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Wooing the Cream of the Crop
Campus Invites Top Prospective Students to Scholars' Day
The 200 parents and high school students gathered
in the Price Center Ballroom thought they had come
to learn more about what UCSD has to offer. They didn't
know they were in for a big surprise. So, when Vice
Chancellor of Student Affairs Joseph Watson told the
teenagers Friday morning that they all had been admitted
to UCSD for fall 2007, they smiled. Their parents
cheered. More
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Retirees
 Do
your homework. Diversify. Don’t panic. These
were some of the pieces of advice that Paul Atkins,
a Commissioner with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
gave out to an audience of UCSD retirees Tuesday at
the Faculty Club. More
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| Revelle Takes Prize in Battle to Save Energy
For the past month, many students at Revelle, Sixth and Muir
colleges unplugged appliances that weren’t in use and turned off the light when they left the room. Some quit using their hairdryers. Some took the stairs instead of the elevators. The three colleges competed in an energy conservation contest from Feb. 5 to March 5.
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Women's Basketball Team Squares Off with
Chico
State Tonight in Its First Ever NCAA Regional Final
 The UCSD Women’s Basketball shoots for the Elite Eight tonight when it hosts CCAA rival Chico State in the championship tilt of the NCAA Division II West Regional Championship. The game begins at 7 p.m. at RIMAC Arena. More
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The UCSD Alumni Association
Announces Top Award Recipients
An internationally celebrated Italian art diagnostician,
the 
chief scientist and founder of the world's largest
hedge fund, and a legendary campus leader have been
named by the UCSD Alumni Association as the top recipients
of the 29th annual UCSD Alumni Awards for Excellence.
The awards will be presented June 2. More
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UCSD Near You Kicks Off 2007
UC San Diego will kick off its third annual nationwide UCSD
Near You tour tomorrow in Orange County. The program gives alums across the nation the opportunity to go behind the current headlines of the day with UCSD’s nationally recognized faculty and alumni as they present the latest in innovative research and shed light on controversial issues.
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Senior Seminars Offer Broad Range of Topics
Seniors are getting a short, no-risk example of what
a graduate seminar is like in a Senior Seminars program
that offers senior students elective seminars in small
class situations on a wide variety of topics. More
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| Place Matters at UCSD
Students burst out in song, read poems and danced as
shuttle riders looked on. The performance was part of
Place Matters, a project billed as the campus' most
comprehensive interdisciplinary art initiative to date.
It included Art Power!, Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall
and Sixth colleges. Students took Place Matters
classes for two quarters, which culminated in a series of
performances in February.
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Topping Off Ceremony at Price Center
The Price Center expansion reached a major milestone
Feb. 23 when the ceremonial final steel beam was placed in the
structure. Those attending the "topping
off" ceremony were invited to sign the final
beam, including representatives from the University
Centers Advisory Board and principal architect Mehrdad
Yazdani and his team from Cannon Design. Pictured
here are ironworkers from McMahon Steel Company who
built the expansion steel structre, all 1800 tons
of it. The event was hosted by The M. A. Mortenson
Company, the project's general contractor.
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| Chief Librarian Earns Lifetime Achievement
Award
Brian E. C. Schottlaender, University Librarian at
UC San Diego, has been awarded the 2007 Ross Atkinson
Lifetime Achievement Award by the Association for
Library Collections & Technical Services, a division
of the American Library Association. The award was
announced in the association's online journal last
week. More
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UCSD Student Awarded Gates Scholarship to Study in England
Eviatar Yemini, a student at the UC San Diego, has
been awarded a 2007 Gates Cambridge Scholarship and
will begin graduate studies at the University of Cambridge,
England. He is one of 48 candidates from the United
States to receive the award. More
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Summer-camp
Spots Still Open
Space is still available in some of the weeklong sessions of UCSD Recreation's Knock Around and Leadership Summer Camps for kids 5–14. See more camp offerings at UCSD.
Potential Privacy
Issues of Electronic W-2 Tax Forms Spark
Faculty Senate Motion
to UC President
The UCSD Faculty Senate ran well beyond schedule
on Tuesday as members voiced their concerns about potential third-party access to electronic W-2 forms.
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Upcoming Staff Education and Development Courses
Job Accommodation: Saving Jobs, Saving Lives
3/15/07
1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Post Award Financial Administration Workshop - Public Health Service Contracts, Grants, and NIH Flow thru Awards
3/20/07
8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Purchasing Policies and Procedures for Web IFIS
3/16/07
1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
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Frank Rich
May 14, 2007
8 p.m.
Price Center Ballroom
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parents of UCSD students who contributed to The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What's Next |
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Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform
By Stephan Haggard
and Marcus Noland
In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century.
In their carefully researched book, Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland present the most comprehensive and penetrating
account of the famine to date, examining not only the origins and aftermath of the crisis but also the regime's
response to outside aid and the effect of its current policies on the country's economic future.
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