Free buses available to MLK Day Parade on Jan. 17
The annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade will be held on Jan. 17 in downtown San Diego. The parade, which will last from 10 a.m. to about 1 p.m., will move along Harbor Island Drive.
This will be UCSD’s 17th year of participation in the parade. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Parade Campus Committee is coordinating participation in the community event. Free bus rides will be offered from campus. The buses will depart from Lot 201 between the Sun God and the Faculty Lounge at 8:15 a.m. and return by 1 p.m. Free breakfast will also be offered in the Sun God Lounge starting at 8 a.m.
Participants with their own mode of transportation can meet other UCSD students, faculty and staff at the Parade Assembly Area located at the County Administration Building Parking Lot, 1600 Pacific Coast Highway.
Following the parade, participants also have the opportunity to participate in a service project helping to renovate a homeless shelter. Participants will partner with 50 area high school students and residents to help prepare a new homeless shelter by painting walls, creating a Martin Luther King, Jr. mural, planting shrubs, constructing beds and more. Free buses will be returning to campus after the service project. Participants interested in the after-parade service project should pick up a registration form at A.S. Volunteer Connection office on the second floor of Price Center.
For more information, call (858) 534-0501.
UCSD Mathematician elected to AAAS
Mathematician Ronald Graham has been elected to represent mathematicians on the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Graham will serve a three-year term, beginning February.
Graham holds the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Endowed Chair in Computer and Information Science at Jacobs School of Engineering. He is also chief scientist of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.
Graham joined UCSD in 1999 after a 37-year career with AT&T, which culminated in his holding the post of chief scientist at AT&T Labs. He is currently the treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences and president of the Mathematical Association of America. Among other honors, he has won the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society in 2003.
The AAAS is composed of eight sections: Anthropology, Astronomy, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Geology and Geography, Mathematics, Neuroscience and Physics. Graham’s name was the only one on the ballot for 2003.
Students offered free income tax preparation
Trained volunteers from the Internal Revenue Service and the California Franchise Tax Board will be available to complete federal and state income tax returns for free on Jan. 17.
The volunteers, who will complete forms 1040, 1040 EZ and 1040 with schedule A, will be at Student Center at the intersection of Gilman Drive and Mandeville Lane at 9 a.m.
Tax returns can be completed by e-file or on paper. Paper forms will be available at the site.
The event, sponsored by Student Legal Services and Student Educational Advancement, is open to the public and free of charge.
For more information, call (858) 534-4374 or contact [email protected].
LGBTQIA sponsors Non-Sexist Homecoming Dance
The Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer, Intersex Association will be sponsoring the LGBTQIA Non-Sexist Homecoming Dance at the Stage at Porter’s Pub on Jan. 17.
The dance, which is free and open to the public, will feature a DJ and beverages. The event starts at 9 p.m. For more information, call (858) 534-4297 or e-mail [email protected].
Snow globes on exhibit at Geisel starting Jan. 16
Geisel Library will be hosting an exhibit of snow globes starting Jan. 16. The exhibit will contain snow globes from the past as well as new, original snow globes made specifically for the exhibit.
The opening reception will be held free to the public from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 16. The exhibit, set up on Geisel Library’s lower level, will run until Jan. 31. Each afternoon, a different set of snow globes will be removed from locked cases to let visitors shake them.
