The UCSD Alumni Association is accepting nominations for the 32nd Annual Awards for Excellence program. Nominations will be accepted through Dec. 11.
The awards will be presented on June 5 as part of the Alumni Weekend festivities. Proceeds from the Awards for Excellence benefit the UCSD Alumni Association's endowed scholarship programs. Go to www.alumni.ucsd.edu/awards/.
SuperLoop Transit Project runs daily
The SuperLoop Transit Project provides new bi-directional service to many major destinations in University City and UCSD.
Passengers on Routes 201 and 202 ride on the region's first gasoline-electric hybrid public buses. SuperLoop also connects to other Metropolitan Transit System and North County Transit District services at the Westfield UTC Transit Center.
The service operates seven days a week, with service every 10 minutes during peak hours and every 15 minutes during nonpeak hours.
Go to www.511sd.com.
Students help get funds
Engineering students at UCSD played a critical role in helping the university and the San Diego region secure a total of $154 million in federal bonds for solar installation projects.
CleanTECH San Diego, a nonprofit organization formed to accelerate San Diego as a world leader in the clean technology economy, asked the students to help streamline the application process for the national Clean Renewable Energy Bonds (CREBs) program. It is part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The bond allocations for the San Diego region went to a total of 192 projects submitted by San Diego municipalities, school districts, universities and a water district.
UCSD will receive $15 million for 15 renewable energy projects, while the San Diego Unified School District received allocations totaling $74 million for 111 projects, which is the largest number of projects to receive allocations for a single public agency in the nation.
The analytical tool created by four mechanical engineering students at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering - Karl Olney, Michael Gollner, Kevin Peng and Ihab Khayal - enabled the agencies to perform engineering and economic analyses of cost, energy output and payback time of solar PV arrays, information considered crucial to the success of the proposals during the federal review process.
Fellowships available
The California Sea Grant College Program is seeking applications for the 2010 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)-Sea Grant Joint Graduate Fellowship Programs in Population Dynamics and Marine Resource Economics. The award for each fellowship will be in the form of a grant or cooperative agreement of $38,500 per year.
The Graduate Fellowship Program awards at least two new Ph.D. fellowships each year to students who are interested in careers related to the population dynamics of living marine resources and the development and implementation of quantitative methods for assessing their status. Fellows will work on thesis problems of public interest and relevance to NMFS under the guidance of NMFS mentors at participating NMFS Science Centers and Laboratories.
Applications are due at 5 p.m. Jan. 12. For more information, go to www.csgc.ucsd.edu/EDUCATION/SeaGrantFellows.html.
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