A Sampling of Clips for April 15, 2010

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‘We Did It, Mom!’
The New York Times, April 14 -- If I hadn’t participated in the Black Student Union overnight program at UC San Diego this past Thursday through Saturday, I wouldn’t be the same person as I am right now. So you may be wondering how my experience was, right? Well: it was . . . amazing! I don’t think I have ever been as gung-ho about college. (Writen by high school senior Brian Bose, who will become a UCSD freshman this fall) More

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Helen Ranney, Pioneer in Sickle Cell Research, Dies at 89
The New York Times, April 14, 2010 -- Dr. Helen M. Ranney, a hematologist whose experiments in the 1950s elucidated the genetic basis of sickle cell disease, an inherited form of anemia that affects one in 500 African-Americans, died on April 5 in San Diego. She was 89. Her death was announced by the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Dr. Ranney was a faculty member there for more than 30 years and a former head of the department of medicine, the first woman at a major American medical school to hold that post. More

Prestigious Award for Poetry
UCSD and Its Faculty Strong Across the Board
San Diego Union-Tribune, Editorial, April 15  -- UC San Diego’s current and past faculty has been recognized in many ways, not least through the award of 14 Nobel Prizes. But, with those awards coming for scientific work – including three in economics – it is easy to forget that UCSD is a well-rounded university with bright lights on the arts and humanities faculty as well as in more technical fields. It will be a little harder to neglect that now that Rae Armantrout, a member of the faculty for more than 20 years, has won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her most recent collection, “Versed.” More

Michelle Obama Brings Health Campaign Here
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 15 -- First Lady Michelle Obama will bring her campaign to end childhood obesity to San Diego on Thursday afternoon when she visits a community farm that immigrants created last summer. (Quotes Chris Searles, a family physician and psychiatrist with the UC San Diego Medical Center and co-chairman of the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative) More

UC a Tougher Bet This Year for Californians, With 10,700 Wait-Listed
Los Angeles Times, April 14 -- California's high school seniors faced slightly tougher odds for freshman admission to the University of California this year, and more than 10,700 were offered a spot on one or more of the university's controversial new waiting lists, according to statistics released Wednesday. (Mentions UC San Diego) More

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Avalon Ventures Makes Fourth Bet on Nobel Laureate
The Wall Street Jounal, April 15 -- Roger Tsien may have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2008, but Avalon Ventures has been betting on his fluorescent protein technology since 1996. Now, 14 years later, Avalon has taken a stake in cancer imaging company Avelas Biosciences Inc., the fourth Tsien company the firm has backed. Tsien is on the UC San Diego faculty.  More

Oceans' Saltiness Reaching Extremes
Discovery Channel, April 15 -- The supercharging of Earth's water cycle by global warming is already making some parts of Earth's oceans much saltier while others parts are getting fresher. (Quotes Dean Roemmich,  a professor at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

The Bannister Family House
KUSI, April 14 -- The Bannister Family House acts as a home away from home for the families of patients being treated at UC San Diego Medical Center. It allows family members to stay close to their loved ones while they go through various medical ordeals. Denise Capozzi runs the Bannister Family House, and she joined us on Good Morning San Diego to tell us all about it. More

Finding the Fault: Scientists Piece Together Recent Seismic Events
North County Times, April 14, 2010 -- In the wake of the big earthquake, there's a groundswell of activity among seismologists who are trying to piece together what happened and why. The impact to San Diego of the 7.2-magnitude earthquake centered about 140 miles south in Mexico on Easter Sunday could have been much worse if not for the topography of the area, said Jose Restrepo, a structural engineering professor at Jacobs School of Engineering. Restrepo was among a group of UC San Diego researchers who spent an entire day inspecting earthquake damage in Mexicali and Calexico in order to learn from the disaster. More

UCSD Music Professor Exhibits His Digital Art
La Jolla Light, April 15 -- It's not every day you get to see a cutting-edge art exhibit by a world-famous violinist. But János Negyesy is not an everyday sort of person. Negyesy is one of the longest-term faculty members in UC San Diego’s history. More

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