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Preuss Teacher and Students Experiment State Bond Sales Unfreeze Two Construction Projects at UC San Diego Words to the Wise: Experts Define Wisdom San Diego Health Care Leaders Form Partnership, ‘Beacon Community’ Scripps Researchers Outline Strategy to Limit Global Warming Researchers Awarded $2.6 Million to Help Answer Fundamental Questions in Stem Cell Biology UC San Diego Engineers Demonstrate Smallest Laser to Operate at Room Temperature UC San Diego Physicists Locate Long Lost Soviet Reflector on Moon Three Professors at UC San Diego Elected to National Academy of Sciences ‘Arts in Action’ to be Held on Campus May 7 Preventing Young Athletes from Striking Out Too Early UCSD Near You Brings the University’s Best to Alumni Across the Country Four UC San Diego Professors Elected Members of Prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences National Geographic Taps UCSD Students for Technology Solutions People With Depression
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One of Nation’s “Happiest” Colleges UC San Diego Rated One of the Nation’s UC San Diego Ranked Among America’s Best Graduate Schools Seth Lerer Wins 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism Campus Announces Admissions Data for Fall 2010 $14 Million Grant to Fund Construction Biologist Receives 2010 World Ecology Award
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Students at The Preuss School sometimes think biology teacher Anne Artz is really their age—never mind that she became a grandmother a few months ago. They sometimes think she missed out on a career as a stand-up comedian, because of the humor she injects in her classes. But they say they always marvel at her ability to make biology interesting and relevant. 
The March and April sales of State of California bonds have enabled UC San Diego to restart construction of two major projects: the Engineering Building Unit IVbuilding and the expansion of the Rady School of Management campus. Both projects had been frozen since Dece.
Major greenhouse gas-emitting countries agreed in December climate talks held in Copenhagen that substantial action is required to limit the increase of global average temperature to less than 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F). In a paper appearing May 3 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Veerabhadran Ramanathan and Yangyang Xu, climate researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, have identified three avenues by which those countries can avoid reaching the warming threshold, a point beyond which many scientists believe climate change will present unmanageable negative consequences for society.
Imagine packing 4 billion nanolasers on a three-inch semiconductor wafer. That is now nearer to reality, thanks to researchers at the University of California, San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, who have demonstrated a micron-sized laser – less than one-thousandth of a millimeter on each side – that can operate at room temperature. 
A team of physicists led by a professor at UC San Diego has pinpointed the location of a long lost light reflector left on the lunar surface by the Soviet Union nearly 40 years ago that many scientists had unsuccessfully searched for and never expected would be found. 
The National Academy of Sciences today elected two biology professors and an engineering professor at the University of California, San Diego to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers. 
The University of California, San Diego will kick off its spring UCSD Near You tour on April 26 with a visit to Washington, D.C. Hosted by the UCSD Alumni Association, this innovative series brings nationally recognized faculty and alumni speakers to key regions of the country to share innovative discoveries and accomplishments with alumni, parents and friends. Event speakers discuss groundbreaking research and campus news as it relates to current national and global issues. 
A West Coast campus famous for its high-tech research is now becoming known for its global reach in cultural heritage. Faculty and students are already searching for the lost tomb of Genghis Khan and a masterpiece mural by Leonardo da Vinci not seen in 450 years, and now many more students will get the opportunity to blaze new technology trails in the name of global exploration. 
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that women and men eat more chocolate as depressive symptoms increase, suggesting an association between mood and chocolate. Results of this paper, co-authored by Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at UCSD School of Medicine, will appear in the April 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. 
The University of California, San Diego is ranked among the nation’s happiest colleges for its nightlife, number of student organizations, retention rate and sunny days, according to the Daily Beast, a news reporting and commentary website. 
UC San Diego has been rated once again as one of the country’s most environmentally responsible universities, this time by The Princeton Review www.PrincetonReview.com The education services company selected UC San Diego for inclusion in the Princeton Review’s “Guide to 286 Green Colleges,” a resource for college applicants.
The University of California, San Diego’s School of Medicine, Jacobs School of Engineering and graduate programs in the sciences are ranked in the top 20 by America’s Best Graduate Schools, 2011 Edition released today by U.S. News & World Report. The annual, closely watched nationwide ranking of college and university graduate programs recognizes excellence across a broad range of disciplines. This year’s rankings feature graduate school programs in business, education, engineering, law, medicine and the sciences.
“Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter” by University of California, San Diego faculty member Seth Lerer, published by the University of Chicago Press, is the winner of the 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. The $30,000 award – the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism – is administered for the Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Brian Bose visited the University of California, San Diego for the first time on Admit Day April 10 and is thrilled to start his freshman year at the university this fall. “I have fallen in love with the school,” he said. “It’s so big and diverse. I had to choose between here and DePaul University, but now I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. It’s a beautiful campus and I am really excited to take advantage of all the resources that this campus has to offer.” 
The National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded the University of California, San Diego a $14,287,680 grant to build a centralized sanitation facility for biomedical equipment on campus – a more modern, energy-efficient facility expected to save millions of gallons of water and more than half a million kilowatts of electricity per year. 
David Western, an adjunct professor of biology at UC San Diego and the founding executive director of African Conservation Centre in Kenya, will receive the 2010 World Ecology Award.
The award is given annually by the Whitney R. Harris World Ecology Center at the University of Missouri-St. Louis “to an eminent individual who has raised public awareness about global ecology and made significant contributions to environmental protection and biodiversity conservation.”