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In January 2007, Clifford P. and Pamela P. Kubiak announced an estate gift to endow a fund in support of student fellowships in UCSD’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Division of Physical Sciences. More >> |
David Shaw, one of the world's leading experts in computational finance, will receive the prestigious Outstanding Alumnus Award from the UCSD Alumni Association at the 29th annual Awards for Excellence on
June 2, 2007.More >> |
As a
senior technology strategy officer
at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Steven B. Buchsbaum (PhD, physics ’90) develops and manages a large portfolio of grants and contracts as one of his many responsibilities for the foundation. More >>
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In its tenth year, UCSD's Fiesta de las Estrellas honors alumni excellence. Virginia (Ginny) Velasquez, '89, alumnus will be recognized for her impressive achievements in business and in the community. More >>
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This year brings two important milestones for faculty and staff in our division — the 65th anniversary of the first sustained nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago and the
50th anniversary of a high school mathematics competition that now takes place each spring
at UCSD.
Three members of our emeritus faculty — chemist James Arnold and physicists Marvin Goldberger and Herbert York—played key roles in the success of that first event, the Manhattan Project, which brought a rapid end to World War II and increased the influence of scientists within the highest levels of our government.
Professors Goldberger and York will share their personal recollections of the physicists involved in the Manhattan Project who shaped American physics and science policy during the post-War years at a special event on May 17 at 4:30 pm at the La Jolla Playhouse’s Potiker Theatre on the UCSD campus. I hope you will attend. Details on the lecture can be found here >>
Finally, on May 1, UCSD, in conjunction with the Greater San Diego
Math Council and the San Diego County Office of Education, will celebrate the winners of the 50th Annual High School Honors Mathematics
Contest at UCSD with an awards banquet. Details about this contest and celebration can be found here >>. Check out the Science & Math Education Program's website and find out how you can donate to this exciting new enterprise by clicking here >> |
With applications related to biophysics research questions, research initiated by an undergraduate physics student has resulted in the first model of how knots form. More >> |
A $400,000 gift from the James B. Ax Family Foundation toward the proposed POLARBEAR telescope will allow physicists to better understand how the universe began. More >> |
Winners of the San Diego High School Honors Statistics Contest organized by the Department of Mathematics were recognized for their achievements following the Kyoto Prize lecture. More >>
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A team of American and French scientists has developed a method to determine the influence of past volcanic eruptions on climate and the chemistry of the upper atmosphere, and significantly reduce uncertainty in models of future climate change. More >> |
A team of physicists and neuroscientists has discovered a bottleneck in the network of blood vessels in the brain that makes it vulnerable to strokes. The finding may explain the origin of the puzzling damage to the brain's gray matter often detected in brain scans, especially among the elderly.
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This Week@UCSD
December 11, 2006
San Diego Union-Tribune
January 5, 2007
National Geographic News
November 14, 2006
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High School Statistics Competition Winners Honored 
Bottleneck in Blood Supply Makes Brain Vulnerable to Strokes