A Sampling of Clips for March 5, 2010

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County's Colleges See Mass Protests
The San Diego Unoin-Tribune, March 5 -- College students, including those at UCSD, staged mass demonstrations yesterday on campuses across San Diego County to rail against fee increases and funding cuts that they say strike at the heart of California’s higher-education system. More

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UCSD Students, Admins Agree on Diversity Goals
San Jose Mercury News, March 4—Administrators at UCSD and the school's Black Student Union have signed an agreement that outlines common goals after several racially and ethnically charged incidents sparked angry protests. More

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Legislators Press for Answers on Campus Racism
The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 4 -- A group of state legislators on Thursday sent a letter to University of California President Mark Yudof and the chancellors of five UC campuses where there have been racial incidents questioning what is being done to prevent a recurrence of such acts. (Mentions UCSD) More

Highs and Lows
The Economist, March 4 – In negotiations on nuclear weapons the preferred stance is “Trust but verify”. In negotiations on climate change there seems little opportunity for either. Trust, as anyone who attended last year’s summit in Copenhagen can attest, is in the shortest of supplies. So, too, is verification. (Mentions research by Ray Weiss of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

What Lewis Carroll Taught Us
Slate, March 4 - What meaning can we find in Lewis Carroll's life? His children's books have been, almost since the moment of their publication, cornerstones of bedtime reading and classroom performance. (Written by Seth Lerer, UCSD’s dean of Arts and Humanities) More

Jerry Brown's Long Political Past Cuts Both Ways
Los Angeles Times, March 4 -- When Jerry Brown told Californians this week that he wanted to be their governor again, he reached into the past to explain why they should elect him in the future. His opponents invoked the past to explain why they should not. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Organic Pesticide Doubles Up as Worm Killer
New Scientist, March 3 -- It works for crops. Now a common organic pesticide could cure hundreds of millions of people of intestinal worms, if cash can be found for trials. Raffi Aroian at UCSD, and colleagues have shown that the protein Cry5B, produced by the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis and used as a crop pesticide, could act as an effective drug. More

Cancer Drug May Help Treat Chronic Nosebleeds
ABC7, Los Angeles, Calif., March 5 -- Imagine having a nosebleed every day of your life but instead of a few drops, it's a few pints of blood. That's reality for people with Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT), a genetic disorder that affects blood vessels. HHT impacts one out of every 2,000 people in the United States. Now one UCSD doctor is experimenting with a spray to stop the bleeding. More

Innovation Summit Highlights
Drug Development, Cleantech, and Potential Impact of Drought
The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 4 -- The La Jolla Research & Innovation Summit held yesterday at the Salk Institute was a smaller and a much more modest affair than the inaugural summit that Connect CEO Duane Roth organized last year. (Describes the presentations of Dan Cayan of UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Tony Haymet, who is director of Scripps Oceanography, William Gerwick, a professor for marine biology and biomedicine at Scripps and UCSD's Joseph Ford, an electrical engineering and computer science professor who now heads UCSD’s photonics systems integration lab) More

Aging-related Protein's Function Unraveled in Fruit Flies
North County Times, March 4 -- UCSD scientists seeking understanding of the human aging process say they have found important new evidence in fruit flies. The research helps explain why a life-extension therapy works in mice, and theoretically could work in humans. More

Temblor in Chile gives California Insight
The San Diego Union-Tribune, March 4 -- When an earthquake is powerful enough to shift Earth’s axis, even the toughest building codes in the world won’t stand tall. (Quotes Frieder Seible, dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD and an international expert on bridge and highway seismic safety) More

Anticipating the Next Big Quake
Voice of San Diego, March 4 -- We sat down with Debi Kilb, a seismologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to ask her about what she learns from these massive quakes, how the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile compare, and whether we can ever expect to see anything much bigger than an 8.8. More

What Can Women Do to Better Protect Themselves Against an Attack?
San Diego News Network, March 4 -- Self-defense is the strongest weapon known to woman.  Preparedness can better help a woman from becoming a victim of assault. Equipping oneself with self-defense and rape aggression defense (RAD) strategies is a highly-proactive approach to resisting potential assault. (Quotes Emelyn de la Pena, Campus Diversity Officer & Director at the UCSD Women’s Center) More

Heart of San Diego Gala Beats Strong for CVC
San Diego News Network, March 4 -- The 13th Annual UCSD “Heart of San Diego” Cardiovascular Gala was held February 27 at the Four Seasons Resort Aviara in Carlsbad, where there were many San Diegan hearts pumping for a common purpose.  Funds raised by the event will significantly benefit construction of the new comprehensive Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center (CVC). More

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