A Sampling of Clips for June 4, 2010

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America’s Best High Schools
U.S.News & World Report, June 4 -- U.S.News & World Report—in collaboration with School Evaluation Services, a K-12 education and data research and analysis business that provides parents with education data—analyzed academic and enrollment data from more than 21,000 public high schools to find the very best across the country. These top schools were placed into gold, silver, bronze, or honorable mention categories. The Preuss School at UC San Diego was ranked 32nd in the nation. More

The 'July Effect': Worst Month for Fatal Hospital Errors, Study Finds
ABC News, June 3 -- There is an old saying among some doctors -- do not let your friends and family schedule a surgery in July. July is the month when graduates, fresh out of medical school, report to residencies in teaching hospitals. Anecdotally, at least, it's been a time when medical errors peak. A new study from UC San Diego decided to see if the so-called "July Effect" was real. More

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How Will the Oil Spill Impact the Gulf's Dead Zone?
Scientific American, June 3 -- Each spring and summer fertilizer from the fields of the U.S. Midwest runs off into the Mississippi River. The result is a vast dead zone, lethal to sea life that cannot swim out of the way, in inhabitable waters near the Gulf Coast that is sometimes as large as New Jersey—and the as much as 3.8 million liters of oil now spilling into the Gulf per day may make it worse. (Quotes biological oceanographer Lisa Levin of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Federal Funding Cuts Leave Oceanographers, Spill Responders in Dark
The New York Times, June 3 – For more than a decade, scientists have called for federal funding of a network of radar, buoys and other sensors that would provide the equivalent of a weather forecast system for the Gulf of Mexico. Yet despite what seemed like promising support in Washington, funding for these programs has dropped by half or more in recent years, leaving oceanographers to use satellite snapshots and imperfect models to guess where the oil will travel, dragged by unwatched currents. (Quotes Eric Terrill, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

20 Young Writers Earn the Envy of Many Others
The New York Times, June 2 –   The New Yorker has chosen its “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers worth watching, a group assembled by the magazine’s editors in a lengthy, secretive process that has provoked considerable anxiety among young literary types. The list includes Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, who is on the UC San Diego faculty. More

UK Police Look for Motive in Shooting Spree
TIME, June 3 -- British detectives investigated Thursday whether financial troubles or a family feud triggered a taxi driver's murderous rampage across a tranquil part of rural England, which left 12 people dead and 11 wounded. (Quotes J. Reid Meloy, a forensic psychologist and adjunct professor at UC San Diego) More

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Republican Voters are in a Quandary
Los Angeles Times, June 3 -- Anxious to retire their longtime nemesis, Democratic U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, California Republicans are faced with a quandary as they ponder the top two candidates: Do they vote for former Rep. Tom Campbell, whose more moderate stances, as one poll has found, could lead him to victory over Boxer in November? Or do they choose Carly Fiorina, whose conservative views put her to the right of California voters and may, according to the same poll, doom her against Boxer? (Quotes UC San Diego political science professor Thad Kousser) More

UCSD Engineers, Sanyo to Work on Solar Power
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 4 -- A new generation of solar technology could emerge in San Diego  after two major local players announced a three-year, $3 million research partnership Thursday to more efficiently harness and use the sun’s power. Sanyo North America Corp., headquartered in San Diego, and the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego will jointly tackle some of the top issues facing the renewable energy sector, including forecasting solar production and storage of solar power. The results likely will be felt first in this region as Sanyo and other nearby companies commercialize spinoff products. More

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Summer Sessions Filling Up at UC
San Francisco Chronicle, June 4 -- Although enrollment predictions are preliminary because summer sessions at many colleges don't start until late June, Dana Dudley, president of the Western Association of Summer Session Administrators, said officials she has talked to are seeing a rise in enrollment. (Mentions UC San Diego) More

Driving Through Finals at UCSD
Del Mar Times, June 3 -- Chevrolet is trying off an unusual new approach to showing off its vehicles - giving UC San Diego students a break from finals by driving them to nearby restaurants for a study break. The campaign continues tonight. The carmaker is doing the same thing at USC and Stanford. More

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