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Nick Magliocca and Todd Myer, seniors majoring in Environmental Systems, won $500 awards from the San Diego Environmental Professionals. More >> |
On any given day, the Cryoelectron Microscopy Facility's schedule is booked even during evening and weekend hours. During UCSD's Open House on October 21, 2006 the facility hosted the Agouron Institute. More >> |
Gunars Valkirs realized that a classical career in physics would mean either being on a huge team working on a project or being a theoretician. Neither appealed to him, so he started thinking about other opportunities in the 1980s. More >>
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Explore how wrestling with mathematics problems gives mathematics teachers better insights into the different ways their students learn.
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Last year, Newsweek named UCSD the “hottest” university for undergraduates to study science. This year, the Division of Physical Sciences, in partnership with UCSD's Education Studies Program, has developed an undergraduate Science and Mathematics Education Program that will enable some of our top students to become
K-12 science and mathematics educators.
Why encourage our best science and mathematics students to become local school teachers? California is currently producing only half of the secondary math and science teachers it needs. And if we don't invest at least some of our talent into teaching the next generation of scientists and engineers, our high tech and biotech industries, as well as our local economy, will suffer. In addition, we believe this program will help us retain many of our top students passionate about teaching within science, math and engineering majors.
“According to the National Science Foundation, across the country only half of incoming freshman planning to major in science, math or engineering actually go on to obtain degrees in those areas,” said Barbara Sawrey, vice-chair for education in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. “We hope that by helping students reflect deeply on their own learning, we will succeed in increasing the retention of science, math and engineering majors.”
In this issue, you can read more about the recent grant award to the Division from the Department of Education to support the Science and Mathematics Education Minor program, check out the program's website and learn how you can donate to this exciting new enterprise by clicking here >> |
A three-year grant to develop, assess and disseminate a professional development program for high school mathematics teachers was recently awarded to the Department of
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Dean Mark Thiemens spent an entire career studying and analyzing meteorites, chunks of space rock that survive the fiery plunge through Earth's atmosphere. Now he's got an orbiting space rock — an asteroid or “minor planet” — to call his very own. More >>
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Researchers at UCSD have developed what they call a “Smart Petri Dish” that could be used to rapidly screen new drugs for toxic interactions or identify cells in the early stages of cancer circulating through a patient’s blood. The invention uses porous silicon crystals filled with polystyrene to detect subtle changes in the sizes and shapes of the cells. More >> |
Highlights of UCSD’s nanoscience research were featured at a recent press workshop convened by the Division and attended by journalists from 14 countries in Latin America. Watch the video of the workshop to learn more about how this research is making science fiction a reality.
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UCSD Press Release
November 1, 2006
This Week@UCSD
October 9, 2006
San Diego Union-Tribune
July 12, 2006
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Dean Has New Minor Planet