A Sampling of Clips for June 2, 2011

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Mr. Caveman, but not Mrs., stayed close to home
Agence France Presse (AFP), June 1 -- Scientists on Wednesday unveiled evidence that two species of early cavemen lived and died near their places of birth while most females of the same species settled down after coming from afar. (Quotes UC San Diego anthropologist Margaret Schoeninger.) More

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Eli Broad's Museum Names Veteran of San Diego
Museums -- and U.S. Marines -- as Second-in-command
Los Angeles Times, June 2 -- Heath Fox, a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who made a second career helping to run art and photography museums in San Diego’s Balboa Park, was named Wednesday to serve as second-in-command at the Broad –- the downtown art museum that will house Eli Broad’s contemporary art collection and is expected to open in about two years. Fox moved from museums to academia in 2006, taking his current position as assistant dean of arts and humanities at UC San Diego, with a portfolio that includes strategic planning and administration. More

Study May Unlock Key to Gulf War Syndrome
KGTV (San Diego Ch. 10), June 1 -- A study by the Veterans Health Administration and UC San Diego's School of Medicine may unlock a 20-year mystery syndrome. In the early 1990s, more than 700,000 military and civilians participated in Operation Desert Storm. Nearly a third of those who were there later developed a series of mysterious symptoms later described as Gulf War syndrome. More

Rising Ocean Temps Could Boost Chance For Hurricanes In San Diego
KPBS, June 1 -- The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting an above-normal hurricane season, with 18 named tropical storms in the Atlantic, and up to six of them major hurricanes. Climatology researcher Sam Iacobellis with Scripps Institution of Oceanography said a hurricane in San Diego is very unlikely. More

Championship Softball Season Means
Diamond Fades Away for Tritons Seniors
Union-Tribune, June 2 -- During a Wednesday afternoon media debriefing at the UC San Diego softball field, Jenn De Fazio wondered if she might be able to continue playing with an Italian team. UC San Diego third baseman Sarah Woofter said she planned to transition into coaching at her alma mater, San Leandro High School. Outfielder Lyndsay Gaylord expects to move back with her parents and explore the marketplace for psychology majors. None of them are ready to retire from competition. More

Afghanistan stories: Written at Risk, Edited With Care
Union Tribune, May 28 – Barbara Field, who manages communication and metrics for UC San Diego’s department of business and financial services, is a volunteer with the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, which pairs women in Afghanistan with female mentors in the United States for online writing workshops.The resulting poems, stories and essays — many of them written at great risk, all of them edited with great care — are posted on the group’s website (awwproject.org). More

Program Turns Texas Into Cancer Research Powerhouse
Houston Chronicle (AP), June 2 -- Houston is loading up on superstar cancer scientists, bankrolled in part by a generously funded state program that's transforming Texas into the nation's center of research on the deadly disease. (Mentions UC San Diego.) More

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Energy Board Awards UCSD $2M
Today’s Energy Solutions, June 1 -- The California Energy Commission has awarded $2 million to UC San Diego to accelerate research that will demonstrate the feasibility of using a variety of new kinds of biofuels to supplement or replace petroleum-based transportation fuels in the future. (Quotes Steve Kay, dean of the Division of Biological Sciences at UC San Diego and Stephen Mayfield, professor of biology at UC San Diego.) More

Embyronic Stem Cells: The Evolution of Informed Consent
Voice of San Diego, June 1 -- On May 4, 2011, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) awarded $25-million to Geron Corp. to support the first ever FDA approved clinical trial based on cells derived from human embryonic stem cells. (Quotes Michael Kalichman, director of the Research Ethics Program at the UC San Diego School of Medicine.) More

Expedition to the Sacred Reef of Fiji #2
National Geographic, June 1 -- Roko Sau, Dr. Greg Mitchell (founder of Pacific Blue Foundation and professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego) and I sat on a woven mat that was laid on the yacht deck for the presentation. More

Potential New Alzheimer's Drug Discovered
North County Times, June 1-- Researchers from UC San Diego and two other institutions have discovered a potential new drug for Alzheimer's patients. In animal studies, the drug reduces the buildup of the beta amyloid protein associated with Alzheimer's and substantially reduces memory loss from the disease. More

Scripps Professor Wins Award From Penn State
San Diego Daily Transcript, June 1 -- Richard Somerville, a distinguished professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the UC San Diego, will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from his alma mater Penn State University, the school’s highest honor bestowed on individuals. More

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