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UCSD Professor Witnesses Aftermath of Contested Elections in Iran
Every night for the past month, UCSD professor Babak Rahimi had stayed awake in his Tehran apartment, listening as residents of the Iranian capital cried out their frustration on the city’s rooftops. They shouted “Down with the dictator” and “God is great.” They were protesting the results of the June 12 election that officially gave President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad another term in office. Rahimi decided that the rest of the world needed to hear his neighbors’ voices too. More


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Megan McArthur

UCSD Alumna Looks Back on Her Journey into Space
Flying 350 miles above the Earth inside the space shuttle Atlantis, UC San Diego alumna Megan McArthur would often look down from the flight deck at the world’s oceans and the thin layer of atmosphere that protects our planet. The view brought back memories of everything she had learned as a graduate student at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More

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Renowned Geophysicist George G. Shor, Jr. Dies



Meet UCSD's Award Winning Faculty

Each year, prestigious awards for excellence in teaching, research and community service are presented to five outstanding UC San Diego faculty members by the UCSD Chancellor’s Associates. The recipients of the 2009 Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence are:

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Nigel Crawford Yen Espiritu Nancy Cartwright Larry Squire Gerry Mackie
Nigel Crawford
Yen Espiritu
Nancy Cartwright
Larry Squire
Gerry Mackie
Cell and Developmental Biology Ethnic Studies Philosophy Psychiatry, Neuroscience and Psychology Political Science

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