A Sampling of Clips for April 2, 2010

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UCSD to Build $664 Million Hospital in La Jolla
CNBC, April 1— UC San Diego plans to build a $664 million specialty hospital in La Jolla. The university on Thursday was scheduled to announce plans for Jacobs Medical Center, a 245-bed facility opening in 2016. More

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The College Race Brings Families Together?
The New York Times, April 1 -- A report  by the Brookings Institute, cheekily titled “The Rug Rat Race,” finds that parents began spending dramatically more time with their children, beginning in the 1990s, especially parents with college educations (where the increase in time is twice that of parents without college degrees). The reason, argue Garey Ramey and Valerie Ramey, researchers at UC San Diego is that parents want to get their children into college.
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Cutting to the Bone of Human Origins
Science, April 2 --Over the past 2 years, the Primate Foundation of Arizona has sent UC San Diego 51 of its chimpanzee skeletons.  In conjunction with the Salk Institute for Biological Studies across the street, UCSD is making the collection a centerpiece of its recently launched Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA), which is now doing computed tomography scans of the bones and plans to make the digitized images available on the Internet. More

Hot Mantle May Prop Up the Seafloor
ScienceNOW, April 1 -- The seas may be rising due to climate change, but most of the seafloor is also dropping as part of the natural dynamics of Earth's crust. The question that has dogged scientists for decades, however, is why hasn't the ocean bottom sunk faster? An exhaustive analysis of the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide at least part of the answer—though experts think important questions remain. (Quotes geophysicist Dave Stegman of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Google Earth Helps Track Wildfires
Live Science, April 1 -- The NSF-funded High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN) provides communications and other support for an emergency response aircraft maintained by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire). (Mentions UC San Diego’s San Diego Supercomputer Center) More

UCSD University Librarian Recognized
for HathiTrust and the Google Book Search Project Efforts
Library Journal, April 1 -- Every year, the Melvil Dewey Award is given by the American Library Association (ALA) as a "citation of achievement for recent creative leadership of high order, particularly in those fields in which Melvil Dewey was actively interested: library management, library training, cataloging and classification, and the tools and techniques of librarianship." Brian Schottlaender, the Audrey Geisel University Librarian at UC San Diego, is this year's recipient, and will be honored at a session during the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. More

Green Jobs Rainmaker Coming to San Diego
SDNN, April 1, 2010 -- Van Jones, an extraordinary voice for the creation of “good green jobs” will be speaking at UC San Diego next month. Jones is the globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean-energy economy and has been a powerful architect of the green jobs movement. More

Are Earthquakes on the Rise?
San Diego.com, April 2 – Three days. It doesn’t sound like very much time, but could you survive for three days without water, food or power? Add to that short list cell phones, communication, news, medical attention, shelter anda change of clothes. Three days. Could you do it? Are you prepared to live without any of the aforementioned items? Most of us aren’t. But that’s how long one might expect to go without the basics for survival and communication in the event of a major earthquake, says UC San Diego Professor of structural engineering Jose Restrepo. More

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