A Sampling of Clips for January 27^th, 2010

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Creating Jobs From Bottom Up
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Jan. 27 -- Tonight’s State of the Union address will reaffirm the nationwide call for an economy with good jobs for all. But rather than federal top-down strategies for job creation, evidence from across America indicates the time has come for a bottom-up approach that harnesses the wisdom of local communities. (Written by Mary Walshok, dean of University Extension and associate vice chancellor of Public Programs at UCSD) More

Set the Sun on Black Carbon
Indian Express, Opinion, Jan. 25 -- Smoke from one kitchen fire or one lorry may seem innocuous enough but when burning in their millions, and combined with episodes like the recent heavy fog that blanketed Delhi, the historical precedents should alarm us. (Written by V. Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

Local 'Fresh Face' Had a Blast in New York
Sacramento Bee, Jan. 26 -- Monica Pearce (pictured), one of the three lucky winners in Clinique's Fresh Faces contest, is back at school at UCSD after a whirlwind trip to New York two weeks ago. More

San Diego Study Says US Could Speed Flow of New Therapeutic Drugs
SDNN, Jan. 26 -- A new Kauffman Foundation paper released Tuesday claims the United States could speed the flow of new therapeutic drugs into thirsty industry pipelines by creating a new model for drug discovery and development. Authors Duane Roth, chief executive officer of CONNECT — a San Diego nonprofit that commercializes local research-based discoveries — and Pedro Cuatrecasas, a biochemist and adjunct professor for the Departments of Pharmacology and Internal Medicine at UCSD, say their “distributed partnering model” could foster productive, efficient advancement of biomedical innovations. More

Guitar Heroes
Business World, Jan. 27 -- As an adolescent in the 1970s, a decade soused with flower power straight from The Woodstock Festival of 1969, Gregorio T. Yu knew what a guitar could do in the hands of gods like Jimi Hendrix. Noticing that the rock star’s nimble fingers could make girls swoon, young males everywhere took up guitar-playing in earnest. (Mentions Lei Liang, who is on the UCSD faculty) More

Five UCSD Students Receive Technology Packages as Part of Scholarship
La Jolla Light, Jan 26 -- Five UCSD students who are former foster children on Tuesday received technology packages as part of a nationwide scholarship program established by Sony, with Intel's collaboration. More

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