La Jolla Village News, October 20th, 2017

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LA JOLLA SHORES NOW FOLLOWS THE WALTER MUNK WAY

Stefan Savage named MacArthur Fellow BY BLAKE BUNCH AND IOANA PATRINGENARU Stefan Savage, a renowned cybersecurity expert and professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego, has been awarded a fellowship by the MacArthur Foundation. Perhaps better known as the MacArthur “genius” award, the prestigious no-stringsattached five-year fellowship awards a total of $625,000 to each recipient. The award recognizes individuals whose work has demonstrated exceptional creativity; promise for important future advances based on a track record of significant accomplishments,

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Village Merchants look into ‘branding’ BY DAVE SCHWAB

Mary and Walter Munk at the Oct. 18 dedication of the La Jolla Shores Boardwalk.

BY DAVE SCHWAB On Oct. 18, a day before his centennial birthday, La Jolla Shores boardwalk was renamed Walter Munk Way honoring the esteemed scientist. Walter Heinrich Munk was born on Oct. 19, 1917. He is a physical oceanographer and professor of geophysics emeritus at

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. He is one of the world's foremost authorities on winds, waves and other projects. Munk's distinguished list of accomplishments includes: Being the first person to show why one side of the moon always faces the Earth; pioneering research on the

relationship between winds and ocean circulation; investigating irregularities in the Earth's rotation and their impacts on the planet; description of ocean wave behavior while investigating ocean tides; and furthering the study of global warming via

In October, La Jolla Village Merchants Association reviewed the group's new and improved website and discussed homelessness as well as the frighteningly successful annual Pillage the Village Halloween celebration. Of the new website, LJVMA president James Niebling, said: “It's very dynamic, and there's a great opportunity to have tremendously large photographs and videos on it that really enhance the merchants' listings. Social media continues to make great progress, and we want to see that continue.”

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PHOTO BY BLAKE BUNCH

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