Internet down in Muir, Pepper Canyon
John Muir College residential facilities and Pepper Canyon apartments in Sixth College have been without Internet access since May 23 and are expected to regain access by the morning of May 27, ResNet officials said. Residents at Earl Warren College, Thurgood Marshall College and Revelle College were affected.
A power outage at Thornton Hospital, which houses network services for approximately half of the university’s residential halls, caused temporary failure of cable modems in Muir, Pepper Canyon, Warren apartments, Marshall uppers, Matthews apartments and Revelle residential halls. The outage destroyed a piece of hardware that affected Muir and Pepper Canyon connections.
According to Erik Strahm, network project manager at ResNet, students were left without Internet access because the hardware had to be ordered from a Canadian company and shipment was further delayed due to a Canadian national holiday.
Undergraduates honored for research at UC Day
Two UCSD undergraduates were among 16 students selected from the nine UC campuses to present their research at the annual UC Day in Sacramento, Calif., on May 26.
Honored with their faculty advisers, UCSD students Ben Maggos and Nick Statom displayed posters of their work in front of the governor’s office.
Alumni associations from each UC campus use the event to promote issues related to the university and its contributions to the state.
In addition to student honorees, four lawmakers received recognition for being “Legislators of the Year.” The award honored one politician from each party in each house of the state Legislature.
Students asked to vote on names for new portal
Student representatives working to create a new online portal are asking students to vote on 11 possible names for the new Web site.
Several options allude to physical attributes of the campus, including geographical location and setting. The list includes “Splash” and “Compass,” referring to the university’s proximity to the ocean. “Bluefish” also uses the nautical theme and is based on a character from Dr. Seuss’ book “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.” Other finalists include “Clicks” and “Focus” to suggest the user-friendliness of the Web site and “Slink,” a contracted version of the current StudentLink portal.
Compiled from 5,000 responses to a campuswide survey, the potential names were chosen by a group of graduate and undergraduate representatives with input from a professional consulting firm.
The complete list is available at http://blink.ucsd.edu. Undergraduates can e-mail their preference to [email protected] and graduate students to [email protected] by midnight on May 27.
Student org. to raise money for AIDS awareness
The Student organization Horn of Africa UCSD will host a fundraiser to collect funds for global awareness of AIDS in Africa on May 30.
All of the funds raised by the group will benefit People to People International, a private, nonprofit humanitarian group.
The event, which features a fashion and cultural show, is open to the public and will begin at 2 p.m. in Price Center Ballroom. The admission fee for the show is $5.
Scripps professor receives medal for seismology
The Seismological Society of America has selected J. Freeman Gilbert, a professor emeritus at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to receive its honorary medal “for outstanding contributions in seismology and earthquake engineering.”
Gilbert, who joined Scripps in 1961, is a founding faculty member of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics at Scripps and has served as its associate director for over a decade.
The SSA award honors Gilbert for his study of low-frequency seismology and work with data gathered on earthquakes. He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has won two Guggenheim fellowships to the University of Cambridge for his work.
Gilbert will receive the medal at the society’s meeting in April 2005.