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Thousands of students, faculty, staff and community members use the UC San Diego Libraries every day. The Libraries provide more than 7 million digital and print volumes, journals and multimedia materials, and its resources and services are accessed on the Web almost 90,000 times a day. Ever-evolving shifts in user needs and the continuous decline in state funding, have led the Libraries to implement a number of changes, including the consolidation of some library buildings and collections.

Newsweek Again Names The Preuss School UCSD the Nation’s Top Transformative High School

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The Preuss School UCSD––a charter middle and high school on the campus of UC San Diego for motivated, low-income students whose parents have not graduated from college––has again been named the top transformative school in the country by Newsweek magazine for the school’s ability to lead the way in getting low-income and first-generation students ready for college and beyond.

Newsweek Again Names The Preuss School UCSD the Nation’s Top Transformative High School

President Obama’s Community Service Honor Roll Commends UC San Diego’s Commitment to Giving Back

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For the third consecutive year, the University of California, San Diego has been named to the President’s Community Service Honor Roll with distinction for its efforts to solve community problems, place students on a lifelong path of civic engagement and achieve meaningful, measureable outcomes of community service.

President Obama’s Community Service Honor Roll Commends UC San Diego’s Commitment to Giving Back

Three Professors at UC San Diego Elected to National Academy of Sciences

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The National Academy of Sciences today elected three professors at the University of California, San Diego to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers.

Three Professors at UC San Diego Elected to National Academy of Sciences

Faculty Awards and Honors May 2012

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Dilip Jeste, Roberto Malinow, Neal Swerdlow, Ruth Williams, and William Young

Economist, Writer-performer Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

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Two members of the UC San Diego faculty have won a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2012: Writer-performer Eileen Myles and economist James E. Rauch. Myles and Rauch join four others from the University of California, among 181 scholars, artists and scientists from the U.S. and Canada, who have been named Guggenheim fellows in the 88th annual competition.