A Sampling of Clips for January 29^th, 2010

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Brain Study Sheds Light on Language Use
Voice of America, Jan. 28 -- Researchers say a study on the brain is shedding light on how humans process language.  The research, conducted at the UCSD School of Medicine, as well as in Boston and New York, is helping scientists understand an important part of the brain known as Broca's area. More

Help for Hoarding
The New York Times, Jan. 28 -- The volume of comments from readers trying to cope with elders who hoard everything from newspapers to yogurt containers to cats — and from readers struggling with their own hoarding tendencies — has come as something of a surprise to me. (Quotes Catherine Ayers, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSD and a leading researcher on hoarding) More

Cascadia Quake Zone Gets Wired Up
Nature, Jan. 28 -- One of the most under-appreciated earthquake hazard zones in the United States is getting extra attention. "People haven't appreciated the level of hazard there for both an earthquake and a tsunami," says project member John Orcutt, a geophysicist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. "This study will over the long term provide a fundamental understanding of the Earth's structure and the hazard." More

Ten Minutes That Mattered: Sally Ride
Forbes, Jan. 29 -- Sally Ride was finishing a graduate physics degree at UCSD in 1978 when she got the call that would change her life--news that she had been selected to be among the new class of astronauts. More

UCSD Looking at a Law School
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 28 -- UCSD has revived a decades-old plan to establish a law school through a partnership with California Western School of Law. More

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Geoffrey Burbidge; UCSD Professor Was a Titan of Astrophysics, Cosmology
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 28 – Renowned scientist Geoffrey Burbidge liked to say that he got into astronomy through his wife. The Burbidges were founding members of UCSD’s department of physics. He came to UCSD in 1962 and was a professor of physics until 2002. Dr. Burbidge died Tuesday at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla after a long illness. He was 84. More

Surgeon’s Good Will Reaches Africa
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 28 – When the nearly blind patient met Dr. Hoi Sang U in a Zambian hospital nearly two years ago, he knew the UCSD neurosurgeon had traveled halfway around the world to save his life and possibly his sight. What Mulenga Kaluba didn’t know was that whatever the obstacles, U would continue his volunteer medical care, even making it possible for his patient to journey from southern Africa to the United States. More

Expert Insights: Gold
San Diego Daily Transcript, Jan. 28 – James Hamilton shares his insights on the gold market. He is a professor of economics at UCSD and the author of Time Series Analysis, the leading text on forecasting and statistical analysis of dynamic economic relationships. More

‘Whisper House’
San Diego News Network, Jan. 27 -- “Whisper House” is a ghost story, set in the midst of World War II. It’s all about fear and paranoia, uncertainty about the future and apprehension about the unknown. Feelings we can all relate to in our modern world. It’s a time, after all, “when all the world’s at war.” (Mentions UCSD speech and voice professor Eva Barnes) More

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