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UC San Diego Professor Gürol Süel Receives $1.5 Million Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Simons Grant

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today named University of California San Diego Molecular Biology Professor Gürol Süel an HHMI-Simons Faculty Scholar. Süel will receive a total of $1.5 million over five years in support of his studies on how bacterial cells communicate with each other via electrical signals, similar to the way neurons transmit messages in the brain.

UC San Diego Names Computer Engineer to Fratamico Endowed Chair

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CSE Prof. Tajana Rosing is the inaugural holder of an academic chair endowed in 2012 by John J. and Susan M. Fratamico to promote scholarship in fields including engineering and the life sciences.

UC San Diego Names Computer Engineer to Fratamico Endowed Chair

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Appoints Chancellor to Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced the appointment of 30 private sector, nonprofit and academic leaders—including UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla—to serve on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE). Selected from a pool of more than 200 accomplished applicants, the council members will offer recommendations for policies and programs designed to make U.S. communities, businesses, and the workforce more globally competitive.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Appoints Chancellor to Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Steve Poizner Joins the Rady School of Management as First Entrepreneur in Residence

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(San Diego) – The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego today announced the appointment of Steve Poizner, a successful high tech entrepreneur and former California Insurance Commissioner, as the school’s inaugural Entrepreneur in Residence.

UC San Diego Among Top 10 Best Public Universities in Nation, According to U.S. News & World Report

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The University of California San Diego is ranked the 10th best public university in the nation by the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges guidebook, released today. For more than a decade, the publication has included UC San Diego in its list of the nation’s top 10 public universities.

UC San Diego Among Top 10 Best Public Universities in Nation, According to U.S. News & World Report

Obituary Notice: Edward (Jerry) Winterer, Scripps Oceanography Geologist

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego Emeritus Professor of Geology Edward Litton (Jerry) Winterer, a renowned expert in the study of sediments, died Aug. 30 at his home in Del Mar, Calif. He was 91.