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UC San Diego School of Medicine Physician-Scientists Elected to Association of American Physicians

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UC San Diego Alumna Makes an Impact on the International Stage

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UC San Diego Engineer Miroslav Krstic Named Fellow-Ambassador of CNRS

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Seven New Trustees Join the UC San Diego Foundation Board

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Proactive stewards, higher education advocates and expert financial strategists, UC San Diego Foundation trustees play an important role in cultivating community partnerships and garnering resources to support UC San Diego research, teaching and public service initiatives. Trustees govern the Foundation, including managing net assets totaling $715 million, including an endowment of approximately $513 million, and help advance the university’s fundraising efforts. Seven trustees join the 2014-15 Foundation board this year, three new and four returning, including regional business executives, philanthropists, law professionals and alumni.

Seven New Trustees Join the UC San Diego Foundation Board

Two Nominees, One Winner for Best Research Paper at Computer Enigneering Conference

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At the 24th International Conference on Field Programmable Logic (FPL), two papers from the University of California, San Diego were nominated for the top award, and one of the papers from the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department won for Best Paper. Both papers dealt with hardware acceleration to speed up software tasks ranging from computer vision to reconstructing human genomes.

Two Nominees, One Winner for Best Research Paper at Computer Enigneering Conference

Prominent Seismologist Unlocks Antarctica’s Secrets at Public Lecture

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A seismologist who uses seismic waves to create images of the earth’s interior has been selected to receive the 2014 Robert L. and Bettie P. Cody Award in Ocean Sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Douglas Wiens, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will present the Cody Award public lecture on Sept. 30 at 3 p.m. in the Robert Paine Scripps Forum for Science, Society and the Environment (Scripps Seaside Forum), 8610 Kennel Way in La Jolla, Calif.

Prominent Seismologist Unlocks Antarctica’s Secrets at Public Lecture

UC San Diego Alumna Wins Best Industry & Government Paper Award

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Over 2,000 people attended the 20th ACM SIG International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2014), a premier interdisciplinary conference that brought together researchers and practitioners in late August from data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data. Best paper awards were handed out to academic and industry papers, and this year's Industry & Government award went to University of California, San Diego alumna Diane Hu (M.S. '09, Ph.D. '12), who did her doctoral dissertation under Computer Science and Engineering professor Lawrence Saul.

UC San Diego Alumna Wins Best Industry & Government Paper Award

ArtPower! at UC San Diego Names Jordan Peimer Executive Director

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The University of California, San Diego has selected Jordan Peimer to serve as executive director of ArtPower! effective Oct. 6, 2014, following a nationwide executive search. Focused on student engagement with the arts, ArtPower! has established a reputation over the last 10 years as a vibrant and innovative presenting arts organization that provides opportunities for students to connect with emerging and international performing artists. Peimer will lead the organization in building upon its music, dance and film series as well as developing new interactive programs for the campus and local community.

ArtPower! at UC San Diego Names Jordan Peimer Executive Director

UC San Diego Extension’s “Alumni Change the World” Scholarship Winner:

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