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Fiesta de las Estrellas Celebrates ‘Star’ Scholars at UC San Diego

April 25, 2013

The UC San Diego Hispanic Scholarship Council will host its 16th annual Fiesta de las Estrellas April 25 to raise scholarship funds for outstanding students, with an opportunity for donors to meet the students whose lives will be transformed by their gift.

UC San Diego’s “Simphony” Research Earns Grammy Foundation Support

April 25, 2013

A UC San Diego study of the impact of music training on the brain and behavioral development in children has been awarded a grant of nearly $20,000 by the Grammy Foundation.

Language Crafters

April 25, 2013

Nobody wore a ridged rubber forehead, or painted their skin Pandora blue. If there were craggy beards and long locks, these seemed more homage to 1960s counterculture than to “Game of Thrones.”

Joint Program with World Wildlife Fund Program Aims to Train Professionals from Around World in Meas

April 25, 2013

UC San Diego and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will launch in August a new international certificate program in Advanced Terrestrial Carbon Accounting.

UC San Diego Named One of Greenest Colleges in U.S. and Canada by Princeton Review

April 24, 2013

The University of California, San Diego has been named one of the most environmentally responsible “green colleges” in the U.S. and Canada by the Princeton Review.

Discovery of Wound-Healing Genes in Flies Could Mitigate Human Skin Ailments

April 24, 2013

Biologists at UC San Diego have identified eight genes never before suspected to play a role in wound healing that are called into action near the areas where wounds occur.

Unique Chemistry Reveals Eruption of Ancient Materials Once at Earth’s Surface

April 24, 2013

An international team of researchers, including Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, geochemist James Day, has found new evidence that material contained in oceanic lava flows originated in Earth’s ancient Archean crust.

The Preuss School UCSD Ranked Best High School in San Diego County by U.S. News & World Report

April 23, 2013

The Preuss School UCSD—a charter middle and high school for motivated, low-income students who strive to become the first in their families to graduate from college—has been ranked the best high school in San Diego County by U.S. News & World Report, which released its annual list of “Best High Schools” today

As CO2 Reaches Symbolic Milestone, Scripps Launches Daily Keeling Curve Update

April 23, 2013

For the first time in human history, concentrations of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2 ) could rise above 400 parts per million (ppm) for sustained lengths of time throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere as soon as May 2013.

The Asian Monsoon is Getting Predictable

April 23, 2013

For much of Asia, the pace of life is tuned to rhythms of monsoons. The summer rainy season is especially important for securing the water and food supplies for more than a billion people. Its variations can mean the difference between drought and flood.
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