A Sampling of Clips for July 6, 2010

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Study Will Look at Oil Spill’s Effect on Whales
CBS News, July 2 -- Scientists have returned to the Gulf of Mexico to study the oil spill's effects on whales and other endangered animals. Tags, tissue samples, and sound are among the methods the scientific crew on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration research ship will use to study sperm whales and Bryde's whales. Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and from Cornell and Oregon State universities joined NOAA scientists on the multi-week cruise. More

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July: A Deadly Time for Hospitals
NPR, July 5 -- A recent study found that more patients die of medical mistakes in the month of July than any other month. Inexperienced and overtired doctors may be part of the problem. David Phillips, professor of sociology at UC San Diego talks about study findings. More

Deep-sea Mysteries: Why Drilling in 'Inner Space' Tests Human Limits
CNN, July 6 -- Behind each video feed of oil billowing out of the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico is a robot about the size of a minibus built at an industrial center in this Louisiana oil town.  (Quotes Lisa Levin, a professor of biological oceanography at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Researchers Fear the Terror Threat From Automobiles
The Guardian, U.K., July 5 -- Which kind of robot will be the first to arise and smite us? A study called Experimental Security Analysis of a Modern Automobile suggests we keep an eye on the family car. The paper, written by Karl Koscher and a team of 10 other researchers at the University of Washington and UC San Diego was presented at the 2010 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering) symposium on security and privacy, in Berkeley, California. More

Immigration Issue Fueled by Economy
Detroit Free Press, July 5 -- When it comes to immigration, the United States has come full circle ... again. As Arizona's new immigration law pushes the issue into the national spotlight, decades-old arguments over government policy, economic needs and human rights are being raised in a politicized confrontation over what it means to be an American. (Quotes John Skrentny, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UC San Diego) More

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Combative Nurses' Union Takes on Meg Whitman
Sacramento Bee, July  4 -- The California Nurses Association has taken on powerful people before, including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and legislators from both major parties, and has scored resounding wins. This election year, the union is putting its powers to the test as it challenges its most well-funded opponent to date, billionaire Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman, who is wasting no time fighting back. (Quotes UC San Diego political science professor Thad Kousser) More

Player, Civil Violence Linked?
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 4 -- Sebastian Saiegh is an assistant professor of political science at UC San Diego, specializing in Latin American affairs. He and two other professors studied the relationship between what, on the surface, may appear to be unrelated events: a yellow or red card on a soccer field in Europe and armed conflict in a country hundreds, even thousands, of miles away. Their findings: They’re very much linked. More

Students Turn Alley into Oasis
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 2 -- A group of UC San Diego Urban Studies and Planning students proved that alleyways could be classy, not trashy. The students collaborated with the Hillcrest Business Association to research how to transform the urban element into a pedestrian-friendly area. They applied their findings to a Hillcrest alley between Fourth and Fifth avenues near Robinson Avenue by covering graffiti-stained walls with art and bougainvillea. More

SeaWorld Calls UCSD Doctors to Save Sick Dolphin
CBS News 8, July 2 -- When the kidneys of a dolphin at SeaWorld began to fail, it almost certainly spelled death for the mammal. But now, Dottie the dolphin is still alive thanks to the park's veterinarians and two doctors from the UC San Diego Medical Center. More

UNG Luminous Spirals
Classical Review, July 5 -- Cambodian-born but US-domiciled for over four decades, Chinary Ung (b.1942) has pursued a distinctive and steady evolutionary path that has won more in the way of admiration than of recognition – a balance that Bridge is clearly determined to redress with this second disc devoted to his music in what one hopes will be another of this enterprising label’s ongoing series.  Ung is on the UC San Diego faculty. More

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