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Two Artists Are Better Than One?

A seemingly unstable sculpture is the first thing that meets the eye on entering the Groves Gallery at the Oceanside Museum of Art: a boulder-like object sits atop a tall and narrow wooden structure.

SDSC’s Triton Resource Helps “Track” How Kinesin Molecules Move

Researchers at UC San Diego’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, in collaboration with several universities in the U.S., United Kingdom, and Poland, have developed a new picture of how kinesin molecules move along microtubules, or tiny biological train tracks – and how they sometimes come to a halt, causing diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

Campus Community Comes Together to Offer Help for Holidays

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.

Campus Leaders Describe Plans to “Flash Forward from 50” in Research and Discovery

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.

UCSD’s Campus Forester Explains ‘Prospects, Process and Profits’ of Urban Forestry

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.

Campus Leaders: Diversity is Key to UC San Diego’s Innovation

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.

New Chair Sets Fast Pace as Academic Senate Returns to Business

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.

Campus Marks World AIDS Day with Candlelight Vigil, Viewing of Memorial Quilt, Educations Lectures

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.

Celebrate the Holidays at Staff Association Pancake Breakfast

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

Stem Cell ‘Collaboratory’ Opens on UC San Diego Campus

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.