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What's special about Preuss can be seen in a visit to a ninth-grade geometry class. While teacher Jerry Lederman leads the class from the blackboard, Rachel Ismerio, a 20-year-old psychology major at UCSD, serves as tutor, floating from desk to desk to make sure no one falls behind. And if plotting axis points begins to get dry, the class can turn into a 3-D graphics seminar, with the students using the UCSD supercomputers to create complex designs. Eliana Rucobo, 14, a precocious child of Mexican immigrants, says, "When I first came here, I had doubts...
...idea for Preuss came in the wake of California's 1998 ban on affirmative action, which caused UCSD's minority enrollment to drop a quarter. The university looked to recruit minority students through the traditional methods--faculty visits, fancy websites and brochures--but had little faith that these efforts would yield much...
...UCSD started from scratch, donating land worth $8 million and securing $13 million in private donations to build Preuss and prepare its prospective minority students. The state and local school district agreed to pay staff salaries and operating expenses. The school opened in fall 1999 with 150 sixth- through eighth-graders (out of 500 who applied), all of whom are poor enough to qualify for subsidized lunches--and are set to be the first in their families to graduate from four-year colleges. By 2004, Preuss will serve 700 students in grades six through...
...rapid detox through popular television shows has absolutely nothing to do with promoting medical business ideas that might be financially profitable to certain firms. This story was presented on E.R. because it was able to illuminate an important issue in medicine today. MARK GREENBERG, M.D. Director, Pediatric Pain Service UCSD Medical Center San Diego...
...smallest upper-division undergraduate course at UCSD has 150 people," Cornelius says. "Here, my smallest is a junior seminar, which has about 10 people including auditors. And there are 14 in my so-called lecture class...