A Sampling of Clips for June 1, 2010

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With Drinking, Parent Rules Do Affect Teens' Choices
NPR, May 31 -- New research from brain scientists and parenting experts suggests loosening the reins on drinking may not be a good idea in the long run. And, researchers say, parents' approach to addressing teen drinking does influence a teen's behavior. Brain researchers are finding that alcohol has a particularly toxic effect on the brain cells of adolescents. That's because their brain cells are still growing, says Susan Tapert, a professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego. More

Hot Jobs For College Graduates
ABC News, May 30 -- According to U.S. Census Bureau  statistics, 3.2 million college degrees have been or will be awarded this year, adding millions of new applicants to the job market. And with 15 million unemployed Americans, this year's graduating classes face an overwhelmingly tough employment arena. A new report from UC San Diego Extension says graduates can enrich their job prospects by seeking employment in 14 niche industries that are on the rise. More

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The Mysterious, Dark-Coated
Relationship Between Chocolate and Mood
Los Angeles Times, May 31 -- The preponderance of chocolate cravings has inspired a separate body of research on the connection between chocolate and mood. But the evidence so far is confusing at best, says Dr. Beatrice Golomb, professor of medicine and family medicine at UC San Diego. More

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Food Fashion: Synthetic Molecule Blocks Tongue's Bitter Sensor
FOX News, May 28 -- Can't stand your grandmother's bitter Brussels sprouts? Instead of dousing them in butter or feeding them to the dog, you may soon have a scientific option -- codenamed GIV3727. (Mentions research by Charles Zucker of UC San Diego, who found that rats lacking a single gene were unable to taste sugar) More

The Most Endangered Glaciers
Newsweek, May 28 -- There are only three major parts of the globe that are substantially covered with ice and snow all year round. The Arctic, the Antarctic, and the least well known, the Greater Himalayas. Now it is under increasing stress. While the effects of global warming on the world’s ice systems elsewhere are well known, scientists are now documenting two special threats to these Himalayan glaciers that are less well understood. (Mentions research by UC San Diego climate scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan and his colleague Y. Feng) More

Don’t Fence Them In
Newsweek, May 28 -- Yet again, Americans are suffering a period of national distress over illegal immigration. The latest episode started when an Arizona rancher was killed near the Mexican border in March—perhaps by an immigrant, though investigators still aren’t sure. (Quotes Gordon Hanson, an economics professor at UC San Diego) More

Mining for Cold, Hard Facts and Climate-change Answers
The Wall Street Journal, June 1 -- At a camp here on Earth's remotest continent, American researchers have constructed a towering drill that, like a biopsy needle, periodically plunges into the ice to extract an exotic marrow of frozen gases and isotopes. (Quotes Anais Orsi, a climate researcher from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Remembering Florence
Los Angeles Times, May 31 -- Standing amid the rows and rows of graves at Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery, Francisca Bacong says she still cannot understand the nightmare that took the life of her only daughter, Navy Lt. Florence Choe. Choe is a UC San Diego alumna. More

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Gubernatorial Candidates Blanket Airwaves
With Ads as Primary Campaign Winds Down
Los Angeles Times, May 31 -- With election day little more than a week away, the two major Republican gubernatorial candidates are blanketing the airwaves with television advertising, each slashing the other as too liberal in an appeal to the party's conservative primary voters. (Quotes UC San Diego political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Terrorist Do-gooders
Ottawa Citizen, May 29 -- You'd think that military strategists and political scientists would have a lock on the field of terrorism studies. Not so. Now economists are getting in on the action. The most impressive effort yet comes from Eli Berman of UC San Diego. In his new book, Radical, Religious and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism, Berman says we need to start looking at how terrorist groups function as "economic clubs." More

Tritons’ Season Ends on Low Note
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 30 -- Southern Indiana’s three-run, second-inning rally, fueled by two UC San Diego errors, gave the Eagles the lead for good and they held on to win the NCAA Division II national championship 6-4 at the USA Baseball national training complex. More

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Research Gives Hope for Autism Diagnosis
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 1 -- UC San Diego  researchers who scanned the brains of sleeping toddlers have opened a window into the mystery of what goes wrong in the mind of a child with autism, an important step toward diagnosing the condition earlier and determining what treatments work best. More

Money Talks in Race for Governor
KCBS, May 31 -- Money continues to play a huge role in California’s race for governor as the final barrage of TV and radio ads are coming this week from both Republican candidates. Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has already spent $47 million while Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has spent about $18 million. (Quotes Thad Kousser, an associate professor of political science at UC San Diego) More

Anti-Terrorism Robots
San Diego 6, May 31 -- A robot being developed at UC San Diego may become a tool for detecting and evaluating biological and chemical terrorism. More

Cecil Hougie; Co-discoverer of Blood
Disorder, Part of UCSD Founding Faculty
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 31 – To read Dr. Cecil Hougie’s own account of his role in advancing the medical world’s understanding of blood coagulation, one would think he merely stumbled upon his findings. Dr. Hougie, a British immigrant who made the discovery shortly before joining the founding faculty at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, was almost certainly being too modest, a colleague said. Dr. Hougie, a La Jolla resident, died April 18 of complications from an intestinal disorder. He was 87. More

Waging War on Ecology's Alarmists
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 31 -- In “Merchants of Doubt,” UC San Diego history professor Naomi Oreskes and co-author Erik M. Conway, a historian at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, argue that a handful of prominent and politically connected scientists leveraged elements of uncertainty about climate change to mislead the public. More

Can Drugs Make You Smarter?
KPBS, May 31 -- Some pharmaceuticals and others in the research pipeline can do remarkable things for healthy people. They can increase alertness and focus to such a degree, they are being called ‘smart drugs.’ Tricia Bertram Gallant, academic integrity coordinator for UC San Diego, discusses the issue. More

Nurses Plan Walkout at UCSD
San Diego 6, May 29 -- Upset over what they contend is "short-staffing," about 25,000 nurses at hospitals across California and Minnesota, including UC San Diego, will take part in a June 10 walkout billed as the largest nurses' strike in U.S. history, but hospital administrators call the planned action unlawful and without merit. More

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UCSD High Jumper Doesn’t Have Time for the Pain
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 28 -- Her freshman track and field season at UC San Diego complete, Linda Rainwater was kicking back at the team banquet, enjoying a highlight film put together by women’s coach Darcy Ahner. More

210 Low-income Students Awarded College Scholarships
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 29 -- A statewide program last weekend awarded $373,000 in scholarships to 210 low-income students from San Diego and Imperial counties. The California Student Opportunity & Access Program awarded scholarships to high school students and first-year college students as part of its annual “Reward College Dreams” program. The award ceremony took place Sunday at the Price Center at UC San Diego. More

Finding the Gold in Data Mining
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 30 -- You’re not paranoid. They really are out to get … your data. Where you shop, what you buy, the websites you look at, even your Twitter feed — it’s all of interest to a wide range of companies.  (Quotes James Fowler, a professor at UC San Diego and co-author of “Connected: The Amazing Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives”) More

Museum of Contemporary Art: In the Here and Now
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 30 -- The last time the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a large exhibition devoted solely to San Diego artists, Bill Clinton was president. (Mentions UC San Diego’s Calit2 — short for California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology — and  its visual arts department) More

Hidden Economy a Hidden Danger
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, May 30 -- The “gray economy” sounds like a way to describe the global economy over the past few years: foggy or cloudy, with intermittent rays of sunshine. (Quotes  James Hamilton, an economist at UC San Diego) More

UCSD Ceremony Honors Student Veterans
Del  Mar Times, May 28 –At UC San Diego, the Student Veterans Appreciation Ceremony this week acknowledged the dedication and contributions newly admitted and current student veterans have made to the United States military services. More

The New Children’s Museum Engages Toddlers to Teens – and Beyond
SDNN, May 30 -- Since its opening in its new location two years ago, the New Children’s Museum has shaped itself into a unique facility that encourages children of all ages – toddlers to teens – to explore, create, imagine and learn through hands-on, interactive experiences designed to engage children and stimulate interest in lasting educational ways. (Mentions UC  San Diego’s Visual Arts Department) More

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