News Releases for 1995

• January 3: Father William Cunningham will address the 1995 NSF Design and Manufacturing Grantees Conference on Jan. 5
• January 5: UCSD athletic complex opens with series of events
• January 5: UCSD's University Art Gallery to show "John Ahearn: A Decade of Figurative Sculpture"
• January 6: Peter Gourevitch to step down as dean of UCSD's Pacific Rim School
• January 11: Most ordinary matter in universe has not yet been detected according to new study by UCSD astronomers
• January 12: Graduate science students from Mexico to be enrolled at UCSD under joint fellowship program
• January 12: UCSD picks new director Kathleen Stoughton for University Art Gallery
• January 13: UCSD plans new library walkway and eucalyptus reforestation project
• January 16: High-speed communications researchers at UCSD awarded two DOD grants totaling $7.5 million over five years
• January 17: Five UCSD scholars win Fulbright Grants
• January 17: UCSD's Korean Cultural Festival celebrates lunar new year, Jan. 24-Feb. 7
• January 17: First Lady to speak at Jan. 26 dedication of UCSD's Eleanor Roosevelt College
• January 17: Doris Kearns Goodwin to speak at International Human Rights Symposium Jan. 27 sponsored by UCSD's Eleanor Roosevelt College
• January 18: Four UCSD faculty members selected for "Excellence" Awards
• January 18: UCSD psychology professor Vladimir J. Konecni elected to International Academy
• January 18: UCSD to host panel discussion, symposium Jan. 27 & 28 on the future of information infrastructure in San Diego
• January 18: A conference on gay/lesbian/queer studies to be held at UCSD Jan. 20-21
• January 20: Opening of RIMAC at UCSD, Jan. 24
• January 23: Noted Latin America scholar Peter H. Smith to head UCSD's Latin American Studies
• January 23: Eleanor Roosevelt College Dedication featuring First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as keynote speaker, Jan. 26 at RIMAC facility
• January 23: Two structural engineers, who went to Kobe, Japan following last week's earthquake, will present their findings during a press conference on Jan. 24
• January 24: Kobe's transportation system, devastated by earthquake, could take three years to repair, UCSD structural engineers report
• January 24: UCSD athletic complex opens with series of events
• January 24: UCSD to present the "Throat singers of Tuva"
• January 24: Renowned exiled Chinese poet will be Regents' lecturer at UCSD
• January 25: UCSD Department of Philosophy to host seminar in "Law, Women, and Rights in Classical Antiquity" on Feb. 10-11
• January 25: UCSD's Department of Theatre presents famed British playwright Caryl Churchill's play, "Top Girls" on Feb. 8-12
• January 26: Genetic roots of cauliflower formation revealed by plant biologists at UC San Diego
• January 30: UCSD presents Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on Feb. 14-15 at Spreckels Theatre
• January 30: UCSD presents Ralph Stanley and The Clinch Mountain Boys on Feb. 17
• January 31: San Diego scientist who helped form theory of plate tectonics honored by National Academy of Sciences
• February 2: Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson issues challenge to undergraduates in Alumni Association's 10K/5K Fun Run Feb. 25
• February 3: Harvard classicist Charles Segal to deliver first talk in UCSD's Humanities Lecture Series, Feb. 16 in Literature Building
• February 3: UCSD Social Sciences dean Michael Rothschild accepts post at Princeton
• February 6: Dartmouth professor Naomi Oreskes to speak on women in science Feb. 16 at UCSD
• February 6: UCSD's Emerging Voices Festival presents the Paul Dresher Ensemble on Feb.24
• February 6: UCSD's Emerging Voices Festival to present "Bang on a Can All-Stars" on Feb.25
• February 10: Chancellor Richard Atkinson issues challenge to undergraduates in Alumni Association's 10K/5K Fun Run Feb. 25
• February 10: Awards and honors in the social sciences
• February 10: The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform for San Diego high school students at the Spreckels Theatre, Feb 14
• February 10: Four UCSD faculty members named AAAS Fellows
• February 13: UCSD's Emerging Voices Festival will feature the Arditti String Quartet, March 1
• February 14: Developmental biologist Michael Levine appointed first holder of Chancellor's Associates Chair in Biology
• February 16: UCSD Humanities Lecture Series, "The Shattered Visage: Paradigms of Disunity in Contemporary Humanistic Studies" by Paul Cantor on Feb. 24
• February 16: In Living Color on Feb. 28 in Harold Cohen's studio
• February 17: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company to perform at the Spreckels Theatre, March 10-11
• February 17: The Hagen Quartette to be the second in UCSD's Quartet Chamber Music Series, March 4
• February 21: UCSD researcher Roger Y. Tsien receives Gairdner Award for medical sciences
• February 21: The UCSD Center for Research in Computing and the Arts will present two computer music performances
• February 22: Researchers at UCSD have successfully synthesized the coenzyme pantetheine
• February 22: Nobel Laureate Manfred Eigen will discuss the origins of genetic information on Feb. 28
• February 22: UCSD's Grove Gallery presents "Yours Truly," an exhibition of self portraits
• February 22: Landmark UC San Diego study finds policies to control immigration increasingly ineffective in all major labor-importing countries
• February 23: Construction to begin on major campus pedestrian pathway
• February 23: UCSD materials scientist and nuclear energy researcher elected to National Academy of Engineering
• March 1: Internationally acclaimed Carmina Quartet to perform at UCSD on March 25
• March 1: UCSD Eleanor Roosevelt College dedication draws gifts, memorabilia from community
• March 3: Turning tomorrow's office from wired to wireless will be focus of new Center for Wireless Communications at UCSD
• March 3: Creation of "Tostada Grande" on March 10
• March 3: Lectures, UCSD Department of Ethnic Studies
• March 7: UCSD historian Ramon Gutierrez appointed first holder of Chancellor's Associates Chair in Ethnic Studies
• March 7: UCSD to offer variety of summer courses
• March 7: UCSD scientist Roger Y. Tsien receives $200,000 international health prize
• March 8: The ninth annual "Cabaret Supper" will be hosted by the Friends of the UCSD Theatre on March 26 at Mandell Weiss Theatre
• March 8: The Lar Lubovitch Dance Company will perform on March 10 at Spreckels Theater
• March 10: E-mail available for student-to-chancellor communication
• March 13: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this spring
• March 13: Free tours of the UCSD campus are offered to area visitors and residents every Sunday
• March 13: Free tours of the UCSD campus are offered every Sunday this spring
• March 13: $2.5 million donated to support research of junior UCSD faculty
• March 14: Calvin Trillin to lecture at UCSD, April 13
• March 15: UCSD Grove Gallery to present ceramics exhibition from April 4-April 29
• March 17: UCSD psychology professor Robert Boynton receives Frederic Ives Medal
• March 17: UCSD awarded Department of Conservation grant for recycling efforts
• March 17: UCSD appoints Mary Gagliardo new director of development for student affairs
• March 17: UCSD names MaryAnn F. Stewart new director of planned gifts
• March 21: Aquila Productions of London puts its spin on the classics, April 14 in Mandeville Auditorium
• March 22: Program places high school students on UCSD campus
• March 22: Lectures to focus on religious foundations for peace
• March 23: Legal notice re: Proposition 187 to all UCSD students, faculty, and staff involved in admissions and registration functions
• March 23: UCSD's University Art Gallery presents a UCSD visual arts faculty exhibition, Apr. 7-May 20
• March 28: UCSD to offer summer language program
• March 28: UCSD plans archaeology program in Israel
• March 30: UCSD's Humanities Lecture Series presents the Rev. Tetsuo Unno on April 21
• March 30: UCSD/SDSC chemist J. Andrew McCammon receives high honor in computational science
• March 30: Meteorite found to come from Mars in study led by UCSD cosmochemist Kurt Marti
• March 31: UCSD to host premier Elizabeth Russell Lecture, April 19 in Robinson Auditorium
• April 4: Comedian-dramatist Lane Nishikawa to perform at UCSD, April 21 in Mandeville Auditorium
• April 4: UCSD Center for Research in Computing and the Arts presents a two-day interarts festival featuring multimedia artists, Apr. 21-22
• April 4: UCSD Nobel Laureate Hannes Alfvén dies
• April 10: News coverage of trial found not to sway potential jurors
• April 12: Faculty art show at UCSD's University Art Gallery through May 20 and related film and video events, Apr.17 and 18
• April 12: Miami String Quartet to appear at UCSD
• April 13: UCSD's Revelle College to stage Renaissance Faire April 22
• April 13: Navy award goes to two UCSD researchers
• April 14: New music composers to showcase "New Music for Diskiavier and Synthesizer" on Apr. 28
• April 14: UCSD to host a program of koto music with guest artists, Apr. 24
• April 17: MIT chemist Alexander M. Klibanov to deliver Kaplan Lecture at UCSD, Apr. 20
• April 18: UCSD's vanpool program to kick off environmental bumper sticker campaign during UCSD's 25th Earth Day celebration, Apr. 21
• April 19: Five UCSD faculty members to receive Distinguished Teaching Awards
• April 19: UCSD presents the "New Writing Series" poetry readings on Wednesdays at CRCA
• April 21: UCSD Professor Elizabeth Jenkins awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
• April 21: UCSD presents renowned sitarist Nishat Khan
• April 27: UCSD's University Events' concert with Nana Vasconcelos is cancelled
• May 1: Two UCSD professors granted Guggenheim Fellowships
• May 3: Career networking program for UCSD alums to be offered June 1 with program at IDEC
• May 4: "Chemical relic" offers clue to origin of life on earth
• May 5: African Film Festival to be held at UCSD
• May 5: Displays ranging from voice activated computers to art works; music and drama to highlight UCSD's Disability Awareness Day
• May 8: Seven UCSD professors win prestigious honor
• May 8: UCSD professor DeeDee Halleck's video to be shown at Whitney Biennial in NYC
• May 9: UCSD researchers map vision centers in the brain
• May 10: High-performance composite ships to be built by UC San Diego-led consortium with help of ARPA grant
• May 12: Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, Jewish Scholar, to Speak in UCSD Lecture Series
• May 16: Psychedelic Unified Funk Fest (PUFF) to be held on Warren Engineering Mall on May 20 at UCSD
• May 19: UCSD Present the Distinguished Service Medal to Anne F. Ratner at the Chancellor's Associates May 24 meeting
• May 19: UCSD commencement ceremonies to be held June 4, June 17 and June 18
• May 19: UCSD physics chair Robert C. Dynes named senior vice chancellor for academic affairs
• May 19: UC Regents approves $500,000 endowed chair in engineering
• May 22: UCSD Alumni Association Awards for Excellence to be presented to five recipients on June 17
• May 22: UC San Diego Foundation inducts three as new 'citizens' of the University
• May 25: Roger Dashen, professor and former department chair of physics at UCSD died
• May 26: Chimes toll to celebrate UCSD Undergraduate Arts Festival
• May 26: Former mayor Walter E. Washington of Washington, D.C. to speak at UCSD, May 30
• May 26: Grants, awards, etc.
• May 31: UCSD Chancellor to be honored by American Jewish Committee
• June 1: Lunar surface holds clues to solar wind
• June 1: UCSD students produce TV station airing campuswide
• June 8: 1995 San Diego Film Festival award winners announced
• June 8: Molecule thought to be mere spectator could play a role in ozone depletion
• June 9: Free Sunset Walking Tours of the UCSD campus
• June 9: Free 6 p.m. summertime Sunset Walking Tours
• June 9: Free Sunset and Sunday Tours of UCSD campus offered this summer
• June 12: Logic in Computer Science Symposium to be held at UCSD
• June 12: Galbraiths Contribute $25,000 to Graduate Student Fund
• June 12: UCSD Astronomer, Margaret Burbidge, identifies two quasars associated with neighboring galaxy
• June 13: UCSD Professor Deborah Spector Wins top YWCA Award
• June 13: Study of early galaxies with Keck Telescope contradicts theory of galaxy formation
• June 13: Keck Telescope reveals hot gas clouds that may harbor much of universe's ordinary matter
• June 15: Projects will be demonstrated at a unique final exam at UCSD, June 16
• June 23: UCSD political scientist Paul W. Drake appointed dean of social sciences
• June 29: Developing nervous system tunes into FM for instructions on how to mature and grow
• June 29: Raw material for first genetic material on earth thought to come from primitive lagoons and beaches
• June 30: UCSD International Center Friends award $17,900 in scholarships
• June 30: UCSD International Center honors eight volunteers of the year
• July 7: Engineering professor Siavouche Nemat-Nasser named holder of UCSD's Isaacs Endowed Chair
• July 7: Buckminster Fuller's Centennial Symposium and Celebration opening Night at UCSD, July 14
• July 10: "World Game" to be Played on Basketball Court-Sized Buckminster Fuller Dymaxion Map, July 13 at Mandeville Auditorium
• July 14: UCSD to Launch Instrument Aboard NASA's X-ray Timing Explorer to Study Galactic and Extragalactic Compact Objects
• July 17: UCSD shuts down its printing plant
• July 17: UCSD awarded $1 million grant to study globalization of high tech
• July 20: UCSD sociologist Mary Walshok says research universities of 21st century must reach beyond ivy covered walls to meet society's needs
• July 21: Math testing program helps prepare high school students for university
• July 25: Power of news media is exaggerated, according to UCSD expert Michael Schudson
• July 25: UCSD wins national award for streamlining procurement process
• August 10: A new kind of deregulation: UCSD/SDSC researchers find clues to cellular signal system
• August 15: UCSD China expert Susan Shirk is tapped for defense dept. advisory board
• August 18: Future of science & technology partnerships to be explored at UCSD conference Aug. 24
• August 18: News conference with Chancellor Richard Atkinson following the announcement of his appointment as president of the UC, Aug. 18
• August 18: UCSD chemist Michael Sailor honored by University of California for contributions to undergraduate research
• August 31: Leading researcher in optoelectronic materials W. E. Moerner named first Distinguished Chair in Physical Chemistry at UCSD
• September 6: Ballet Folklorico Nacional de Chile to perform at UCSD, Oct. 10
• September 6: Students invited to "Preview Day" at UCSD on November 11
• September 6: "Preview Day" for prospective UCSD students set for Nov. 11
• September 6: UCSD professor Marianne McDonald to receive highest honor of the Hellenic Cultural Society
• September 8: Chamber Orchestra Kremlin to perform at UCSD Oct. 19
• September 8: Volunteers needed to host foreign students at UCSD
• September 8: UCSD is seeking families or individuals to host foreign students
• September 8: Campus wide farewell for UCSD Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson, Sept. 11 in RIMAC arena
• September 11: UCSD history professor Ramon A. Gutierrez appointed to Advisory Board of National Park System
• September 11: Contrabass soloist Turetzky to perform Sept. 28 at UCSD
• September 12: UC San Diego breaks into top ten ranks in major national survey
• September 12: Scripps faculty ranked best in country for graduate programs in oceanography
• September 13: Premiere carillon piece to herald first day of UCSD classes
• September 13: UCSD music professors chosen for 1995-96 ASCAP Awards
• September 15: UCSD publication wins CASE Circle of Excellence Award
• September 15: Marjorie C. Caserio named interim chancellor at UCSD
• September 18: UCSD ranked among best national universities in annual survey
• September 18: Electronics make student lives easier as students return to UCSD
• September 20: Ballet Folklorico Nacional de Chile celebrates first North American tour with debut performance at UCSD Oct. 10
• September 21: Answers to burning questions sought aboard September 28 shuttle mission
• September 22: Farewell reception honors departing UCSD Chancellor
• September 22: Muir College plans family day for Oct. 24
• September 22: England's Raphael Ensemble to make American debut at UCSD
• September 25: University Library back in operation following repair of major flood damage
• September 25: UCSD libraries receive major gift
• September 28: Leading expert in telecommunications Anthony Acampora named Director of UCSD's Center for Wireless Communications
• September 29: UCSD presents contemporary poets reading their works as part of "The New Writing Series," beginning October 18
• October 2: UCSD memorial fund established for Rebecca Lytle
• October 3: Ebbe Ebbesen will be available Oct. 3 to discuss the verdict in the O.J. Simpson trial
• October 5: More effective data compression made possible with new mathematical concept developed by UCSD Researcher Robert Hecht-Nielsen
• October 6: Renovated UCSD University Art Gallery to reopen with Ross Bleckner exhibition and John Lill Recital
• October 6: Seattle arts commission selects monumental public artwork by UCSD artist Sheldon Brown for lobby of the City's key arena
• October 9: UCSD's Judaic Studies to celebrate 10th anniversary
• October 11: Single transplanted gene turns shoots slated to be stems and leaves into flowers
• October 11: UCSD's Grove Gallery to present crafts of Papua New Guinea
• October 12: UCSD's International Center to host "Quest International '95"
• October 13: UCSD to sponsor Mark Morris Dance Group one-night-only performance Nov. 3 at Spreckels Theater
• October 13: Takacs String Quartet to perform Nov. 4 at UCSD
• October 16: Master Musicians of Jajouka to perform Nov. 5 at UCSD
• October 18: Artist Ross Bleckner to lecture Nov. 2 at UCSD
• October 19: Former editor of Science magazine Daniel E. Koshland, Jr. to deliver Kaplan Lecture at UCSD on October 24
• October 19: William B. Thompson, UCSD physics professor, dies
• October 20: UCSD students sought to enter McNair program
• October 20: UCSD to present Distinguished Service Award to San Diegans Judith and Neil Morgan
• October 20: UCSD professor McDonald, police chief Bobbitt honored as 'women who mean business' by San Diego Business Journal
• October 20: 18th Annual Muir College Pumpkin Drop and Halloween Carnival
• October 24: Racial, higher education issues to be discussed at UCSD conference, Oct. 27-28
• October 24: African/folk entertainers, 'Echoes of Africa,' to perform Nov. 15 in Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD
• October 25: Persistence a key in UCSD art professor's story, 'We Flew Over the Bridge--The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold'
• October 25: Computer model of foraging bees yields new clues about the origins of common sense
• October 30: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this spring
• October 30: Free tours of UCSD every Sunday this winter
• October 30: Free tours of UCSD offered to area visitors and residents
• October 30: UCSD research to take new look at role of immigrants in San Diego and Japanese economies
• November 6: Volunteers needed for study of children's temperament
• November 8: First global anthology of 20th century poetry edited by UCSD professor Rothenberg; published by UC Press
• November 9: Analysis of earth's upper stratosphere reveals unusual ozone chemistry
• November 9: ARCS scholarship winners honored
• November 10: UCSD Latin American studies receives funding for new program on Latin America and Pacific Rim
• November 17: George Clinton and the P-Funk All Stars will perform in RIMAC Arena on Dec. 1
• November 27: Dedication of the Geisel Library, UCSD on Dec. 1
• December 1: UCSD holds dedication ceremonies for Geisel Library, Dec. 1
• December 4: Launch of the High-Energy X-ray Timing Experiment (HEXTE) aboard NASA's X-ray Timing Explorer, Dec. 10
• December 4: UCSD to launch instrument aboard NASA's X-ray Timing Explorer to study galactic and extragalactic compact objects
• December 7: Genes that confer salt tolerance created by UCSD biologists
• December 8: UCSD names new library development aide
• December 8: "Grape Escapade" will be held April 13 at the Sheraton Harbor Island Resort
• December 8: UCSD mentor program links students and staff
• December 11: Largest citizenship ceremony this year in San Diego regional area
• December 12: President names two to receive Enrico Fermi Award
• December 13: Like father, like baby: infants found to only resemble their dads
• December 13: Two UCSD researchers honored by National Science Association
• December 15: UCSD sends out voter registration forrns as student service
• December 22: Free tours of UCSD campus offered to area visitors and residents
• December 22: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this spring
• December 22: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered every Sunday this winter