STORIES
FROM UCSD
 Fetal
Surgery
Oceanside
residents Millie Taulau and her husband, Tino, were devastated
when their unborn twin boys were diagnosed with an often-fatal
condition called Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS).  MORE
Women's
Center
The
Women’s Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special birthday gift, a brand new facility in the original Student Center. MORE
Slip
Slidin' Away
The
landslides that struck rain-soaked California in 2005 were tragic
reminders that we need a better early warning system for
these natural disasters. MORE
The
Phage Factory
It
sounds like a cousin of the Borg from Star Trek, drifting through
space in search of prey. And in its own
micro universe a phage is just as deadly as its fictional relative. MORE
The
Picky Fiddler Crab
The
California real estate market isn’t just tough on humans. Male California fiddler crabs need to have the right home or they may not be able to attract a female. MORE
Sound
Scholarship
The
clang and clatter of the early twentieth century is music to Emily
Thompson’s ears—or, at least, fodder for her unusual scholarship.
MORE
New
Cancer Center
Harsh realities shaped the blueprint for the new
Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center building. It takes up
to $800 million and 15 years to bring a new drug to market—and patients with advanced cancer can’t wait.
MORE
Martial
Arts and Mariachis
One
night you’ll get virtuoso mariachi music, another night it’ll be the Crouching Tiger Concerto while a screen shows the Ang Lee movie.
MORE
Kudos
Kudos to the following professors and researchers. MORE
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ENCORE
Thirty years ago:
January
14, 1976
Classroom Smoking Ban Suggested
by Muir Council:
The Muir College Council will have its first meeting
of the quarter this week.
Up for discussion is a suggested smoking ban in classrooms
and preparation for
the visit of the Accreditation Association to UCSD this
spring.
Ten years ago:
January 16, 1996
SRTV Begins Programming:
Last week, SRTV — the only, completely
student-run television station in the UC system—became
a reality. Currently, SRTV is on the air Monday through Friday,
from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. SRTV is a closed-circuit broadcast
on channel 18 of Triton Cable and is available in all cable-equipped
campus residences. In addition, KSDT’s signal will
be sent out over SRTV during the new station’s off-air
hours.
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E-CLIPPINGS
A selection of UCSD research stories. For more visit: ucsdnews.ucsd.edu
Nuclear Fallout: This fall, two
UCSD physics professors, Kim Griest
and Jorge Hirsch, started a petition to oppose a new U.S. Defense
Department proposal, allowing the United States to use nuclear
weapons against non-nuclear
states. As of December, over 1,400 physicists have signed it. MORE
Stem Cells: In September, the State
Stem Cell Agency awarded UCSD $3.6 million to expand the number
of scientists trained to use
stem cells in research and clinical settings. The funds will help
provide interdisciplinary training in stem-cell biology and medicine
for 16 scientists. MORE
Mini Medicine: UCSD received
$3.9 million from the National Cancer Institute in October to establish
a Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence. The UCSD center
will use nanotechnology to develop anti-cancer therapies that
directly target tumor cells; more accurate and faster diagnostics;
and ways to track
down cancer cells that survive therapy. MORE
Expanding Datastar: The San Diego
Supercomputer Center at UCSD has expanded the capacity and capability
of
its new DataStar supercomputer. Through the addition of 96 8-way
IBM Power 4+ p655 compute nodes, SDSC’s users will now have
access to one of the nation’s largest computers, which is
available
to the open academic community. MORE
Meltdown: An article in the November
17 issue of Nature says that greenhouse gases, which result in
warmer climates, will have a
significant influence on ice- and snow-dependent regions. The article
by Scripps Institution’s Tim Barnett, ’66, and Jennifer
Adam, along with Dennis Lettenmaier of the University of Washington,
concludes that there will be costly disruptions to water supply
and resource management systems. MORE
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