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Transportation Services Helps Keep Campus Green, Launches Initiative to Garner Campus Feedback

April 3, 2012

The University of California, San Diego is ranked among Sierra Magazine’s top three “coolest schools” for going green, and Transportation Services has played an important and ongoing role in helping to make UC San Diego sustainable, while keeping the bustling campus moving.

Faculty Awards and Honors April 2012

April 1, 2012

William G. Bradley, Jr., Shu Chien, Jack Dixon, Karl Y. Hostetler, Herbert Levine, Victor Nizet, Susan Ferro-Novick, and Joseph Wang

How Genes Organize the Surface of the Brain

March 29, 2012

The first atlas of the surface of the human brain based upon genetic information has been produced by a national team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The work is published in the March 30 issue of the journal Science.

UC San Diego Physicists Find Patterns in New State of Matter

March 28, 2012

Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered patterns which underlie the properties of a new state of matter.

Revelle Lecture at Scripps: Are We Underestimating the Risk of Tsunamis?

March 28, 2012

Eddie Bernard, scientist emeritus for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) and former director of NOAA’s Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, will present “Tsunamis: Are we underestimating the risk?” during the 13th annual Roger Revelle Commemorative Lecture, presented by the Ocean Studies Board, part of the U.S. National Research Council.

Using Social Media to Catch a Thief on March 31

March 27, 2012

A group of crowdsourcing experts, including Manuel Cebrian, a computer science researcher at the University of California, San Diego, are building a team to participate in a, perhaps, impossible worldwide gaming challenge: track down five ‘suspects’ of a jewel heist in five different cities on two different continents within 12 hours. You can play, and make money, even if you don't live there.

Faculty researchers share their experiences turning discoveries into marketable products

March 27, 2012

Four engineering faculty members with technology transfer success stories discussed the challenges of the commercialization process during a March 14 dinner celebrating the 10th anniversary of the von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement. The von Liebig Center offers seed funding and advisory services and is part of the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.

SDSC Graduate Student Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

March 27, 2012

A graduate student working in the Walker Molecular Dynamics laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is a recipient of the 2012-2013 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program award for his innovative molecular dynamics research using GPU (graphics processing unit) computing.

Faculty Club Celebrates Staff with April Membership Promotion

March 27, 2012

April is staff appreciation month at UC San Diego’s Faculty Club, and the venue is featuring promotional enticements to bring staff members and administrative professionals into the club and encourage them to join.

Campus Celebrates National Graduate-Professional Student Appreciation Week

March 27, 2012

They teach, they discover, they create and they are part of what makes UC San Diego one of the world’s top-ranked public research universities. No, we’re not talking about faculty; this time, we’re talking about graduate and professional students—young scholars who are in a unique position of receiving in-depth educational training while pushing the frontiers of academia and creating new knowledge.
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