News Releases for 1963
- January 4: Chairman of UCSD will speak on "Ecology of Communities"
- January 7: "Short Course in Genetics" at UCSD 1/20-26
- January 8: $3,000 grant for support of graduate research awarded UCSD
- January 10: Chancellor's NEWSLETTER points out three UCSD Lecture Series
- January 11: Public Lecture by E. W. Fager on "Ecology of Communities
- January 14: Four Staff members will attend short course in genetics being sponsored by Dept. of Biology, UCSD
- January 14: 35 teen-age students to be given opportunity for six weeks research at UCSD in oceanography or anthropology
- January 15: Chancellor's letter to INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY urges scientists and engineers to run for Congress
- January 16: A.E.J. Engel co-editor and contributor to:"Petrologic Studies: a Volume in Honor of A.F. Buddington"
- January 16: Bruno H. Zimm receives '63 Amer. Phys. Soc. High-Polymer Physics Award
- January 17: Joseph F. Gantner new librarian for UC's Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- January 17: Six day course in genetics directed by Dr. David M. Bonner
- January 17: The First Chamber Dance quartet to perform at Sherwood Hall
- January 18: Leena Kareoja will open 1963 Sumner Chamber Music Series
- January 22: 'First' doctorates- Masterson, Crothers
- January 23: 'First' Doctor of Philosophy degrees awarded by School of Science and Engineering
- January 24: Seismometer for exploration of the sea floor
- January 25: Awarding of contract for Campus Bldgs B & C
- January 25: Leena Kareoja, Finnish pianist will present a recital which is open to the public.
- January 28: The First Chamber Dance Quartet's recital at Sherwood Hall, at 8:30 p.m., February 7.
- January 31: Dr. D. M. Bonner will speak on "Bioscience Programs and Graduate Education," at UCLA, February 2.
- February 1: Reduced rates for students to attend The First Chamber Dance Quartet.
- February 1: Lecture in Sherwood Hall, February 11, by Stanley E. Mills. Topic: The Immune System.
- February 2: First Gordon Conference ever to be held on the West Coast, at Santa Barbara, Feb. 5-7 Bruno H. Zimm will present a paper, entitled "Uncoiling of DNA."
- February 4: Carl L. Hubbs to appear on "Meet the Professor."
- February 4: SWAP-- Computer organization held meeting at UCSD, Feb. 8
- February 5: Microbiology Studies helped by new grant
- February 5: UCSD linked with IBM 7090 in UCLA's Western Data Processing Center
- February 6: Dr. Harold C. Urey awarded honorary Doctor of Science degree from the American Society for Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
- February 7: McIlwain's study of particles
- February 9: Patricia Velsir's recital, Sumner Auditorium, February 18, at 8:00 p.m.
- February 9: The sea as a source of food, power, energy, cheap irrigation water and valuable minerals?
- February 10: "The Immune System" lecture by Stanley E. Mills
- February 10: Friends of the Library-- San Diegans interested in strengthening the University of California Library
- February 11: Members of faculty at UCSD chosen as All-University Lecturers
- February 12: Training program fusing the disciplines of chemistry, biology and physics.
- February 13: Francis T. Haxo, elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- February 14: Preliminary Long-Range Development Plan for the campus of UCSD (attached to copy is "Academic Master Plan")
- February 14: Academic Master Plan
- February 18: Patricia Velsir's Recital
- February 18: Staff members and students attending the Second Annual California Genetics Conference at Lake Arrowhead Feb. 22-24
- February 19: James Stewart will attend the Second Underwater Physiology Symposium on Feb. 25-26 in Washington, D.C.
- February 19: First ton of ore mined from the high seas by Spencer F. Baird (ship)
- February 21: Voigt, accepted second term on UNESCO's International Advisory Committee on Bibliography, Documentation and Terminology, and will visit Paris March 11 to 15 in connection with this committee.
- February 21: Horizon crew honored
- February 21: San Diegans elected to Council of Friends of UCSD Library
- February 25: Invitation to public to visit exhibit of UCSD campus and future plans.
- February 27: J. Frautschy named to panel of oceanography experts to advise on educational films concerning earth and sea
- February 27: C. Hubbs named member of Pacific Science Board of the National Academy of Sciences
- February 28: Exhibit of UCSD general campus
- February 28: Dr. Peterson's balloons used for gamma ray detection
- March 1: Bernd T. Matthias recipient of the Research Corporation Award
- March 4: Drs. Weger and Wong named Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation of NYC
- March 5: New York Chamber Soloists to appear at Sherwood Hall, Art Center in La Jolla, Saturday, March 30.
- March 6: Mrs. Russell W. Raitt elected provisional Chairman of Friends of the UCSD Library
- March 8: San Diego String Quartet to appear at Sumner Auditorium Sunday night, March 17.
- March 13: Prof. Hans Kohn, Faculty Lecture cancelled
- March 14: Dr. Kraut investigates molecule
- March 15: All-University Faculty Lecture, Jack F. Evernden, UCB, will speak on "The Time-Scale of Human Cultural Evolution"
- March 15: Reduced rate for school or college students to attend, New York Chamber Soloists, March 30, 8:30 p.m. at Sherwood Hall, Art Center in La Jolla.
- March 15: Committee Chairmen of Friends of the UCSD Library
- March 21: "What's the Matter?", Dr. Richard E. Powell's All-University Faculty Lecture-- Television show in the educational line for children
- March 22: UCSD faculty will participate in 144th meeting of the American Chemical Society at Los Angeles, 3/31-4/5/63
- March 22: York at Berkeley, speaking on "The Scientist and Political Decision Making."
- March 22: Dr. Francis P. Shepard instructs Greek naval officers and technicians in U. S. methods of oceanographic studies
- March 22: New York Chamber Soloists, March 30, 8:30 p.m. at Sherwood Hall, Art Center in La Jolla.
- March 22: All-University Spring Festival will be attended by nine students from UCSD, April 6-9
- April 1: Miss Eleanor Louise Stanton bequests $10,000 for UCSD student loan fund.
- April 1: Administrative offices of UCSD to move to Building B April 6-7
- April 2: Lesley Byrd Simpson, Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese, UCB will present Faculty Lecture May 13, 1963 at Sherwood Hall, Art Center in La Jolla
- April 2: Computers rapidly broadening scope of scientific work at UCSD
- April 2: MUM Sumner Chamber Music Series Concert postponed from April 21 to April 22.
- April 3: Books donated to Friends of UCSD Library by San Diegans
- April 8: Thirteen students at UCSD receive graduate fellowships from National Science Foundation
- April 9: Improved Methods for Access to Scientific Data Sought by Melvin J. Voigt
- April 15: Dr. Keith A. Brueckner receives the American Physical Society's 1963 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.
- April 17: Sea Level Studied
- April 19: Alfred S. Romer presents Faculty Lecture "From Water to Land: A Chapter in the Evolution of Vertebrates
- April 21: ABC Network devoting two Sundays, May 12 and May 19 of "Meet the Professor" featuring Carl L. Hubbs UCSD Professor of Biology
- April 22: Science lecture "Competition and Conservatism: A Cybernetic Analysis" to be presented by Dr. Garrett Hardin, Professor of Biology, UC, Santa Barbara
- April 23: Wandering Seamounts studied by Dr. Vacquier
- April 24: First faculty members in the humanities at UCSD selected
- April 24: "California and the Challenge of Growth" - UCSD's will deal with "The Impact of Science"
- April 25: Loan Fund for Foreign Students Set Up by La Jolla Kiwanis Club
- April 29: Meteorite from Upper Volta, Africa studied by UCSD Scientists
- May 2: Students from four UC campuses to present scientific papers May 4-5, at SD campus.
- May 3: Staff and students from Universidad Autonoma de Baja California pay one-day visit to UCSD campus
- May 3: Yfrah Neaman to perform two public recitals May 19 and 21, 8:00 p.m. Sumner Auditorium
- May 3: Lesley Byrd Simpson Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese UCB, to present public lecture "Conquest as Revolution" May 13.
- May 6: Faculty and staff contribute papers to the book, "The Sea: Ideas and Observations on Progress in the Study of the Seas, Part II,"recently published by Interscience Publishers.
- May 10: Friends of the UCSD Library will give an open house 3:00 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, May 25 in Library area of Building B.
- May 10: Dr. Selman A. Waksman to present public lecture May 17 entitled " Antibiotics Today," at Sumner Auditorium at 4:15 p.m.
- May 10: Yfrah Neaman presents two recitals-- Sunday, May 19 and Tuesday, May 21, at Sumner Auditorium, 8:00 p.m.
- May 11: UCSD Professor leaves to study Central American Volcanoes
- May 11: UCB Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Portuguese, Lesley Byrd Simpson to give lecture "Conquest As Revolution"
- May 15: Dr. Backus and Dr. Kohn Receive Guggenheim Fellowships
- May 16: Barnacle Young Studied by UCSD Graduate Student
- May 16: Walter Kohn elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- May 16: Riverside Recorder Ensemble to give recital at Sumner, May 24, 8:00 p.m.
- May 17: Regents approve 1964-65 capital outlay
- May 17: Manuscripts included in Friends of UCSD Library's display May 25
- May 20: Dr. Frederic de Hoffmann to speak at Growth Conference
- May 21: Two more professors join faculty in the humanities at UCSD
- May 22: Friends of the UCSD Library to hold open house May 25
- May 26: Gerald Johnson, Irving Krick and Jerome Namias to help form Panel Discussion for UCSD Growth Conference
- May 28: Graduates of 1963 to be honored by Chancellor & Mrs. York
- May 29: Edward Teller, Roger Revelle, Wernher von Braun to speak at UCSD Growth Conference
- May 31: Martin D. Kamen, UCSD Professor to receive Charles F. Kettering Research Award
- May 31: Nineteen high school students participate in the National Science Foundation Summer Training Program at UCSD
- June 2: Graduate students embark on Bonacca Expedition June 5
- June 4: General Atomic's Dr. de Hoffmann to speak at Growth Conference
- June 5: Dr. S.S. Penner to Join UCSD SSE as Chairman of Dept of Astronautics
- June 7: Superior Students to UCSD Campus for NSF Summer "Trainee" Program Control of the By-products of Growth-- Panel at UCSD Campus
- June 7: UCSD's Conference "Impact of Science" 'sold out'.
- June 9: Control of the By-products of Growth -- Panel at UCSD Campus
- June 14: Urey cites changes in man's philosophy due to science
- June 23: Employees honored by UCSD for years of service
- June 27: Dr. Seymour E. Harris joins UCSD faculty
- July 5: Dr. Milner B. Schaefer Named to New Science Board
- July 15: Ocean Swell Study to be made by UCSD Geophysicists
- July 16: Professor Leonard D. Newmark Joins UCSD Staff
- July 25: Melvin Voigt elected President of the Library Education Division of the American Library Association.
- August 5: Milton N. Bramlette awarded Distinguished Service Medal
- August 13: Scripps' Argo (ship) Returns
- August 22: (Draft) Boden's investigate euphasiids
- August 22: NSF Student at UCSD Makes Rare Scientific Find
- August 22: UCSD Medical School To Offer Course in Genetics Jan. 20-24, 1964
- August 24: Dr. Hans Suess, UCSD Prof. Speaks at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics at Berkeley.
- August 30: Special Fellowships and Regents Fellowships Granted some UCSD students
- September 5: Nine graduate students at UCSD granted Fellowships
- September 10: New bookstore at UCSD under management of C.A. Valverde
- September 13: Enrollment Jumps 39 Percent
- September 13: Capacity audiences for UCSD 1963-64 Chamber Music Series
- September 17: Dr. Stefan Warschawski to head Department of Mathematics at UCSD
- September 18: Heat Flow Studies Made of Ocean Floor
- September 23: Operating Budget of UCSD May Be at New High
- September 27: Fall Festival to include works of art at UCSD
- October 2: Karl Wolfram to perform at Sherwood Hall October 25
- October 5: Assistant Director of Peace Corps to vist UCSD campus Oct.9
- October 5: Dr. Popkin named editor of Journal of the History of Philosophy
- October 10: Twenty-one Foreign students enrolled at UCSD
- October 10: Jerome Kern's Kin Donates Valuable Books to UCSD Library
- October 11: Dr. Roy Harvey Pearce to speak to Friends of the UCSD Library 10-30
- October 11: German lutenist & singer, Karl Wolfram at Sherwood Hall 10-25
- October 17: Special to the UCLA Daily
- October 18: Series of public lectures by Phil. Dept. UCSD to be given at Sherwood Hall
- October 18: Dean of UCSD's Medical School to be Dr. Joseph Stokes III
- October 18: Original works of Millay and Bodenheim given to UCSD Library
- October 18: UCR Students to attend Karl Wolfram concert
- October 22: Mr. Macy, Chairman of U.S. Civil Service Commission to visit UCSD
- October 24: Carl E. McIlwain comments on nuclear test ban
- October 24: FLIP returns after 45 days at sea
- October 28: UCSD's School of Science and Engineering now to be The First College
- October 28: Dr. Seibert Q. Duntley President-Elect of Optical Society of America
- October 30: John D. Isaacs gives Jet stream clues
- October 31: The Professors' Inaugural Lecture Series given by Dr. Sigurd Burckhardt
- November 4: UCSD to accept undergraduates in Fall of 1964
- November 5: Dr. Maria Goeppert Mayer, Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1963
- November 12: Klara Dan Eckart Scholarship Fund established
- November 13: Books dealing with San Diego people and events given to UCSD Library
- November 16: Jason Saunders to speak on "The Ancients, the Moderns and What There Is"
- November 18: Friends to hear talk by Mr. James Moriarty December 5. 8:00 p.m.
- December 2: UCSB Chamber Singers to appear at Sherwood Hall December 12, 1963
- December 6: Program of UCSB Chamber Singers Scheduled for Sherwood Hall 12-12-63
- December 10: Volunteers to beautify area near UCSD married students' apartments
- December 10: UCSD members play soccer and tour in Ensenada, Mexico
- December 16: U.S. Dept. of Interior aid UCSD's research on saline water conversion
- December 16: Baja California collection on display at UCSD's Library
- December 20: Dr. Roger Revelle will lecture on "Science and the Sea"
- December 20: First members of first undergraduate class selected
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