A Sampling of Clips for May 20, 2010

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New Hope for Early Detection of Autism
BusinessWeek, May 19 -- Researchers hope that a simple brain scan performed in infants and toddlers can presage the development of autism, leading to early detection and early intervention. The test involved using functional MRI to measure brain responses to spoken words in sleeping children. "We're focusing on this earliest time period, when the brain is still developing and still changing," explained study author Lisa Eyler, an assistant professor of psychiatry at UC San Diego. More

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3 Climate Change Reports: Set Prices on Carbon Emissions
USA Today, May 19 -- In three reports on global warming, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences called Wednesday for limiting greenhouse gas emissions by setting a price on them. (Quotes UC San Diego political scientist David Victor) More

Pulitzer Poet Rae Armantrout
Huffington Post, May 19 -- Rae Armantrout, this year's Pulitzer Prize poet, calls her stance "quizzical." Fellow poets and critics write of her "oppositional temperament" (Steve Burt), of an impulse "to countermand, rather than to express" (Dan Chiasson). She is speaking in our conversation of the gesture of resistance that runs through her poems -- of a habit of dissent and a lifetime of "talking back to the world when it's bothering me." Armantrout is on the UC San Diego faculty.  More

Online Education and the Laying On of Hands
Huffington Post, May 19 -- I had an excellent, thought-provoking discussion last week at UC San Diego courtesy of iGrad with a really well-chosen group of professors: Dr. Beyer of National University, a nonprofit online university that is the second-largest private institution in California; Dr. Allison Rossett, a professor of Educational Technology at San Diego State; Joe Safdie, a poet who teaches at San Diego Mesa Community college; and Monte Johnson, a philosophy prof at UCSD whose field is Aristotle. More

Our Eyes Underwater
Newsweek, May 19 -- At its greatest depths, the sea floor is a dark, tranquil, and foreboding place, beyond the reach of both sunlight and human divers. Yet the area around the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, nearly a mile below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, is busting with activity—robotic activity. (Quotes Glenn Sasagawa, a development engineer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Coming Attractions: Summer of Combative Primaries
NPR, May 18 -- Tuesday's big primaries are over, but in just a few weeks, what promises to be a long summer of combative and telling Senate primary contests begins in earnest. Here's what to look for in California, Nevada, Colorado and Arizona. (Quotes UC San Diego political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Political Cartoonists Split on Usefulness
of 'Everybody Draw Muhammad Day'
The Washington Post, May 20 -- "Shock for shock's sake." "Choreographed punditry." And "wrong, childish and needlessly provocative." That's what some critics think of Thursday's Facebook-ignited campaign titled "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day." But those aren't Islamic extremists speaking. Those are the words of pro-free-speech political cartoonists. (Quotes Islamic scholar Babak Rahimi, who teaches at UC San Diego) More

Whitman's Big Lead Collapses Under Immigration, Goldman Sachs Attacks
Sacramento Bee, May. 19 -- The past month has not been kind to Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. The first hit came when her GOP rival Steve Poizner and labor unions went after her ties to the investment firm Goldman Sachs just as federal investigators launched a criminal probe into the company. (Quotes UC San Diego political scientist Thad Kousser)  More

Many Americans Going to Mexico for Health Care
KPBS, May 19, 2010 — A recent day-long conference, at the Institute of the Americas on the UC San Diego campus, was called "The Future of Health Care in Mexico for Americans." That title serves as a good introduction for Frank Carillo, president and founder of the Sistemas Medicos Nacionales, S.A. de C.V. Health Plan (SIMNSA) because that's what SIMNSA does. It provides Mexican health care to people who live on the American side of the border. More

In a Nutshell
Rorotoko, May 2010 -- My book is about the making of the literate imagination in the history of children’s literature. More than just a survey of books and authors, Children’s Literature is a critical narrative of how education, the family, and social life come together in the many different kinds of things that children read. (Written by Seth Lerer, dean of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego) More

Hot Career Trends for College Grads Listed
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 19 -- With unemployment high, college graduates face increased competition in finding jobs. UC San Diego Extension on Wednesday released a report by its top academics on the “Top 10 Hot Career Trends for College Graduates.” More

Advances in HIV/AIDS Research
KUSI, May 19 -- Davey Smith, MD Associate Professor of Medicine, UC San Diego, joined us to share some of the latest advancements in the field of HIV/AIDS research, and to tell us about a special charity golf tournament that benefits the UCSD AIDS Research Institute and Christie's Place. More

Even at 90, They're Playing Tennis to Win
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 19 -- The men playing singles and doubles this week at the Morgan Run Resort & Club in Rancho Santa Fe could be excused for making some concessions to age; they were competing in the United States Tennis Association Men’s 90s Hard Court Championships. (Quotes Robyn Stuhr, an exercise physiologist at UC San Diego Sports Medicine) More

‘Seven Against Thebes’
GLT News, May 19  -- Charlie Oates directs UC San Diego’s undergraduate theater students in Dr. Marianne McDonald’s lovely translation of the Greek classic through May 22 at the Mandell Weiss Forum Theatre. More

Sorority Surf-Off Brings Bikinis, $15K in Charity Money
SDNN, May 19 -- One would think the sun is always shining at the UC San Diego Pi Beta Phi Surf Classic, which went down on Sunday, May 16th at Pacific Beach Drive. More

UCSD Lab to Honor Memory of Ericson
La Jolla Light, May 19 -- Classmates, professors and colleagues of Lamont Ericson, M.D., who completed his ophthalmology residency at UC San Diego Shiley Eye Center, will honor his memory with a new practice lab named after him. More

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