Read about events and happenings at Sixth College during Winter Quarter 2013.

• Mobilizing Scientists on Climate Change - Naomi Oreskes
• Sending Baseballs and Gloves to Soldiers - Vance Albitz
• Poked to Vote: Social Media and Voter Participation - James Fowler
• CCAA Defensive Player of the Year - Ellen Wilson, '13
• A Scholar Abroad - Pamela Nwakanma, '14
• UCSD Swimmers Participate in Olympic Trial - Dane Stassi, '14
• UCSD a 'best value' school
• Schick does Nielsen - Steven Schick
• Sixers help sweep PCSC titles - Dane Stassi, '14; Dari Watkins, '15; AJ Zavala, '16; Paul Li, '16; Michael Leung, '16; Rosa Bebi, '16; Colleen Daley, '16
• Diversity Awards Honor Commitment to Community Enrichment - Luis Alvarez
• Sixer on All-Academic Team - Kellie Taylor, '15
• 'King Lear' meets opera and Alzheimer's - Steven Schick 
• UC San Diego among best universities worldwide
• Drive-by Cinema - Angela Kim
• Pen Pals with Farr Elementary - Michele Nguyen & Christie Morishigue
• Student Spotlight - Mary Hill
• Smartphone Sensors Record Timely, Accurate Air Quality - William Griswold
• Sixth Professor wins Faculty Excellence Award - Anna Joy Springer
• UCSD Scholars to ‘End of Men’ Folks: You’ve Gone Way Too Far, Baby (+1, 2, 3) - Mary Blair-Loy
• Mikumentary - Tara Knight

Spring 2013

• Researchers develop nanofoam that is more resistant to impact (+1, 2, 3) - Yu Qiao
• Understanding Rhetoric: A Graphic Guide to Writing - Liz Losh
• UCSD Swimmer named Star of the Month by SD Hall of Champions - Dane Stassi, '14
• Growing Population of Muslims calling Tijuana Home - Brooke Binkowski
• Video game teaches programming - William Griswold
• Lightning Talks at Research Expo - Christian Metallo, Andrea Tao, and Gilberto Mosqueda
• Young Investigator Award - Zhaowei Liu
• Boston was 'lone wolf' terrorism - Eli Berman
• Steven Schick makes Vareèse sing - Steven Schick
• 'Cuatro Corridos' is a disturbing look at sex trafficking (+1, 2, 3) - Steven Schick
• Sci-fi greats tackle imagination - Kim Stanley Robinson
• UCSD Takes Sixth at NCAA Championship - Julia Kirkland ('16)
• Survey Shows Majority Of Experts Agree Humans Are Cause Of Climate Change - Naomi Oreskes
• Can a pulsating watch lower your stress? - Ramesh Rao
• Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (+1) - Sheldon Brown
• Hellman Faculty Fellow and Searle Scholar (+1) - Christian Metallo
• Distinguished Faculty Award - Richard Ord
• Audacious Speculations: Celebrating CAT 3
• Shape-Shifting Nanoparticles Flip from Sphere to Net in Response to Tumor Signal - Nathan Gianneschi
• Get Buzzed When You're Blissed Out - Ramesh Rao
• Coming Soon - A Breakout Year for Black Films - 2013 Commencement Speaker Sev Ohanian, '08
• Academics Applaud 10 Distinguished Campus Teachers - Michael Trigilio, Luz Chung, Richard Ord, Keith McCleary
• Communication with a Mission - Michael Cole
• ArtPower! celebrates 10 years
• Outstanding Sixers Class of 2013 - Soda Pants - Mike Sierks, '13 and Grady Kestler, '13

Summer 2013

• UCSD students in La Jolla get futuristic for senior thesis projects - Brett Stalbaum
• Video: Robot Searches Burning Buildings - Thomas Bewley
• Faculty Invited to Exclusive Symposium for ‘Creative Young Engineers’ - Gert Lanckriet
• Is the joke on us? App targeting “dangerous gun owners” is social experiment, creator admits - Brett Stalbaum
• City Hall Fourth Floor Still Empty, but Ideas Start Taking Shape - Fonna Forman
• UCSD Ranks 20th Best University in World
• UCSD tops list of nation’s ‘socially conscious’ colleges
• College ranking puts UCSD first (+1, 2)
• Fruitvale Station (+1, 2) - Sev Ohanian '08
• UCSD stays in top 10 of magazine's rankings
• UCSD Receives Grant to Build New 3D Display Technologies for Visualizing Big Data (+1) - Falko Kuester
• Biologists uncover mechanisms for cholera toxin's deadly effects - Ethan Bier
• iPad app teaches students key skill for success in math, science, engineering - Nate Delson
• UCSD chamber opera bound for Tijuana - Steven Schick
• Academics Applaud 10 Distinguished Campus Teachers - Michael Trigilio, Keith  McCleary