Continuing Excellence: UC San Diego Medical Center Among Nation?s Best
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New Drugs Faster from Natural Compounds: a UC San Diego Breakthrough
Researchers have invented computational tools to decode and rapidly determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are new?or if these pharmaceutically promising compounds have already been described and are therefore not patentable. This University of California, San Diego advance will finally enable scientists to rapidly characterize ring-shaped nonribosomal peptides (NRPs) More
Leading Pathogen in Newborns Can Suppress Immune Cell Function
Group B Streptococcus (GBS), a bacterial pathogen that causes sepsis and meningitis in newborn infants, is able to shut down immune cell function in order to promote its own survival, according to researchers. More
The Warren College staff congratulate the Class of 2009. If you have any questions related to commencement, please visit our commencement page by clicking here.
We have a limited supply of programs available for graduates who were not able to attend the ceremony, or graduates who attended but would like another copy of the program. Please stop by the Warren administrative offices to pick up a program or mail a self addressed stamped envelope to Warren College, 9500 Gilman Dr #0422, La Jolla, CA 92093-0422. Email waprovost@ucsd.edu for more information.
An electronic version of the program can be downloaded by clicking here.
Kenneth (double major in Third World Studies and Microbiology) studied in a full-immersion (direct enrollment) fall semester program at the University of Ghana in Accra where he investigated how the time-lag between onset of malarial fever and the point a decision is made to take a child to a health facility is affected by a Ghanaian familys income. His conclusions highlight how poverty negatively impacts the medical treatment as well as the prevention of malaria, an illness that contributes to 20,000 annual childhood deaths in Ghana.
He has also been nominated for the Forum on Education Abroad Undergrad Research awards, which is the national award for undergrad research completed abroad.
The winners of the 2009 Warren Writing Literary Contest were announced at the Warren College Student Leader and Scholar Ceremony on Friday, May 29. The winners and entries of the nine finalists are published online. Thank you to all who participated, and congratulations to our winners:
1st Place Award: Justine Levan, Knowing
Two Honorable Mention Awards: Blake I. Cole, Wikipedia, Inc. and John Pham, An Investigation with Regards to the Relationship Between Effort & Grade Received in CHEM6BL
Learn about financial aid available to veterans and their families. Click Veterans Benefits for more information.
Click here to read this excellent editorial from the LA Times about our namesake. It may provide you with a renewed connection to the principles upon which Warren College was founded.
Warren Writing 10A and 10B portfolios from Summer 2007 to Winter 2009 can be picked up at the Warren Writing Program Office. E-mail warrenwritingprogram@ucsd.edu with your full name and quarter you took the course to claim yours.
August 3 First day of Summer Session 2
September 17-18 Freshman Student Orientation
September 21 Transfer Student Orientation
