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UC San Diego Composer Shortlisted for Pulitzer Prize in Music

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Xiaoxiang refers to the region in China’s Hunan Province where the rivers Xiao and Xiang intersect. It is also the title of a concerto for alto saxophone and orchestra composed by UC San Diego music professor and Qualcomm Institute composer in residence Lei Liang. The work was one of three finalists for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music. The Pulitzer awards and finalists were announced on Monday, and Xiaoxiang by Lei Liang (published by Schott Music) just missed out on the prize, which went to Julia Wolfe for her folk-classical hybrid, Anthracite Fields, an oratorio about coal miners in Pennsylvania at the turn of the last century.

UC San Diego Composer Shortlisted for Pulitzer Prize in Music

41st Annual Faculty Excellence Awards Honors Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service

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As educators, they inspire students to be passionate about learning; as researchers, their advancements have international impact; and as citizens, they promote equitable access to education. Six UC San Diego faculty members will be honored at the 41st annual Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Awards for going above and beyond to make a positive impact in their teaching, research and service. The recognition ceremony will be held Thursday, April 2 at 5:30 p.m. in Atkinson Hall at the Qualcomm Institute.

41st Annual Faculty Excellence Awards Honors Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service

Five UC San Diego Researchers Receive Prestigious Sloan Fellowships

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Five UC San Diego faculty members are being honored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with Sloan Research Fellowships for 2015—three from the Jacobs School of Engineering and two from the Division of Social Sciences. This year’s recipients are computer scientist Shachar Lovett, economist Paul Niehaus, Padmini Rangamani from the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, nanoengineer Andrea Tao and neuroscientist Bradley Voytek.

Five UC San Diego Researchers Receive Prestigious Sloan Fellowships

SDSC Researchers Win NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact Award

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Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, are the recipient of NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact Award for their collaborative work in developing an accelerated GPU (graphics processing unit) code to simulate earthquake physics necessary for safer building design.

SDSC Researchers Win NVIDIA’s 2015 Global Impact Award

CDC’s New Investigator Award for Domestic Violence Research Goes to UC San Diego Scientist

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Jamila K. Stockman, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine and global public health at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has been selected to receive the Linda E. Saltzman New Investigator Award.

CDC’s New Investigator Award for Domestic Violence Research Goes to UC San Diego Scientist

UC San Diego Health System Named One of Nation’s Best by Truven Health Analytics

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UC San Diego Health System was this week named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Truven Health AnalyticsTM. This is the third time UC San Diego Health System has been recognized for this prestigious honor.