News Releases for 1968

News Releases for 1968

January 1: Dr. Urey gives moon photographs to Library
January 1: R. Courtney Cornett joins as administrative analyst
January 2: Ernst Krenek plays new composition
January 3: Dr. Hans A. Bethe to speak on Energy Production of Stars
January 3: Kontarsky Brothers piano concert held at Sherwood Hall
January 4: Ibejis, good luck dolls on display
January 5: ITUCH of Chile presenting two nights of Drama
January 5: Julius Katchen to perform for University Keyboard Series
January 9: Tom Nee will conduct Minneapolis Symphony
January 12: Turetzky and Erickson collaborate on piece
January 18: Conference on Linguistic Theory and Structure of English
January 20: Eliot F. Porter is Regents' Lecturer
January 26: Lenox Quartet will play here
January 28: Friends' Luncheon kicks off Bequest for Books Campaign
January 30: Scripps Centennial Symposium schedule set
February 1: Applications of Sea-Going Computers will be next year
February 2: Pierre Emanuelli will lecture here
February 7: Alma Trio sets concert
February 8: Dr. William Prager receives award
February 8: National Library of Medicine grant is renewed
February 9: Alpha Helix departs for Bering Sea
February 9: Los Angeles and New York artists exhibit works here
February 9: Emlyn Williams will present Dylan Thomas Growing Up
February 12: Dwight Peltzer to give concert
February 12: Kurt Shuler named chairman of chemistry department
February 16: Korean basketball team plays UCSD Tritons
February 16: Two seniors recognized by Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Foundation
February 19: Dr. Kantrowitz is Regents' Lecturer
February 20: Theron Robey Cardiovascular Division reading room to be named
February 22: Electronic rock band (USA) to play here
February 23: Eric Salzman to perform here
February 26: Psychedelics Book is published
February 28: Two professors awarded research fellowships in humanities
February 28: Claude Batault to speak here
March 5: Contract for married student housing is set
March 6: Dr. James Arnold receives award from AEC
March 6: Dr. Barney Childs will direct a concert here
March 8: Computer Seminar to be held on campus
March 14: All UC Golf Tournament will initiate new golf club
March 20: J.K. Galbraith and H. Kissinger to speak
March 20: Jack Douglass accepts new appointment
March 21: Foster Rhea Dulles will address UCSD audiences
March 21: Carol Rosenberger will be soloist
March 22: Traveling Centennial exhibit on display in Library
March 22: John Altoon exhibit on display
March 26: Guarneri Quartet to perform
March 26: Dr. Walter Munk receives 1968 Gold Medal
March 27: Morton Feldman is guest speaker in Music series
March 28: AMES Industrial Affiliates to view UCSD research programs
April 2: Alexander Agassiz (ship) begins STYX Expedition
April 3: John K. Fairbank will speak on China crisis
April 10: Publications, Public Information, and Gifts Endowments move to Fire House
April 16: Dr. Theodore Bullock is honored by American Philosophical Society
April 16: Allan Kaprow to be Regent's Professor
April 19: Building 2B of John Muir College breaks ground
April 19: Dr. Harry Suhl awarded Guggenheim fellowship
April 24: Renaissance symposium to be held at Sherwood Hall
April 24: Harry Partch will give two concerts
April 26: Two UCSD professors named to National Academy of Sciences
April 28: David O. Lane is appointed assistant librarian
May 1: James Snodgrass is honored
May 6: Irving Gill seminar sponsored by the Society of Architectural Historians
May 16: Open House held at Main Library
May 17: Everette B. Long speaks on "Abraham Lincoln: A Great Man, Not A Saint"
May 20: Richard P. Feynman is main speaker at UCSD Commencement
May 21: John Coplans speaks on "Art-The West Coast Scene"
May 22: Alpha Phi Omega assigns $2,000 for student scholarships
May 22: Dr. Adolf W. Lohmann appointed Professor of Applied Electrophysics
May 23: Dr. Robert B. Livingston elected Associate Member of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons
May 24: UCSD Library receives half-millionth volume
May 28: Robert Erickson presents new composition
May 31: Madrigal Singers present concert
June 4: Chancellor Galbraith is speaker at Mount Union College Commencement
June 7: South Pacific Ocean to be discussed at 9th general meeting of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research
June 7: Federated Women's League of University City presents check to Library
June 7: Library obtains Miranda Collection
June 10: UCSD Commencement Exercises set
June 14: Three sophomores honored by Dutch government
June 18: Three San Diegans awarded Regents and President Scholarships for study at School of Medicine
June 18: Dr. Elliott C. Lasser appointed as professor and chairman of the Department of Radiology at UCSD School of Medicine
June 20: President's Scholarships awarded to 17 S. D. area students
June 21: W.M. Burgeson elected president of the Purchasing Agents Assn.
June 21: William J. McGill named Chancellor of UCSD
June 25: Groundbreaking set for Central University Library
June 25: High School students participate in program at SIO
June 26: $200,000 continuation awarded to AYES for Project Themis Grant
June 27: Three UCSD Ph.D. candidates awarded Woodrow Wilson Fellowships
June 27: Harold Temmer appointed Registrar and Admissions Officer, Ronald J. Bowker appointed as his assistant
July 8: Dr. Silvio S. Varon received $74,000 American Cancer Society grant
July 9: James M. Snodgrass, SIO, received 1968 Compass Distinguished Award
July 10: The Melville is launched at Bay City, Michigan
July 10: Five research fellowship awards presented to UCSD faculty
July 11: Dr. Eugene Braunwald receives $157,721 National Heart Institute grant
July 16: Eight Biology researchers receive grants totaling $829,760
July 19: Chemistry Department members receive research grants
July 22: Statement by McGill on letter from American Legion on Marcuse
July 22: Winzer gift to the School of Medicine
July 22: SIO FISH is found on ocean floor
July 24: Eleven grants received totaling $758,921
August 1: Piece of sculpture is presented to School of Medicine
August 6: Encyclopaedia Brtiannica Inc. presents books to library
August 6: UCSD needs housing for faculty, staff and students
August 7: Ceremonies held at opening of the Hall of Oceanography
August 9: UCSD receives research and training grants totalting $433,934
August 15: S. Ralph Knox presents 10-volume set to library
August 19: Dr. George G. Shor appointed associate director of SIO
August 20: Three pre-med students in special program at Scripps Hospital
September 6: Dr. Warren S. Wooster appointed chairman of nationwide committee
September 9: First medical students to start classes
September 9: "Frontiers in Medicine" offered by UCSD Extension
September 9: Ernest W. Mandeville donates $10,000 to Neurosciences Department
September 10: Faculty statement prepared on Czechoslovakia affairs
September 10: Arts and Lectures calendar for season
September 13: Dr. Oreste Piccioni receives $580,000 grant from AEC
September 16: New Music Choral Ensemble auditions for members
September 18: Designs for Clinical Science Building and Cluster I-Fine Arts Building approved by regents
September 19: UCSD receives research grants totalling $145,102
September 23: La Jolla Civic & University Chorus holds rehearsals
September 24: First UCSD intercollegiate football game is scheduled
September 26: Herman D. Johnson named Acting Vice Chancellor - Administration
September 26: Art Gallery opens new season with "Lithographs from Gemini"
September 30: School of Medicine welcomes first class
September 30: Dr. Bernd T. Matthias chosen "Man of the Year" in research
September 30: Information on Deep Sea Drilling Project given
October 2: Dr. Averill L. Liebow gives first PILS lecture
October 7: Niki-Kai Opera Company presents comic opera
October 8: Brief history of UCSD
October 9: Dr. Augustus B. Kinzel appointed Regents' Lecturer
October 9: Dr. Gabriel Jackson gives second PILS lecture
October 9: Pianist Easley Blackwood set for performance
October 10: U. of Calif. celebrates 100th birthday with Centennial Caravan
October 10: 19th Olympic Commemoration Goodwill Karate Tournament set
October 11: Bertram Turetzky to perform in recital
October 14: Dr. Robert N. Hamburger appointed as chairman of Pediatrics Department
October 14: UCSD receives grants totalling $1,356,273
October 17: Library obtains Della Vida Collection
October 17: Concentus Musicus presents concert of pre-classical music
October 18: Dr. S. S. Penner named Vice Chancellor - Academic Affairs
October 23: Dr. Bernd T. Matthias to be keynote speaker at Seventh Rare Earth Research Conference
October 23: Dr. Kurt E. Shuler receives Gold Medal Award from U.S. Dept. of Commerce
October 25: Ghana Dance Ensemble scheduled to appear
October 31: "PING" presented by Department of Music
October 31: Dr. Edward L. Winterer appointed chairman of Department of Scripps Institution
November 4: Dr. Harold T. Hammel presents third PILS lecture
November 5: Department of Music presents program of chamber works
November 7: Danish Gym Team to appear
November 7: Merce Cunningham & Dance Company to appear
November 7: Pianist Malcolm Frager to appear
November 7: Olaeta Basque Festival of Bilbao to appear
November 7: New York Camerata to appear
November 7: Malcom Frager to give piano recital
November 7: Dr. Robert Galambos will present the fifth PILS lecture
November 7: Dr. Reinhard Lettau will present the fourth PILS lecture
November 7: Mobile Chest X-Ray Unit visits UCSD
November 11: Student Symposium is held
November 13: Change of time and location for Olaeta Basque Festival
November 13: El Teatro Campesino presents play
November 18: Christmas Concert is presented
November 19: Dr. Andrew Wright addresses Friends of the Library
November 20: Navy begins research on how strains on Earth affect tides
November 21: Last two parts of Student Symposium to be held
November 22: Renovation of Camp Matthews (for College Management)
November 27: John Zane is appointed director of PAO at Medical School
December 2: Dr. Martin D. Kamen named recipient of Charles F. Kettering Award
December 3: UCSD receives grant awards totalling $189,470
December 9: Deep Sea Drilling Project
December 9: Thomas Washington (ship) begins Piquero Expedition
December 9: Cutline for photo of McGill receiving check from manager of Lockheed Ocean Laboratory
December 16: Dr. Linus Pauling named recipient of Priestley Memorial Award
December 17: McGill's letter to Harry Foster concerning Marcuse's contract
December 18: S.D. County Hospital Medical Research Foundation presents grant to School of Medicine
December 21: Five UCSD members participate in 135th annual meeting of AAAS
December 31: Medical School to Launch Major Heart-Lung Research Program