Professor of medicine Robert Stuart dies at age 41
Robert Oden Stuart II, an assistant professor of medicine and director of the San Diego VA Chip Core Laboratory, died on Jan. 10 after a prolonged battle with cancer. He was 41.
Stuart grew up in Indianapolis and, in 1985, graduated with honors from Indiana University. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Vanderbilt University before specializing in kidney disease at Harvard University’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he eventually became an instructor.
In 1999, he left Harvard for UCSD, where he helped to spearhead efforts in bioinformatics.
Stuart collaborated with many faculty at UCSD School of Medicine and San Diego Supercomputer Center, as well as conducting his own research with awards from the National Institute of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He developed strategies for analysis of microarray data, which were featured in articles he published in such journals as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, as well as in biotechnology industry journals and newspapers. An entire article in The Economist was devoted to his research.
He is survived by many family members, including his wife, two young daughters, parents and a grandmother.
Colleagues at both Harvard and UCSD intend to establish lectureships in his honor.
Large-scale photo exhibition comes to UCSD
An exhibition of fourteen large-scale color photographs, “”In Finite Spaces: Photographs by Doug Hall”” will be displayed at the University Art Gallery starting Jan. 22.
Hall will present a lecture on Jan. 30 at 5 p.m. in Mandeville Hall, which will be followed by a reception for the artist from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Hall’s photographs explore the role that the man-made environment plays in constructing experiences, featuring images of public and interior spaces from Brazil, Vietnam, Italy, Japan and the United States.
Hall, who is based in San Francisco, is renowned as one of the nation’s leading practicioners of large-scale color photography.
Hall, before turning to photography a decade ago, was best known for creating video installations. He now travels the world looking at industrial and post-industrial societies.
Hall is a professor at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he has been teaching since 1981. His work is represented in galleries from San Francisco to New York and as far overseas Berlin.
The exhibition will run through Mar. 20. For more information, call (858) 534-2107.
Academic Senate solicits teaching award nominations
The Academic Senate Committee on Distinguished Teaching is soliciting nominations for the 2004 Distinguished Teaching Awards. The committee, which is comprised of faculty and student representatives, will award a select number of faculty and graduate students who have made contributions to UCSD as distinguished teachers.
The committee will consider nominations from students and department faculty, and will recommend candidates to the Representative Assembly.
Nominations should include the nominee’s name, department or program, the course or courses for which he or she is being nominated, and a detailed letter explained the quality of the nominee’s teaching effectiveness.
Award recipients will be honored at a reception in May.
The deadline for submission of nominations is Feb. 27. Additional details concerning the nomination process should be obtained from the chair or director of the nominee’s department or program.
Library Walk now to be reserved further in advance
A new policy requires all student organizations to make a reservation for information table use on Library Walk within two business days of the proposed reservation or at least 24 hours in advance.
This policy was passed by the University Centers Advisory Board on Jan. 12.
Policy procedures are currently being distributed to organizations and will be implemented accordingly.
The newly drafted policy of Library Walk use is consistent with past policy, and intended for clarification of Library Walk standards.
The new policy allows University Centers to advise Library Walk to use proposals for safety precautions.
Past conflicts with information table booths on Library Walk prompted the new policy when oversized posters partially blocked the entrance of Geisel Library, creating a potential hindrance of the fire lane, UCAB officials said.
