called "Desktop Theater" with a high school honors class.

5. Susan Kirkpatrick, Page DuBois and Lisa Lowe, Literature Department, will meet with a book club to discuss novels and literature, addressing themes such as novels about women.

6. Faculty from the Philosopy Department will hold three evening "philosophy cafes" at community bookstores, inviting residents to join in a discussion of trenchant philosophical topics.

7. Film maker Zeinabu Irene Davis, Communication Department, will visit San Diego area high school classes to discuss how to get into filmaking, careers in media, African American film history, and Black women film makers. Davis also will show clips of her films.

8. Media experts Leigh Star, Robert Horwitz and Geof Bowker, Communication Department, will participate as panelists in a community forum on the future of information exchange and commerce on the internet.

9. A talk on the changing face of American citizenship, from the early years of the nation to the
present day, will be offered as a public lecture by Michael Schudson, Communication Department.

10. The Department of Linguistics will host a workshop for the public to experience "The Natural Approach" method used by UCSD's linguistics Language Program for beginning language instruction. Participants can choose a class in French, Italian, German, Spanish or American Sign Language and communicate in a foreign language the very first day.

11. Hassan Kayali, History Department, will deliver a community lecture on the historical origins of the modern Middle East.

12. Michael Parrish, History Department, will present a series of five public lectures on the role of the U.S. Supreme Court in American history.

13. From the Music Department, "red fish blue fish," UCSD's resident percussion ensemble, will perform at a local school with a lecture to follow by ensemble director Steven Schick on percussion as music.

14. The Theatre and Dance Department will launch "ArtReach," a cultural exchange that brings students from a local high school to campus for theatrical productions and brings campus performers to the high school for special classroom presentations.

15. Scott Paulson, Music Library, offers a 15-minute Chamber Music Series for K-12 classes during which the students are invited to help write a new piece of music for a duo or trio of musicians using math techniques.

16. Scott Paulson,Music Library, offers a classroom program in which musical instruments are and noisemakers are introduced to the students with a talk about the physics involved with sound production, where the instruments wee developed (geography) and who placed them and in what setting (sociology). The students then watch a four-minute silent film and become a pit orchestra providing sound effects.

17. High school students from varied ethnic groups will be invited to the UCSD campus for meetings hosted by the African American Student Union, Feb. 2, 2001; MEChA, Feb. 10; Kaibigang Pilipino, Feb. 24, and the Asian Pacific Student Alliance March 3.

18. UCSD will hold an Open House for the community from 9:00am to 4:00pm on October 20, 2001.

19. Nate Delson, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, will bring 60 students from Sunset View Magnet Elementary School to UCSD in May, 2001, to participate in a Pinewood Derby experiment during which each youngster will build a model car and compete in speed races. The project serves as a practical method for introducing the students to physics and engineering.

20. More than 450 students, staff and faculty will hold their annual "Hands on San Diego" service day in May, 2001, during which they participate in volunteer projects and confront a variety of social issues in San Diego. Projects include youth workshops, beach clean-up, graffiti busting, helping Habitat for Humanity and other community programs.

21. Sangeeta Bhatia, Bioengineering Department, held a workshop Sept. 30 for 15 girls, aged 11 to 13 to start a Keys to Empowering Youth (KEYs) program, which helps girls identify career and life goals and expose them to science options. Girls in the initial group came from Horace Mann and National City middle schools.

22. The important field of bioinformatics and its impact on society was presented on a video production, Bioinformatics: A Primer for the Genomics Era, on UCSD-TV Sept. 20 by representatives from the departments of Chemistry, Bioengineering and Biomedical Information. Other airings will follow throughout the year.

23. Of special interest to the arts community, University Events and The Helen Edison Lectures presented a free community lecture Oct. 21 with Bill T. Jones, one of the world's finest and most daring choreographers.

24. The 40/40 Vision Lecture Series in honor of UCSD's 40th anniversary is showcasing faculty members reflecting on important ideas and breakthroughs that have influenced their academic disciplines over the last 40 years, and share their predictions for the next 40. The free lectures began Oct. 18 and will continue throughout the year.

25. University Extension's "Extend a Hand" program sent 40 employees on Nov. 10 on a "clean up the beach" project with San Diego Bay Keeper. Volunteers had the day off to participate in the service project, the first of two planned during the year.

26. On Nov. 21 UCSD-TV will air two one-half hour video segments, each celebrating 40 years of UCSD's history, as part of its "Conversations" series. The first is a chronological history interspersed with personal reminiscences and antidotes leading up to the present. The second
is an interview with Chancellor Robert Dynes about the present state of the University and future plans.

27. Adopt-a-Family/ Holiday Toy Drive is a student coordinated campuswide program
that provides dinners to low income families in San Diego during the Thanksgiving season. The Holiday Toy Drive collects new toys for underprivileged children and those in the burn and cancer centers at UCSD Medical Center.

28. F.U.N. (Friends Understanding Needs), a student initiated and coordinated mentor
program that focuses on at-risk youth in San Diego, will continue its outreach to middle school students. UCSD students serve as one-to-one tutors, friends and role models to middle school students needing academic, social and emotional support. On average, 40 students are matched with 40 young people to be mentored.

29. The Best Buddies program matches UCSD students with developmentally disabled peers for companionship. Aside from individualized interaction, the program sponsors regular group activities, field trips and parties.

30. The UCSD Cancer Center sponsors a number of outreach programs to San Diego's diverse communities, including The Black Cosmetologists Promoting Health, which trains African American beauticians to serve as peer community health educators, and a similar grass-roots project in which Asian students speak with Asian women in a community grocery store that serves as a familiar gathering place. A breast health education program for the deaf community also is underway.

31. Por la Vida, conducted in conjunction with San Diego State University, is a community-based program which uses lay health advisors to conduct neighborhood educational sessions designed to increase breast and cervical cancer screening rates
among Latinas.

32. UCSD Family Nurse Practitioners combine training and educational activities with service to those in need in areas ranging from Fallbrook to East San Diego. Their programs include home visits to Cambodian refugee families, clinics for the homeless at St. Vincent de Paul Village Medical Clinic, screenings for some 2,500 refugees a year, weekly health care services in a battered women's shelter and women's services in underserved urban areas.

33. Doctors Ought to Care is a program in which 60 medical students a quarter go out and speak in San Diego City and County elementary, middle and high school classrooms on health topics ranging from smoking, alcohol and drug abuse to HIV/AIDS and sexual violence.

34. Health screenings for homeless, runaway and disenfranchised youth, ages 12 to 24, are provided by School of Medicine volunteers who staff a fully equipped medical van which they take into urban areas three nights a week.

35. The Birch Aquarium at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography offers an outreach van which takes live animals and instructors to schools, senior centers and community fairs throughout Southern California.

36. Casa de La Clase Magica prepares children, adolescents and adults in a predominatly Mexicano community in Solana Beach to succeed in school by providing computer-based activities and instruction, staff development and scholarships for higher education.

37. Through its Science Enrichment Program, the San Diego Supercomputer Center provides curriculum and materials-in after-school programs--to enhance science education for middle school students in San Diego city schools. The program is funded by the National Science Foundation and serves schools with high minority populations.

38. Earthquake Engineering Outreach to Middle Schools is a series of five one-hour lessons on structural and earthquake engineering developed by graduate students of the Department of Structural Engineering to educate middle school students on the devastating social consequences of past earthquakes and the importance of designing structures to resist seismic loads.

39. College Advocates are trained UCSD students who visit middle, high school and
community college classes giving motivational presentations about college preparedness and the value of a college education.

40. AIDS Research Institute provides a centralized resource for both the UCSD and San Diego Community with regard to HIV/AIDS research and activities which take place at the university, including clinical trials, education and outreach.

For additional information on these programs, you can contact Pat JaCoby
at (858) 534-7404 or pjacoby@ucsd.edu.