A Sampling of Clips for March 11, 2010

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Panel: Women Need Chance to Avoid Repeat C-section
The New York Times, March 10 — Too many pregnant women who want to avoid a repeat cesarean delivery are being denied the chance, concludes a government panel that urged doctors to rethink litigation-spurred policies that have swung the pendulum back toward the days of "once a C-section, always a C-section." (Quotes Dr. Emily Spencer Lukacz of UCSD) More

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Female Space Pioneer Promotes Science Careers
MSNBC, March 10 -- American physicist Sally Ride achieved lasting fame in June 1983 when she became the first American woman to travel in space as a crew member of the Space Shuttle Challenger. After leaving NASA Ride became a physics professor at UCSD, and is now president of Sally Ride Science, a company dedicated to helping teachers raise students' interest in science. More

Taiwan Charity Has Global Reach
The Wall Street Journal, March 11 -- The Great Love village, complete with earthquake-resistant schools, churches and houses, will eventually accommodate 1,500 families displaced when Typhoon Morakot pummeled Taiwan last August. The land was set aside by the Taiwanese government for typhoon survivors. But the $94 million project has been funded, designed and executed by Tzu Chi, a Taiwanese Buddhist charity known for its rapid response to the island's all-too frequent natural disasters. (Quotes Richard Madsen, a sociologist at UCSD) More

Critics Blast Transborder Immigrant
Tool as 'Irresponsible' Use of Technology
FOX News, March 10 -- The Transborder Immigrant Tool (TBT), the brainchild of three faculty members at UCSD and a colleague at the University of Michigan, is a software application that can be installed into a GPS-enabled cell phone. More

Scientists Find Key to Hormone-Resistant Prostate Tumors
BusinessWeek, March 10 -- Doctors might be able to delay the onset of hormone-resistant tumors by two to three years if subsequent research finds a way to control the effects of inflammation, according to a research team, which included scientists from UCSD, the Scripps Research Institute in Florida and the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology in Moscow. More

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The Pandemic That Wasn't
Forbes, Opinion, March 10 -- The H1N1 swine flu outbreak appears to have ended less like the rogue wild boar that United Nations bureaucrats predicted and more like roasted pork tenderloin with apples and sage. From the beginning the World Health Organization's actions have ranged from the dubious to the flagrantly incompetent. (Mentions research by Dr. Jack Fisher, a professor of surgery at the UCSD School of Medicine) More

Bet on the Donkey in This Race
Los Angeles Times, Opinion, March 11 --  Now that both parties have candidates running for governor, Californians are sure to hear a bit of conventional wisdom about state politics: Voters typically elect Democrats to the Legislature but Republicans to the governorship. Like so much conventional wisdom, it's dead wrong, or at least seriously misleading. (Mentions research by UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Doctors Perform Life-saving Cancer Surgery
ABC12, Ann Arbor, Mich., March 11 -- Most patients whose cancer spreads through the stomach are given less than a year to live. But for those who are unwilling to accept that prognosis, there may be an alternative - a very complicated 12-hour surgery performed at UCSD, among other places. More

Weight Loss Surgery Without a Scar
ABC32, Montgomery, Ala., March 10 -- Veronica became one of the first to take part in the pose clinical trial at UCSD. The idea behind it is similar to other weight loss surgeries such as the lap band. It makes the stomach smaller, so patients feel full. But "this surgery can be done completely endoscopically,“ Garth Jacobsen, M.D., assistant professor of surgery division of minimally invasive surgery, at UCSD explained. “That's down the mouth without any incisions at all." More

A UC San Diego Alum Responds to Racial Tensions on the Campus
The Huffigton Post, March 10 -- A noose in the library and the N-word on student television. These are some of the ugly things that have recently been tied to UCSD's beautiful campus. More

Why Black Students Are So Scarce at UCSD
Voice of San Diego, March 10 -- Classmates at UCSD asked Zim Ezumah about her hair. They asked her if she could do the Crip Walk. They asked if she was on a basketball scholarship. More

Media Hawk, March
San Diego Reader, March 10 -- Given the amount of ink — virtual and otherwise — flying around San Diego media-land these days, one might think that World War III had broken out at UCSD. More

UCSD Professor Receives National Science Foundation Award
San Diego Daily Transcript, March 10 -- Professor Terry August of the Rady School of Management at UCSD is the recipient of a 2010 National Science Foundation Career Award. The award, which will provide $530,000 in research funding, was granted by the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, under the Trustworthy Computing program. More

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One Cool Gift: Bassoonist Hopes to Thank Benefactors with Trip to Arctic
La Jolla Light, March 10 -- Talk about "thinking outside the box": In an effort to raise funds for the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, Dr. James Swift, a basoonist with the symphony and research oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography is offering a 38-day research trip to the Arctic Ocean on a Coast Guard icebreaker to thank the highest bidder. More

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