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Faculty Awards and Honors April 2012

William G. Bradley, Jr., Shu Chien, Jack Dixon, Karl Y. Hostetler, Herbert Levine, Victor Nizet, Susan Ferro-Novick, and Joseph Wang

SDSC Graduate Student Awarded NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

A graduate student working in the Walker Molecular Dynamics laboratory at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego is a recipient of the 2012-2013 NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program award for his innovative molecular dynamics research using GPU (graphics processing unit) computing.

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Among Nation’s Best

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center is the only San Diego hospital to be featured in Becker’s Hospital Review list of “70 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs.”

For Fifth Year in a Row, Calit2 Honored with CENIC 2012 Innovations in Networking Award

A major Mexican-American advanced network project led on the U.S. side by the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) has been honored by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) as a recipient of the 2012 Innovations in Networking Award for High-Performance Research Applications.

Combined Health Agencies Honors Four UC San Diego Health Heroes

Brain stimulation surgery for patients with Parkinson’s disease; promoting liver health on a national level; leading one of the nation’s top ALS clinics; and designing a law that protects the rights of students with epilepsy: these are significant reasons why four UC San Diego School of Medicine doctors were honored during the 18th annual Combined Health Agencies Health Hero Awards breakfast on March 15 at The Prado in Balboa Park.

Times Higher Education Ranks UC San Diego Among Top Universities in the World

The University of California, San Diego was ranked 36th in the World Reputation Rankings by the Times Higher Education. The Reputation Rankings complement the annual World University Rankings, published in fall 2012, in which UC San Diego was ranked 33rd.