News Releases for 1997

News Releases for 1997

January 7: Classical guitar duo Sergio & Odair Assad to perform Jan. 23 in UCSD's Mandeville auditorium
January 7: UCSD presents contemporary poets reading their work as part of the 'New Writing Series' beginning January 29
January 7: Whirling dervishes of Turkey to perform Jan. 25 at UCSD
January 8: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this winter
January 8: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this winter
January 9: UCSD visiting mathematician scholar Deborah Tepper Haimo receives distinguished service honor
January 10: Second flight of KidSat, part of NASA's three-year pilot education program at UCSD, Jan. 13-21
January 10: UCSD seeks applicants for Early Admission Honors program
January 13: UCSD faculty members to be recognized for research, teaching and community service
January 15: Visualizing Science: An artist's collaboration with astronomer Carl Sagan at UCSD, Jan. 22
January 15: French chamber ensemble, the Ysaye Quartet, to perform Feb. 9 in Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD
January 17: UCSD announces appointment to new campus counsel position
January 17: UCSD artist receives grant toward research and development of public art work in Japan
January 22: Colleges host "College Awareness" talks for student and parents at UCSD
January 22: UCSD sociologist, Andrew Scull, examines lives and careers of "Mad-Doctors"
January 23: UCSD's Grove Gallery presents glass sculpture exhibition
January 27: UCSD history professor receives scholarly distinction award
January 27: Conference on the future of the humanities to be held Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 at UCSD
January 27: "Sculptural" exhibit to go on view in Visual Arts Gallery at UCSD
January 27: UCSD sponsors two performances by legendary Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Feb. 25 and 26
January 29: UCSD psychologists tackle ticklish subject
January 30: Aristophanes' comedy, Birds, to be presented Feb. 8 and 9 at UCSD
January 30: UCSD named one of most "Family Friendly" universities
January 31: Dr. Seuss Celebrity Reading to be held at UCSD on March 1 in the Geisel Library
February 3: Dr. Seuss Celebrity Reading to be held at UCSD on March 1 in the Geisel Library
February 3: Celebrities to give readings at Dr. Seuss birthday event
February 3: Two UCSD scholars awarded 1996-1997 Fulbright Grants
February 5: Limits to Healthcare lecture planned Feb. 27 at UCSD
February 6: Pill Hill, directed by UCSD professor Floyd Gaffney, to be presented Feb. 6-16 at Hahn Cosmopolitan Theatre
February 6: UCSD International Center moves up--ranks fourth among U.S. institutions in foreign scholars hosted
February 7: UCSD psychology and neurosciences professor receives medal from Australian National University
February 12: 'Same Sex Marriages' is topic of UCSD forum
February 12: Local Biotechnology Leader Helps Establish Information Technology Chair at UC San Diego School of Engineering
February 18: First "Summit" on the Future of American Innovation to be held at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla on Feb 24
February 18: Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures to perform March 6 at UCSD
February 19: 70th birthday celebration for Marshall Rosenbluth, the "Pope of Fusion" on Feb. 21 at UCSD
February 24: Major San Diego research enterprises set up Science and Technology Alliance
February 27: Nobel Laureate in chemistry to speak March 3 at UCSD
February 28: Two UCSD literature professors honored
February 28: Graduate programs in medicine, engineering, drama and film ranked among nation's best, says U.S. News and World Report
February 28: Nobel Laureate in economics to speak March 10 at UCSD
March 3: UC San Diego engineering dean honored by San Diego Professional Associations
March 10: Business contracting seminar to be held March 27 at UCSD
March 11: Sunday In The Park With George to be presented April 4 and 5 in Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD
March 11: Urban Studies and Planning Open House at the University of California, San Diego
March 11: Television star endows scholarships for African American students at UCSD
March 17: Folk Art of Japan to go on view April 1 in UCSD's Grove Gallery
March 17: Zimbabwe's Black Umfolosi to perform songs, dances of Southern Africa April 11 in UCSD's Mandeville Auditorium
March 18: Cabaret tribute to legendary Jelly Roll Morton to be presented April 13 in Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD
March 19: 1997 Visual Arts faculty exhibition opens April 9 at UCSD
March 19: Natural skin chemical that fends off sun damage may have darker side
March 25: UC's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation to open Washington, D.C. office
March 25: UC San Diego Bioengineer Elected to Prestigious National Academy of Engineering
March 26: Ying Quartet to perform April 19 in UCSD's Mandeville Auditorium
March 26: UCSD lecture on Hitler to be presented April 7
March 27: UCSD Medal to be presented in honor of late journalist John Chancellor
March 28: New Writing Series begins April 11 at UCSD
March 28: UCSD-Led partnership wins competition to revolutionize national-high performance computing capabilities
April 1: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this spring
April 1: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this spring
April 1: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this spring
April 3: UCSD's faculty rated tops in the nation for science productivity among public universities, according to "objective" study
April 3: Celebrate the Champions at Del Mar, a benefit for undergraduate scholarships at UCSD, July 26 at the Del Mar Saddle Club
April 4: Artist Carolee Schneeman to perform April 11 at UCSD
April 7: UCSD history professor honored by Phi Beta Kappa society
April 7: UCSD student receives prestigious scholarship
April 7: UCSD to host Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Festival April 27
April 14: Award-winning filmmaker Renee Tajima to visit UCSD
April 15: UCSD chemist honored for efforts to improve drugs
April 15: UCSD after school program is adopted at campuses across state
April 17: UCSD physicist receives Young Investigator Award from Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation
April 21: Planned communities existed 4,000 years before Levittown, says UC San Diego archaeologist
April 21: Women In Neon exhibition opens April 29 in Grove Gallery at UCSD
April 21: Playwright/poet to lecture at UCSD as visiting professor in Literature Department
April 22: UCSD to join UC Center in Washington, D.C.
April 23: Two UCSD professors appointed resident directors in UC Education Abroad Programs in Russia and Spain
April 23: 8th Annual Encounter of the Binational Association of Schools of Communications of the California to be held at UCSD April 25-26
April 24: Spanish writer/critic to visit UCSD in May as Department of Literature Regents' lecturer
April 24: Arts organizations co-sponsor 1997 Russell Lecture
April 24: A decade later: UCSD's Center for Molecular Genetics holds three-day symposium commemorating its opening
April 25: Astrophysicist appointed holder of UCSD Chancellor's Associates Chair IV
April 28: Philippines President Fidel Ramos to receive UCSD medal May 8
April 29: Five UCSD faculty members to receive teaching awards
April 30: Computer study of "Mirror Image" molecule supports new approach for drug design
April 30: UCSD fusion researcher wins National Medal of Science
May 1: Details of photosynthesis revealed in new study led by UCSD and Caltech biophysicists
May 5: President Ramos of the Philippines to receive UCSD Medal. Ceremony to be followed by Presidential Press Conference
May 6: UCSD ranked among top universities for awarding degrees to Hispanics
May 7: UCSD history professor wins UC President's Research Fellowship
May 7: UCSD performance artist awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
May 8: Philippines President Fidel Ramos is recipient of UCSD Medal
May 9: Top county high school mathematicians honored at awards ceremony May 5 at UCSD
May 14: North Torrey Pines Road community tree planting Saturday, May 17
May 15: Caribbean/African-American scholar to lecture at UCSD as visiting professor in literature department
May 16: Awards & honors in the social sciences from UCSD
May 16: Internationally known political scientist is appointed senior vice chancellor for academic affairs at UCSD
May 19: UCSD chemist selected as investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
May 21: Secret liaisons of female chimpanzees documented by primatologists
May 22: UCSD Pulitzer Prize-winning composer to premiere The Red Act Arias Aug. 4 at Royal Albert Hall in London
May 23: UCSD Chancellor's Associates to recognize distinguished service
May 23: UCSD economist receives Guggenheim Fellowship
May 23: Award-winning filmmaker, Regents' lecturer to screen Shattering of Silences May 30 at UCSD
May 27: Women In Neon exhibition illumines UC San Diego
May 27: "Buckyball" co-discoverer and 1996 Nobelist Sir Harold Kroto to deliver public lecture at UCSD
May 27: Video presenting colorful overview of UCSD's Stuart Collection of Sculpture to air June 13
May 28: UCSD Alumni Association to honor outstanding students, alums, friends
June 2: UCSD researchers win Sloan Fellowships
June 2: President Clinton to deliver Keynote Address at UCSD Commencement Ceremony June 14
June 5: UCSD faculty vote against Charter School proposal
June 6: Endowed chairs named in honor of Richard and Rita Atkinson
June 6: UCSD Chancellor honored by alma mater
June 10: UN Ambassador Richardson to address UCSD's Eleanor Roosevelt College graduates
June 11: Surprising behaviors of youthful galaxies challenge accepted theories about their formation
June 11: Two UCSD professors of literature honored
June 13: Outstanding UCSD graduates offer interviews for human interest/ethnic diversity stories
June 14: UC San Diego experts available to comment on President Clinton's speech, racial/ethnic relations
June 14: President Clinton to deliver keynote address at UCSD commencement ceremonies today
June 16: UC San Diego Foundation to make recognition awards
June 18: "Looking Glass Syndrome" discovered by UCSD neuroscientists
June 19: The glow of "sooty sand" could open new era of environmentally friendly fluorescence
June 20: Jorge Huerta named 1997 NACCS scholar for work in Chicano and Chicana studies
June 23: Four graduating seniors at UCSD receive Chancellor's Awards for excellence in research
June 23: Expert in Environmental Fluid Dynamics joins UC San Diego School of Engineering
June 27: UCSD task force appointed to develop outreach proposal
July 1: Free tours offered this summer at UCSD
July 1: Free tours offered this summer at UCSD by Visitors Program
July 1: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this summer
July 2: Internationally known political scientist to assume top academic position at UCSD
July 3: International Center honors seven 1997 volunteers of the year
July 3: 'Celebrate the champions' event July 26 to benefit undergraduate scholarships
July 3: UCSD religion scholar awarded Templeton Foundation grant
July 3: UCSD history professor receives outstanding faculty award
July 8: University of California and Boebringer Mannheim join forces to form molecular medicine company
July 9: Calendar announcement: July 14 town hall meetings on K-12 Outreach
July 11: Housing needed for UCSD students this fall
July 16: Scholarships awarded by Phi Beta Kappa Society to four University of California, San Diego graduates
July 24: Glow of jellyfish may light way toward new optical storage device
July 24: UCSD chemists create polymer "Mirror" for a variety of "Time reversal," optical tasks
July 24: O'Farrell and Lincoln high school students conduct summer science at UCSD
July 24: UCSD to sponsor K-12 outreach symposium July 30
July 25: Frontiers in Science Leadership Conference at UCSD July 31
July 26: 'Celebrate the Champions' benefits undergraduate scholarship at UCSD
July 28: UCSD physicist awarded Hellman Fellowship
July 31: Strategy used by artificial neural nets discovered in memory systems of brain tissue
August 8: Volunteers needed to host foreign students/scholars at UCSD
August 12: UCSD researcher wins national fellowship competition
August 14: UCSD receives Excellence in Human Resource Management Award
August 14: Aggressive Argentine ants are wiping out native ants annoying households, farmers and disrupting ecology
August 21: Solutions to youth violence problem will be focus of Sept. 13 forum sponsored by Union-Tribune and UCSD
August 21: Analysis of meteorite sheds light about how building blocks of life can be created in interstellar space
August 21: UCSD ranked among best public universities in annual survey
August 21: Richark Skalak, pioneer in field of bioengineering, dies
August 27: Fusion Researchers Complete Critical Step in Development of Fusion Power Source
August 29: Music meets medicine for nine years
August 29: UCSD@ICMC '97 September 25-30 in Thessaloniki, Greece
September 3: UCSD faculty directors of programs abroad appointed
September 5: UCSD K-12 Task Force completes report on outreach
September 5: UCSD to present Tango X 2 Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. 1 at Spreckels Theatre in Downtown San Diego
September 5: Press Conference announcing private mission to land, examine, and claim asteroid, Sept. 9, in Washington, D.C.
September 8: Video installation, Gary Hill: Tall ships opens Sept. 26 in the University Art Gallery at UCSD
September 8: Year-round free activities at UCSD
September 9: National R&D rankings show UCSD as third among top U.S. university
September 11: Solutions '97, a community forum offering suggestions for preventing youth violence, co-sponsored by the San Diego Union-Tribune and UCSD
September 15: Arthur M. Wolfe chosen to direct UCSD's Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences
September 15: UCSD Pac Rim School dean accepts new positions aimed at expanding university's links in Pacific Rim
September 16: UCSD records impressive private support total for year
September 18: Booksigning and informal gathering to celebrate the publication of "The Rothko Chapel Paintings: origin, structure, meaning by Sheldon Nodelman, UCSD professor of Visual Arts
September 18: Ravi Shankar accepts Regents' professor appointment at UCSD
September 18: Free parking available weekends on UCSD campus
September 19: UCSD annual homecoming to be held on Oct. 25
September 19: UCSD to welcome record number of freshmen as fall quarter gets underway Sept. 22
September 19: UCSD names vice chancellor for development, university relations
September 22: UCSD annual homecoming beginning on Oct. 25
September 22: Korean cultural program '97 to be presented Oct. 10 at UCSD
September 23: Third and final flight in Kidsat Pilot Program to be held at UCSD on Sept. 26 and Oct. 3
September 24: Portuguese ensemble Madredeus to perform Oct. 17 at UCSD
September 24: Argentine Tango X 2 to perform at Spreckels Theatre Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. 1
September 25: Renowned UCSD professor wins Sweden's "Nobel Prize" for Political Science
September 25: Community invited to attend UCSD homecoming Oct. 25
September 26: UCSD hosts discover days Oct. 11-Nov. 8 for high school and transfer students
September 29: The Makoche Tour - music, stories and dance by culture native to North America will be presented Oct. 18 at UCSD
September 29: Grove Gallery's faculty show '97 celebrates 25th anniversary of the Crafts Center at the University of California, San Diego
September 29: Entertainers on tap for Oct. 7 UCSD Disability Awareness Day
September 29: UCSD Board of Overseers names new community members
October 1: Missing pieces in clotting puzzle described by UCSD scientists
October 3: Gene therapy helps prevent recurrence of clogged arteries following balloon angioplasty in UC San Diego laboratory studies
October 3: International Center at the University of California, San Diego to host 12th annual study-abroad fair, Quest International '97
October 3: Ronald Graham, chief scientist at AT&T Labs to lecture on "Searching for the Shortest Network"
October 6: Awards & Honors in the Social Sciences at UCSD
October 9: UCSD to hold panel on U.S.-Mexican border policy Oct. 17
October 10: K-12 pre-planning action team appointed
October 10: UCSD Department of Theatre receives new designation
October 10: Irish Fire, a Celtic celebration of music and dance to be presented Nov. 6 in Mandeville Auditorium at UCSD
October 10: UCSD official receives international award
October 14: "Homosexuality and Public Life" is topic of upcoming UCSD conference
October 15: UCSD student wins first National Parks Science Scholarship
October 15: Jacques C. Smith, graduate student UCSD's Department of Theatre and Dance cast in broadway production of Rent
October 16: Widely diverse projects at UCSD will benefit from $2.4 million Intel gift
October 17: UCSD to honor community agencies for intern program participation
October 19: William J. McGill, Ph.D.: 1922-1997
October 20: UCSD launches new Pac Rim digital library alliance
October 21: Mendelssohn String Quartet to perform with clarinetist Charles Neldich Nov. 15 at UCSD
October 21: UCSD, SDSU, and USD to collaborate on after-school programs for K-12 kids in San Diego communities
October 22: Sea World was savvy corporate environmentalist long before greening of corporate America, says UCSD scholar
October 23: UCSD homecoming weekend kickoff events
October 24: Two UCSD history professors receive book awards
October 28: Book signing by Chandra Mukerji, professor at UCSD on Nov. 6
October 28: 20th annual Muir College Pumpkin Drop and Halloween Carnival at UCSD, Oct. 31
October 29: Enigmatic brain wave related to movement could become new tool in motor rehabilitation
October 29: UCSD faculty members honored by science association
October 29: Iona Pear Dance Theatre to perform The Mythology of Angels Nov. 23 at UCSD
October 29: Conference on Homosexuality and Public Life to be held at UCSD Nov. 12
October 30: Affordable, hand-held biosensor for diagnostics and other chemical tests developed by San Diego scientists
October 30: UCSD physics student brings home award from research symposium
October 30: Gardens of Versailles had political and military purposes, says UC San Diego professor
October 30: CORRECTED WEB ADDRESS for Conference on Homosexuality and Public Life on Nov. 12
November 3: Solar wind's oxygen content to be analyzed by UCSD chemists as part of NASA's genesis mission
November 4: University City High School teacher cited in UCSD's teacher recognition program
November 7: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this winter
November 7: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this winter
November 7: Free tours of UCSD campus are offered this winter
November 10: Yale professor to give Elliott Memorial Lecture at UCSD
November 11: UCSD history, ethnic studies professor to lecture at 10 universities as a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar for 1997-98
November 13: Pulitzer Prize Winner Richard Rhodes to speak at Friends of the UCSD Libraries meeting Nov. 24
November 18: UCSD mathematics professor wins Presidential Prize, funds will 'drum up' support for inner-city teaching
November 19: Julia Child biographer will speak Dec. 5 at Friends of the UCSD Libraries luncheon
November 21: Iona Pear Dance Theatre members visit patients Nov. 22 at UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest
November 24: UCSD history professor receives fifth major award for book, Masters of Small World
November 24: Bargains abound in resale shop at UCSD's International Center
November 25: UCSD faculty approve K-12 Outreach Report
November 25: Ancient Ruins and Computer Music Converge in Greece follow-up to UCSD@ICMC
December 1: Education Department awards UCSD grant supporting alcohol awareness
December 2: UCSD hosts teacher of the year ceremony at Scripps Ranch High School December 5
December 3: UCSD, SDSU, USD, and CSUSM form consortium with S.D. Public, County Libraries to provide virtual library to San Diegans
December 5: Discovery of a new "signature" for nitrous oxide is no laughing matter for atmospheric chemists
December 5: Early Admissions Honor program applicants being accepted at UCSD
December 8: Growing interest in American sign language at UC San Diego may reflect national trend
December 10: Pianist Cecil Lytle to give all-Chopin benefit recital Jan. 18 in the Green Faculty Club at UCSD
December 12: UCSD psychologist honored by Academy of Optometry
December 15: UCSD appoints Alan Paau to direct Technology Transfer
December 15: Nuclear Physicist Marshall Rosenbluth to receive nation's highest scientific award from President Clinton
December 15: Increase in legalized gambling is linked to higher suicide rates in UCSD study
December 16: Visiting novelist, multimedia theater artist to read works at UCSD as Regents' lecturer in Department of Literature
December 19: Edward Lopez named UCSD Outreach Coordinator
December 19: Glass show opens January 10 in the University Art Gallery at UCSD