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Students suit up to clean mold-ridden
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Alternative Spring Break: Students
Shun Fun in the Sun for Community Service
One day during their spring break last year, a group
of UCSD students and their advisor found themselves
standing up in a Brazilian church while about 300
people showered them with applause. That week, they
had made soup bowls for the homeless out of soda bottles.
They had delivered meals to people who lived on the
streets. They had worked with disabled children. More |
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Reinstating Retirement Contributions:
What It Means to UC Employees
 UC employees will begin contributing again to one of their retirement plans in July 2007, UC Regents decided earlier this month. It’s still unclear what percentage employees will contribute and how the changes will affect take-home pay. But this past week, several UC employees said they understood the need for change. More |
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 Campus Tutoring Program Gets Temporary Reprieve
Hundreds of students will still get tutoring this school year after UCSD administrators, under Chancellor Marye Anne Fox’s leadership, stepped in to shore up funds for the Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS).
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Deep-Sea Fish Populations Boom Over
the Last 15 Years, New Scripps Study Shows
 The largest habitats on Earth are located in the vast, dark plains at the bottom of the ocean. Yet because of their remoteness, many aspects of this mostly unexplored world remain mysterious.
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 Artists,
Social Critics
Featured at Whitney Museum
Natalie Jeremijenko, assistant professor of visual arts, and Dee Dee Halleck, professor emeritus of communication, are featured exhibitors in the Whitney Biennial, widely recognized as an important barometer of leading work in contemporary American art. The exhibition runs through May 1 at the Whitney Museum in New York City. Additionally, Jeremijenko will be a featured speaker at the Whitney in the Biennial lecture series, presenting a talk on March 29. More
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Library Hosts Wonderland-Themed 'Edible
Book' Exhibition and Tea
Alice and other visitors to Wonderland will feel right
at home at the annual Edible Book Exhibition and High
& Low Tea, slated for 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, April
2, in the Seuss Room of Geisel Library. The exhibition
is free, and the public is invited to attend. More
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New Library Exhibit Features
Prominent San Diego Artists in “Dialogue”
Four prominent San Diego artists whose works demonstrate
strong visual and thematic similarities are featured
in a new exhibition in Geisel Library. “Dialogue,”
which highlights the work of Judith Christiansen,
Sally Hagy-Boyer, Kathy Miller and Lisa Olson, opens
on Sunday, April 2, in the Mandeville Special Collections
Library and runs through June 18. The exhibit is free,
and the public is invited to attend. More
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 Biologist,
Beloved Teacher Dies
Meredith Gould, a lecturer in the section of cell and developmental biology at UCSD, who worked tirelessly to develop intellectually rewarding laboratory experiences for undergraduates, died on March 19 in San Diego from a brain tumor. She was 66. More
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Letter From Chancellor
