UC San Diego Again Named ‘Best Value’ College
The University of California, San Diego is ranked among the nation’s top 50 “Best Value” public colleges for 2010 by The Princeton Review, one of America’s most widely known education service companies. The publication listed its annual ranking of the 50 private and 50 public “best value colleges” today. More

Preuss School Teacher Kelly Kovacic Named
One of Four 2010 National Teacher of the Year Finalist
UC San Diego alumna has long history of service with motivated, low-income students
Kelly Kovacic, social studies department chair at UC San Diego’s Preuss School and a UCSD alumna, has been named one of four finalists for the prestigious National Teacher of the Year competition. More

Governor's Budget Proposal Partially Restores Funding to UC
In a budget full of bad news for state workers, health and social services and prisons, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stuck to his promise to hold the line on higher education cuts, unveiling a spending plan on Friday tht includes $371 million in additional money for UC plus funding for Cal Grants. More

Biologists Develop Efficient Genetic
Modification of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
Biologists have developed an efficient way to genetically modify human embryonic stem cells. Their approach, which uses bacterial artificial chromosomes to swap in defective copies of genes, will make possible the rapid development of stem cell lines that can both serve as models for human genetic diseases and as testbeds on which to screen potential treatments. More

UC San Diego Ranked ‘Best Value’ Public University in California
The University of California, San Diego is ranked the ‘best value’ in California, according to the list of 100 best values in public colleges and universities that will appear in the February 2010 issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine. More

NFL Hall of Famer and UC San Diego
Urologist Offer Playbook for Men's Health
One in six American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Nearly 30,000 men in the US die from this cancer ever year. African American men have nearly twice the risk of dying from prostate cancer as all other ethnicities. Michael Haynes, NFL Hall of Famer, points to a lack of education as the reason why many men avoid screening, risking a cancer diagnosis late in the game. As a spokesperson for the American Urological Association, Haynes and his surgeon, Christopher Kane, MD, chief of urology at UC San Diego Medical Center, offer a playbook of four strategies for men’s urologic health. More

Researchers Develop “Nano Cocktail” to Target and Kill Tumors
A team of researchers in California and Massachusetts has developed a “cocktail” of different nanometer-sized particles that work in concert within the bloodstream to locate, adhere to and kill cancerous tumors. More

The Measure of Woman?
Researchers Discover New ‘Golden Ratios’ for Female Facial Beauty
Beauty is not only in the eye of the beholder but also in the relationship of the eyes and mouth of the beholden. The distance between a woman’s eyes and the distance between her eyes and her mouth are key factors in determining how attractive she is to others, according to new psychology research from the University of California, San Diego and the University of Toronto. More

Five UC San Diego Professors Named 2009 AAAS Fellows
Five professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2009 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s largest scientific organization. Don W. Cleveland, Steve A. Kay, Kimberly Prather, Michael G. Rosenfeld and Robert Schmidt were among 531 individuals this year selected by colleagues in their disciplines to be honored by the association for “efforts toward advancing science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.” More

Scientists Uncover Protective Mechanism Against Liver Cancer
A team of scientists from the UC San Diego School of Medicine and Osaka University in Japan have identified a protein switch that helps prevent liver damage, including inflammation, fibrosis and cancer. The findings suggest that a better understanding of how the protein, TAK1, works could lead to new insights into the development of liver disease and cancer. More

UC San Diego Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume
Computer Games and TV Account for Bulk of Information Consumed in 2008
U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the “How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers,” released today by the University of California, San Diego.  One zettabyte is 1,000,000,000 trillion bytes, and total bytes consumed last year were the equivalent of the information in thick paperback novels stacked seven feet high over the entire United States, including Alaska. More

Scripps Scientists to Participate in Historic
Copenhagen Climate Change Summit
Researchers hope to inform negotiators with latest evidence on ocean acidification, black carbon, verification challenge among other topics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego will send a delegation of scientists and students to Copenhagen for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP-15), which begins Dec. 7. More

Campus Celebrates Opening of Sustainability Resource Center
Students at one of the nation’s greenest universities won’t have to go far to get involved in the green revolution. On Nov. 20 UC San Diego will unveil the Sustainability Resource Center, a one-stop-sustainability-shop where students can learn about green jobs and courses on sustainability-related topics, how to conserve energy and water or find eco-friendly products. More