UCSD News

Three UC San Diego students won individual national championships, while the women's track and field team finished in third place last month in the 2009 Division II National Championships in San Angelo, Texas. More

NASA has awarded a $150,000 Global Climate Change Education grant to UC San Diego’s Sixth College to develop a course sequence in "Climate, Technology, and Culture" for its core curriculum. More

Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the UC San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a remarkable property of the contractile ring, a structure required for cell division. Understanding how the contractile ring works to divide the cell may facilitate development of therapies to prevent uncontrolled cell division in cancer. More

When senior Mandy Jouan isn’t working as a toymaker, she creates delicate works made out of yarn featuring a monkey she calls Scooter. Jouan is just one of UC San Diego’s undergraduate students who exhibited their work during the fourth annual senior art show, “Liquidation: Everyone Must Go.” More

The Graduate Student Association hosted its second annual Graduate Student Community Awards Reception May 29 at the Student Services Center. The event aimed to celebrate the work and achievements of graduate students, faculty, staff, alumni and community partners whose support for graduate and professional students at UCSD has proven indispensable over the past year. More

Two of this year’s five awardees chosen to receive the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists are School of Medicine physician-scientists. Dr. Pradipta Ghosh was recognized for research into the changes in the activity of a protein that helps transmit molecular signals into cells, called the G protein, during cancerous tumor formation and growth. Dr. Quyen T. Nguyen was honored for testing the use of molecular fluorescence imaging to guide surgery. More

Scott Barton, principal of the Preuss School at UC San Diego, and Paul Tran, a Preuss School junior, have been selected as 2009 Bezos Scholars, a program which brings together 12 of the nation’s top public high school juniors and 12 of the most engaged educators for a weeklong seminar. More

Herbert Frank York, founding chancellor of UC San Diego and a world-renowned physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb as a young researcher and later championed arms control, died May 19 at Thornton Hospital. He was 87. A mentor to students and an advisor to U.S. presidents, York’s academic and world-player roles intertwined in a career spanning more than 60 years. More

In the end, coming back home turned out to be the only major glitch for UCSD alumna Megan McArthur and her fellow astronauts during their mission to repair the Hubble Telescope. Hazardous weather at NASA’s Florida landing site kept the space shuttle Atlantis in orbit for two additional days. Finally, mission control decided to land the spacecraft Sunday morning at Edwards Air Force Base in the California desert. More

You think winning American Idol is difficult? Try winning UC San Diego’s Exemplary Staff Employee of the Year awards. Every year, the university receives more than 100,000 job applications. In all, 11,000 UCSD staff members are eligible for the award and just 10 receive the distinction every year, said Tom Leet, assistant vice chancellor of Human Resources. More

In studying the preventive effects of vitamin D, researchers at UCSD's Moores Cancer Center have proposed a new model of cancer development that hinges on a loss of cancer cells’ ability to stick together. The model differs substantially from the current model of cancer development, which suggests genetic mutations as the earliest driving forces behind cancer. More

A team of UC San Diego-led atmospheric chemistry researchers moved closer to what is considered the "holy grail" of climate change science when it made the first-ever direct detection of biological particles within ice clouds. More

As part of a multi-center clinical trial, UC San Diego Medical Center is evaluating the safety and effectiveness of a potential new way to treat angina — by injecting a protein that stimulates the growth of new oxygen-rich blood vessels directly into the heart. More

Javier Moreno will be the first person in his family to attend college. He said he hopes to set an example for his siblings and make his parents proud. Moreno, a molecular biology major from the Imperial Valley, was one of the 30 Gates Millennium Scholars honored this month. More

Don E. Wayne, chair of the department of literature, has been appointed as provost of Revelle College. Wayne begins his new duties July 1, succeeding Daniel Wulbert. Wayne has been a member of the UC San Diego faculty since 1975. More

In acknowledgement of their extraordinary teaching methods, seven UC San Diego faculty members and two graduate students will receive awards from the campus Academic Senate at a May 29 reception at the Faculty Club. More

A nightmare-plagued teenager, egotistical director, used-shoe salesman and World War II refugee were a few of the eclectic characters featured in the films screened at the second annual “Up & Coming Student Film Festival” at the Loft Thursday night. The event was designed to champion the work of student filmmakers. More

Renee Barnett Terry, dean of Student Affairs in Revelle College, has been named an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow for the academic year 2009-10. As an ACE Fellow, Barnett Terry will spend the fall quarter at a host institution, followed by mentoring from senior administrators at UC San Diego. More

Dr. Steven V. Edelman, professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, is being honored by the American Diabetes Association with its “Outstanding Educator in Diabetes” Award. More