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Nov. 15 Founders’ Day Features Throwback to 60s Beach Scene

November 7, 2013

It’s fun. It’s free. It’s a festival. Three great reasons why our Triton community—faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends—should attend Founders’ Day on Friday, Nov. 15. This year, Town Square will be transformed into a 1960s beach boardwalk featuring a brief program, tasty treats, musical entertainment and interactive activities including more than 15 booths.

New Resource Center Salutes Veterans’ Service

November 7, 2013

Richard Gilbert is a student veteran at UC San Diego who was deployed twice to Iraq as a sniper in the U.S. Marine Corps. On his second deployment, he was wounded and placed in the Wounded Warrior Battalion at Balboa Naval Hospital. After being medically retired from the Marine Corps, Gilbert took classes at Mesa Community College and eventually transferred to UC San Diego where he served as president of the Student Veteran Organization for two years.

Fellowship Program Attracts Diverse Postdocs

November 7, 2013

Mesmerized by the movement of water as a child—from the ocean to waves and floods—Timu Gallien has transformed her childhood curiosities into full-time research as one of UC San Diego’s newest Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellows at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Serving as a role model for women in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), Gallien studies coastal flood risks, sea level rises and the effects of urbanization in order to create awareness about the potential consequences of climate change.

Katzin Prize Awarded to Four UC San Diego Graduate Students

November 7, 2013

Four UC San Diego graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees have been named the inaugural recipients of the Katzin Prize and will receive additional fellowship support of $10,000 per year for up to five years, above the support packages offered by their departments. Established last year with a $4 million endowed gift from Jerome and Miriam Katzin, the Katzin Prize is designed to support UC San Diego’s strategic priority of growing its graduate student population with students who excel across disciplines. The awardees are pursuing doctoral degrees in the arts and humanities, sciences and social sciences.

U.S. Media Consumption to Rise to 15.5 Hours a Day – Per Person – by 2015

November 6, 2013

A new study by a researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, says that by 2015, the sum of media asked for and delivered to consumers on mobile devices and to their homes would take more than 15 hours a day to see or hear. That volume is equal to 6.9 million-million gigabytes of information, or a daily consumption of nine DVDs worth of data per person per day.

SDSC’s High-Performance Computing Systems Benefit San Diego-Area Companies

November 5, 2013

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, has recently stepped up efforts to provide its expertise in high-performance computing (HPC) and data storage to small-and medium-sized companies, particularly across San Diego’s innovation-driven, high-tech economy.

UC San Diego Dedicates Student Veterans Resource Center Nov. 7

November 5, 2013

The University of California, San Diego will salute current and retired military service men and women from 11 to 11:30 a.m. on Nov. 7 with the dedication of the campus’s new Student Veterans Resource Center (SVRC) and the awarding of the 14th annual Veteran of the Year presented by the UC San Diego Veterans Association. The event, which will commemorate Veterans Day, is free and open to the public and will take place on the west side of the UC San Diego Student Center.

Qualcomm Institute and CineGrid Representative to Speak at China Animation Academy Awards Conference

November 4, 2013

Qian Liu, a Visualization System Integrator at the University of California, San Diego’s Qualcomm Institute, has been invited to speak at the China Animation Institute of the Beijing Film Academy’s 13th Annual Academy Awards Conference, which begins Friday and ends Nov. 12.

Race and Romance, Online

November 4, 2013

Usually, research findings on the state of U.S. race relations are pretty bleak. But a study of online dating by UC San Diego sociologist Kevin Lewis suggests that racial barriers to romance are not as insurmountable as we might suppose.

Are Racks-on-Chip the Future of Data Centers?

November 4, 2013

Increasing the scale and decreasing the cost and power of data centers requires greatly boosting the density of computing, storage and networking within those centers. That is the hard truth spelled out in the journal Science by faculty from the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
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