A Sampling of Clips for Feb. 17, 2011

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Iran's 'Green Movement' Uprising Reborn
CNN, Feb. 16 – UC San Diego professor Babak Rahimi talks about the resurgence of the opposition movement in Iran. More

Visualization Challenge 2010: Noninteractive Media
Science, Feb. 17 -- The winner and four honorable mentions have been chosen by Science and the National Science Foundation in the Noninteractive Media category in the 2010 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. Amit Chourasia, Emmett Mcquinn, Bernard Minster, and Jurgen Schulze of the San Diego Supercomputer Center received an honorable mention for "GlyphSea," which depicts the direction of seismic waves passing through Earth. More

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Epidemiology: Every Bite You Take
Nature, Feb. 16 -- A decade ago, as part of a study on diet, psychologist Tom Baranowski was asked to recall everything he had eaten the previous day. A chicken dinner, he said confidently, remembering that he had prepared it for himself and his wife Janice. The thing was, he hadn't made chicken that night. It was only later that he realized he'd treated himself to a hamburger. (Profiles research by Kevin Patrick, a director of the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems at UC San Diego) More

UCSD Tracking Huge Solar Flare That Might Cause Aurora
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 16 -- The largest solar flare to erupt on the sun since December 2006 has sent plasma streaming toward Earth, a usually benign but sometimes troublesome phenomenon that's being monitored by a sophisticated satellite instrument developed by UC San Diego. More

Ansel Adams UCSD Photos on Display for First Time
FOX5, San Diego, Calif., Feb. 16 -- Rare pictures of UC San Diego taken by one of the nation's preeminent photographers are on display for the first time inside the campus' Geisel Library. More

DermTech's Melanoma Test Touted in Influential Journal
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 16 -- An experimental melanoma test made by La Jolla-based DermTech International detected the cancer in 100 percent of patients who were later diagnosed with the illness as part of a clinical trial, researchers reported recently in a leading dermatology journal. (Quotes Bill Wachsman, a scientific adviser to the company and an oncologist affiliated with the VA San Diego Medical Center and the UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center in La Jolla) More

UCSD's Rand Steiger Among Composers
Honored by American Academy of Arts and Letters
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 16 -- The American Academy of Arts and Letters has named its 2011 winners, and they include Rand Steiger, UC San Diego faculty member and composer-in-residence at Calit2. More

What Makes Watson Tick?
NBC San Diego, Feb. 15 -- Dr. Alan Snavely, of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, sheds some light on the battle of Man vs Machine on Jeopardy. More

Anorexic Teens Face Tough Odds of Recovery
KPBS, Feb. 17 -- While the nation struggles with an epidemic of obesity, some American teenagers have the opposite problem. They're literally starving themselves. Anorexia affects about one out of every 100 teens. It's a complex and potentially deadly psychiatric condition. (Quotes Dr. Walter Kaye, who directs UC San Diego's eating disorder program) More

Storms to Bring Winter Wonderland to San Diego Mountains
KPBS, Feb. 16 -- San Diego’s dry spell has come to end. The first of two low pressure systems arrived today, bringing gusty winds and rain around San Diego County. National Weather Service forecasters say a second system on Friday could pack a bigger and colder punch, and turn San Diego’s mountains into a winter wonderland. (Quotes Tim Barnett, a research marine physicist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

'Koala' Paper Publishes Headline, Photo Targeting Student
10News, Feb. 16 -- A controversial student newspaper has sparked a new firestorm for publishing an outrageous headline and an obscene photo targeting a student at UC San Diego. More

UCSD Scientist Talks About his Role in ‘Nifty 50’ Program
La Jolla Light, Feb. 16 -- We asked Juan Carlos del Alamo, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biomechanics from UC San Diego about his role in the “Nifty 50” speaker series that is part of the San Diego Science Festival. Its purpose is to encourage students’ interest in the science, math and technology. More

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