News Releases for 1985
- January 10: List of job opportunities to be listed on Cable TV each week
- January 11: Budget for 1985-86 proposed by Governor Deukmejian; includes five major capital improvement projects for UCSD
- January 22: Bertram named to CMRR endowed chair
- January 22: Establishment of Joseph Naiman Chair in Japanese Studies
- January 24: Repayment of student loans
- January 24: Frederick William Turner III to be Regents' lecturer for the Department of Literature
- January 24: Gallery Art Exhibitions and Siah Armajani Regent's Lecturer
- January 28: Siah Armajani to be Regents' lecturer for the Department of Visual Arts
- January 28: Dedication of new Warren College Apartments to be held
- January 28: The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation has been awarded a grant from the MacArthur Foundation
- January 31: Roy Pearce receives Hubbell Medal
- February 4: Center for Music Experiment Colloquia
- February 7: Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation fellowship program
- February 7: Center for Music Experiment's "What's Cooking"
- February 7: SONOR to perform
- February 11: Media Advisory, Announcing donation of computer equipment by AT&T
- February 14: Drama Department events to be given
- February 14: Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber to lecture as part of the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program and will give the Maria G. Mayer Memorial Lecture
- February 14: "Cultural Death Within a Political Milieu," art performance
- February 14: Media Advisory, Announcing donation of computer equipment by AT&T
- February 18: Opera in honor of Mandeville Center
- February 19: Apple Educational Foundation awarded a grant of 24 computers and peripherals to the Teacher Education Program to support the "Intercultural Learning Network" project
- February 22: Sorenson named chief scientist for U.S. Air Force
- February 25: E. Margaret Burbidge and Walter H. Munk among 19 winners of the National Medal of Science awarded during a White House ceremony
- February 26: Annual Jacob Bronowski symposium to be held; Sir Roy Strong to lecture on the Renaissance
- February 28: NSF names UCSD as site for Supercomputer
- March 4: 3rd Annual Economics Policy Seminar Series
- March 5: Border Conference Media Advisory, public conference on urban growth and public policy options for the San Diego-Tijuana border region
- March 6: Donation of computer equipment to UCSD
- March 7: "Young American Artists III," at Mandeville Gallery
- March 7: "Fitness for Life Program"
- March 7: Fourth Annual Engineering Symposium to be held
- March 14: William Ruckelshaus to deliver the seventh annual David Marc Belkin Memorial Lecture
- March 18: Stephen Hedrick, Jorge Hirsch and John Simon named winners of Presidential Young Investigator Awards given by National Science Foundation
- March 18: Barton Bernstein to discuss Szilard and his contributions to science
- March 21: Contemporary Black Arts Program announce spring quarter offerings
- March 26: Hesburgh scheduled to give Eugene M. Burke Lectureship
- March 28: John Cates elected chairman of the National Intramural Sports Council and has been asked to serve as consultant/clinician to the National Fitness Foundation
- March 28: Nathan Habegger, Nicholas Korevaar and Bruce Soloman who have been recipients, awarded research fellowships by the National Science Foundation have chosen to attend UCSD for their postdoctoral research work
- March 28: Alexander Rich will deliver the twelfth annual Lectureship in Chemistry
- April 1: Announcement of Open House
- April 4: Frederic Jameson to give the fourth annual Robert C. Elliott Memorial Lecture
- April 8: Earl Warren Symposium to be held; Ramsey Clark to give DeWitt Higgs Lecture
- April 8: "Landscape Now" exhibit to open in Mandeville
- April 11: John W. Newport named a Searles Scholar
- April 15: C. Vann Woodward to speak on campus
- April 15: Donald D. Brown to give McElroy Lecture
- April 18: Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies designated National Resource Center for Latin American Studies
- April 18: Brian Patten to be visiting professor and lecturer in Department of Literature; will give poetry readings
- April 18: Correction -- Brian Patten to be Regents' Lecturer
- April 22: Media Advisory on Cinco de Mayo
- April 22: Four UCSD winners of Guggenheim fellowships
- April 25: 7th Annual Belkin Lecture - William D. Ruckelshaus
- April 25: Judaic Studies enrollment approaching all-time high; celebrating with lecture by David Patterson
- April 25: Open House to be held
- April 29: "Remembering War" simulcast between US and USSR
- April 29: Media Advisory on "Remembering War" simulcast between US and USSR
- April 29: Calendar item for Open House
- April 29: Staff Association Book Sale to be held in conjunction with Open House
- April 30: Faustina Solis honored by YWCA's Tribute to Women in Industry
- May 2: Economics Department to sponsor a lecture on "U.S.-Japan Competition in High Technology Industry"
- May 6: 4 UCSD students win NSF Fellowships
- May 6: UCSD funded for anti-war research
- May 6: Siavouche Nemat-Nasser and Hasan Aref, two new faculty to join the Department of AMES
- May 6: UCSD Summer Session
- May 9: Dancer/choreographer in residence at UCSD
- May 13: UCSD Retirement Club opens officially for business
- May 13: Chancellor Atkinson to cut ribbon at UCSD Retirement Club
- May 13: Urban Studies Program sponsors conference on "Impacts of Downtown Redevelopment in San Diego."
- May 16: San Diego diving spectacular at the Canyonview
- May 16: Goodman receives Humboldt Award
- May 16: Art exhibit "Pioneers in Paradise: Folk and Outsider Artists of the West Coast" opens in Mandeville
- May 16: Summer Session courses available
- May 20: Third Undergraduate ArtsFestival
- May 20: Announcement of winners of 28th Annual High School Honors Mathematics Contest, co-sponsored by Math Department
- May 23: Freedman elected in American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- May 23: Hannes Alfven elected honorary member of European Physical Society
- May 28: Marc Gittlesohn receives Emeritus title
- May 28: "Despoiled shore/Medea Material/Landscape with Argonauts" to be highlight of Undergraduate Arts Festival
- May 28: Third Annual Undergraduate Arts Festival to take place
- June 3: UCSD commencement ceremonies
- June 4: Annual UCSD Watermelon Drop to be held
- June 10: UCSD Sociologist profiles Indochinese
- June 10: UCSD director of community safety is appointed
- June 11: New UCSD Librarian named
- June 13: 6 UCSD graduate students win fellowships
- June 13: UCSD Alumni Association awards banquet
- June 13: Media Advisory on interesting graduates
- June 13: Students in the AMES Department have designed and built surf crawling tractors capable of pulling oceanographic instruments off the beach and out into deep water
- June 17: U.S.- Mexican Studies sponsors briefing session for professional journalists; Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt to be keynote speaker
- June 24: UCSD Biologist wins research support
- June 24: Walshok named associate vice chancellor
- June 24: Halley's comet object of UCSD study
- June 24: Edwin Hutchins and Shing-Tung Yau named to receive fellowships of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
- June 24: Herman D. Johnson awarded the honorary title "vice chancellor emeritus" by the UC Regents
- June 27: Workshop "Folklore en Aztlan" of the Asociación Nacional de Grupos to be held
- June 27: Carolyn Dean, graduate student, selected to receive grant under a fellowship program for women and ethnic minorities, sponsored by UC President David Gardner
- July 1: Gerry McAllister announced formation of first support group for the Mandeville Art Gallery, Mandeville Gallery Art Council
- July 8: Sharp rise in UCSD engineering degrees
- July 18: Frozen embryo policy issues probed
- August 5: UCSD to host global cosmic ray meeting
- August 8: Summer Bridge program to begin; part of educational outreach program
- August 22: Housing shortage for students
- August 22: Recent awards and honors
- August 23: UCSD students hit archaeological riches
- August 26: Members of campus community available to speak on different topics through the UCSD Speakers Bureau
- August 26: UCSD's Geoffery Burbidge honored
- August 29: UCSD International Center needs tutors
- August 29: UCSD ranks tenth in nation in percentage of graduates who go on to earn Ph.D.'s
- September 12: Mandeville Gallery opens season with works of past Visual Arts chairman Paul Brach
- September 16: First book on poetry by Chicana to appear; written by Marta Ester Sanchez
- September 16: School year begins
- September 23: Bond named Revelle Provost
- September 30: Collection of artist Belle Baranceanu's work on display in Mandeville
- October 4: 1986-87 proposed budget includes several UCSD projects
- October 7: Noted journalist to speak at UCSD
- October 7: UCSD hosts fourth annual college fair
- October 7: John Malmberg wins 1985 James Clerk Maxwell Prize in plasma physics from American Physical Society
- October 7: UCSD celebrates 25 year anniversary (part of 25th anniversary press kit)
- October 7: 25th Anniversary celebration events (part of 25th anniversary press kit)
- October 7: UCSD All-Campus Birthday Party
- October 7: Important dates and events in UCSD history (part of 25th anniversary press kit)
- October 7: 25th Anniversary fund-raising campaign (part of 25th anniversary press kit)
- October 7: UCSD Plans School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
- October 7: UCSD medical school plans Institute of Aging
- October 7: New Aquarium and Ocean Science Center planned for Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- October 10: Grove Gallery having first UCSD faculty/staff juried art exhibition
- October 14: UCSD faculty honored for teaching, research and public service
- October 14: UC Crafts Center/Grove Gallery to exhibit works of silk and silver
- October 14: UCSD kicks off 1985 United Way/Chad Campaign
- October 17: Structural testing laboratory to open at UCSD
- October 17: Sociology faculty books honored
- October 17: Career Services Center Opens
- October 21: Graduate art exhibition "Thirteen Painters"
- October 24: J. Robert Nelson to deliver the Burke Lecture
- October 24: Orlando String Quartet to perform
- October 24: Tyrone Guthrie Theatre production of "Great Expectations" in Mandeville
- October 24: Sara Jordan Powell will perform in concert with UCSD Gospel Choir in Thanksgiving Festival of Gospel Music
- October 25: UCSD's Contemporary Music Ensemble features anti-apartheid work
- October 28: UCSD presents the "Copasetics," tap dance at its best
- October 28: "Hall Pass" depicts artists' freedom of choice
- October 29: UCSD Music Department and Contemporary Black Arts Program present a thanksgiving holiday concert
- October 31: Annual lost and found auction to be held at H & M Goodies
- November 7: Special program of dance sponsored by the Contemporary Black Arts Program salutes Afro-American form of dance
- November 7: UCSD celebrates 25th anniversary
- November 7: Listing of events scheduled for Krenek Festival
- November 8: UCSD Grove Gallery sponsors 25th Anniversary faculty/staff show
- November 11: UCSD announces two new divisional deans
- November 11: Israeli archaeologist to speak at UCSD
- November 11: Crafts Center/Grove Gallery sponsors juried faculty/staff exhibition
- November 11: San Diego businessmen, Malin Burnham, Kim Fletcher and Patterson Hyndman heading 25th Anniversary Campaign
- November 11: Schedule of events for the Krenek Festival
- November 11: Ernst Krenek Festival to be held
- November 14: Magnetic recording expert at UCSD (new endowed chair appointment)
- November 14: Michael Schudson wins Gannett Fellowship
- November 15: Chancellor and Mrs. Atkinson to host dinner for 25th Anniversary guests of honor
- November 18: UCSD Plans Birthday Party and Convocation
- November 18: Birthday Party and Academic Convocation for UCSD's 25th Anniversary
- November 18: The Thouvenel Quartet to perform at UCSD
- November 21: Drama chairman wins prestigious Maharam Award
- November 21: Japanese film series "Before Rashomon," sponsored by University Events
- November 26: Senator Gary Hart to speak at UCSD Management Retreat
- November 27: Crafts Center/Grove Gallery to exhibit "California Basketry, Past and Present"
- December 2: Executive Committee named for 25th Anniversary fundraising campaign
- December 4: DeLuca and Helinski discover a way to turn bacteria into manufacturers of the enzyme that triggers light emission in fireflies
- December 9: UCSD ranks 6th in nation among colleges and universities in total amount of research and development funds from the federal government according to report issued by National Science Foundation
- December 9: Hannes Alfven presents findings of plasma universe in paper delivered at meeting of American Geophysical Union in San Francisco
- December 10: Michael Freedman named to Charles Lee Powell Endowed Chair in Mathematics
- December 12: Grove Gallery shows historical and contemporary baskets in "California Basketry, Past and Present"
- December 12: University Events sponsors the Klezmer Conservatory Band
- December 16: John Dower named to Naiman Endowed Chair in Japanese Studies to be housed in the Department of History
- December 19: Calendar notice on contemporary folk art of New Guinea
- December 19: Arthur Wagner singled out for drama conference
- December 19: Mandeville Gallery offers "Symbol/Allegory" exhibition
- December 19: University Events Office presents "Before Rashomon," a series of golden age films
- December 19: Bruce Darling named Development Director
- December 20: Juilliard String Quartet to give its last UCSD String Quartet Series performance for several years
- December 20: Ed Metzger in interpretation of Albert Einstein: The Practical Bohemian
- December 20: University Events Office presents "Pieces of a Dream"
- December 20: University Events Office sponsors "The Alchemedians"
- December 27: Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Concert
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