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Even the Smallest Possible Stroke Can Damage Brain Tissue and Impair Cognitive Function

Science & Environment

Blocking a single tiny blood vessel in the brain can harm neural tissue and even alter behavior, a new study from the University of California, San Diego has shown. But these consequences can be mitigated by a drug already in use, suggesting treatment that could slow the progress of dementia associated with cumulative damage to minuscule blood vessels that feed brain cells. The team reports their results in the December 16 advance online edition of Nature Neuroscience.

Even the Smallest Possible Stroke Can Damage Brain Tissue and Impair Cognitive Function

Toward a New Model of the Cell

Health & Behavior

Turning vast amounts of genomic data into meaningful information about the cell is the great challenge of bioinformatics, with major implications for human biology and medicine. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues have proposed a new method that creates a computational model of the cell from large networks of gene and protein interactions, discovering how genes and proteins connect to form higher-level cellular machinery.

Vice Chancellor Haymet to Retire from Administrative Roles at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Science & Environment

Following six years of service as Vice Chancellor for Marine Sciences and Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Tony Haymet has announced his decision to retire from his administrative duties on January 1, 2013. He will remain a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego.

Vice Chancellor Haymet to Retire from Administrative Roles at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

UC San Diego Researcher Funded for Stem-Cell-based Preeclampsia Therapies

Health & Behavior

Dr. Mana Parast, an assistant professor of pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, has been awarded a $3 million grant to continue her research into new therapies for preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication that often results in additional neonatal complications.

UC San Diego Researcher Funded for Stem-Cell-based Preeclampsia Therapies

UC San Diego Grad Student Receives Prestigious National Book Collecting Award

Business & Economics

Jordan Haug, a Ph. D. candidate in Anthropology, has been named the 1st prize winner of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest, a competition sponsored by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliographic Societies (FABS), and the Center for the Book and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress.

UC San Diego Grad Student Receives Prestigious National Book Collecting Award

Wagners Donate $2.2 Million to UC San Diego’s Student Production Fund

Humanities

After an academic theater career that spanned nearly 40 years, Arthur Wagner—founding chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego—is still passionate about training the next generation of theater and dance artists. As a result of budgetary cuts at the University of California, funds for student productions have all but dried up.