A Sampling of Clips for March 2, 2010

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UCSD Admins Work to Calm Campus
NBC San Diego, March 1 -- UCSD is working to implement changes demanded by students in the wake of a number of racially-charged incidents on the campus in recent weeks including the discovery of a noose at a campus library. More

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Soil Bacteria Could Yield Drug to Treat Roundworm
Nature, March 2 -- A bacterial protein used in a common pesticide kills intestinal parasitic roundworms in mice and may become a treatment option for humans, UCSD researchers say. More

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Former 'No Child Left Behind' Advocate Turns Critic
NPR, March 2 -- In 2005, former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch wrote, "We should thank President George W. Bush and Congress for passing the No Child Left Behind Act ... All this attention and focus is paying off for younger students, who are reading and solving mathematics problems better than their parents' generation." Four years later, Ravitch has changed her mind. (Quotes Julian Betts of UCSD) More

Weight Loss Surgery Without a Scar
ABC7, Los Angeles, Calif., March 1 -- The number of obese people has now surpassed the number of overweight people in the United States. Fighting this epidemic is on the forefront in the medical world. Now, a new, less-invasive procedure in clinical trial at UCSD may give people who need to lose weight new hope. More

Black Students Urged to Attend College
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 1 — It’s not enough to get African-American students to strive for college. Families need to help them meet the requirements for a postsecondary education. And colleges must support them once they arrive. (Mentions UCSD) More

Chuck Millenbah: Well-liked Leader of Mission Beach Club
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 1 — Chuck Millenbah had the bearing of a natural athlete and a natural leader, so after he joined the Old Mission Beach Athletic Club in the late 1960s, it was natural that he ended up as president of the group for about three decades. Mr. Millenbah arrived in San Diego in the mid-1960s and taught physical education at UCSD. He retired as chairman of the physical education department in 2007 after 40 years with the university. More

Science in the Information Age
KPBS, March 1 -- Many scientists say they're all for sharing research data, but as with many things, the devil is in the details. Just putting data on the internet doesn't mean that it's good science. And yet, who decides when and how scientific breakthroughs should be released to the public? Philip Bourne, professor of pharmacology at UCSD and founding Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal PLoS Computational Biology, discusses the issue. More

So You've Never Seen an iPod Battle?
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 1 — For anyone who ever thought their iTunes playlist was so amazing it’d blow the backlight out of someone else’s iPod touch screen … it’s the multiplayer competition called the iPod Battle starting at 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 4. The rules for Sound Clash Royale at UCSD’s Loft are simple: Teams get a minute each to whip the crowd into a frenzy by playing party-hyping tracks and mashups. More

Larry Ochs: the Celestial Septet & We All Feel the Same Way
All About Jazz, Feb. 28 -- The synchronicity and boundless energy that separate great groupwork from everything else pervades these two new additions to multi-instrumentalist and composer Larry Ochs' already formidable discography. He has always negotiated the permeable boundaries between improvisation and composition with consummate skill and these two new group projects are no exception. (Mentions Mark Dresser, who is on the UCSD faculty) More

UCSD Rady School Offers M.B.A. Information Sessions
San Diego Business Journal, March 1 -- Representatives of UCSD’s Rady School of Management will lay out details of the school’s FlexMBA program for working professionals. The FlexMBA program offers classes on evenings and weekends. More

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