UCSD enrollment figures grew 7 percent from last year, as an additional 1,485 students enrolled in classes to bring the total to 22,035.
Some 18,075 of these students are undergraduates.
The freshman class holds 4,203 members, from an applicant pool of over 38,000. Over 1,400 transfer students have enrolled for fall.
The freshman class has an average high school grade point average of 3.95 and S.A.T. score of 1263.
Both new and continuing construction projects are underway on campus to accommodate the growth in enrollment. The Eleanor Roosevelt College campus, the largest of all the projects, cost $110.4 million and is slated for completion in the summer of 2003. The Powell-Focht bioengineering building on the Warren college campus is scheduled for completion in September 2002. The Natural Sciences building in Revelle will be done in November 2002 and the Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Center on the medical school campus will be completed this November.
UCSD ranked 7th in ‘U.S. News and World Report’ survey
The America’s Best Colleges survey, published annually by “”U.S. News and World Report”” ranked UCSD as the seventh best public university in the nation.
The guide rated the top 50 national universities and the top 50 public universities from a pool of 1,400 four-year schools.
UC Berkeley was ranked first among public universities. The University of Virginia, the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, UCLA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the College of William and Mary also outranked UCSD.
UCSD outranked older, more established institutions such as the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Texas at Austin.
UCSD ranked 31st among all universities, public and private. Princeton University topped the list, with Harvard in second and Yale rounding out the top three.
Coleman named UC vice provost for research
Lawrence B. Coleman of UC Davis, a former chair of the Academic Council of the UC system, was named vice provost for research at the office of the UC President in early August.
The 53-year-old physicist has served as interim vice provost for research since Jan. 1.
Coleman’s responsibilities will include the coordination of research matters among the Office of the President, the 10 campuses and the three national laboratories, the development of the UC position on research policy and to provide leadership in identifying and developing strategic responses to major research opportunities.
Coleman, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania, has completed research at UC Davis, focusing on the use of infrared and far infrared spectroscopy to investigate the effects of disorder on the properties of solids. He taught undergraduate classes in solid state physics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics.
UCSD neurosurgeon completes SD’s first gamma knife surgery
John Alksne, M.D., performed San Diego’s first gamma knife surgeries on Katrina Corbell and Gloria Corral in August.
The gamma knife surgery is a treatment for epilepsy. The noninvasive procedure is an alternative treatment to brain surgery, using fine beams of radiation instead of a knife.
The gamma knife is a medical instrument that emits 201 fine beams of radiation that intersect at the location of the brain disorder.
This kind of surgery does not remove abnormal cells like regular surgery. Rather, it changes the biochemistry to stop the spontaneous electrical activity that causes seizures.
With this kind of surgery, seizures do not stop completely for nine to 12 months. Instead, they gradually diminish over time.
Corbell is a 23-year-old Clairemont resident, and Corral is a 57-year-old South Bay resident.