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Lawrence Korb, Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Reagan and one of the nation's foremost authorities on military personnel, will speak at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 4pm. Dr. Korb's talk will be a public briefing on the recent report to Congress by General David Petraeus, the U.S. military leader in Iraq.

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University of California, San Diego economist Richard Carson, a significant voice in opposition to last year's ballot proposal to move San Diego's airport to Miramar Field, will discuss options for the future of the region's air transportation when he addresses the UCSD Social Sciences Supper Club, Oct. 10.

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Tony Koslow's examination of the mysteries and challenges of the deep sea awarded Australian prize for science writing

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HOPE students acknowledged for jumpstarting program that provides free prescription medication for homeless and uninsured patients.

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New User Portal gives researchers control over when jobs run.

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A record-breaking 700 guests"”including surfing legends, scientists, doctors, business leaders and cancer survivors"”gathered on August 19 for the University of California, San Diego's annual Luau and Longboard Invitational to raise more than $600,000 for the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center.

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Until now, only the intricate machinery inside cells could take a mix of enzyme ingredients, blend them together and deliver a natural product with an elaborate chemical structure such as penicillin. Researchers have for the first time demonstrated the ability to mimic this process outside of a cell.

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A multidisciplinary team led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego has determined the structure of a protein found in cells that shows potential as a target for the development of new drugs to treat diabetes.

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Science is coming to the YouTube generation with the advent of "SciVees" -- video and podcasts that supplement traditional peer-reviewed articles.

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Close to 170 undergraduates from the University of California, San Diego and other campuses from around the region and country gathered this month at the 2007 UCSD Summer Research Conference to present findings on a wide range of research studies conducted under faculty mentors.

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University of California, San Diego faculty member and recognized expert in East Asian Affairs, Susan L. Shirk, has been named the inaugural chair holder for the recently established Ho Miu Lam Chair in China and Pacific Relations.

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In Southeast San Diego, the "digital divide" separating the haves and the have-nots in computer literacy just narrowed a bit. Thanks to a new partnership with UC San Diego and the San Diego Supercomputer Center, kids and young adults in a federally subsidized housing project here are now learning the basics of video production and editing.

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Even after paying for tuition, fees and other educational costs each fall, parents throughout the nation are also choosing to support their child's university through charitable contributions. What compels them to do so? Here are just a few reasons why parents give to their student's college.

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The end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 brought the African National Congress to political power along with a mandate for reform of nearly all the nation's institutions, including the telecommunications sector. But "the reform of telecommunications has largely failed," according to an analysis by Robert Horwitz, professor of communication at the University of California, San Diego, just published in the journal Telecommunications Policy.

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Two months ago, Phoenix residents Marlene Zytcer, 57, and her daughter Aimee, 31, traveled to the UCSD Medical Center for a minimally invasive surgery to lose weight. Called gastric banding, the simple procedure has life-saving potential by helping the mother-daughter team successfully fight their genetic tendency toward diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

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Global warming is a major contributor to the melting of Himalayan and other tropical glaciers. A new analysis by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego offers hope that the region may be able to arrest some of the alarming retreat of such glaciers by reducing its air pollution.

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Are your friends making you fat? Or keeping you slender? According to new research from Harvard and the University of California, San Diego, the short answer on both counts is "yes." The study finds that if one person becomes obese, those closely connected to them have a greater chance of becoming obese themselves. The greatest effect is seen among friends.

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Going away to college is an exciting experience for most freshmen, but it can also be intimidating to leave their homes, family and social networks behind to enter a campus community where they may know only a few people. For these reasons, it is essential for students to get involved in student organizations when they begin college, according to UC San Diego's Student Organization Leadership Office Director Emily Marx.

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Already a global center for neuroscience research, the University of California, San Diego will host top scholars working on theoretical and quantitative approaches to issues in neurobiology during the 13th annual summer meeting of The Sloan-Swartz Centers for Theoretical Neurobiology on the UCSD campus July 28-31.

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Scientists have only recently begun to speculate that what's referred to as "junk" DNA "“ the 96 percent of the human genome that doesn't encode for proteins and previously seemed to have no useful purpose "“ is present in the genome for an important reason. But it wasn't clear what the reason was. Now, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered one important function of so-called junk DNA.

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Distinguished cancer surgeon, Andrew M. Lowy, M.D., has been recruited to the University of California, San Diego's Moores Cancer Center and School of Medicine, further elevating UC San Diego's role as a leading center for cancer diagnosis, treatment, research and education.

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Somewhere in Southern California a large earthquake strikes without warning, and the news media and the public clamor for information about the temblor -- Where was the epicenter? How large was the quake? What areas did it impact? A picture is worth a thousand words "“ or numbers "“ and the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego is helping to provide the answers.

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For Berenice Avila, a senior last year at Chula Vista's Castle Park High School, meeting Megan Bressem, her undergraduate student mentor in the Ambassadors of Academic Achievement (A3) Program at the University of California, San Diego, was a special occasion.

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Underscoring its interdisciplinary interest in technology and the arts, a high-tech research institute at the University of California, San Diego has selected a Pulitzer Prize winner to be its first Composer in Residence.

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The announcement by the National Academy of Engineering that Y.C. Fung would receive the $500,000 Russ Prize for 2007 was particularly poignant for a biotech company CEO who recalled how Fung had helped her two decades ago with a difficult class assignment.

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Global climate change is causing Antarctic ice shelves to shrink and split apart, yielding thousands of free-drifting icebergs in the nearby Weddell Sea. According to a new study in this week's journal Science these floating islands of ice "“ some as large as a dozen miles across "“ are having a major impact on the ecology of the ocean around them, serving as "hotspots" for ocean life, with thriving communities of seabirds above and a web of phytoplankton, krill, and fish below.

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Scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have determined a key mechanism by which the body regulates iron metabolism, a discovery that may provide new approaches for the treatment of anemia.

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Scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have solved the genomic puzzle of an organism discovered in the oceans with potential for producing compounds showing promise in treating diseases such as cancer.

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Breast cancer survivors who eat a healthy diet and exercise moderately can reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by half, regardless of their weight, suggests a new longitudinal study from the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD.

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The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) today announced that recent gifts to the campus have taken its fundraising total over the $1 billion campaign goal set in July 2000, nearly a month ahead of schedule. The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What's Next will conclude on June 30, 2007.

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Low levels of testosterone may increase the long-term risk of death in men over 50 years old, according to researchers with the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

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It could be an artist's depiction of someone's stomach before and after a rather decadent meal. But it is a 3-D cryoelectron microscope reconstruction of the cross-section of a virus, before and after cramming itself full of its own DNA.

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Global warming and the destruction of natural habitats will lead to significant declines and extinctions in the world's 8,750 terrestrial bird species over the next century, according to a study conducted by biologists at the University of California, San Diego and Princeton University.

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Physicists at the University of California, San Diego have proposed a design for a semiconductor computer circuit based on the spin of electrons. They say the device would be more scalable and have greater computational capacity than conventional silicon circuits.

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Effector proteins are the bad guys that help bacterial pathogens do their job of infecting the host by crippling the body's immune system. In essence, they knock down the front door of resistance and disarm the cell's alarm system. Now, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have identified a novel molecular target for an effector protein called YpkA.

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SDSC TeacherTECH, which helps educators bring new technology tools and technology-enabled science concepts into K-12 curriculum, has been presented with a Partner of the Year Award by the San Diego Science Alliance.

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Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will be available for a live, online chat with reporters on Tuesday, May 15.

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Audrey Geisel University Librarianship will be held by Brian E. C. Schottlaender; Gift to help secure materials and expanded resources for use by students, faculty and region.

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Russ Davis, a research oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego whose observational research and invention of scientific instruments is widely credited for transforming oceanography, will receive the 2007 Prince Albert I Gold Medal from the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO).

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Monday, May 7, officially launched Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month. Physicians and staff at UCSD Medical Center say this is the perfect time to remind San Diegans that they can take care of their skin and still have fun in the sun. Brian Jiang, M.D., associate clinical professor in the Division of Dermatology understands why the sun is such a draw.

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Toxicologists at UCSD Medical Center and the San Diego Division of the California Poison Control System recommend taking a few simple precautions to protect your family against summer stings, bites and bugs.

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More than 13,300 friends and family of those devastated by giant tornados last Friday evening in southwestern Kansas checked the "Safe and Well" website, a collaboration between the American Red Cross and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

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In a study that could point to novel therapies to prevent cancer spread, or metastasis, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have targeted a sugar that supports blood vessel growth in the tumor. Their findings will be published in the May 7 on-line issue of Journal of Cell Biology.

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The University of California, San Diego, will receive a $100,000 gift from the Taiwanese American Foundation of San Diego in support of the growth and expansion of the university's Taiwan Studies initiative"”one of only a few such programs in the United States"”on May 7.

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The baby brothers and sisters of autistic children do not seek emotional cues from adults, or respond to them, as often as other toddlers do, suggests new research from the University of California, San Diego.

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An international team of scientists led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and the Department of Energy's (DOE) Joint Genome Institute has peered into the genetic makeup of two species of phytoplankton, the tiny plants key in global photosynthesis and carbon cycling, and come away with surprising results about evolutionary engineering and new ideas about the role that a poorly understood chemical element may play in the world's oceans.

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Students who participate in intramural and competitive club sports at the University of California, San Diego will soon be able to extend their practice and playing time at Warren Field thanks to the installation of new lights, which will be switched on during a dedication ceremony on Thursday, May 3 at 7pm.

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The geometry of semiconducting nanowires makes them uniquely suited for light detection, according to a new UC San Diego study that highlights the possibility of nanowire light detectors with single-photon sensitivity.

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Termites and fungi already know how to digest cellulose, but the human process of producing ethanol from cellulose remains slow and expensive. The central bottleneck is the sluggish rate at which the cellulose enzyme complex breaks down tightly bound cellulose into sugars, which are then fermented into ethanol.

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Scientists using one of the nation's newest and most capable research aircraft are launching a far-reaching field project this month to study plumes of airborne dust and pollutants that originate in Asia and journey to North America.