News Releases for 1987

• January 8: Governor's 1987-88 budget
• January 8: Ruth J. Williams and Lynne D. Talley named winners of Presidential Young Investigator Awards for 1987 by the National Science Foundation
• January 8: University Events Office presents Graham Nash
• January 8: Calendar Item, UCSD Gospel Choir presents Martin Luther King Jr. concert
• January 13: Anthropologist Birute Galdikas to lecture; sponsored by the University Events
• January 13: University Events Office presents Garth Fagan's Bucket Dance Theatre
• January 14: John Dower named winner of 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction for his book "War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War"
• January 15: University Events Office presents 13 films "Film International Style" beginning with "Absolute Beginners" starring David Bowie
• January 15: Ali Mazrui to speak; sponsored by the Undergraduate Affairs National Issues
• January 16: Planning Toward College" workshop planned for Southeast San Diego parents and students; coordinated by Early Outreach
• January 16: Groundbreaking ceremonies for Faculty/Community Club to be held
• January 20: National Endowment for Humanities awards Department of Communication a $65,000 grant to sponsor seminar "American Journalism in Historical Perspective"
• January 20: "Berlin, Berlin" play by Oana-Maria Hock, graduate theatre student to open
• January 22: Mandeville Gallery will exhibit works of New York School poet and artist Joe Brainard in collaboration with the UCSD Library
• January 22: Crafts Center/Grove Gallery shows ceramics by Frank Boyden
• January 26: Leon Redbone to perform
• January 26: Hostage negotiator Terry Waite to lecture; sponsored by University Events
• January 26: Jim Carruthers selected as director of University Center
• January 29: Saxophonist Sonny Rollins to appear in Mandeville
• January 29: Yigal Shiloh, William Dever, Carol & Eric Meyers and David Noel Freedman to present illustrated talks about recent archaeological findings to honor appointment of David Noel Freedman to endowed chair
• January 30: Recent honors and awards at UCSD (Deutsch, Gutierrez, Hughes, Zamosc, and 3 grad students recipients of Dissertation Fellowships)
• February 4: Alban Berg Quartet to perform
• February 4: Calendar Item, UCSD Gospel Choir to perform Sponsored by Contemporary Black Arts Program
• February 5: Calendar Item, Jean Cornwell and Virginia Lester Coffee to presents artworks; sponsored by Contemporary Black Arts Program
• February 5: Contemporary Black Arts Program presents an evening with actress Rudy Dee
• February 9: Communication class taught by Dee Dee Halleck created television series "San Diego Stew"
• February 10: UCSD to hold workshop for women and minority contractors
• February 12: Firefly gene now lighting up monkey cells growing in laboratory tissue culture dishes; Suresh Subramani, investigator; Donald Helinski, and Marlene DeLuca, researchers
• February 12: Contemporary Black Arts Program presents program to salute the "Buffalo Soldiers" for Black History Month
• February 12: "Hamlet" presented by the Theatre Department
• February 13: U.S.-Japan Consultative Group on International Monetary Affairs to hold meeting; co-hosted by Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• February 17: Statewide conference of the Asian Pacific Student Unions to be held at UCSD, titled "Living in America: Land of Opportunity?"
• February 17: UCSD and NASA sign research pact to share technical capabilities, facilities and personnel for research and education
• February 20: T.J. Dixon presents Grove Gallery art exhibit "The Contemporary Human Element: Large-Scale Sculpture in Terra Cotta"
• February 23: Recent honors for Neil Bertram, John Goodkind and George Mandler
• February 23: "Misalliance" to open; sponsored by Theatre Department
• February 24: Howard Schachman to deliver 14th annual Behring Diagnostic Lecture in Chemistry
• February 25: Panel Discussion of Orlando Bagwell, producer of "Eyes on the Prize", sponsored by Black Students Union and Dept. of Communication
• February 26: Orlando Bagwell will participate in an informal discussion on "Civil Rights, History, and Television" sponsored by Black Students Union and Dept. of Communication
• February 26: James K. Lyon named provost of Fifth College
• February 27: UCSD Hispanic Staff Association celebrates tenth anniversary
• February 27: Sol Price and family have committed $2 million as gift to UCSD to help build the University Center
• March 5: Tibetan Opera Music and Dance Troupe to appear
• March 5: The Talich String Quartet to perform
• March 10: Three students in EECS awarded scholarships by Burroughs/System Development
• March 12: Grove Gallery to present "Art From the Day of the Dead"
• March 16: William F. Buckley to lecture
• March 16: Rape Prevention Education presents dance theatre work "Fragmented Justice" by Doreen Amelia
• March 16: Mandeville Gallery presents "Sculpture Arenas"
• March 20: Regents approve design of Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• March 20: Media Advisory, Chancellor Atkinson to raise Bicentennial Flag
• March 22: Media Advisory, Center for Molecular Genetics holding national symposium on latest advances in molecular biology
• March 25: Media Advisory, Annual MESA Day to be held
• March 25: Atkinson and Mandeville Gallery Art Council to host private artists' reception to honor artists whose work on exhibit in "Sculpture Arenas"
• March 26: Belkin Memorial Lecture to feature Lee Stetson presenting "An Evening With John Muir--A Conversation With a Tramp"
• March 30: Comedian Dick Shawn to appear; sponsored by University Events
• March 30: UCSD will be down-link for April 8 space bridge on journalism with USSR
• March 31: UCSD to hold national symposium on molecular genetics to celebrate opening of new Center for Molecular Genetics; to feature Nobel Laureate Joseph Goldstein
• April 1: Donald L. Wyman, associate dean of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies dies
• April 2: Johan Galtung speaks on roots of U.S. foreign policy; part of the Clark Lecture Series sponsored by IGCC
• April 2: Institute for Cognitive Science receives $25,000 grant from Digital Equipment Corp.
• April 2: Open House to be held on campus May 3
• April 3: Media Advisory, William F. Buckley Jr. to lecture
• April 7: Anne Bogart directs "The Dispute"
• April 9: Blake Construction has been selected to construct the University Center
• April 10: Nancy Honig to address educators' conference; sponsored by Early Outreach
• April 16: Meliora String Quartet to perform; sponsored by University Events Office
• April 16: French poets Claude Royet-Journoud and Emmanuel Hocquard will be Regents' Lecturers in the Department of Literature
• April 16: Media Advisory, Molecular Biology Symposium to be held
• April 16: Workshop on Origami to be conducted; sponsored by Crafts Center
• April 16: Calendar Item, Workshop on Origami to be conducted; sponsored by Crafts Center
• April 20: Media Advisory, Division of Engineering holds sixth annual research review
• April 20: Comic Rich Hall to perform; sponsored by University Events Office
• April 20: Department of Literature to host New German Film Series
• April 20: Statement from UCSD on animal rights
• April 23: Open House to be held
• April 23: Media Advisory, Nancy Honig to address educators' conference
• April 24: Cultural Celebration part of Open House
• April 24: Renaissance Faire part of Open House
• April 24: Media Advisory, Revelle College Renaissance Fair and Third College Cultural Celebration photo opportunities
• April 24: Groundbreaking for University Center/Bookstore to be held during Open House
• April 24: UCSD receives industry support for Molecular Biology Symposium by Eli Lilly & Company, University of California and San Diego's biotechnology community
• April 27: Cesar Chavez will speak on the international grape boycott; sponsored by MEChA
• April 27: Cinco de Mayo celebration at UCSD on May 5
• April 28: Crafts Center/Grove Gallery to sponsor UCSD Faculty/Staff Juried Photography Exhibition
• April 28: Revelle sophomores celebrate culmination of Humanities Program with reception
• April 29: Mandeville Gallery presents media installations by seven artists in "The Situated Image"
• April 30: Judge Miles Lord will moderate panel discussions and moot court for Eighth Annual Earl Warren Symposium
• April 30: Edward W. Said to speak as part of the annual Robert C. Elliott Memorial Lecture
• April 30: Media Advisory, special preview tour of new Center for Molecular Genetics Facility (press conference & lab tour)
• May 4: Center for Molecular Genetics Building opens
• May 6: New Home for Center for Molecular Genetics to open
• May 6: Background information on Don Helinski, Director of Center for Molecular Genetics
• May 6: Center for Molecular Genetics Facility news conference schedule
• May 6: Laboratories in the Center for Molecular Genetics Facility; Russell F. Doolittle, Richard Firel, Theodore Friedmann, Peter Geiduschek, Donald Helinksi and John O'Brien
• May 8: Media Advisory, UCSD Career Fair
• May 8: UCSD hosts Career Fair
• May 8: Sony Corporation gives $6000 equipment grant to Department of Communication
• May 8: Patrick J. Ledden selected as provost of Muir College, replacing Dr. John Stewart who is retiring
• May 11: Study by James Kulik and Heike Mahler says a surgery patient's preoperative roommate appears to affect recovery rate
• May 11: Media Advisory, video opportunities for setting up mixed media art installations at Mandeville Gallery for show "The Situated Image"
• May 12: Jeffrey Brent Graham, Clive W.J. Granger, Hyam Lerner Leffert, Richard Al Olshen and Faith Ringgold named recipients of Guggenheim Awards for 1987
• May 14: Lawrence Ferlinghetti will be Regents' Lecturer; sponsored by Muir College Dept. of Literature
• May 14: Adolphus "Doc" Cheatham will be Regents' Lecturer; sponsored by Department of Music
• May 14: Donald R. Helenski elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• May 15: Regents approve construction of new athletic facilities
• May 15: Regents approve name for Faculty/Community Club as the Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club in honor of Cecil H. Green and the late Ida M. Green
• May 15: Regents approve UCSD's plans to acquire apartment complex
• May 18: Winners of the 30th Annual High School Honors Math Contest sponsored by UCSD and Greater San Diego Mathematics Council
• May 19: Calendar Item, Grove Gallery presents "Sanguma/Masali" in September
• May 19: Louis A. Montrose will deliver the Third Annual Academic Senate Faculty Lecture
• May 21: Time correction on Louis A. Montrose lecture
• May 22: Robert Israel receives Obie Award
• May 27: Michael Harrington to speak; sponsored by Speakers' Forum, University Events and Student Activities
• May 27: Fifth Undergraduate Arts Festival to be held
• May 27: Alice McDermott earns critical acclaim and movie deal for second novel "Last Night"
• May 28: Second Annual Jazz Festival to be held
• May 29: Scientists Silvio Varon and others use human placenta to repair damaged nerves in brain and spinal cord
• June 2: Commencement ceremonies to be held
• June 2: Commencement summary and photo opportunities
• June 2: Annual watermelon drop to be held
• June 4: George Haydu made a $50,000 gift to the Anthropology Department for essay prize
• June 5: City of San Diego will eliminate on-street parking near the campus on North Torrey Pines Road
• June 9: Alumni Association will honor Paul Chu and Brian Maple at annual awards banquet--named Distinguished Alumni of the Year; and Sherley Anne Williams named Distinguished Professor of the Year.
• June 9: Alumni Banquet Media Advisory and Media Alert
• June 10: Media Advisory, Engineering students to test airplane and dune buggy they designed and built themselves
• June 11: Media Advisory, Thirteenth annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology to meet at UCSD
• June 15: David Rumelhart named winner of MacArthur Fellowship
• June 17: Media Advisory, Argentine President Raul Alfonsin awarded first UCSD medal
• June 19: Mae Brown presented with Leadership Award from National University
• June 23: Media Advisory, news conference on major agreement guarantees transfer from community colleges to UCSD
• June 25: 1986 graduates participate in career survey--gave UCSD high marks in preparing them for employment and graduate school
• June 26: Michael Freedman named winner of the National Medal of Science
• June 26: Major agreement guarantees transfer from community colleges to UCSD
• June 30: Upward Bound Summer Residential Institute underway at UCSD
• July 2: Construction workshop held for women and minority contractors
• July 6: Mandeville Gallery presents "New Traditions: 13 Hispanic Photographers"
• July 6: Luis O. Ramirez named Third College Student Affairs Dean
• July 7: UCSD receives grant from California Student Aid Commission for a pilot work study program
• July 9: Harriet Marsh appointed dean of Fifth College
• July 10: Stuart Collection adds sixth piece, "UNDA" by Ian Hamilton Finlay
• July 10: San Diegans Richard C. Levi and George L. Gildred to receive distinguished service medals for outstanding service to UCSD at Chancellor's Associates Dinner Dance
• July 17: Regents appoint architectural firm of Buss Silvers Hughes in association with design firm of Gunnar Birkerts for Central Library addition
• July 17: Regents approve master's and Ph.D. degrees for Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
• July 17: San Diego Chargers may build training facility at UCSD; could be approved by Regents
• July 17: University Center approved by Regents, named "Price Center"
• July 20: Peter Irons appointed as the Raoul Wallenberg Distinguished Visiting Professor of Human Rights at Rutgers
• July 27: University Events Office announces 1987-88 season
• August 3: Calendar announcement, "Women and AIDS: A Conference for the Worried Well and Interested Others" to be held co-sponsored by the California Commission On the Status of Women & School of Medicine
• August 6: Grove Gallery to show tribal art from Papua New Guinea "Sanguma/Masali"
• August 6: "An Evening With Thomas Edison, Reflections of a Genius" at UCSD; sponsored by University Events
• August 11: Recent publication, book published by Susan Peck McDonald
• August 17: Workshop on fitness for older adults to be held; co-sponsored by Physical Education Department
• August 20: Community businesses join new corporate Friends of the UCSD Library Program
• August 21: Jacqueline Wiseman examines how wives cope with alcoholic husbands in paper presented at American Sociological Association meeting
• August 26: Department of Computer Science and Engineering created out of what had been the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• August 27: Brownie McGhee and John Hammond to appear; sponsored by University Events Office
• August 27: Chamber Music Series to feature string quartets
• August 31: Christos H. Papadimitriou appointed to fill the Irwin Mark and Joan Klein Jacobs Chair in Information and Computer Science
• September 4: Students will resume September search for off-campus housing
• September 9: California Commission on the Status of Women and School of Medicine sponsor symposium "Women and Aids: A Conference for the Worried Well and Interested Others"
• September 11: Media Advisory, Symposium "Women and Aids: A Conference for the Worried Well and Interested Others" to be held
• September 14: Engineering programs accredited: Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering and Systems and Control Engineering
• September 16: Pat Hingle in "An Evening With Thomas Edison, Reflections of a Genius" date changed
• September 17: Increased enrollment and expansion highlights Fall Quarter
• September 18: Calendar Item, College and University Information Fair
• September 21: George S. Reynolds died
• September 21: National Science Foundation awarded CMRR $1.65 million grant to study microscopic properties of magnetic materials
• September 30: History class taught by John Dower to feature rare World War II Japanese films
• October 1: Media Advisory, Muir College to stage simulated earthquake disaster drill
• October 5: Guarneri String Quartet to open UCSD Chamber Music Series
• October 5: College and University Information Fair to be held
• October 5: Mandeville Gallery to show toys from the Lawrence Scripps Wilkinson Collection
• October 6: Quest International '87 sponsored by Opportunities Abroad Office, Revelle Language House and Career Services
• October 7: "Women's Studies and Higher Education Today" conference to be held at UCSD
• October 8: Allan Holdsworth to perform; sponsored by University Events
• October 8: Jazz Tap Ensemble to perform; sponsored by University Events
• October 8: The Alchemedians to perform; sponsored by University Events
• October 8: Lawrence Krause to speak at conference "Competing in the Pacific Rim: Reassessing Trade Opportunities and Challenges in Japan, South Korea and China"
• October 8: UCSD is top public university in sending graduates to medical school
• October 9: Peter Gourevitch and Lawrence Krause to participate in the Governor's Conference on the Pacific Rim
• October 12: Media Advisory, UCSD College and University Information Fair
• October 12: Samul-Nori, Korean dancers and drummers to perform; sponsored by University Events
• October 15: Brownie McGhee and John Hammond to perform; sponsored by University Events
• October 15: Chancellor Associates Award winners: Al Manaster, outstanding community service; Yuan-Cheng Fung, outstanding researcher; and Tim McDaniel, for outstanding teaching
• October 15: The Association of American Universities to meet in San Diego for the first time; Chancellor Atkinson to host reception and dinner
• October 16: Media Advisory, Association of American Universities to meet in San Diego for first time
• October 16: UCSD purchases McKellar Research Center building
• October 16: Department of Theatre opens season with Ben Jonson's "Volpone"
• October 21: Media Advisory, Asoka Mendis and Carl McIlwain report on "cooperation in space"
• October 22: Steel drum jazzist Andy Narell and group to perform; sponsored by University Events
• October 22: National Dance Company of Senegal to perform; sponsored by the University Events Office
• October 22: Comedy ensemble "Duck's Breath Mystery Theatre" to appear; sponsored by the University Events Office
• October 22: Robert Israel wins the American Theatre Wing Award for "The Hunger Artist"
• October 22: Archive for New Poetry announces new Fall Writing Series
• October 23: Illness forces personnel change for Guarneri String Quartet performance (see release dated 10/5/87)
• October 23: UCSD tops record-setting fund drive goal
• October 27: "Aids Awareness Week: A Focus on Aids" to be held at UCSD
• October 27: Media Advisory, Annual Muir College Pumpkin Drop to be held
• October 27: Professional and Graduate School Information Day to be held
• October 27: UCSD hosts Preview Day
• October 28: Media Advisory, Economics Department faculty holds public seminar on "The Stock Market and the Economy"
• October 29: Grove Gallery to show works of its faculty and their guests artists
• October 30: Samul-Nori has cancelled its performance
• November 2: Michael Schudson and student Elliot King turn up Gallup poll results showing President Reagan's popularity rating lowest of any newly elected President since World War II
• November 2: UCSD news and notes
• November 3: Octavia Cowan, student in Literature Department, reintroduces unknown sensational novel by Louisa May Alcott
• November 4: Department of Theatre to stage "The Labyrinth"
• November 5: UCSD receives scholarships for engineering and natural sciences divisions and School of Medicine from the Achievement Rewards for Colleges Scientists Foundation
• November 5: Patrick Caddell to lecture, "The Coming Crisis in American Politics: The Breaking of the Presidency"
• November 5: Margaret Burbidge chosen as one of four recipients of the Sesquicentennial Medal by Mt. Holyoke College
• November 10: UCSD news and notes
• November 11: Richard Friedman recent publication: "The Future of Biblical Studies: The Hebrew Scriptures"; Bertram Turetzky chosen ASCAP Award recipient
• November 17: Grove Gallery presents "Jewelry '87/National Invitational"
• November 17: "The Madman and the Nun" to be staged by the Department of Theatre
• November 18: Raymond Brown to deliver Eugene Burke Lecture, "The Star, The Magi, and the Wicked Herod: Matthew's Gospel Story of Jesus' Birth"
• November 18: Richard Atkinson elected President-Elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• November 19: Faustina Solis and Delia Talamantez receive Mexican American Business & Professional Association's community service awards
• November 19: UCSD kicks off 1987 United Way/Chad campaign
• November 19: Media Advisory, "Private Spaces": tour of student art projects
• November 19: Biochemist Marlene DeLuca dies
• November 20: Letter to media, Model United Nations High School Conference
• November 23: Joseph P. Martinez, UCSD Alumnus honored as a Centennial Alumnus at the Centennial Celebration of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
• November 25: Photo Opportunity, Revelle College window decorating contest
• November 25: UCSD International Club will host the International Cafe
• December 3: Department of Theatre Graduate Acting Recitals to be held
• December 4: Simon Wiesenthal to lecture
• December 9: "Making Weapons, Talking Peace" new book by Herbert York
• December 9: Industrial Liaison Program seeks to aid start-up and small high-tech firms with memberships
• December 9: Media Advisory- National Institutes of Health issues report regarding allegations
• December 11: Ford Foundation awards grant to UCSD's Fifth College
• December 11: Chilingrian String Quartet will perform at UCSD on 1/16
• December 15: "Abstractions of the Eighties," an exhibition of new abstract art, in the UCSD Mandeville Gallery, from 1/9-2/21
• December 22: The Acting Company will perform "Kabuki Macbeth" Jan. 15 at UCSD
• December 22: Film series "International Style" will begin Jan. 19 at UCSD
• December 23: North San Diego Rotary Club Hosts Cafe at UCSD