A Sampling of Clips for May 10, 2010

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Dance Team from UCSD to Perform on TV Show
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, May 10 -- A team of UC San Diego students will get the rare chance to dance before millions of television viewers during the popular “Dancing With The Stars” program on Tuesday. Ten members of UCSD’s Dancesport team will perform the samba in a competition against Purdue University. More

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UCSD Law School Would be a Boon to Innovation
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, May 9 -- The establishment of a UC San Diego School of Law can provide a positive stimulus to the economic growth of our region through the enriched training of students that is possible within the context of a great research university. More

Oil's Pullback: a Comment on the Economy?
The Wall Street Journal, May 10 -- Last week's sharp drop in oil prices may mean the gasoline-buying public can afford to drive a few extra miles. But it also suggests the economic revival will make for a bumpy ride.  (Quotes UC San Diego economist James Hamilton) More

A Passion to Clean Up the Pacific Ocean's Great 'Garbage Patch'
Christian Science Monitor, May 10 -- Avid sailor and educator Mary Crowley is recruiting help to clean up the North Pacific Trash Gyre, a 'garbage patch' of plastic and other trash in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. (Mentions the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

National Book Foundation Announces
Entry Guidelines and Judges for 2010 Awards
Publishers Weekly, May 5 -- The National Book Foundation has made entry guidelines for the 2010 National Book Awards available, by request, to publishers. It has also announced the names of the 20 writers who will judge the awards. Judges include Rae Armantrout, who recently won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and is on the UC San Diego faculty. More

Tapping Into His History: Daniel Widener
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9 -- Daniel Widener, who grew up in Los Angeles, was living in New York in the 1990s and thinking about what kind of dissertation he wanted to write for his Ph.D. in history from New York University. His interest centered on the era of the civil rights movement in the United States. He also decided on a second ambition related to his topic. He is now on the UC San Diego faculty. More

Tritons Nab 2nd Straight CCAA Title
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9 -- Kirby St. John pitched a complete-game seven-hitter to give UC San Diego its second consecutive California Collegiate Athletic Association championship title after an 8-3 win over Cal State Dominguez Hills on Saturday in Stockton. More

Therapy Dogs' Visit UC Students Stressed by Exams
San Jose Mercury News, May 7 -- Seven-year old Minnie became Thursday one of the first therapy dogs at UC Merced to help students relax before their finals. Greg Spurgeon, assistant director of Health Services for UC Merced, said he brought the program to campus after learning of a similar program at UC San Diego. More

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A New Public Law School May Not be Worth the Price
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, May 9 -- As a person born and raised in San Diego County and a graduate of UC San Diego, I would love to see a law school affiliated with the UCSD campus. More

A River Runs Through Them
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9 -- San Diego River Days were conducted as part of a campaign to show the public some of the San Diego County sites that supporters want designated as federal wilderness areas. The designation is being sought for almost 64,000 acres of wilderness and 22½ miles of river that they would like to see named wild and scenic. (Quotes Jim Daly, an architect at UC San Diego)More

Time for Another Expo?
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9 -- There hasn’t been a world’s fair in the U.S. since New Orleans’ problem-plagued Louisiana World Exposition in 1984. This 26-year gap is America’s longest since such things began with London’s Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in 1851. (Quotes UC San Diego historian Abe Shragge) More

It's Not Just the Genes
North County Times, May 10 -- Non-genetic parts of cells associated with DNA explain many of the differences between human embryonic stem cells and partly differentiated cells, according to a new study led by UC San Diego researchers. The differences also explain the difficulties in genetically reprogramming common "adult" cells, such as skin cells, to act like human embryonic stem cells. More

The KUSI Weatherman's Cloudy Climate Claims
Voice of San Diego, May 9 – John Coleman is a climate change skeptic, and many television meteorologists agree with him. Only a few, though, have taken such a vocal stand. Coleman has hosted two television specials, given hundreds of speeches and traveled across the country. (Quotes from “Merchants of Doubt,” a book by Naomi Oreskes, a UC San Diego science historian, that traces back much of the climate skeptic movement that Coleman champions) More

Professor Says He is Unfairly Targeted in UCSD Probe
10News, May 7 -- Administrators at UC San Diego are investigating a professor who created a controversial cell phone GPS tool that could help illegal immigrants cross the U.S.-Mexico Border. More

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UCSD Study Shows Mom’s Daily Hours With Kids Have Spiked
SDNN, May 9  -- Women armed with college degrees and career opportunities have increasingly morphed into soccer moms, dedicated to carting their children from activity to activity over the past two decades. UC San Diego economist Valerie Ramey discovered she was falling into this description until her family asked her to dial back the stress. More

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