A Sampling of Clips for July 20, 2011

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Three San Diego Hospitals Rank High Nationally
San Diego Union Tribune, July 19 -- Three San Diego hospitals were rated among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual hospitals rankings, released Tuesday. UC San Diego Medical Center, Rady Children’s Hospital and Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla together with Scripps Green Hospital had top national ranking in several specialty areas. UC San Diego went from national rankings in five specialties last year to six this year, adding the area of cancer. UC San Diego Medical Center ranked first in San Diego, followed by Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla; Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego; Sharp Memorial Hospital, Serra Mesa; and Scripps Memorial Hospital, Encinitas. (Quotes Tom Jackiewicz, chief executive of UC San Diego Health System.) More

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UC San Diego Takes Microgrids to the World
Intelligent Utility, July 20 --The original impetus for UC San Diego's microgrid was reliability and power quality—two elements in demand by the variety of organizations. (Quotes Byron Washom, director of strategic energy initiatives at UC San Diego, and refers to Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

EarthRisk Crunches Data to Predict Extreme Weather
CNET News, July 19 -- EarthRisk Technologies originally began as a research project at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, but company founders saw there was a business opportunity buried in its research. Three years ago, Scripps was approached by energy companies and hedge funds which deal in energy futures to see if there was a way to identify major weather events beyond the National Weather Service forecast. More

North Cove Could Be All Gone by 2053
Chinook Observer, July 19 --New research that looked at 2009-10 erosion is titled, “The impact of the 2009-10 El Niño Modoki on U.S. West Coast beaches,” published in The American Geophysical Union’s “Geophysical Research Letters” on July 9. It was led by the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries, University of California-Santa Cruz, Washington Department of Ecology, Oregon State University, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. More

Hot Jobs in a Bad Economy
NBC Los Angeles, July 20 -- If geriatric health care provider doesn't sound like your dream job, how about Spanish language interpreter, graphic designer or data mining? These are among the so-called "Hot Careers for College Grads" according to the latest edition of an annual report by UC San Diego Extension. (Quotes Henry DeVries, assistant dean of UC San Diego Extension.) More

UCSD Offers New Programs for Working Engineers
San Diego Union Tribune, June 19 – UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering will offer two new master’s degree programs in what it calls “cutting-edge multidisciplinary fields.” They are: wireless embedded systems and medical device engineering. More

On College: Tuition Hikes? Yikes!
San Jose Mercury News, July 19 -- The California State University system made headlines last week when it announced a planned 12 percent tuition hike. Undoubtedly, other universities will follow suit and the cost of attending college will soon become dinner conversation for families about to embark on the college journey. In most cases, the tuition hikes will follow annual cost-of-living increases, anywhere between 2 to 5 percent depending on the state you live in. (Mentions UC San Diego.) More

Tom Blair Column
San Diego Union Tribune, July 20 -- Del Mar’s Rachel Buehler may have been one of the unsung heroes of this year’s U.S. women’s soccer team, but she’s definitely one of the toughest. And smartest. The woman her teammates call “Buehldozer” is a Stanford grad. Her next stop: UC San Diego School of Medicine. More

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