A Sampling of Clips for June 23, 2010

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

The Dirt on Ocean Garbage Patches
Science, June 18 -- Chances are you've heard of the great Pacific Garbage Patch. It is, according to countless press and TV reports, a "trash vortex," "the world's largest rubbish dump," and a "vast mass of floating debris" midway between Hawaii and California. According to Charles Moore, a sailor-turned-scientist who discovered the patch in 1997 and has been interviewed on The Oprah Show, the Late Show with David Letterman, and Good Morning America, it is a plastic soup twice the size of Texas. (Quotes biological oceanographer James Leichter of the Scripps Institution  of Oceanography) More

Building Better Boxers: Nanotechnology for Smart Underwear
BusinessWeek, June 22 -- As the technology to support wearable electronics advances, researchers are investigating new ways of making our clothing more "intelligent" — from smart shirts for theater ushers to the development of clothing that can respond to the wearer's emotive state. (Mentions research at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering) More

Eating With an Anorexic Child
Los Angeles Times, June 21 -- Chicago's Ranalli family was using the little-known Maudsley Approach, a grueling but evidence-based treatment for adolescents suffering from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa. The approach, also called "family-based therapy," flips conventional treatment on its head. (Quotes Dr. Walter Kaye, the director of the eating disorder treatment and research program at UC San Diego)More

Similar story on
FOX43, Philadelphia, Penn.
FOX 31, Denver. , Colo.

Fed Keeps Rate Pledge, Markets `Less Supportive' of Growth
Bloomberg, June 23 -- Federal Reserve officials retained a pledge to keep the benchmark interest rate at a record low for an “extended period” and signaled that European indebtedness may harm American growth. (Quotes James Hamilton, a former Fed research adviser who is now at UC San Diego) More

Improvisational and Atmospheric Dialogues: A Tribute to an Avant-Gardist
The New York Times, June 21 -- The avant-garde composer and multireedist Anthony Braxton had plenty of words for his admirers at Le Poisson Rouge on Friday night, when it was officially his turn to take the stage. He talked about the striving of noncommercial artists. (Mentions Mark Dresser, who is on the UC San Diego faculty) More

Famed Heart Transplant Surgeon Joins UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 22 -- Jack Copeland, the surgeon who helped pioneer artifical heart transplants, has been recruited to UC San Diego  from the University of Arizona, where his pioneering work made him a medical "rock star," as one colleague put it. More

Two SD Teachers Receive Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence
KPBS, June 22 -- Two San Diego area educators are among 34 science teachers in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico named Tuesday as recipients of the 18th annual Amgen Award for Science Teaching Excellence. A half-dozen of the 2010 recipients are from California, including Anne Artz of Preuss School UC San Diego in La Jolla and Ericka Senegar-Mitchell of Junipero Serra High School in San Diego. More

Similar stories on
San Diego 6
La Jolla Light

Redistricting Pool Mostly Affluent White Male Democrats
Sacramento Bee, Jun 22 -- The 620 remaining applicants for seats on the state's new redistricting commission are mostly affluent white male Democrats, according to a new statistical study by one of those on the list. Vladimir Kogan, a refugee from the Soviet Union who later became a journalist and political science scholar, reviewed the on-line profiles of all 620 to create his demographic and political profile. He is a researcher on governance issues for the Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University and a doctoral candidate at UC San Diego. More

Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
Boston Review, June 2010 -- Stephen Burt’s Close Calls with Nonsense, a collection of essays (many begun as reviews) on “How to Read, and Perhaps Enjoy, Very New Poetry,” begins with the author’s definition of the lyric: “short pieces of language . . . in which the psyche finds the language and the sounds to fit its own internal states” and through which “we can imagine that we know what it is like to be a particular person, or kind of person, or else what it is like to be ourselves.” (Mentions Rae Armantrout, the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet who is on the UC San Diego faculty) More

Bilbray Asks Busby to Debate
North County Times, June 22 -- In politics, it's typically the challenger who seeks a debate with the incumbent. But in the race for North County's 50th U.S. Congressional District, typical was turned on its head last week. Incumbent Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Carlsbad, invited longtime challenger Francine Busby to three public debates, showing unexpected attention to his Democratic opponent from Cardiff. (Quotes UC San Diego political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

* Subscribe with In the News and receive our clips automatically