News Releases for 1986

• January 6: UCSD graduate drama students to perform in recitals
• January 10: 1986-87 budget includes UCSD projects
• January 13: Steven Katz to give Judaic Studies lecture
• January 15: Bishop Tutu to speak at UCSD
• January 17: Regents approve Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• January 17: Nonlinear Science Institute at UCSD
• January 21: Music Department sponsors Latin American String Quartet, Cuarteto de Cuerdas Latinoamericano
• January 21: Grove Gallery presents New Guinean Folk Art
• January 23: Press Guidelines to Bishop Tutu's visit to UCSD
• January 23: El Cuarteto de Cuerdas latinoamericano patrocinado por el departamento de Musica
• January 24: Phillip J. E. Peebles to deliver lecture "Recent Developments in Cosmology", annual Marlar Lecture
• January 27: Michael Freedman awarded the Veblen Prize by the American Mathematical Society
• January 30: Frances Fitzgerald named Regents' Lecturer at UCSD
• January 30: Mandeville Gallery shows "Young American Artists IV"
• January 30: Grove Gallery presents "Screen Prints"
• February 3: Tony Brown to speak at UCSD
• February 3: "Waiting for Godot" to be performed at UCSD; directed by UCSD student Arthur Salazar
• February 3: Judith Sweet elected vice president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
• February 6: Milton Saier Jr. named recipient of Senior U.S. Scientist Award from the Humboldt Foundation of Federal Republic of Germany
• February 6: University Events Office presents "Tafelmusik"
• February 6: Shalom Paul to lecture on "The Genesis of Genesis", sponsored by Judaic Studies Program
• February 6: Nicholas Spitzer received Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health
• February 6: UCSD designs bookcovers for eighth graders
• February 6: Eric Christmas, who will retire from teaching at end of academic year, to direct "Merchant of Venice", UCSD's 12th annual Shakespeare Project
• February 7: Tulsa Ballet Theatre to perform
• February 10: Popular Irish folk band to play at UCSD
• February 10: Tulsa Ballet Theater to perform at UCSD
• February 10: Calendar item on the Chieftains appearing at UCSD
• February 10: Calendar Item, The Pandoras, The Things, The Tell-Tale Hearts and the Untold Fables to perform
• February 10: Calendar Item, comic Barry Sobel to headline a comedy show in Triton Pub
• February 10: Play "1951" to be performed, sponsored by Drama Department
• February 12: Egberto Gismonti to perform with Nando Carneira
• February 13: Jeremy Knowles to deliver the thirteenth annual Behring Diagnostic Lectureship in Chemistry
• February 13: Patricia Churchland writes book on "Neurophilosophy"
• February 18: Grove Gallery present "Objects of Virtue", featuring pottery of Byron Temple
• February 20: Student Peter Woodberry named winner of $2,000 prize from Honeywell, Inc. for essay on "The Future of Computer Science"
• February 20: Peter Smith named to fill the Simon Bolivar Chair in Latin American Studies
• February 24: Authors of major history of Latin America to meet at UCSD; conference sponsored by Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies
• February 24: Mandeville Gallery hosts "The Drawing Legion"
• February 24: The Red Hot Chili Peppers to perform
• February 27: Grove Gallery presents exhibition of war photos by John Hoagland and Richard Cross
• March 3: UCSD designs bookcovers for eighth graders
• March 3: Asoka Mendis to participate in Halley's Comet probes with scientists in Moscow and West Germany
• March 3: Visual Arts to present "Video Art and Performance Art of the San Francisco Art Institute"
• March 4: Calendar item, Suzuki Company of Toga, Japan, to perform "Clytemnestra"
• March 5: Special ceremony marks Marine and pueblo land transfer to UCSD
• March 6: Adele Shank wins regional Dramatists Guild/CBS Award for new play "Tumbleweed"
• March 10: UCSD marks Marine and pueblo land transfer in ceremony
• March 10: Open House to be held
• March 10: UCSD fund drive passes half-way mark
• March 12: Frank H. Westheimer among winners of the National Medal of Science
• March 12: Time correction for performances of Suzuki Company of Toga
• March 13: Judaic Studies Program offers series of lectures to honor birth of Moses Maimonides
• March 13: Book by Hugh Mehan, "Handicapping the Handicapped" to be published this spring
• March 13: News Conference to be held on first-hand account of Halley's Comet missions; Asoka Mendis to speak
• March 13: Annemarie Kleinert discovers earliest writings by Honore de Balzac
• March 14: Media conference to be held on first-hand account of Halley's Comet missions; Asoka Mendis to speak (rescheduled from another day)
• March 17: Pacific Ring Arts Festival to be held
• March 17: Minoru Yasui to be Regents' lecturer
• March 17: David Brower to be Regents' lecturer
• March 17: Vine Deloria, Jr. to give the 1986 David Marc Belkin Memorial Lecture
• March 19: Media Opening of Center for Magnetic Recording Research
• March 20: Walter Heller to give public lectures
• March 20: UC Regents approve design of University Center
• March 20: Endowed Chair, the Hwei-Chih and Julia Hsiu Endowed Chair in Chinese Studies approved by UC Regents
• March 21: Mandeville Gallery presents Mexican artist Humberto Spindola's hand-cut paper architectural facades and a celebration of Cinco de Mayo, titled "Puebla"
• March 21: Steve Relyea appointed vice chancellor for business affairs
• March 25: Graduate student, Jonathan Fried, wins $5,000 Los Angeles Arts Council Scholarship
• March 27: Elise Boulding to deliver the Clark Distinguished Lecture
• March 27: Terry Allen's "Trees", part of Stuart Sculpture Collection to be inaugurated
• March 27: Ian P. Watt to present the fifth annual Robert C. Elliott Memorial Lecture
• March 27: A retrospective of six films made by Percy Adlon, representative of New German Cinema to be shown
• March 27: Center for Magnetic Recording Research was dedicated
• March 31: "Blues for a Gospel Queen" presented at Southeast Community Theatre, directed by Floyd Gaffney
• April 3: The Maria Benitez Spanish Dance Company comes to UCSD
• April 3: The Guarneri String Quartet will play at UCSD
• April 4: Lubert Stryer to give the 6th annual William D. McElroy Distinguished Lectureship in Biology
• April 8: Neil Malamuth to speak on pornography's link to aggression
• April 8: Music Department hosts Suzuki Company of Toga, who will present "Clytemnestra"
• April 8: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," UCSD "family" dinners held throughout San Diego
• April 10: Peter Gourevitch named acting dean of School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• April 10: Grove Gallery presents "A Mano: Bark Paintings of Guerrero"
• April 17: Course to help Asian Americans understand more of their background in the U.S. being offered; "Contemporary Issues in Asian American Studies" taught by James Lin
• April 17: Jonathan Brown to deliver the keynote address at annual Bronowski Renaissance Symposium
• April 17: Frieder Seible named winner of Presidential Young Investigator Award by National Science Foundation
• April 17: Stuart Collection inaugurates Nam June Paik's video sculpture
• April 17: Experts in video synthesis and computer music to meet in concert May 3; part of Pacific Ring Arts Festival
• April 17: Student art performance exhibition by James Tackett and David Dramm
• April 17: Cinco de Mayo celebration
• April 21: Annual campus Open House to be held May 4
• April 21: Cinco de Mayo celebration events at UCSD
• April 21: Media Advisory, Fifth annual Division of Engineering Research Review
• April 21: Library plans special programs for Open House
• April 23: Robert McAfee Brown to deliver annual Eugene M. Burke Lecture
• April 24: David Blumenthal to deliver second of three Maimonides Lectures
• April 24: Jim Posakony selected as 1986 Pew Scholars by Pew Memorial Trust
• April 24: Michael Yaffe named 1986 Searle Scholar by Chicago Community Trust
• April 24: Mandeville Gallery presents "Japanese Art Today"
• April 28: University Events Office presents one of Japan's most acclaimed musical ensembles, To-On-Kai
• April 28: "Still Life" exhibit by graduate student Stephanie Rose Bird
• April 28: Media Advisory, news conference and media tour of Charles Lee Powell Structural Research Laboratory
• April 28: Charles Lee Powell Structural Systems Laboratory to be dedicated on May 4
• April 29: University Events Office presents Ravi Shankar in concert
• April 29: Stuart Collection inaugurates Nam June Paik's video sculpture; sent to BusinessWire
• April 29: Media Advisory, Open House
• April 29: Third College Cultural Celebration part of Open House
• May 1: Cartoonist Charles "Chuck" Jones to give public lecture
• May 2: Media Advisory, Conference on "The Strategic Defense Initiative and West Europe" to be held at Hotel Del Coronado, sponsored by TGCC
• May 2: University Events Office presents Chuck Jones
• May 5: Student Theatre Festival set at UCSD
• May 8: IGCC and California Seminar on International Security and Foreign Policy have been awarded a $300,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation
• May 8: 25th Anniversary letterhead receives three distinctions
• May 8: University Events Office presents lecture by "The Right Stuff" author Tom Wolfe
• May 8: Archive for New Poetry sponsors conference on poet George Oppen
• May 8: Blues great Jay McShann serves as Regents' Lecturer with Department of Music
• May 8: Director John Hirsch has accepted appointment as Visiting Quinn Martin Endowed Chair in Department of Drama
• May 9: Patricia Collum named campus Physical Planner
• May 12: Crafts Center/Grove Gallery presents annual faculty art show
• May 13: Correction to location of Tom Wolfe lecture
• May 14: Department of Drama changes name to Department of Theatre
• May 16: Tom Wolfe lecture is cancelled
• May 19: Craft Center/Grove Gallery to hold annual pot sale
• May 19: Symposium to honor retirement of history professor H. Stuart Hughes
• May 20: Undergraduate Arts Festival to be held; calendar listings
• May 21: Corrected date on Craft Center pot sale
• May 21: Ernest Silva will judge annual National Society of Arts and Letters National Career Awards Competition
• May 22: Chancellor Richard Atkinson to be awarded honorary degree by University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign at its commencement
• May 23: Sixth Annual Briefing Session for Professional Journalists, sponsored by Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies to be held
• May 23: Florence Riford donations establish aids research chair and pacific studies library fund
• May 29: Teatro Ensemble de University of California, San Diego, a bilingual undergraduate theatre troupe to perform play this summer in its Festival Latino
• June 2: 1986 commencement ceremonies scheduled
• June 2: David Noel Freedman has been named to fill the Hebrew Biblical Studies Endowed Chair
• June 3:
• June 3: Media Advisory, Annual Watermelon Drop to be held (sent only to assignment editors)
• June 3: Media Advisory, Annual Watermelon Drop to be held; historical highlights
• June 5: Freshmen retention rates have improved significantly during the last three years
• June 5: Professor of literature Sherley Anne Williams publishes first novel "Dessa Rose"
• June 5: Alumni Association named Mia J. Tegner its Distinguished Alumna of the Year and David Luft its Distinguished Professor of the Year
• June 9: James S. Copley Foundation pledged $500,000 to La Jolla Playhouse and UCSD as first major gift toward construction of a studio/theatre complex
• June 10: Recent findings by David Woodruff on nautilus
• June 12: Executive Speakers Bureau program initiated
• June 17: E. Margaret Burbidge awarded honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Notre Dame
• June 19: Lawrence B. Krause selected as first faculty member in new Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• June 19: Supercomputer now available to businesses with limited needs through special arrangement between San Diego Supercomputer Center and Industrial Liaison Program
• June 19: Christine Holt named a McKnight Scholar
• June 20: Gerald and Viviane Warren and Cecil and Ida Green honored at Chancellor's Associates dinner dance
• June 23: Diana Deutsch, Russell Doolittle, George Feher, Robert Hessler, Robert Petersdorf, David Woodruff elected fellows of American Association for the Advancement of Science
• June 26: "Plein air: Three Artists Illustrate Plants" to be shown at Grove Galley
• June 26: Chancellor's International Center Volunteer Awards presented at Friends of International Center annual dinner
• June 27: David J. Haddad, UCSD alumnus, establishes Jaye Haddad Memorial Fund to provide financial resources for UCSD students stricken with cancer
• July 3: International symposium on laser diagnostics and spectroscopy to be held to honor 65th birthday of Stanford S. Penner
• July 3: Media Advisory, International symposium on laser diagnostics and spectroscopy to be held to honor 65th birthday of Stanford S. Penner
• July 10: Research grants to top $30 million over five years have been awarded to researchers from Institute for Nonlinear Science, AMES, and SIO, by the Department of Defense
• July 10: Center for Advanced Materials of High Quality Dynamic Performance to investigate properties and physical limits of modern man-made materials has received funding from Department of Defense
• July 10: Background on fluid dynamics study funded by Department of Defense and headed by Henry Abarbanel of the Institute for Nonlinear Science
• July 11: Peter Gourevitch named dean of Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• July 17: $1 million gift from Cecil H. and Ida M. Green will provide major funding for a faculty/community club
• July 17: Construction of new faculty and community club facility to begin in early 1987
• July 21: Masao Miyoshi to hold the new endowed Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Literature and Language in the Department of Literature
• July 21: Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus rehearses for San Diego tour
• July 24: Weingart Foundation and Ahmanson Foundation have donated money to Institute for Research on Aging
• July 31: Media Advisory, UCSD new phone system
• August 3: Michael Freedman named winner of Fields Medal
• August 4: UCSD graduate Aled Davies named one of nation's most promising actors by Theater World in annual awards issue
• August 4: Jack Hug earned the Association of Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges' Award for Meritorious Service
• August 7: Graduate student Yung Son wins one year Paris Fulbright award
• August 7: Graduate student Jeffrey McFarland-Johnson develops solid body electric cello prototype
• August 7: Grove Gallery opens season with horticultural art show
• August 14: Ami E. Berkowitz appointed to endowed chair of the Center for Magnetic Recording Research
• August 14: Ironworkers instructors confer to advance teaching skills; summer conference held at UCSD
• August 18: Calendar Item, "Aftermath" exhibit at UC Crafts Center/Grove Gallery
• August 18: Summer Bridge Program offers contemporary issues course
• August 26: Cesar Grana killed in auto accident in Spain
• August 28: David Wong named provost of Warren College
• August 28: UCSD students begin annual housing search
• August 29: William Trogler and a team of chemists report new method for making primary alcohols
• September 3: David Haddad establishes cancer fund (resent to Guardian)
• September 3: Paul Saltman and team of biologists link manganese deficiency with bone disease
• September 4: California's future depends on higher education, Atkinson's views on Proposition 56
• September 8: Study by David Phillips shows correlation between network news coverage of suicides and increased teenage suicides to be published in New England Journal of Medicine
• September 11: University Library receives $196,000 grant from the U.S. Dept. of Education to benefit the Archive for New Poetry
• September 16: Kenneth Hill to receive the Revelle Medal
• September 18: Project "Peer Resource Network for Foreign Teaching Assistants" started and coordinated by the Teaching Assistant Development Program
• September 18: Record number of students expected as Fall Quarter begins
• September 18: Grove Gallery presents "Aftermath"
• September 19: Regents approved Clark/Beck & Associates as architects for new Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• September 19: Regents approved site and design of two new housing complexes to accommodate another 1,000 students
• September 22: University Events Office presents the Flying Karamozov Brothers
• September 25: James Burke to give a series of science lectures
• September 25: Mandeville Gallery presents "Photography: Suggestion and Fact"
• September 25: University Events Office presents The American Repertory Theatre
• September 25: University Events Office presents "Jazz With a Grin: The Microscopics"
• September 25: Project designed by UCSD and SDSU engineering students may orbit Earth
• September 26: Dedication of new additions to International Center to be held
• September 29: John Howard to give seminar on bicycle training strategies
• October 2: University Events Office presents The Washington Ballet Company
• October 3: Indonesian ship to sail into San Diego -- may be acquired by UCSD
• October 7: Media Advisory, The Bilateral Commission on the Future of United States-Mexican Relations to meet; co-chairs Sen. Hugo Margain and William D. Rogers available to speak to media
• October 9: Fifth annual College Fair to be held
• October 10: Graduate students win three first prizes and one ties for third in the Los angeles Arts Council Scholarships
• October 10: Director John Schlesinger to speak about his career
• October 13: John Schlesinger talk cancelled
• October 14: Pal Schiffer to appear as Regents' Lecturer through Communication Department
• October 14: Department of Communication sponsors Regents' Lecturer film series by Pal Schiffer
• October 16: Renowned tax expert, Conrad Teitell, to present seminar on charitable contribution tax strategies
• October 16: Grove Gallery presents hot and cold glass exhibition
• October 20: Book "Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates" by Robert Ritchie examines legend of Captain Kidd and pirate life
• October 20: Mandeville Gallery presents selected works from the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art's Lowen Collection
• October 20: High Tech time capsule highlights engineering celebration
• October 21: Robert Israel receives five major honors/awards
• October 21: University Events Office presents Three Generations of American Music
• October 23: Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies begins enrolling first class
• October 23: Tokyo String quartet kicks off UCSD's Chamber Music Series
• October 23: Prop. 56 on Nov. 4 will greatly affect San Diego colleges
• October 23: Adrienne A. Brian received $30,000 scholarship from Rita Allen
• October 24: "Of Thee I Sing" opens UCSD Theatre season
• October 24: Poet David Ignatow to be Regents' Lecturer in Department of Literature
• October 27: High school students invited to UCSD preview day
• October 27: Media Advisory, Annual Muir College Pumpkin Drop
• October 31: Media Advisory, scientists have developed tobacco plants that glow in dark by introducing gene that lights up fireflys into plants' DNA
• November 3: UCSD students hold first volunteer fair
• November 5: Play "Puntila and His Man, Matti" by Bertold Brecht will open at Warren Theatre
• November 6: Mandeville Gallery's upcoming film and video installation "The Situated Image" receives grants from National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council
• November 6: An invitation to high school English teachers on lectures given by Regents' Lecturer David Ignatow
• November 6: Grove Gallery presents work by Mexican artist Constantino Lameiras
• November 6: Three Music Department graduate students receive scholarship awards for excellence their field
• November 6: Rev. William Mahedy writes book on spiritual journey of Vietnam vets, "Out of the Night: The Spiritual Jouney of Vietnam Vets
• November 7: Firefly gene lights up plants
• November 13: Media Advisory, opportunity to interview panel for annual Marlar Lecture
• November 17: Area high school students attend theatre production "Master Harold"...and the boys, organized by EOP/ORS
• November 19: University Events Office presents the music duo, Timbuk 3
• November 21: Stephen O. Rice, research physicist in EECS dies
• November 24: Eugene Genovese to speak; sponsored by Department of History and UC Graduate Seminar in Southern History
• November 24: Bram Dijkstra writes new book "Idols of Perversity"
• November 26: Thomas Holt to speak
• November 26: UCSD ranks first in survey of business leaders conducted by Economic Development Corporation (EDC)
• December 2: Chancellor's Associates honor Alan F. Hofmann for excellence in research; David R. Miller for excellent in teaching; and Peter Irons for excellence in community service
• December 9: Engineering students build toy vehicles powered by a mousetrap
• December 10: Recent honors and awards at UCSD (Dower, Luco, Skelly, Taylor)
• December 11: Michael Schudson writes article in Psychology Today that holiday gifts are more than crass commercialism
• December 11: Library receives $875,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities; largest ever awarded
• December 12: Kresge Foundation awarded $500,000 challenge grant to the building program of the Institute for Research on Aging
• December 12: Calendar Item, Frank Boyden art works on exhibit at Crafts Center/Grove Gallery
• December 12: Calendar Item, Young American Artists V on exhibition at Mandeville Gallery
• December 15: Mandeville Gallery to feature "Young American Artists V"
• December 15: Grove Gallery presents pottery of Japanese ceramist Kenichi Saito
• December 16: Crafts Center/Grove Gallery shows ceramics by Frank Boyden
• December 16: "Courting Winnona" to be presented by Department of Theatre work by Jonathan Field
• December 17: Robert C. Ritchie named Special Assistant to the Chancellor
• December 18: Bosendorfer piano given to UCSD by anonymous donor
• December 18: University Events Office to present the Negro Ensemble Company in the performance of "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men"
• December 29: Calendar Item, Crafts Center/Grove Gallery to present an All-UCSD Juried Photo Exhibition
• December 29: Calendar Item, Crafts Center/Grove Gallery to present an exhibition of Art From the Day of the Dead
• December 29: Calendar Item, Crafts Center/Grove Gallery to present "The Contemporary Human Element: Large Scale Figurative Sculpture in Terra Cotta"
• December 29: University Events Office presents the Emerson String Quartet