Tonia Snee, co-chair of UC San Diego’s United Way/CHAD campaign, was among three people nominated for the most prestigious award, the Lifetime Achievement Award. Snee, an administrative specialist in Human Resources, was honored as an “all star” for her dedication and “steady presence” in managing the campaign since 2005.
This spring, the UC San Diego Holocaust Living History Workshop (HLHW), sponsored by the UC San Diego Libraries and the Judaic Studies Program, continues its popular “Witnessing History” program, a series of talks focusing on the experience of history in the making.
Transformation: It is an idea at the core of The Preuss School UCSD’s mission to create a functioning educational system capable of transforming a student from one with few educational prospects to one whose passion to learn is ignited and whose future is reclaimed. Preuss—a charter middle and high school for motivated, low-income students whose parents have not graduated from college—will celebrate this idea at its benefit, The Preuss School Promise: Lives Transformed on Saturday, April 21.
The annual Muir Musical at the University of California, San Diego returns with a production of “RENT.” The 1986 Broadway musical tells the story of young artists in New York City’s East Village staying true to their ideals.
After registering several impressive results on the opening day of competition on Saturday, it was more of the same for UC San Diego on Sunday as the Tritons posted a pair of top 11 finishes at the 2012 Cal/Nevada Collegiate Championships.
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.
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