A Sampling of Clips for June 25, 2010

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Higher Ed Spending Vital
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, June 25 -- California’s budget difficulties over the past two decades have led to an unprecedented decline in state funding for our public universities. In the midst of another challenging year, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should be commended for his proposal to restore funding cuts to the state’s universities. The governor’s revised budget plan for next fiscal year, which includes one-time restorations of $356.3 million to the University of California and $365.6 million to the California State University, is in part recognition of the essential role higher education institutions have in contributing to California’s economic health. (Mentions UC San Diego) More

With Age Really DOES Come Wisdom:
Scientists Prove Older People are Less Impulsive
Daily Mail, U.K., June 25 -- Granny was right all along, UC San Diego scientists say. You really do get wiser when you get older. According to their research, although the brain slows down with age, this simply helps older men and women develop greater insight. More

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Defense Experts Press for Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Climate Change
Scientific American, June 24 -- Tell us what you don't know. That's the message military and national security experts gathered at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography want to send to climate scientists. More

Taiwan, China to Sign Trade Pact
The Wall Street Journal, June 24 -- Taiwan and China reached a historic trade agreement that promises to bind Taiwan's economy to its giant neighbor to an unprecedented degree, and to ease remaining political tensions between the onetime enemies. (Quotes Susan Shirk, a professor at UC San Diego’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies) More

Anthony Braxton's 65th-Birthday Concert
NPR, June 24 -- Flanked by members of his 12+2tet on the stage of Le Poisson Rouge June 18, ready to launch into one of his rollicking compositions, multi-reedist and composer Anthony Braxton couldn't have looked happier. After thanking all the musicians who came to pay tribute in honor of his birthday, he added with a grin, "If you have to be 65, this is the best way to do it." (Mentions Mark Dresser, who is on the UC San Diego’s faculty) More

New Form of Gene Regulation Hints at Hidden Dimension of DNA
Wired, June 24 -- An entire class of seemingly useless genetic components may actually regulate gene activity, suggests a study that — though preliminary — has potentially transformative implications for biology. In two accompanying Nature commentaries, Thomas Jefferson University geneticist Isidore Rigoutsos and UC San Diego geneticist Frank Furnari lauded the work’s immediate implications for cancer. More

San Diego's Art Community Loses Its Voice
Huffington Post, June 24 -- After the news got out last week that Robert L. Pincus, the books editor and art critic at the San Diego Union Tribune, had been laid off, his Facebook wall was jammed with dozens of postings that both vented outrage and paid tribute. (Mentions UC San Diego) More

Environmental Issues, Pot Legalization on Ballot
San Francisco Chronicle, June 25 -- The secretary of state on Thursday certified 10 ballot measures voters will consider in November, and among them are proposals that would significantly change California's drug and environmental policies. (Quotes UC San Diego political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Growing San Diego’s Green Economy
KPBS, June 24 -- An organization called "CleanTECH San Diego" hopes to make San Diego a hub for clean technology businesses and manufacturing. CleanTech could be an economic boon to the region. (Quotes Tony Haymet, Director of UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenger's at the Office
KUSI, June 24 -- A couple of the participants from the UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge met Mike Castellucci at his outdoor office this morning to show off their prototypes. More

Mushroom Networks Uses “Bonding”
Technology to Pump More Data Through Bottlenecks
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 25 -- What San Diego’s Mushroom Networks does is something akin to IT alchemy. The company’s technology transforms data rates that trickle into its “black box” device from a variety of Internet connections into a broadband gusher on the other side, for the benefit of all the users on a business intranet or local network. (Mentions Rene Cruz, a Mushroom Networks co-founder and professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC San Diego) More

Smart Cars Just Want to Help
North County Times, June 24 -- The prototype smart cars on display Thursday at UC San Diego may have had the biggest, fastest computerized brains engineers could devise, but they knew who's boss: the people driving them. The display of seven cars and assorted other automotive advances capped a four-day, IEEE Intelligent Vehicle conference dedicated to discussing how cars can better assist drivers. More

The Work of Art: New Show to Explore the World of Exhibits
La Jolla Light, June 23 -- Go behind the scenes of an art exhibition when the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla presents a new show revealing the invitations, artists' portraits, exhibit photos, reviews and internal staff notes from more than 200 past art events at the Athenaeum. (Mentions UC San Diego alumnus Roman de Salvo and Kim MacConnel, who is on the UC San Diego faculty) More

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