Students who transfer to UCSD through the UniversityLink program will be eligible for one of 30 $1,500 scholarships starting next year.
At $249,600, the scholarship fund is the largest of its kind for transfer students in the history of UCSD.
Sheldon and Suan Engelhorn of Cardiff by the Sea, Calif., established the Engelhorn Scholarship Fund to encourage high-school students to participate in UniversityLink as a way to enter UCSD.
The Engelhorns said they seek to assist UniversityLink students because of their diverse backgrounds and commitment to higher education.
The UniversityLink program guarantees high school seniors who attend community college admittance to UCSD if they maintain a 2.8 GPA, complete the 60 necessary units and receive continued academic and college counseling. Currently, the program is established between nine community colleges and UCSD.
For more information call the UCSD department of student affairs at (858)822-1536.
State, local government officials to address UCSD community
Four elected government officials will be speaking on policy proposals and legislative issues they are working on and how they will effect UCSD on Friday, Feb. 22 at 9:30 a.m. at the Institute of the Americas.
The Regional Awareness Forum will include State Senator Dede Alpert, State Assemblywoman Christine Kehoe, San Diego City Councilman Scott Peters and San Diego City Attorney Casey Gwinn.
There will be a question-and-answer session following each speaker’s opening remarks.
UCSD Stroke Center receives high marks
The UCSD Stroke Center has been acknowledged as one of the top university-affiliated medical centers in the nation for treatment of strokes by the University Health System Consortium.
Medical centers were ranked on complication and death rates, length of patient hospitalization, diagnostic tests and health counseling. The study was conducted last year. Forty patients at the UCSD center participated in the study.
UCSD ranked second, following the Medical College of Georgia in a nationwide survey of 33 university-affiliated medical centers.
Patients at UCSD were discharged sooner than those of any other medical centers, and the center receives one of the highest numbers of patients with severe stroke in the nation.
The UCSD Stroke Center is composed of five physicians, four nurses and two administrators. It is open for around-the-clock care because strokes are the third-highest cause of death among adults in the United States.
Researchers simulate attack on Salt Lake City
Because the 2002 Winter Olympics are being held in Salt Lake City, researchers at the University of California’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced they have developed a three-dimensional computer simulation to demonstrate how a release of biological or chemical airborne substances would flow in the city.
Analysis of weather and wind data, topographical maps and buildings were used to portray how the substances would flow throughout the city and outlying areas.
The study took into account changing wind patters and the downtown building environment.
The lab’s National Atmospheric Release Advisory Center conducted the research, which was finished prior to the start of the Olympics.
Los Alamos National Laboratory re-opens to the public
The Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library has reopened to the public since being closed to the public because of the Sept. 11 attacks.
New security measures have been implemented, including upgrades to computer and physical areas. New staff have also been hired to oversee the implementation of the more rigid guidelines and security.
Technical reports in both paper and electronic form will remain off limits to visitors. However, visitors will still be allowed to access electronic databases and journals.
Visitors will also be required to bring identification and sign in and out as part of the increased security.
The lab is operated by the University of California.
