News Releases for 1991

• January 4: "Pippi Longstocking" to be presented at UCSD by the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis
• January 7: Town Meeting to be held at UCSD on Persian Gulf crisis
• January 8: Calendar Announcement, Ansel Adams exhibition at UCSD
• January 10: Media Advisory, Town Meeting January 15, on Persian Gulf crisis at UCSD
• January 10: UCSD athletic director Judith Sweet named first female NCAA president
• January 14: UCSD "SanDNet" network computer system receives Award of Excellence by Network World Magazine
• January 15: UCSD Theatre Department Stages British Play, "The Castle" from Feb. 6-10
• January 16: Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band perform at UCSD's Price Center on February 9
• January 16: Noted educator Paulo Freire to speak at UCSD February 4
• January 18: UC Regents approve plan for financing and building Warren College residence halls and dining facility at UCSD
• January 18: UC Regents approve design for new UCSD engineering building
• January 18: UC Regents approve Santa Monica architectural firm to design addition to Center for Molecular Genetics
• January 22: Report to UCSD Chancellor's Associate Members
• January 22: Pianist Cecil Lytle to comment and perform on the influence of ragtime on February 10
• January 22: UCSD Chancellor's Associates honor faculty members
• January 22: Detailed computer models of San Francisco Bay describe circulation, salinity and tides
• January 22: UCSD scholarship recipient Kimberly Day triumphs over personal hardships to pursue higher education
• January 22: Calendar Item, "Evening with George Plimpton" to be held Nov 2 at Mission Valley Marriott Hotel
• January 22: Calendar Item, Theologian Hans Kung to present Eugene M. Burke Lecture on March 7
• January 24: Groundbreaking to be held on February 5 for UCSD Child Care Center
• January 28: Rescheduling notice, Hans Kung will present Eugene M. Burke lecture on March 15
• January 30: Poets from across the country will take part in weekly readings at UCSD's New Writing Series
• February 1: UC Chicano/Latino Consortium holds conference at UCSD February 15-16
• February 1: Two collections of Ansel Adams' photographs to be shown at Mandeville Gallery
• February 1: UCSD theatre to present new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" Feb. 27 - Mar. 3
• February 4: UCSD's Third College to hold last series of lectures on cultural diversity on Feb. 20
• February 4: Smithson String Quartet to perform at UCSD February 23
• February 5: "Masters of the Steel String Guitar" to perform in Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD
• February 7: Hans-Werner Braun networking authority joins SDSC
• February 8: Search for "Elvis" yields important clues for genetic regulation
• February 11: UCSD media expert, Daniel Hallin, wins first prize for Sound Bite essay
• February 11: London Small Theatre Co. to perform Aristophanes' "Frogs" in English
• February 11: Noted author, William Styron, to appear at Friends of the UCSD Library Program
• February 11: The Guardian submitted for "Honors and Awards" columns
• February 14: Controversial catholic theologian Hans Küng to speak at UCSD March 15
• February 14: Emmy Award-winning actor Albert Eaton and film and tv star Darrow Igus to perform one man shows at UCSD's Mandeville Auditorium
• February 15: Media Advisory, preview of "Ansel Adams: Fiat Lux" and "Ansel Adams: The Museum Set" on March 1
• February 15: Calendar Announcement, two Ansel Adams photograph collections to be shown at Mandeville Gallery from March 2-April 7
• February 15: Calendar Announcement, British theatre group to perform Aristophanes' "Frogs" in English on March 1-3
• February 19: Renowned Pacific Rim Economy expert appointed first holder of endowed Pacific Economic Cooperation Chair at IR/PS
• February 19: New UCSD Graduate Fellowship Program in Chemistry established to support women and minority students
• February 22: Annual Health Lecture Day scheduled this year for March 23 at UCSD
• February 22: Nylon production discovered to represent major source of atmospheric "laughing gas"
• February 26: Gordon MacDonald appointed director of Environmental Policy Studies for UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation
• February 27: UCSD Jazz Ensemble to perform on March 13 in the Mandeville Center Auditorium
• February 27: Renowned jazz prodigy Christopher Hollyday to perform at UCSD March 10
• February 28: UCSD's Grove Gallery to present images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. from March 14-April 27
• February 28: UCSD history professor at UCSD wins prestigious award for article
• February 28: UCSD School of Architecture Dean Adele N. Santos will speak at Tijuana Cultural Center on March 7
• March 1: UCSD schedules first Annual Affirmative Action Conference on April 5
• March 1: The Lindsay String Quartet will perform as a trio on March 9
• March 7: Three year joint research program in nonlinear dynamics established between scientists from Gorky State and UCSD
• March 8: Media Advisory, noted Catholic theologian Hans Küng at UCSD on March 15
• March 12: Mandeville Gallery to exhibit "Constructed Images" a traveling photographic show of African American and Latino Artists at UCSD
• March 12: Calendar Announcement, free public forum on impact of war on media profession to be held at UCSD April 2
• March 13: UCSD Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies complex receives Merit Award from American Institute of Architects
• March 15: Spalding Gray to appear twice at UCSD on April 4-5
• March 15: UC Regents approve design for apartment/residence halls and dining hall facility at UCSD's Warren College
• March 15: Calendar Announcement, public lecture series on "Racism, Genocide and the Holocaust" to be held at UCSD April 3-June 5
• March 18: Media Advisory, "Women in Computer Science" at UCSD on March 20
• March 18: UCSD's Shiley Eye Center opening gala set for April 13
• March 19: Free public forum on postwar journalism set for April 2 at UCSD
• March 22: UCSD's Department of Literature will co-sponsor a seven-part lecture series, "Crosscurrents" from April 4-June 6
• March 22: UCSD Lecture Series to focus on "Racism, Genocide, and the Holocaust"
• April 1: Media Advisory, UCSD Division of Engineering Research Review on April 26
• April 1: UCSD to host Anne Frank exhibition from May 7 to June 7
• April 2: Theatre director/actor, Don Amendolia, to direct UCSD Theatre's production of Cloud 9 April 17-21
• April 3: Science writer, Warren R. Froelich, named new Science Communications Director at UCSD
• April 4: UCSD's Dance Program approved as an academic minor beginning July 1
• April 4: Roger Y. Tsien, receives "Young Scientist Award" from the Passano Foundation
• April 4: UCSD public lectures on the Holocaust to continue through June 5
• April 4: Researchers find clues to Japanese success in study of Japanese manufacturing plants in Mexico
• April 4: UCSD's fourth annual "Arts at UCSD" to be held April 25
• April 4: New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis, to give Earl Warren Symposium's DeWitt Higgs Lecture at UCSD on April 9
• April 4: UCSD hosts High School College Bowl Tournament April 27
• April 5: Soviet political expert Viktor Danilenko, to speak on end of Perestroika April 25 at UCSD
• April 5: Revelle College to stage 10th Annual Renaissance Faire April 14
• April 8: Richard A. Falk to give 10th Annual Robert C. Elliot Lecture at UCSD on April 30
• April 10: Calendar Announcement, Dan Sullivan, retired drama critic from LA Times to present Eugene M. Burke Lecture at UCSD
• April 10: Sciences Building construction begins at UCSD
• April 11: Calendar Announcement, architectural forum to be sponsored May 12 and 13 by School of Architecture at UCSD
• April 11: Lewitzky Dance Company to appear at UCSD's Mandeville Auditorium on April 20
• April 12: Cornelis (Kees) Murre, UCSD Biologist named 1991 Searle Scholar
• April 12: New Regents Lecturer to be award-winning Polish videographer, Piotr Bikont, from April 21-26
• April 15: UCSD School of Architecture to sponsor forum on varying approaches to affordable housing May 12-13
• April 15: Indian architect named Regents Lecturer and keynote speaker for spring forum sponsored by the UCSD School of Archtecture
• April 15: Arts critic and writer Dan Sullivan to speak at UCSD April 25
• April 16: Grove Gallery exhibits art furniture in "130 Height + Girth: Fifteen American Furniture Designers" from May 9-June 22
• April 17: Media Advisory, National Science and Technology Week at UCSD April 22-26
• April 17: Note to editors, Mandell Weiss's 100th birthday celebration April 22
• April 18: Carl Boronkay, general manager of Metropolitan Water District to speak at UCSD on Region's future water supply May 23
• April 19: CNN Correspondent Peter Arnett, to give public lecture May 8 at UCSD
• April 19: UCSD's Archive for New Poetry announces new writing series for spring
• April 22: UCSD's Floyd Gaffney directs "For Colored Girls" at Lyceum Theatre through May 5
• April 24: Atlantic senior editor C. Michael Curtis to speak on American Fiction on May 15 at UCSD
• April 25: UCSD Board of Overseers sponsor fourth annual "Arts at UCSD" dinner
• April 25: How the Brain "Fills In" the Blanks
• April 29: Australian performance art comes to UCSD's Center for Music Experiment on May 23-24
• May 1: UCSD public lectures on "Racism Genocide, and the Holocaust" to run through June 5
• May 1: UCSD to host Japanese-inspired drum and dance ensemble May 18
• May 1: Calendar item, architectural forum to focus on affordable housing on May 12-13
• May 2: Templeton Lectureship at UCSD will emphasize issues at the interface of science and Christianity on May 9
• May 3: Two UCSD alumni jazz artists to be honored "Alumni of the Year" award
• May 3: Mandell Weiss's 100th Birthday celebrated in new $4.9 million Weiss Forum Theatre
• May 6: UCSD's Mandeville Gallery to show works of sculpture May 18-June 16
• May 7: Glittering future brightened with help of scientific visualizations at SDSC
• May 7: UCSD Police Chief John Anderson, named coordinator for UC campuses
• May 7: UCSD's undergraduate students in film and video showcase their works in this years Undergraduate Arts Festival May 30
• May 7: Student projects to be showcased in this years UCSD Undergraduate Arts Festival
• May 8: Jazz trumpeteer Freddie Hubbard to appear at UCSD's Mandeville Auditorium on May 16
• May 8: Famous comedian Mark Curry to appear at UCSD's Price Center Theatre May 21
• May 10: National Science Foundation funds construction of 5-story masonry building for earthquake experiment
• May 13: UCSD School of Architecture sponsors forum on "Housing Environments: A Cross-Cultural Perspective"
• May 15: New southwest entry to UCSD opened May 23
• May 16: Calendar item, UCSD Crafts Center to hold annual sale on June 4, 5 and 6
• May 21: UCSD's Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Association to hold rally at UCSD on May 22
• May 22: Pacific Rim economy expert Lawrence Krause, appointed to endowed chair at UCSD
• May 23: Four UCSD faculty members named recipients of 1991-92 President's Research Fellowships in the Humanities
• May 24: Six UCSD faculty members selected as Fellows of American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• May 28: UCSD artist's film "The Man Without a World" previews at San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art
• May 28: UCSD Jazz Ensemble vocalists to perform on June 5 in Mandeville Auditorium
• May 28: Media Advisory, Annual "Watermelon Drop" at UCSD Revelle College June 7
• May 29: New source of intense gamma radiation discovered in Milky Way galaxy by UCSD astrophysicists
• June 3: UCSD communication professor Susan Davis receives Guggenheim fellowship
• June 6: UCSD commencement ceremonies to be held June 16
• June 7: Ninety-one undergraduates initiated into Phi Beta Kappa honor society at UCSD
• June 7: UCSD Biologist Christine E. Holt awarded $200,000 as Pew Scholar
• June 7: Mexican contemporary dance group "Antares" performs at UCSD on June 18
• June 12: Media Advisory, "Final Exam" for students in UCSD's Mechanical Engineering Design class featuring products developed by UCSD undergraduates
• June 13: Calendar Announcement, UCSD offers ninety-minute walking tour of campus
• June 13: UCSD offers free "Sunset Tours" from June-September 10
• June 13: Ninth annual "Off the Wall" block party in La Jolla to be held August 25
• June 13: "Octoberfest" dinner to be held October 25 at the Faculty Club
• June 13: UCSD offers "Sunset Tours"
• June 17: UCSD Pacific Studies Libraries receives unique archive of computer character codes from Taiwan
• June 18: UCSD professor Patricia S. Churchland wins $290,000 MacArthur Fellowship
• June 19: Students from UCSD's Guardian newspaper receive top honors in collegiate press competitions
• June 20: Impact of U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement on Korean businesses to be subject of July 2 conference in Seoul
• June 20: Calendar item, "An Insider's Day at the Races" to be held August 7 at Del Mar Racetrack
• June 20: Earth system scientists from UCSD/SDSC to participate in global change project
• June 21: UC Regents gives approval for construction and operation of low power television station at UCSD
• June 21: Notice of Correction: "The Proposed U.S.-Mexican Free Trade Agreement and Its Meaning for Korean Business"
• June 26: UCSD awards honors and prizes to outstanding graduates at this years commencement ceremonies
• June 27: Calendar Item, major symposium on breast cancer October 26
• June 27: Media Advisory, 38th International Conference of the Campus Safety Association co-hosted by UCSD and SDSU
• July 1: Two UCSD engineering students, Man Ching Yu and Anton Rowe, win GA Energy Scholarship
• July 2: UCSD student receives Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence Award
• July 5: Prizes awarded by the National Science Foundation to UCSD to encourage science studies
• July 10: Chancellor's Awards honors International Center volunteers
• July 11: Media Advisory, Fourth International Conference on Genetic Algorithms
• July 12: "Insiders" Race Day will benefit UCSD Medical Center on August 7 at the Del Mar Race Track
• July 16: UCSD's Mandeville Gallery begins season with works of Houston artist Derek Boshier
• July 18: UC Regents vote to change the name of UCSD's Undergraduate Sciences Building to the Herbert F. York Undergraduate Sciences Building
• July 26: Crystal structure for "biological transistor" revealed by team of scientists at UCSD and SDSC
• July 26: X-ray crystallography of protein kinase structure research
• July 26: UCSD Sociology Professor Aaron V. Cicourel receives Fulbright Scholar Grant
• July 31: "Off the Wall Street Dance and Block Party" to be held August 25 in La Jolla
• August 8: Latin Americans learn about U.S. institutions at UCSD seminar held from June 24 to August 2
• August 9: UCSD Medical Center Auxiliary set September 17 annual membership brunch
• August 9: Race Day held August 7 benefits UCSD Medical Center
• August 9: Science news tips from UCSD
• August 13: Prize winning author William Kennedy to visit UCSD October 4
• August 14: Harriet Marsh and Susan Cook receive grant to underwrite "processing" weekend for students
• August 14: Calendar item, "An Evening with George Plimpton" to be held by UCSD Medical Center Auxiliary November 2
• August 14: Zachary Fisk, "Metallurgic Magician", joins UCSD Physics Department
• August 14: Calendar item, author and Pulitzer Prize winner William Kennedy, will lecture at UCSD on October 4
• August 15: UCSD participates in Rideshare Week held throughout the state September 23-27
• August 15: Phase I of Central Library construction is on schedule
• August 15: Construction work on the Revelle Loop Road and Mandeville Access Road is underway this fall at UCSD
• August 21: Workshop for the disadvantaged, women and disabled veteran-owned firms Sept. 12 at UCSD
• August 21: Calendar item, design professional workshop for disadvantaged, women, and disabled veteran-owned firms at UCSD to be held September 12
• August 22: Mandeville Gallery shows Dana Salvo's photographs of "Home Altars of Mexico" on November 2-December 15 at UCSD
• August 25: Ninth Annual "Off the Wall" Party features three bands, dozens of games, food and refreshment booths
• August 27: UCSD's Grove Gallery kicks off season with showing of new lithographic works from the Tamarind Institute of New Mexico
• August 28: Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Goratri to visit UCSD and San Diego September 28
• August 29: UCSD's Mandeville Gallery begins season with works of Houston artist Derek Boshier
• August 29: Calendar item, UCSD School of Architecture presents a November 16-17 forum entitled "Converging Lines: Architecture Beyond Boundaries"
• August 30: Campus campaign for safety awareness promotes personal safety device: a whistle
• August 30: Roberta J. Gimblett receives two first place awards from the Association on Handicapped Student Services Programs in Postsecondary Education
• September 5: UCSD to join statewide transportation campaign September 23-27
• September 9: Media Advisory, two-day symposium on latest advances in biomedical research sponsored by UCSD's Center for Molecular Genetics
• September 9: Twenty-two pair of stingless wasps released at UCSD to combat Eucalyptus tree pests
• September 10: Calendar announcement, ninety minute walking tour of UCSD campus offered Sundays, October 20-April 26
• September 10: Sunday sunset tours of UCSD offered October 20 to April 26
• September 11: Departmental move-ins beginning this month and continuing through December marks completion of new Clinical Sciences Building
• September 12: Dean of UCSD School of Architecture Adele Naude Santos wins design competition for Perris, CA.'s new Civic Center
• September 16: Calendar item, new School of Architecture at UCSD presents a November 16-17 forum entitled "Converging Lines: Architecture Beyond Boundaries"
• September 18: Seismic Retrofit Design proves successful on double-deck bridge tested by structural engineers at UCSD
• September 20: Chicago's Second City national touring company to appear at UCSD October 4
• September 20: UC Regents approve appointment for new architects for new Social Sciences Building at UCSD
• September 20: UC Regents approve funding for proposed $33.5 million athletic complex at UCSD
• September 20: UC Regents voted to create separate research unit for Bioengineering
• September 23: Campaigning for the Presidency symposium and tv special to be held December 5-7 at UCSD
• September 23: UCSD begins classes on September 26 with 2,600 incoming freshman
• September 25: UCSD to host conference on "Slavery and Freedom in Comparative Perspective" from October 4-6
• September 26: Media advisory, emergency preparedness drill at UCSD on October 3
• September 26: UCSD to host annual "Preview Day" on October 5
• September 27: An array of activities planned for Disability Awareness Week at UCSD
• September 27: Media Advisory, Disability Awareness Week to be held October 7-11
• September 30: UCSD "Quest International" opportunities abroad fair to be held on October 18
• September 30: UCSD to present music and dance of Balinese gamelan ensemble Gamelan Sekar Jaya, October 16
• September 30: Epilson Association and Phi Beta Kappa of UCSD are sponsoring free public lecture on October 11
• September 30: UCSD Professor Richard Madsen and co-authors produce new sequel to "Habits of the Heart" in "The Good Society"
• October 3: Media Advisory, Educom '91, nation's largest meeting of information technology leaders in higher education to be held October 16-19
• October 3: UCSD Medical Center Auxiliary's annual 'Evening With...' to be held November 2
• October 3: Architectural forum at UCSD to held November 16-17
• October 3: Task force appointed by Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson to review parking and transportation issues at UCSD
• October 4: Calendar announcement, free College Fair on UCSD campus October 21
• October 4: E. Margaret Burbidge receives honorary degree from University of Chicago
• October 4: UCSD School of Architecture appointed founding faculty members
• October 7: UCSD to host 10th annual College Fair on October 21
• October 7: Media advisory, UCSD College Fair to be held October 21
• October 7: Media advisory, conference on "Political Correctness: What Is This Movement Sweeping the Academy and Society?" to be held at UCSD
• October 11: High-speed data highway between downtown San Diego and UCSD created for EDUCOM '91
• October 11: Genetic regulatory role confirmed for cell's "Closet Organizer"
• October 14: Media advisory, free public lecture "Frontiers in Computer Science Distinguished Lecture" to be held at UCSD October 17
• October 15: Tokyo String Quartet will perform on October 27 at UCSD
• October 16: Latest UCSD research shows importance of lay press in dissemination of medical knowledge to scientific community
• October 16: College professors can now tailor textbooks with Primis custom-publishing newly available at UCSD
• October 16: Jazz dance ensemble "Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago" will perform at UCSD October 25
• October 16: Grove Gallery's show "Neon II" to include performance art at UCSD November 15
• October 17: Media advisory, 13th Annual Muir College Pumpkin Drop and Halloween Festival to be held October 31
• October 18: Ron Carlson painting of Martin Luther King, Jr. will be included in "Neon II" exhibition
• October 21: Calendar item, author Dr. Heinz-Otto Peitgen will give free lecture on fractal graphics November 5
• October 21: UCSD to present "Juke Joints & Jubilee", on November 5 at the Mandeville Auditorium
• October 22: UCSD Library initiates new information service entitled "Plus", available November 1
• October 22: UCSD to hold town meeting on sexual harrassment October 28 in Peterson Hall
• October 22: UCSD to give free public forum on recent changes in Soviet Union on October 29
• October 28: UCSD Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson selected chairman of the Association of American Universities
• October 28: Theatre Flamenco of San Francisco to appear at UCSD on November 15
• October 28: UCSD to stage British producer/director Peter Meineck's "Agamemnon" November 10 at the Mandeville Auditorium
• October 30: National Science Foundation excellence prize awarded to biology student, Amara Siva
• November 1: According to American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, dietary calcium contributes to denser bone among postmenopausal women
• November 2: George Plimpton is guest speaker at UCSD Medical Center Auxiliary's Annual Benefit
• November 6: Calendar item, UCSD School of Architecture presents forum "Converging Lines: Architecture Beyond Boundaries" November 16-17
• November 7: Ten UCSD graduate science students are honored by ARCS Foundation
• November 8: Former Prime Minister of Japan, Takeo Fukuda, receives the 1991 General Atomics -UCSD Scientific Achievement Award
• November 8: UCSD professor of theatre, Floyd Gaffney, directs "Black Nativity", a Gospel song play
• November 8: UCSD Gospel Choir to perform November 26 in Mandeville Auditorium
• November 8: An "Evening with Ralph Nader" to take place at UCSD on November 16
• November 8: Political campaign experts to convene at UCSD for "Campaigning for the Presidency" symposium and TV special
• November 15: UCSD Jazz Ensembles, directed by Jimmy Cheatham, to perform on November 27
• November 15: UC Regents approves International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) agreement with UCSD
• November 15: Comic A.J. Jamal to appear at UCSD's Price Center Theatre on November 19
• November 15: Dr. Willie C. Brown and Mrs. Manuelita A. Brown were honored by the United Campus Ministry the award for excellence in academic leadership
• November 15: President David Gardner's resignation
• November 22: International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Design Center to be located in Torrey Pines Science Park
• November 22: UCSD Grad Student, Abraham Shragge, is expert in San Diego's civilian/Military History
• November 25: UCSD Jazz Ensembles to present Jazz Orchestra in concert December 4 at Mandeville Auditorium
• November 25: "Campaigning for the Presidency" symposium to include veteran campaigner Richard Kleindienst on December 5
• November 25: UCSD Physicist, Jose Nelson Onuchic, studies how electrons move in proteins
• November 25: International areas to be pinpointed at special tours held this spring by UCSD Visitors Program
• November 26: Disclaimer issued by UCSD Department of Psychology in "Gallup poll" calls
• November 27: Media advisory, "Campaigning for the Presidency" will feature a panel discussion of presidential campaign managers December 5-7
• December 3: Media advisory, Col. Oliver L. North (USMC Ret.) will sign his book "Under Fire: An American Story" on December 9
• December 5: Political campaign experts gather at UCSD for "Campaigning for the Presidency" symposium December 5-7
• December 5: Political campaign experts to convene at UCSD Dec. 5-7 for "Campaigning for the Presidency" symposium and TV special
• December 5: Media advisory, groundbreaking for new visual arts facility, December 13
• December 6: Protein that plays key role in regulating light sensitive cells of the retina has been identified by UCSD researchers
• December 11: Cleveland Quartet will present a program of Haydn, Prokofiev and Dvořák on January 12
• December 17: UCSD's Grove Gallery to show a video/art installation by David Avalos and Deborah Small titled "misce-ge-NATION"
• December 18: Marky Pitts, director of the Animal Subjects Office at UCSD officially installed as National President of the Applied Research Ethics National Association (ARENA)
• December 27: UCSD's Mandeville Gallery to show video works by UCSD Visual Arts Faculty and Graduate Alumni on January 11 - February 9