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| Nobel Laureate opens Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series |
 2005 – 06 Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series
Presenting Richard R. Schrock '67
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry (2005)
"Basic Chemical Research and How it Led to a Nobel Prize"
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
6:00 p.m.
University Theatre
University of California, Riverside
Open to the Public
Contact Office of Event Management & Protocol for more information: (951) 827-3144 |
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| Homecoming 2006 |
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Homecoming 2006
January 19-21, 2006 |
Reconnect, Reunite and Reminisce. Don’t miss any the fun at this year’s Homecoming. See old friends and see how the campus has grown. There is something for everyone at Homecoming 2006!
Register before January 6! |
For more information on Homecoming activities visit www.homecoming.ucr.edu |
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| Alumni & Visitors Center: Contractors Wanted! |
Artists' rendering of Alumni & Visitors Center entryway
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Sealed bids for a Lump Sum and Alternates Contract are now being accepted for this important campus project:
UCR Alumni & Visitors Center
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Riverside Campus
Bidding documents are available on Monday, January 9th, 2006:
Office of Design & Construction
3615A Canyon Crest Drive
Riverside, CA 92507
(951) 827-4201
Click here for details (requires PDF reader) |
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Membership |
Annual membership without the hassle of having to renew every year! |
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Start the New Year out right!
Sign up for annual membership using your credit/debit card and don’t worry about renewing next year.
We’ll take care of it for you!
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| Seminar: Major Issues in Modern Medicine |
UC Riverside’s Health Sciences Initiative is pleased to sponsor two seminar series on major issues in modern medicine. National leaders in health and medical education will share their expertise and insights on the “Frontiers of Biomedical Research” and “The Design of New Medical Schools in the 21st Century” as UCR moves closer to establishing a Health Sciences Research Institute and a four-year medical school. All presentations are free and open to the public, with seating available on a first-come basis.
Monday, January 9, 2006
4:00 p.m.
Engineering 2, Rooms 205-206
“Transcriptional Control of Energy Homeostasis”
Bruce Spiegelman, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University Medical School |
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
3:30 p.m.
Engineering 2, Room 206
“Sex, Stress and the Brain: From Serendipity to clinical relevance”
Bruce McEwen, Ph.D.
Alfred E. Mirsky Professor and Head of the Harold and Milliken Hatch Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University |
Monday, January 23, 2006
4:30 p.m.
University Extension Center, Conference Room E
"Does California need another medical school? If so, what kind?"
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D.
Former President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, UC San Francisco |
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UCR Development News |
The UCR Fund is ringing in the New Year with thanks to our Alumni donors! |
Contribute to Excellence! Join Chancellor’s Associates Today! |
With thanks to all our alumni, parents and friends who have supported the university with a gift to the UCR Fund, we are pleased to ring in the New Year with just over $203,560 raised towards our goal of $500,000.
Make your gift today referencing source code 0524 or join the new 12x12 club (Just $12 a month for 12 months) by enrolling in UCR’s new Monthly Giving Program and have your gift deducted directly from your checking or credit card account.
If you have made your gift for the 2005-2006 fiscal year, thank you for your support! |
The Chancellor’s Associates, the premier giving club at UCR, are the backbone of our campus and serve as emissaries committed to making UCR their top philanthropic priority. Your gifts to Chancellor’s Associates will help provide:
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continuity of excellence in cutting-edge, world-impacting research |
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critically needed scholarship and fellowship support for our deserving students |
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the resources to attract world-class faculty |
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funds to support capital expansion due to projected growth |
To become a member, please go to www.annualgiving.ucr.edu and click on Give Now! For more information about the Chancellor's Associates program, please contact Wanda Scruggs, Office of Development, at (951) 827-7172 or go to www.chancellorsassociates.ucr.edu.
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| Travel |
Travel the Globe and Expand Your Horizons |
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Passage of Lewis & Clark
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Sept. 1-9, 2006
| Sail aboard the luxurious Queen of the West, a faithful recreation of a 19th-centry sternwheel riverboat, to retrace the last stretch of Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery expedition to the Pacific Ocean. You’ll cruise in luxury and leisure through the scenic grandeur of Oregon and Washington on three legendary rivers: the Willamette, Columbia and Snake. Explore landmark sites and natural sites with the insights of an onboard historian and local experts.
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| Contact the UCR Alumni Association at ucralum@ucr.edu or 951-UCR-ALUM to request a detailed brochure or to be placed on the Association’s travel list. Tour participants must be members of the UCR Alumni Association. Each member may bring a spouse and children under 18 or one guest.
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Fiat Lux |
The wordsmiths from UCR's Creative Writing Department are winning major awards for their novels, poems and plays; spiders are creepy & crawly to some, but to Professor of Biology Cheryl Hayashi they represent Space Age products based on spider silk; and some students like UCR so much that they decide it's a perfect place to pursue a career.
These are just a few of the stories in the latest issue of Fiat Lux. Read more at www.fiatlux.ucr.edu |
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Mayan "Sistine Chapel"- Archaeologists at an ancient Maya ceremonial site in Guatemala have uncovered the final intact wall of a large Maya mural dating from 100 B.C. UC Riverside Archaeologist Part of Team... 
