A Sampling of Clips for Feb. 26 to March 1, 2010

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California Campus Sees Uneasy Race Relations
The New York Times, Feb. 26 -- It began, as so many racial flare-ups on campus do, with a prank that some called malicious, others insensitive. Students at UCSD held an off-campus “Compton Cookout” Feb. 15 to mock Black History Month. More

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Xenakis at the Mall
New Yorker Magazine, Feb. 24 -- Xenakis Week here at Unquiet Thoughts continues with some additional observations by the master percussionist Steven Schick, whose book “The Percussionist’s Art” gave me as much to think about as any musical text. Schick is a music professor at UCSD. More

A Poet of the Body, Bending All the Rules
The New York Times, Feb. 26 -- If you want to learn just how differently dance can be set to music — and how dance can reveal different aspects of music — then there is no better place to be than in New York this weekend. (Mentions James F. Ingalls, who is on the UCSD faculty) More

Skateboards Now Hang in Galleries, But Are They Wheelie Art?
The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 26 -- This April, a San Francisco art gallery will host a show called "Skate This Art," featuring works from some 100 local artists hand-painted on skateboards. (Quotes Rubén Ortiz Torres, an art professor at UCSD) More

Change We Can Believe In
New York Magazine, Feb. 24 -- The cover of the 2010 Whitney Biennial catalogue displays a picture of Barack Obama as a Dapper Dan cowboy. After two biennials devoted to dealing with “failure” and “darkness,” this catalogue speaks of “renewal” and “optimism.” Yes, it’s the Obama Biennial: alternately moving and frustrating, challenging and disappointing—and a big improvement on what came before. (Mentions Babette Mangolte, who is on the UCSD faculty) More

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Multipurpose Molecule for Cancer Surgery
MIT Tech Review, March 1 -- A new molecule designed to seek out and label cancer cells could help guide surgeons to hidden pockets of disease--a technology that could one day allow for more complete tumor removal and increase a patient's chances of survival. The molecular label, developed by researchers at UCSD, works in two ways. More

Blood-Chilling Device Could Save Stroke Victims From Brain Damage
Wired, Feb. 26 -- A tiny device placed inside a central vein can safely refrigerate blood as it flows through stroke patients, lowering their temperature and raising the possibility that they might gain brain protection from hypothermia without having to be packed in ice. Although the trial didn’t find that stroke patients getting their blood cooled fared any better or worse than a comparison group of patients who weren’t cooled, the technology proved safe enough to clear the way for testing the device in a much larger group, said Thomas Hemmen, a neurologist at UCSD Medical Center who presented the data Feb. 25 at the International Stroke Conference. More

Why B-Schools Set Up Entrepreneurs to Fail
Forbes, Opinion, Feb. 26 -- I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and very little pragmatic understanding of what it really takes to get a venture off the ground. As a result, business schools launch students into the real world with completely unrealistic expectations, set up to fail. (Quotes Rob Fuller at UCSD) More

Health Care Summit: A Window Into White House-Hill Relations
Politico, March 1 -- Thursday’s health care summit produced Olympic-like hype, but no bipartisan medals. So was it a waste of time? Not at all. (Mentions UCSD political scientists Gary W. Cox and Mathew D. McCubbins) More

Kids' Stomachs - On Full or Empty?
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 25 -- Most of us know when we're hungry. But do you know when you're full? More important, at a time when one in three American kids is overweight, does your child know the difference? Carol Peterson, a research associate at the University of Minnesota and a colleague at UCSD, are recruiting about 20 subjects ages 8 to 12 for a study to devise strategies to help children listen to their stomachs. More

Local Victim of Haiti Quake Memorialized
KPHO, Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 27 -- Saturday was an emotional day for a Valley family, as they memorialized their son killed in last month's earthquake in Haiti. We've all seen the devastating pictures from the earthquake, but watching Ryan Kloos' family cope with their loss makes what happened there even more tragic. Kloos was a UCSD alumnus. More

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The Big Picture: San Diego and Megaregions
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 1 -- While San Diegans fret over lost jobs, underwater mortgages, disappearing fire pits and unfilled potholes, a small group of big thinkers is leapfrogging beyond today’s crises to take us to the proverbial next level — San Diego as player in a giant “megaregion,” stretching from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to northern Baja California. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More

Planners Say Region Needs More Homes
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 26 -- If the county feels a tad cramped and overcrowded today, try picturing a million more people here 40 years from now, many of them living in apartments, condominiums and townhomes concentrated in urban centers near trolley stations and bus stops. (Quotes UCSD urban studies professor Keith Pezzoli) More

Performer: Off-Campus Party Not Offensive
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 26 -- The recent off-campus party that has sparked two weeks of racial discord at UCSD was a multicultural affair that should not have offended anyone, says a black man who claims to have headlined the event. More

Colleges’ Diversity Push Heads to Church
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 27 -- Already flooded with enrollment applications, administrators at the two local California State University campuses hardly need to beat the bushes for more. So why are the schools’ presidents heading out to local churches tomorrow morning, encouraging students to apply? It’s part of a CSU initiative to increase the number of African-American students. (Mentions UCSD) More

S.D. Colleges Undergo Green Renovation
KPBS, Feb. 27 -- California was the first state in the nation to adopt green building code standards. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce takes a look at how San Diego's colleges and universities, including UCSD, are stepping up with their own green construction projects. More

Report Says Fewer Illegal Immigrants Coming to California
North County Times, Feb. 26 -- The Golden State appears to have lost some of its luster among illegal immigrants because of its sluggish economy and high cost of living, analysts say. (Quotes UCSD economist Gordon Hanson) More

Good Jobs for All
San Diego News Network, Opinion, Feb. 25 -- America has lost its way, because we think that the future of our economy is going to be in big companies and finding the next General Motors. But it is small companies that are creating jobs, and I’d rather have 100 little companies that are creating jobs in my town than one big employer like General Motors.  Ninety percent of the new jobs in this country are coming from small entrepreneurial companies. (Written by Mary Walshok, the associate vice chancellor of public programs and the dean, University Extension at UCSD) More

More People Taking Continuing Education Classes
Fox6, Feb. 25 -- Enrollment in UCSD’s continuing education programs grew 1 percent last year and 44 percent over the past three years. More

Concrete Tops Out at UCSD Student Housing
San Diego Daily Transcript, Feb. 25 -- The concrete framing has topped out at the UCSD Health Sciences Graduate Student Housing project, located on the northwest corner of Villa La Jolla Drive and La Jolla Village Drive, in La Jolla. The two building, 254,000-square-foot housing project is slated for completion in July 2011. More

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