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Cross-Border Art Cuts Across National Lines
To some, it has become a new Iron Curtain or Berlin Wall. Others view it as an exciting place, where cultures meet and mix. To others still, it’s just plain sexy. More |
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Need to Get in Shape? Grab Your
Tennis Shoes for ‘Walk UCSD’
 Want to get in shape for the summer? UCSD has just the program for you.
Dubbed “Walk UCSD,” the program will launch at noon Friday on Sun God Lawn when Chancellor Marye Anne Fox will lead walkers on the ‘Sun God Stroll’. Students, staff and faculty are all invited to take part, said Recreation Director Dave Koch. More |
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Party of 600 - Gospel Choir Rocks the House
 UCSD’s Gospel Choir, launched 36 years ago, is the department of music’s largest performance ensemble. It fills Mandeville Auditorium with the sound of 600 voices once each quarter. Offered as a class by the music department, the choir gives both music and non-music majors a chance to sing their way through African-American history. The Gospel Choir will give its final performance of the academic year tomorrow night at 8 p.m. in Mandeville. More |
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Indian President Talks Technology
During Virtual Visit to UCSD
 When
the President of India, APJ Abdul Kalam, addressed
a standing-room-only audience on the UCSD campus Wednesday,
he was there – but he wasn’t there. High-definition
cameras at the presidential palace in New Delhi captured
his live remarks and the video signal was transmitted
over a dedicated network of optical fiber stretching
over 10,000 miles between the Indian capital and the
La Jolla headquarters of the California Institute
for Telecommunications and Information Technology
(Calit2). More |
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Camp on Campus Delivers Fun, Learning and Challenge for Preuss School Sixth Graders
 Dum ka dum ka dum ka. Dume dume bomb bomb.
This may sound like gibberish, but they are the words to beats that students at the Preuss School were introduced to at the International Drum Workshop last week at the 2006 Camp on Campus for sixth graders. More |
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Ten Commencement Ceremonies at UCSD to Honor 5,000 Graduates in June Rites
Speakers ranging from an ABC News national security
correspondent to a National Institutes of Health official
to a former state senator will mark 10 UCSD graduation
ceremonies to be held on the campus June 3 to 19.
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UCSD @ Google
Google hosted a reception attended by more than 100
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering alumni last Thursday.
It was the largest turnout to date for a UCSD Bay
Area alumni mixer. Guests were treated to great food
and Google gifts as well as technical talks by computer
science and engineering professor Geoff Voelker and
alumnus Paul Muret, whose web analytics company Urchin
was acquired by Google in May 2005. With the success
of this year’s mixer, fellow Web giant Yahoo
has volunteered to host the Bay Area regional reception
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Sectarianism Is Problem for Religious Right Political Partnerships According to New Survey by UCSD Scholar
Members of groups that comprise the “religious right” exhibit negative attitudes toward other religious groups on the right, making the building of political coalitions more difficult. More |
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History Professor Wins Fellowship to
Study Appeal of Bin Laden Among Kenyan Youth
 Jeremy Prestholdt, assistant professor of history, has been awarded an H. F. Guggenheim Fellowship for his project entitled, "Heroing Osama: The Politics of Youth Marginality in Postcolonial Kenya." The work, to be undertaken during the 2007 calendar year, will address political and economic marginalization of the Kenyan coastal Muslim community since the 1960s, focusing particularly on youth alienation. Prestholdt plans to use “the popularity of Osama bin Laden as a window into changing global consciousness that have given shape to young Muslim’s visions for change.” |
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Pioneer in Human Genetics and Founding
Member of UCSD School of Medicine Dies
Dr. Jarvis “Jay” Edwin Seegmiller,
a pioneer in the field of human genetics, an advocate
for research and education to support healthy aging,
and an Emeritus Professor and founding faculty member
at the School of Medicine, passed away on Wednesday
at Thornton Hospital in La Jolla after a brief respiratory
illness. He was 85. More |
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Two UCSD Graduate Students
Awarded Prestigious NSF Fellowships
Artie Sukoe and Gloria Kuo, students in the School
of Medicine’s Biomedical Sciences graduate program,
have been awarded highly prestigious National Science
Foundation graduate fellowships for 2006-07. More |
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Build Your Career
Put your career on the right track with UCSD Career Connection's "Creating Opportunities" June workshops. Learn how to boost your communication skills, ace an interview, set career goals, learn your personality type, and identify your skill sets.
Upcoming Staff
Education and
Development Courses
What the UCSD Libraries Can Do For You
06/14/06, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Budgeting 101A: Best Fiscal Practices
06/12/06, 8:30 a.m.
to 12:30 pm
Common Leadership Challenges
06/20/06, 8:30 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m. |
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The Percussionist’s Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams
Steven Schick
Drawing from his global experience as a percussionist who has premiered more than 100 pieces by contemporary composers, Schick explores a 20th-century “percussion revolution” in the music of composers such as John Cage, Edgard Varèse, Brian Ferneyhough and Iannis Xenakis. Schick, who is a member of UCSD’s resident percussion ensemble red fish blue fish, considers both the big ideas behind the pieces and the ways in which they find expression in sound. The book includes a CD of Schick performing some of the works he discusses. More |
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