A Sampling of Clips for April 28, 2010

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NASA Locates Lost Soviet Moon Rover
CBS News, April 27  -- Along with bell bottoms, Nehru jackets and the pet rock craze, number another forgotten piece of 1970s history: a Soviet robotic rover that the Russians lost somewhere on the lunar surface. Now, a team of researchers at UC San Diego has located the location of the unit on the moon. More

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What Chocolate Has to Do With Depression
U.S. News & World Report, April 27 -- Feeling depressed might put you in the mood for chocolate, a new study suggests. Of nearly 1,000 adults studied, those diagnosed with depression ate an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate per month versus 5.4 servings consumed by participants who were not depressed, UC San Diego and UC Davis researchers found. More

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Cybersecurity: How Safe Are Your Data?
Nature, April 28 -- Most ventures onto the World Wide Web should be taken with caution. Having a graduate student with little experience set up a website could be disastrous. (Quotes Dallas Thornton, division director of UC San Diego’s cyberinfrastructure services) More

Autonomous Research Bots Go for a Swim
Popular Mechanics, April 27 -- As more robots find near-permanent homes on land and in space, they are also starting to settle in for long-term living in the ocean. SOLO-TREC, the latest breed of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV), features an engine that produces renewable energy from water temperature fluctuations, allowing it to spend more time in the water. The new technology, developed by scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, offers a major improvement in powering AUVs. More

Innovative Cellist Makes the Most of Multimedia
Boston Globe, April 27 -- Classical music is often accused, rightly, of being too comfortable in its Luddism, too primly cautious in its relation to technology. Yet the intrepid Israeli-born cellist Maya Beiser upended this notion in the first piece of her Friday performance at the beautifully restored Paramount Theatre. (Mentions Chinary Ung, who is on the UC San Diego faculty) More

Fed 'Squeezed' by Recovery, May Affirm Low Rates
San Francisco Chronicle, April 27 -- Federal Reserve officials may indicate the U.S. recovery is strengthening while avoiding any signal of a change in monetary policy by saying interest rates will remain near zero "for an extended period." (Quotes James Hamilton, an economics professor at UC San Diego) More

Celebratory Reading for Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 27 -- The Seuss Room of the Geisel Library building at UC San Diego was the site, on Monday, of a reading by Rae Armantrout. She stuck to poems from the book "Versed," which garnered her the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. More

Input Sought for Trolley Line to UCSD, UTC
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 27 -- The San Diego Association of Governments is seeking public input on plans to extend the San Diego Trolley from Old Town to UC San Diego and University City. More

UCSD Project Thinks Big — and Very Tiny
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 27 -- A center devoted to researching everything from how cancer spreads to designing better airplanes to authenticating pricey artwork is about to rise at UC San Diego, where the project was delayed for more than a year by the state budget crisis. More

Parents, You're Doing Better Than You Think
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 27 -- Through the years, as careers have become more pressing and workdays longer, it’s become conventional wisdom that modern-day mothers and fathers spend far less time with their children than their parents did with them. In fact, a pair of economists at UC San Diego say reality is quite the opposite: Contemporary parents are spending far more time with their families than parents of past generations. More

The Insanity Has Got to Stop
The Times-Gazette, Hillboro, Ohio, April 27 -- After I read over the weekend in The Cincinnati Enquirer about how a nurse whose base pay was $55,000 and is now drawing $191,400 annually in retirement, it makes it crystal clear what is wrong with this great country of ours. (Mentions UC San Diego political scientist Steve Erie) More

Salk’s Sejnowski, UCR’s Zhu, Elected to National Academy of Sciences
North County Times, April 27 -- Terrence J. Sejnowski of the Salk Institute and UC San Diego, and Jian-Kang Zhu of UC Riverside, were elected today to the National Academy of Sciences. Other local scientists chosen are Susan S. Golden, a distinguished professor in the division of biological sciences, UC San Diego, and Jack Keil Wolf, Stephen O. Rice Professor at the Center for Magnetic Recording, UC San Diego. More

Sun God Festival Coming to UCSD May 14
San Diego Entertainer, April 27 -- May 14 is fast approaching, and if you’re a UC San Diego student or alumni you know that May 14 is not just any Friday…it is a day that you’ve been anticipating all year long. More

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