A Sampling of Clips for May 27, 2011

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Study May Shed Light on How to Stop Spam
NPR, May 26 -- Robert Siegel speaks with Stefan Savage, a computer science and engineering professor at UC San Diego. Savage is a co-author of a new study that looks at why 95 percent of credit card transactions for spam-advertised products are processed by only three financial companies — and what this information can do to help stop spam.
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Is There an "Affair Epidemic" in This Country Among the Rich and Famous?
The Huffington Post, May 26 -- It seems that the news has almost weekly reports of a famous couple who has experienced a breach in the marriage by one party or the other having extramarital relations. (Mentions research by UC San Diego’s James Fowler)
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Post Loses First Game at Softball Series
Newsday, May 26 -- C.W. Post dropped its first game of the NCAA Division II College Softball World Series yesterday at Moyer Sports complex in Salem, Va., 7-0, to UC San Diego. The Tritons scored five runs in the fifth inning as starting pitcher Camille Gaito threw a two-hitter with eight strikeouts to stymie the Pioneers' bats.
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Scientists Doubt Claims Methane Gone After BP Spill
Agence France Presse, May 26 — Scientists on Thursday cast doubt on a study that claimed bacteria ate nearly all the methane that leaked after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, saying its methods were flawed. (Mentions the Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
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Top 10 Jobs for College Grads
AOL News, May 27 -- UC San Diego Extension conducted a study based on enrollment figures, national employment statistics and interviews with San Diego business executives, to come up with some of the hottest career plan options for college graduates in this recovering economy.
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Rice U. Hires 3 Prominent Biophysicists Away From U. of California
The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 27 -- In an unusual recruiting coup, Rice University announced on Thursday that it has hired three prominent researchers from UC San Diego to study the development of cancer.
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John Davies Dies at 76; Longtime San Diego Civic Leader
FOX 5, May 26 -- John Davies, a major civic figure in San Diego for decades, particularly in education, urban planning and the revitalization of a once-crumbling downtown, died of pancreatic cancer Friday at his home in downtown San Diego. He was 76. He was a trustee of the UC San Diego Foundation board.
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Mosaic of Chicano Legacy Unveiled on UCSD
NBC San Diego, May 26 -- Students, administrators and artists celebrated the installation of a massive mural on the UC San Diego campus honoring Chicanos and Latinos.
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New President Named at Institute of the Americas
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 26 -- Ambassador Charles S. Shapiro has been named president of UC San Diego’s Institute of the Americas in La Jolla.
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Did UCSD Breach Professor's Academic Freedom?
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 25 -- The UC San Diego faculty assembly has expressed "grave concern" about what it deems a violation of academic freedom and called on the administration to acknowledge and correct the situation.
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Local Teams Get Off Their Soapbox
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 26 -- A San Diego ice cream cart soapbox came in ninth and a rolling “house” scored 16th among 40 entrants in L.A.’s May 22 Red Bull Soapbox Race. The flying house, built by UC San Diego engineering students inspired by the movie “Up,” shed siding and shingles as it limped over jumps, negotiated a 90-degree turn and tight chicanes to wobble over the finish line.
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Wacky Scholarships Available to Students Who Look
FOX 5, May 25 -- Searching for scholarships can be daunting, but there are lots of places where money is offered and few applicants look.  In fact, some scholarships are given to anybody who applies, because so few take the time to do it.  “Because sometimes scholarship funds are really targeted, they really, whoever finds that application is the one that receives it,” said Kim Signoret- Paar, Director of Development of Student Affairs at UC San Diego.
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Scripps Researcher Named Emerging Explorer
The San Diego Daily Transcript, May 26 -- Jennifer Burney, a postdoctoral researcher with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, was named an Emerging Explorer by the National Geographic Society.
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