December 6, 2011
December 6, 2011 —
It’s no secret that with the down economy and high unemployment rates many San Diego residents are facing financial hardship, and the holidays can be an especially challenging time of year. It’s also a difficult time for nonprofit organizations, which are experiencing an increase in demand for their services just when the economy is making fundraising more challenging.
December 6, 2011
December 6, 2011 —
Campus leaders, including three deans and an associate vice chancellor for research, presented linked visions of how UC San Diego can remain at the pioneering front of discovery and research in the 21st century. The Founders' Symposium, held in an impressive new space, drew a big crowd to a thought-provoking topic.
December 6, 2011
December 6, 2011 —
Samuel Oludunfe, UC San Diego's urban forester, is well known for his work on campus. His achievements been featured in This Week @ UCSD as well as in other university publications.
December 6, 2011
December 6, 2011 —
In charting a bold course for UC San Diego’s future, the campus senior academic leaders took into account the university’s remarkable success in shaping minds, changing lives, launching industries and giving back to the community.
December 6, 2011
December 6, 2011 —
Perhaps because the original opening session on October 10 had been cancelled, the new chair of UC San Diego's Academic Senate, Joel Sobel, started the assembly's business quickly and efficiently on Tuesday, Nov. 29.
December 6, 2011
December 6, 2011 —
At age 20, Christie Milton-Toress was diagnosed with HIV and her husband, Angel, was diagnosed two months later with AIDS. Fortunately, their only child was born HIV negative. At the time in 1985, very few women were speaking out about their experiences with HIV. However, Toress became a spokesperson who advocated for the needs of families living with HIV/AIDS.
December 6, 2011
December 6, 2011 —
New, unwrapped toys will be collected for the UC San Diego Burn Unit, Infant Care Center, Bannister House and Mother, Child and Adolescent Care programs
December 6, 2011
December 6, 2011 —
Stem cells are tiny things, microscopic in fact. It’s the power of their pluripotency, their ability to become any kind of cell in the human body (and thus potentially fix almost any kind of human ailment) that makes them huge in the future of medicine.
December 5, 2011
December 5, 2011 —
Margarita M. Baggett, MSN, RN, Chief Nursing Officer, UC San Diego Health System, is the winner of Nursing Management’s 2011 Visionary Leader award. The annual award recognizes a nurse leader who “views nursing as both art and science by promoting caring and competence as the link between science and humanity.”
December 1, 2011
December 1, 2011 —
Margarita Baggett, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, William Mobley, Christian Wuthrich, and Joseph Vinetz
