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UCSD
Near You Speakers - 2006
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Stem Cell Research: An Open Conversation
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Dr. Lawrence S. B. Goldstein, ’76
Professor of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine
Director of the Stem Cell Research Program, UC San Diego
 UCSD School of Medicine
Larry Goldstein has been a Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine since 1993. Head the university’s stem cell training program, Goldstein maintains his offices and labs on the top floor of the Leichtag Family Foundation Biomedical Research Building on the UCSD School of Medicine campus, which is leased to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a private philanthropy. As one of 300 Howard Hughes investigators nationwide (there are seven at UCSD), he has the luxury of pursuing stem cell research in a state-of-the-art space that is insulated from federal legal constraints.
Goldstein has played an active role in national science policy, serving on many public science advisory committees and testifying in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate about National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding and stem cell research. Goldstein uses human stem cells in his studies of neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease and Huntington’s disease. Ph.D., University of Washington, Seattle; B.A., University of California, San Diego.
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Insights
into the 9/11 Commission
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Honorable
Timothy J. Roemer, ’79
President, Center for
National Policy
From the floor of the U.S. Congress to the chambers of the 9/11 Commission, Tim Roemer has dedicated his professional career to the strengthening national security and improving education in America. As Congressman from the Third District of Indiana (1991-2003), Roemer was recognized for his successful leadership on legislation that helped improve America's competitiveness by balancing the federal budget, reforming elementary and secondary public education, and improving the affordability of higher education.
After the attacks of September 11th, Roemer used his position on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to support the work of a Joint Congressional Inquiry into the nature of the attacks. Roemer also was the key sponsor of legislation to establish the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, known as "The 9/11 Commission."
Since leaving Congress in 2003, Roemer has continued to work on developing ways to strengthen national security as President of the Center for National Policy. Ph.D. and M.A., University of Notre Dame; B.A., University of California, San Diego.
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Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned
About Global Warming
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Richard T. Carson Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics, UCSD
Department of Economics
Richard Carson, Professor and Chair of the Department of
Economics at the University of California, San Diego since
1985, is an expert in environmental
and natural resource economics. He has worked extensively on issues related
to air pollution, energy, growth management, natural disasters, non-market
valuation and water. Currently, Carson is chair of the economics department
at UCSD, a senior fellow at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and president
of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. He earlier
served as research director for international environmental
policy at the UC Institute
on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and has been an economics consultant
to a number of local, state, federal agencies and international organizations.
Ph.D. and M.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., George Washington
University; B.A., Mississippi State University.
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W. Kendall Melville, Ph.D.
Professor of Oceanography, UCSD's Scripps Institution
of Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Ken Melville is a Professor of Oceanography at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, a part of the University
of California, San Diego. A Scripps faculty member
for over 27 years, his research interests include air-sea interaction, nonlinear
surface and internal waves, surface wave breaking, and acoustic and microwave
remote sensing. He leads the Air-Sea Interaction Lab at Scripps, and his
group’s
primary areas of research are air-sea interaction, surface wave dynamics,
air-sea fluxes, upper ocean turbulence, Langmuir circulations,
and the remote sensing
of ocean surface phenomena using electromagnetic and acoustic techniques.
Ph.D., University of Southampton, England; M.Eng.Sc.,
B.Sc., B.E., University of Sydney,
Australia.
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Richard
C.J. Somerville, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor of Meteorology, UCSD's Scripps
Institution of Oceanography
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Richard Somerville is a Distinguished
Professor of Meteorology in the Climate
Research Division and
the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at UCSD’s
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. A Scripps faculty member since 1979,
Somerville is an expert on global climate change,
specializing in computer modeling of
the
climate system. His research interests specifically include theoretical
dynamical meteorology, climate modeling, numerical
weather prediction, and computational
geophysical fluid dynamics, with work focusing on development of large-scale
mathematical models of atmospheric circulation and air-sea interactions,
along with theoretical studies of climate predictability.
In addition to his work
as a researcher, Somerville is active in science education and outreach,
participating extensively in teacher professional
development. He has also presented testimony
before the U.S. Congress, briefed U.N. climate change negotiators, and
advised federal agencies on education and outreach.
Ph.D., New York University; B.S.,
Pennsylvania State University.
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Calit2 - A UC Experiment for Living in the Future
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Larry Smarr, Ph.D.
Professor of Computer Science and Information Technologies, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering, and Director
of the UCSD California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
(Calit2), a partnership of UCSD and UC Irvine
Calit2
Larry Smarr, a University
of California, San Diego Professor of Computer
Science and Information Technologies
as well as Director of the
California Institute
for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), has been a pioneer
in developing new concepts in information infrastructure that we take for
granted today. A UCSD faculty member since 2000 and the first
holder of the Harry E.
Gruber Chair in Computer Science and Information Technology at the Jacobs
School of Engineering, Smarr created and led the Illinois peer center to the San Diego Supercomputer Center
and was an early advocate for the first national NSFnet backbone, which evolved
into today’s Internet. The first widely-used Web browser – NCSA
Mosaic, the predecessor of Netscape Navigator – originated in his lab.
At Calit2, Smarr has organized an interdisciplinary approach to the institute's
goal of extending the reach of the current information infrastructure throughout
the physical world to enable anytime/anywhere access. His views have been
quoted in prestigious publications such as Science, Nature, the New York Times,
the
Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, Business Week and he gives frequent
keynote addresses at professional conferences and to popular audiences. Ph.D.,
University of Texas, Austin; M.S. Stanford University; M.S., B.A., University
of Missouri.
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Childhood Autism: Fact, Fiction and Why It Is Important to Know the Difference
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Laura
Schreibman, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor in the Psychology Department
and Director of the Autism Research Program, UCSD
Department
of Psychology
One of the country’s leading experts in behavioral
treatments and approaches for autism, Laura Schreibman is a respected researcher
in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and a licensed psychologist.
She is one of the developers of Pivotal Response Training,
a naturalistic intervention that has been shown to be
effective for increasing communication, play, imitation,
joint attention and social skills in children with this debilitating
disorder. A professor at the University
of California, San Diego since 1984, Schreibman is also director of the UCSD
Autism Research Program, which is funded by the National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and focused on the experimental
analysis and treatment of autism. She is author of The Science
and Fiction of Autism, a book published in November 2005
that provides information and arguments to deal with the
onslaught of good, bad, deficient and irrelevant ideas about
this mysterious disease. Schreibman, with more than 30 years
of clinical experience, has also published in many journals,
been a member of several editorial boards for journals, served
as the Associate Chancellor at UCSD and Chair of her department,
written and received numerous grants, and is a prolific speaker
on autism. Ph.D. and M.A., University of California, Los Angeles.
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UCSD Alumni Association Overview
The UCSD Alumni Association was formed in 1964 by a small group of early graduates, and has grown today to represent over 100,000 alumni. Our mission is to foster a lifelong, mutually beneficial relationship of alumni and students with UCSD. The Association works to provide alumni with continued access to the resources of the University, communicate UCSD news and happenings, and facilitate a network for alumni and student interaction. MORE
The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What's
Next
Since its founding nearly 50 years ago, the University of California, San Diego has rapidly achieved the status as one of the top institutions in the nation for higher education and research. In order to keep UCSD at the forefront of academic and research excellence, the university launched The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What's Next in July 2000. Donations to the comprehensive $1 billion fundraising campaign help support students and faculty, expand academic programs, fund research endeavors and strengthen innovative funds to meet the highest priority needs. The Campaign for UCSD has generated over $800 million to date, but there is nearly $200 million to raise before the campaign concludes in June 2007. The campaign provides a way for alumni, parents and friends to make
a lasting contribution to the university and be an integral part of UCSD's next
chapter of growth. MORE
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