A Sampling of Clips for February 25, 2010

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Student Party Prompts Anti-Racism School Campaign
The Washington Post, Feb. 24 -- UCSD has initiated a campus-wide campaign against racism in the wake of a student party that used a ghetto theme to mockingly commemorate Black History Month. More

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Strokes Up Among the Young, Down Among the Old
Forbes, Feb. 24 -- The incidence of stroke seems to be falling among the old. That's the good news. The bad news, though, is that strokes appear to be occurring more often among the young, a group that has not been considered at high risk for the debilitating and deadly condition, caused by a blood clot or bleeding in the brain. (Mentions research at UCSD) More

Music Review: Kagel's Bikes Play Grand Avenue
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 23 -- The subset of bicycle-themed works in classical music is small. We have nothing as artistically central as Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made of a bicycle wheel. (Mentions Steve Schick, who is on the UCSD faculty) More

Professors Find Ways to Keep Heads Above 'Exaflood' of Data
Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb. 24 --"We may already be in the red in terms of our ability to store information," said Christopher L. Greer last week to an interested, and vaguely intimidated, audience of scientists and other academics. Gene sequences, distant pulsar signals, YouTube videos, e-mail -- it's all too much to keep track of. (Mentions research by Larry Smarr, a professor at UCSD and work at Calit2)More

The Myth About Seniors' Reduced Need for Sleep is Put to Rest
The Vancouver Sun, Feb. 25 -- At the 2010 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, UCSD sleep researcher Sean Drummond provided evidence that quantity of sleep may be even more important for seniors than for younger adults. More

New Poli Sci Collaboration
Inside Higher Ed, Feb. 25 -- Political science appears to be moving away from the traditional model of valuing single-author publication as the norm. But in so doing, the discipline faces a set of questions that it has only started to answer – not least of which is the question of whose name goes first. (Quotes David A. Lake, professor of political science at UCSD) More

Medical Report: Lung Cancer Treatment
KUSI, Feb. 24 -- Lung cancer is the largest single cause of cancer deaths in the United States. In 2009, nearly one-hundred-sixty-thousand people died from the disease, and nearly two-hundred-thousand people were diagnosed with it. In 2006, more than one-thousand people in San Diego alone died from lung cancer. But there are new steps being taken in treatment of the disease. Dr. Lyudmila Bazhenova, from UCSD Cancer Center, was here with more. More

County Home Prices Up for 8th Month
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 24 -- A widely watched index of housing prices yesterday showed San Diego County’s prices up 0.1 percent from November to December, the eighth straight month of improvement. (Quotes UCSD economist James Hamilton) More

Should Soccer Players Wear Head Protection?
KPBS, Feb. 24 -- All this hour we'll be speaking with a series of guests, including some of soccer's best-known medical experts, to find out if the risk of concussion should make protective head gear a requirement for soccer players. Guests include William Perry, a professor of psychology at the UCSD School of Medicine, past president of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. More

College-Prep School Inspires Inner-City Students to Stay the Course
San Diego News Network, Feb. 24 -- Children who live in poverty are 20 times less likely to graduate from college. But at least one middle school believes that by encouraging and challenging at-risk children to reach their full potential in middle school – and nurturing them in high school – their odds improve greatly. (Mentions the Preuss School at UCSD) More

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