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Awards and Honors
 Melanie Cruz Walsh, Director of Development, recognized by San Diego Metropolitan's Special Edition as the region’s exceptional young Achievers
 Physics Professor Frank Shu has been awarded the Centennial Medal from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University
 The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) awards Arthur M. Wolfe, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, the 2008 Karl G. Jansky Lectureship
 Oleg Shpyrko, Assistant Professor of Physics, receives the Advanced Photon Source (APS) Users Organization 2008 Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award
 Congjun Wu Named Sloan Research Fellow for 2008
 J. Andrew McCammon, Professor of Chemistry/Biochemistry, receives ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research
Calendar of Events
 UCSD-TV’s "State of Minds" will be featuring Cal Teach
 Watch on UC-TV: "Atmospheric Particulates: Global and Regional Challenges"
 UCSD-TV: California Teach: Responding to the Science and Math Crisis
   

2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Shared by UC San Diego Researcher Roger Tsien
   

University of California, San Diego Professor Roger Tsien, Ph.D., will share the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Osamu Shimomura of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole and Boston University School of Medicine, and Martin Chalfie of Columbia University in New York. The scientists are being honored for the discovery of Green Flourescent Protein (GFP) and seminal work to design and create fluorescent molecules that enter cells and light up their inner workings.

   

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