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UC San Diego Icon Walter Munk to Receive Roger Revelle Medal

World-renowned oceanographer Walter Munk is already an icon at the University of California, San Diego. Now, he is the recipient of an award named for another iconic campus leader—the “father” of UC San Diego, Roger Revelle.

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Triton 5K Brings Together UC San Diego Community at Alumni Weekend

They came. They ran. They celebrated. More than 2,500 alumni, faculty, staff, students and community members returned to UC San Diego for the Triton 5K. The university’s race was part of the annual Alumni Weekend, June 6 through 9, hosted by UCSD Alumni.

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Engineering Students Gear Up to Compete in National UAV Challenge

Their mission: make an unmanned autonomous vehicle, better known as a UAV, take off, fly over specific markers, find five to 11 targets and then land—all in half an hour. That is the challenge that a team of 25 students at UC San Diego is getting ready to tackle next month.

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Filmmaker James Cameron Honored on Campus for Contributions to Understanding Deep Ocean

James Cameron and his inner child visited UC San Diego Friday. The acclaimed director of “Titanic,” “Avatar,” and the “Terminator” films was at Mandeville Auditorium to receive the 2013 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. Mostly Cameron won it for his historic March 2012 dive to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world ocean, a feat he likes to say shows what people can accomplish “with no adult supervision.”

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