News Releases for 1988
- January 4: UCSD to offer telephone registration
- January 7: UCSD ranks fifth in federal funding
- January 7: Governor's 1988-89 budget favorable to UCSD
- January 11: Golden Triangle Rotary Club to host cafe at UCSD
- January 12: A new play to debut by Reid Jensen
- January 14: Stephen Jay Gould to Give UCSD's seventh annual Robert C. Elliott Memorial Lecture
- January 14: Novelist to lecture about Black History
- January 15: UC Regents Approve Central Library Addition
- January 15: UCSD features a host of lectures, performances and exhibitions for Black History Month
- January 15: UCSD News and Notes
- January 15: Simon Wiesenthal will not appear to lecture at UCSD
- January 19: UCSD's Grove Gallery presents "Arts of Science"
- January 22: Famed black journalist and author to highlight Black History Month
- January 22: Tandy Beal Dance Company to appear with Bobby McFerrin
- January 26: First of its kind Japanese musical to play at UCSD
- January 26: Broadway headliner Eartha Kitt to perform at UCSD
- January 28: Peter Matthiessen will speak at UCSD
- January 28: MacArthur Foundation renews grant to IGCC
- January 29: Archive for New Poetry presents Winter Quarter Poetry Reading Series
- February 1: "Brazo Gitano" to play at UCSD's Warren Theatre
- February 3: America's first black physicist will speak at UCSD on Feb. 24th
- February 3: Media Advisory, black journalist/author Lerone Bennett to speak at UCSD
- February 4: Mandeville Gallery will present works by Richard Allen Morris
- February 5: Calendar item, UCSD to host Open House April 24th
- February 5: Alban Berg Quartet will perform an all-Beethoven program in the Mandeville Auditorium, Feb. 19th
- February 8: South African Dance Company to perform at UCSD, Feb. 26th
- February 8: Psychiatrist Poussaint to speak at UCSD on Feb. 25th
- February 8: Math Teachers will meet to discuss diagnostic tests at UCSD
- February 8: UCSD Library receives $810,000 in year-end gifts
- February 8: Media Advisory, Eartha Kitt to perform at Mandeville Auditorium
- February 9: UCSD's El Teatro Ensemble will perform in Barcelona, Spain
- February 10: Nick Aguilar elected president of Sweetwater District Board of Trustees
- February 16: Grove Gallery will exhibit African Art
- February 17: UCSD Volunteer Connection spotlights the homeless volunteer week
- February 17: Media Advisory, IR/PS Graduate School Opening Celebration
- February 18: Early Admissions Honors Program to host information session
- February 18: UCSD Department of Theatre to stage Master's Thesis Play "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
- February 18: Chancellor to host reception for new endowed chair recipient
- February 19: Asian American Film Series to be held at UCSD
- February 25: UCSD Theatre Department to stage "The Prince of Homburg" by Heinrich Von Kleist
- February 26: UCSD Facilities Design and Construction move off campus
- February 29: UCSD Psychologist elected Governor of Audio Engineering Society
- February 29: UCSD's International Relations and Pacific Studies Graduate School celebrates inaugural
- March 2: Frank Stanton, President Emeritus of CBS, to speak at UCSD
- March 2: UCSD's El Teatro Ensemble to perform at several locations
- March 4: Media Advisory, Inaugural for Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
- March 7: Film by UCSD professor nominated for Oscar
- March 10: UCSD inaugurates Graduate School of IR/PS
- March 18: UC Regents approve Fifth College
- March 21: Takacs String Quartet to perform at UCSD
- March 22: UCSD Librarian to lead Book Lovers Tour
- March 22: Sloan Foundation Fellowships
- March 22: UCSD Mandeville Gallery to present works from Visual Arts Faculty
- March 23: Jack Hood Vaughn, former director of Peace Corps, to lecture at UCSD
- March 28: Mexican Folk Art to be exhibited in Grove Gallery
- March 31: Media Advisory, Senator Alan Cranston to speak at panel discussion in UCSD's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
- April 1: Nobel Laureate Dr. Charles H. Townes to deliver Marlar Lecture
- April 4: UCSD's Earl Warren College to host ninth annual Earl Warren Symposium
- April 4: Media Advisory, Ninth Annual Earl Warren Symposium
- April 5: William Wegman's "La Jolla Vista View" to be dedicated
- April 7: Revelle Scholarship honor's outstanding entering students at UCSD
- April 7: Two UCSD engineers elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering.
- April 7: Media Advisory, National Workshop on Nonlinear Waves
- April 8: UCSD Open House to be held
- April 11: Guthrie Theatre to present "Frankenstein"
- April 11: UCSD to hold High School College Bowl Tournament
- April 12: Peace Fair to be held April 21
- April 13: Media Advisory, News Conference to announce major gift for UCSD
- April 13: UCSD Engineering student wins $10,000 scholarship
- April 13: $1.2 million gift to create new theatre at UCSD
- April 13: Nationally acclaimed architect Antoine Predock designs new Weiss Forum
- April 14: Television Actor Larry Gelman to be cast as "Einstein"
- April 14: Error in College Bowl Tournament announcement
- April 14: UCSD Theatre Department to stage "Plays in Progress Festival"
- April 15: Media Advisory, Former Ambassador Jack Hood Vaughn to deliver 10th Annual Belkin Lecture
- April 18: Media Advisory, UCSD Open House
- April 19: Mandell Weiss gift to create major new theatre at UCSD
- April 20: Media Advisory, Two rallies to protest animal research
- April 21: Media Advisory, Science Competencies Conference
- April 21: Calendar Item, UCSD International Center presents free public lecture
- April 22: San Diego high-tech firms awarded Industrial Liason memberships
- April 22: UCSD professor appointed chairman of the Los Alamos Panel on security issues
- April 25: UCSD program plans to aid minority engineering majors
- April 25: Oscar-winning writer Ring Lardner Jr. to speak at UCSD
- April 25: Chancellor Atkinson appointed to Carnegie Corporation Panel
- April 25: Vermeer String Quartet to play on May 7
- April 26: La Jolla High School student attends UCSD while finishing High School
- April 26: Three faculty members elected to the National Academy of Sciences
- April 27: Archive for New Poetry readings
- April 27: $3.3 million grant awarded to UCSD Neurobiologists
- April 28: Director of Peace Corps will give annual Clark Distinguished International Lecture
- April 28: Solana Beach residents join the UCSD Host Family Program
- May 2: UCSD researchers develop early diagnosis test for Cytomegalovirus infection
- May 2: UC Women Faculty Exhibition to show in Mandeville Gallery on May 21-June 19
- May 2: UCSD Theatre to present "The Cherry Orchard"
- May 2: UCSD Library receives largest gift in Library's history
- May 3: Chairman of the Music Department named provost of UCSD's Third College
- May 4: New telephone registration process at UCSD
- May 4: McElroy Lecture to be delivered by Molecular Biologist Martin Gellert
- May 6: Media Advisory, Urban Studies and Planning Program presents free public lecture given by Oscar Newman
- May 6: UCSD Center for Music Experiment will present a demonstration and concert of New Music
- May 9: UCSD and the University of Tokyo sign exchange agreement
- May 9: Laurence E. Peterson appointed director of the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
- May 12: Literature Department faculty members receive honors
- May 16: Career Services Center receives award from the California Career Development Association
- May 16: UCSD undergrads write and produce five plays for Theatre Festival
- May 16: Four UCSD faculty members win Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships
- May 16: Hewlett-Packard donates over $750,000 worth of equipment to UCSD
- May 18: UC Regents approve architect for UCSD Undergraduate Sciences building renovations
- May 20: UCSD Molecular Biologist appointed University Professor by UC Regents
- May 21: Media Advisory, First Annual UCSD Undergraduate Research Conference
- May 23: Winners of the High School Honors Math Contest announced
- May 24: UCSD undergraduates celebrate Arts Festival
- May 26: Navajo Indian Drummers to perform their "Sacred Land Dance" at UCSD
- May 26: Commencement Ceremonies to be held on June 19
- May 27: UCSD Alumni Association honors Nobel Prize winner Susumu Tonegawa and UCSD Anthropologist Shirley C. Strum
- June 3: New members elected to the Dean of Engineering's Advisory Council at UCSD
- June 3: Media Advisory, Tripartite U.S.-Soviet-Chinese Conference
- June 7: Media Advisory, Sacred Land Dance Performance and Art Exhibition
- June 7: Researcher at UCSD identifies cancer gene in regulatory mechanism of human cells
- June 13: Media Advisory, UCSD Commencement summary and photo opportunities
- June 20: Scholarship prizes awarded to UCSD biology students
- June 21: UCSD graduates participate in the Career Services Center's Job Search Club
- June 24: 16th Annual Chancellor's Associates and Board of Overseers Dinner to be held June 25
- June 28: News and Notes
- June 29: Associate professor of musicology Jann C. Pasler, wins two Fellowship Awards
- June 30: 32 Children from Australia, United States and the Soviet Union will perform the musical play "Peace Child"
- July 6: The Friends of Contemporary Black Arts Program to host preview of play "The Colored Museum"
- July 8: Calendar Announcement, a one-night-only performance of "Peace Child"
- July 11: Media Advisory, Fifth International Conference on the History of Science in China
- July 11: Thirty-two children to perform musical play "Peace Child" at UCSD
- July 11: Media Advisory, Press Conference to announce premiere of "Peace Child"
- July 13: Satellite Medical Facility (Thornton Hospital)
- July 15: UC Regents approve Satellite Medical Facility
- July 15: Architectural designs for Satellite Medical Facility approved
- July 25: Library acquires Robert Glasheen collection of historic UCSD photographs
- July 26: Media Advisory, Fifth International Conference on the History of Science in China
- July 27: Psychiatry professor Nolan E. Penn, appointed Associate Chancellor of Affirmative Action
- August 1: Janet Barkovich of La Jolla is awarded UCSD Mesa College Transfer Scholarship
- August 4: UCSD professor receives research grant from the Spencer Foundation of Chicago to study history of the newspaper interview
- August 5: Three scholars from England and Australia to be honored at UCSD History of Science in China Conference
- August 11: Media scholarship established for UCSD from feature film premiere proceeds
- August 11: Internationally known expert on East Asia joins faculty of the IR/PS Graduate School at UCSD
- August 12: Media Advisory, Four Soviet visitors participate in round table discussion at UCSD International Center
- August 16: UCSD Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies sponsors financial management seminars
- August 19: Proposition 78
- August 22: Six UCSD graduate students transform construction fence into work of public art
- August 25: UCSD Visual Arts chairman David Antin to create sky poem over La Jolla beach
- August 25: Media Advisory, Perspectives on Biotechnology in the Pacific Basin Conference
- August 26: UCSD will offer free half-day construction workshop to women and minority contractors
- August 26: UCSD to sponsor international conference on Perspectives on Biotechnology in the Pacific Basin
- August 26: UCSD appeal for off-campus housing
- August 31: UCSD Biologists discover new clues to regulation of immune response
- September 1: Flying Karamazov Brothers to perform at UCSD
- September 2: Editor's Note, UCSD appeal for off-campus housing
- September 6: Professor of Music Bertram Turetzky receives American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award
- September 6: UCSD to open new International House this Fall
- September 9: Chicago's Second City comedy group to appear one night only in the UCSD Mandeville Center
- September 9: Media Advisory, Move-in day for new UCSD International House residents
- September 9: UCSD's Grove Gallery to present exhibition of Indonesian folk art
- September 13: Media Advisory, Reception honoring the Friends of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies
- September 14: Spirited African Marimba ensemble to play at UCSD
- September 14: UCSD admits record number of students
- September 15: Mandeville Gallery begins season with "Drawings by Ten" exhibition
- September 15: UCSD's University Events Office will kick off exciting and entertaining season
- September 15: Media Advisory, UCSD's "Unolympics" highlights fall orientation activities
- September 16: UC Regents approve Marston Endowed Chair in Psychiatry for the UCSD School of Medicine
- September 16: UCSD Training Facility named in honor of Chargers owner Alex G. Spanos
- September 16: UC Board of Regents approve Endowed Chair in Aging for UCSD School of Medicine
- September 16: UCSD School of Architecture approved by UC Regents
- September 19: UCSD to offer free seminar to aid under-represented minorities with graduate school admission exam
- September 20: Calendar Item, Scripps Aquarium to give two tidepooling sessions for preschoolers and their parents
- September 22: Fall Writing Series events at UCSD
- September 22: MTV's Randee of the Redwoods to appear at UCSD's Mandeville Center for one night only
- September 23: Soviet dissident and human rights activist Alexander Ginzburg to speak at UCSD
- September 23: The dance group Momix will appear for one night only at UCSD
- September 27: UCSD professor's book unravels what is known about the emerging individuality of a fetus from conception to birth
- September 28: Member of British Parliament to be first Regents' Lecturer at UCSD's Fifth College
- September 28: School children from San Diego County will have first-hand experience learning how to use L'UPIC, a french computer which allows the user to draw a musical composition
- September 29: Note to editors, Enclosed inaugural issue of "UCSD Perspectives"
- September 29: William A. Nierenberg, Director Emeritus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to give free lecture on greenhouse effect
- September 30: Three distinguished theologians to give free public lectures as part of the Eugene M. Burke Lectureship at UCSD
- September 30: Calendar Item, College Information Fair
- October 5: Two UCSD political science professors offer free lecture on presidential campaign
- October 6: Delia H. Talamantez chosen as San Diego facilitator for Hispanic Caucus' Network
- October 7: Division of Engineering Fact sheet
- October 7: Brief biography of Simon Ramo
- October 7: Media Advisory, Special high-tech ribbon cutting ceremony and dedication for UCSD Engineering Building
- October 7: Simon Ramo, co-founder of TRW, to speak at high-tech dedication of UCSD Engineering Building
- October 7: Calendar Announcement, L'UPIC to be demonstrated in UCSD Center for Music Experiment concert
- October 7: Latin American group Los Folkloristas to perform at UCSD
- October 10: "Vices and Virtues" Fact Sheet
- October 10: Bruce Nauman's neon sculpture "Vices and Virtues" to be inaugurated
- October 10: 39th Annual Exhibition of the Allied Craftsmen of San Diego to be held at UCSD's Grove Gallery
- October 10: Italian Academy honors UCSD Professor Emeritus Oreste Piccioni
- October 10: UCSD astronomer Barbara Jones awarded visiting professorship
- October 10: Bioluminescence researchers honored at UCSD
- October 10: Poet/actor Robert Peters to perform at UCSD
- October 11: Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson calls for cabinet-level science advisor at UCSD
- October 11: UCSD Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson calls for cabinet-level science advisor
- October 11: UCSD wins Governor's Transportation Award for Ridesharing Program
- October 11: Noted New York percussionist Jan Williams to perform at UCSD
- October 11: Violinist Janos Negyesy and friends to perform at UCSD
- October 11: Pan Asian Repertory Theatre to perform "Yellow Fever" at UCSD
- October 12: Roman composer and vocalist Roberto Laneri to perform at UCSD
- October 13: Salvatore and Dorothy Martirano to perform orchestral electronic and video concert, presented by UCSD Department of Music
- October 13: Nazi Hunter Simon Weisenthal to lecture at UCSD
- October 13: UCSD's Friends of Judaic Studies and Friends of Music present Verdi's opera "Nabucco"
- October 13: Media Advisory, Chile's plebiscite and political future to be discussed at colloquium in UCSD's Institute of the Americas
- October 17: Violinist Mary Oliver to perform a program of classics with pianist Howard Wells
- October 18: Author Joseph Horowitz to speak at UCSD
- October 19: San Jose Taiko Drumming Group to perform at UCSD
- October 19: Transfer Admission Guarantee Program for UCSD available for Southwestern College students
- October 20: UCSD holds College Fair October 27th
- October 21: UCSD to hold Professional/Graduate School information fairs
- October 21: UCSD's Volunteer Connection to hold third annual "Volunteer Fair"
- October 24: Calendar Announcement, Poet David Antin to speak at noon seminar
- October 25: Sonor, UCSD's new music ensemble, performs its first concert in Mandeville Center after a successful summer series in West Germany
- October 26: Notice, Urgent message to UCSD faculty, staff and students regarding Proposition 78
- October 26: Gerry McAllister regarding Proposition 78
- October 26: UCSD's Mandeville Gallery to present two one-person shows
- October 26: Guarneri String Quartet to open this season of the UCSD Faculty Chamber Music Series
- October 26: Second annual AIDS Awareness Week scheduled at UCSD
- October 27: Media Advisory, College and University Information Fair
- October 27: Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson regarding Proposition 78
- October 27: Media Advisory, Muir College to hold 10th annual Halloween Festival and Pumpkin Drop
- October 27: Three bands will headline at UCSD's free Jazz Festival
- October 28: Chancellor Atkinson attends high-level national science policy meeting at New York
- October 31: Proposition 78 to fund major construction projects for local public colleges and universities
- October 31: Personally addressed editorial page
- November 2: Media Advisory, Press Conference for Simon Wiesenthal
- November 2: Pianist Frances Renzi to perform in Bosendorfer Grand Piano Series at UCSD
- November 4: UCSD's Third College Residence Halls win design awards
- November 4: Public Service Announcement, Transfer informational programs for college students
- November 4: Calendar Item, Transfer Admission Guarantee Program workshops offered at local community colleges
- November 7: Transfer Admission Guarantee program workshops to be held for college students interested in transferring to UCSD
- November 7: A new field of research called cognitive neuroscience provides new insights into the mind
- November 7: UCSD chemists take a new step toward the synthesis of new silicon compounds
- November 8: Calendar Announcement, Kaucyila Brooke opening at the Grove Gallery
- November 8: UCSD Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering receives $1.8 million gift from Apollo Inc. and Mentor Graphics
- November 9: Calendar Announcement, UCSD graduate student Paivikke Nykter to present violin recital with pianist Howard Wells on November 12th
- November 10: UCSD's New Music Forum presents second concert of the season
- November 11: UCSD Department of Theatre presents play by Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca
- November 14: UCSD Library stages renaissance of classic salons
- November 16: UCSD experts team up to develop better models of turbulent flow in diseased hearts
- November 16: Public Service Announcement, "Black Nativity: A Gospel Song Play" to open at the Progressive Stage Company, November 26th
- November 16: Calendar Announcement, Langston Hughes' "Black Nativity: A Gospel Song Play" to open at the Progressive Stage Company on November 26th
- November 17: Grove Gallery to present photographic exhibition at UCSD
- November 18: "THE" to perform at UCSD's Mandeville Auditorium
- November 18: UCSD astronomer Margaret Burbidge wins the 1988 Albert Einstein World Award of Science
- November 18: UC Board of Regents approve Rohr Endowed Chair
- November 18: Openings in UCSD's Teacher Education Program for Math and Science Majors
- November 21: Chancellor's Associates Award presented to three UCSD faculty members
- November 23: UC Regents approve renaming of Humanities/Undergraduate Library Building at UCSD
- November 28: Science feature ideas from UCSD neural networks
- December 2: Three UCSD faculty to receive major awards at American Geophysical Union meeting
- December 2: Holiday Photo Opportunity, Revelle College cafeteria window decorating contest
- December 5: American Geophysical Union meeting
- December 6: New graduate fellowship for minority women in Pacific Studies established at UCSD
- December 8: NASA donates $750,000 to the UCSD Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
- December 8: The Research Continuum
- December 8: UCSD facts of note
- December 14: Architectural symposium at UCSD features internationally acclaimed architects
- December 14: Media Advisory, UCSD International Architectural Symposium
- December 15: Background, potential disease targets for gene therapy
- December 19: The Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis to perform traditional African storytelling at UCSD
- December 20: UCSD's Grove Gallery presents Black American literature and music
- December 20: Featured architecture exhibition at UCSD
- December 20: Mandeville Gallery to feature work of four renowned architects
- December 20: New director of Development Office named at UCSD
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