A Sampling of Clips for April 29, 2010

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Lost and Found: Soviet Lunar Rover
MSNBC, April 28 -- In November 1970, a Soviet probe landed on the surface of the moon. Ten months later, Lunokhod 1 fell silent, its location on the moon unknown. Scientists got figured the rover had fallen into a crater or parked itself beneath a cliff, blocking its reflector from Earth. But their luck changed last weekend when, armed with high-resolution pictures from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, theyzeroed in on the rover. “It turns out that our previous best-guess position was miles off,” says Tom Murphy, with UC San Diego. More

Bioblitz 2010 Puts Ocean Under Microscope
National Geographic, April 28  -- This year's National Geographic/National Park Service bioblitz takes place Friday, April 30-May 1. Hundreds of scientists and many more volunteers will fan across Biscayne National Park, creating an inventory of every living species over 24 hours from midday to midday. Nancy Knowlton, the Sant Chair of Marine Science at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and also an adjunct professor of marine biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, will be taking part in this year's bioblitz and will make one of the opening speeches on Friday.  More

Teacher Awards Take Winners by Surprise
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 28 -- At The Preuss School at UC San Diego on Tuesday, Anne Artz prepared her students for a classroom speaker — only to find out that she was getting a national award. She received a giant $10,000 check and a prestigious Amgen award for science teaching. More

UCSD Study Suggests Needle Sharing May Spread Syphilis
KPBS, April 28— A new study from UC San Diego suggests sex workers in Mexico may be getting syphilis from sharing dirty needles. The report says injection drug use appears to play a bigger role in syphilis transmission than risky sexual behavior. More

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Experts: Immigration Clamoring will be Fruitless
CBS11, Austin, Texas, April 29 -- In a repeat of national immigration debates in 2006, hard-line partisanship now coursing through Congress and the upcoming mid-term elections leave precious little room for compromise, raising the specter that reform efforts will again produce more noise than results. (Quotes John Skrentny, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego) More

Detroit Jazz Fest Announces Lineup to Connect Past, Future
Detroit Free Press, April 28 -- The Detroit International Jazz Festival is taking a broader, conceptual approach to programming in 2010. Rather than focus on a particular city or musicians as it has in the past -- say Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia or the Jones brothers of Pontiac -- the festival has honed in on a powerful theme that speaks to the heart of the jazz tradition: Flame Keepers -- Carrying the Torch for Modern Jazz. (Mentions Mark Dresser, who is on the UC San Diego faculty) More

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The Tritones Perform
KUSI, April 29 -- The Tritones, the show choir from UC San Diego that performed with Taylor Swift at the Academy of Country Music Awards, performs live in the KUSI studio. More

Three Here Named to National Academy of Sciences
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 28 -- Three scholars at UC San Diego have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the elite honorific and research society founded during the Lincoln administration to advise the president and Congress on science and technology. More

Can Cell Phones Really Cause Brain Tumors?
KUSI, April 28 -- These days almost everybody has a cell phone. The technology has been around for nearly 30 years, and after numerous studies there's growing evidence that people who use their cell phones frequently and over a long period of time could increase their risk of developing a brain tumor. Dr. Santosh Kesari, Director of Neuro-Oncology at the Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego, joined us with the latest findings, and to tell us about a clinic here in San Diego that's helping to treat brain tumors. More

Students’ Measure is Critical of Israel
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 29 -- After more than six hours of emotional debate, the student government at UC San Diego couldn’t agree on a resolution that criticizes Israel’s human-rights record and urges divestment from some companies doing business there. More

Medical Center Planners Scan Technology for Design, Patient Care
SDNN, April 28 -- Long-range planning is an exercise that takes into account a whole host of variables. Now add 20 years and predict what might be happening in a field like medicine, which has been moving ahead by leaps and bounds, and you have the type of puzzle that faced designers of the new Jacobs Medical Center on the UC San Diego campus. More

Innovative Companies Key to Future
La Jolla Light, Opinion, April  28 -- A good job and a comfortable lifestyle have been the dream of successive waves of immigrants and migrants. America's history is about the promise of achieving this dream. Is it time to write an obituary for this dream or can it still be realized? (Written by  Mary Walshok, UC San Diego associate vice chancellor for public programs and dean of Extension) More

People
North County Times, April 28 -- Seth Lerer, a literature professor at UC San Diego, has won the 2010 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, for his book "Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter." More

Caught on Tape: Sea Lion Pup Explores Welding Shop
FOX5 News, April 28 -- A curious young sea lion was found exploring a welding shop far from the beach this week, and the incident was videotaped by a surprised worker. The young pinniped climbed up a ramp from the beach, shimmied up a flight of concrete stairs and slid through an open door into the shop at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More

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