A Sampling of Clips for June 3, 2011

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UCSD Program to Focus on Southeastern San Diego

Union Tribune, June 2 -- A UC San Diego pilot program that will offer classes to schoolchildren in southeastern San Diego officially kicked off Wednesday with an open house at the South Metro Career Center in the Mountain View neighborhood.
The program aims to provide schoolchildren with special skills and inspire them to potentially seek careers in science, technology, engineering, arts and mechanics. The project is a combined effort of UC San Diego’s Center for Community Well-Being and the San Diego Workforce Partnership. (Quotes Edward Abeyta, UC San Diego’s director of K-16 programs.) More

Teddy Cruz Leads Walking Conference at Border

KPBS, June 2 -- Ever wanted to walk through a culvert built by Homeland Security and emerge in Mexico? This weekend's Political Equator 3 conference offers that opportunity. PE 3 was conceived by UC San Diego professor and architect Teddy Cruz. It involves a series of walking conversations about the neighborhoods along both sides of the US-Mexico border. More

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Move Over Flash: Here Comes Phase-change Memory

PC World, June 2 – UC San Diego researchers next week plan to demonstrate a solid state storage device that uses phase-change memory to blow away traditional hard drives and even newer flash drives. The Moneta system, which will be shown at the Design Automation Conference (DAC 2011) in San Diego, is thousands of times faster than a convention hard drive and up to seven times faster than flash memory drives according to the student-faculty research team. (Quotes Steven Swanson, UC San Diego professor of Computer Science and Engineering.) More

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Battle Rages Over Raising of Debt Ceiling
KUSI, June 2 – UC San Diego economics professor James Hamilton says if you or I were to say our plan is to spend more than we earn, but not run up any more debt, people would say we're crazy. Hamilton says the real problem here, which you won't hear anybody talking about, is that the government separates legislation on spending, on taxes and on the debt as if they're three different decisions. More

Help Wanted: Hot College Graduate Jobs

CBS (New York), June 2 -- Mark Kroh teaches web design at the Art Institute of York and from what he's seeing, the study done by UC San Diego is spot on. The study lists mobile media as one of the top ten hot career trends for college graduates. More

Merchants of Doubt

Cosmos Magazine, May Issue -- As the science backing human-induced climate change has firmed, public support has softened and political consensus dissolved. UC San Diego’s Naomi Oreskes identifies the characters, the tactics and techniques that have undermined the science. More

Swimming With Sensors
Chemistry World, June 2 -- Sensors printed onto the sleeves of wetsuits could alert the wearer to contaminated water. Navy divers could also use the sensors to locate underwater explosives, such as mines. Joseph Wang at UC San Diego and colleagues have demonstrated that their sensors can be printed directly onto neoprene, a synthetic rubber commonly used in wet- and dry-suits. More

UCSD Unveils Chicano Legacy Mural

La Jolla Patch, June 2 -- A large mural, two years in the making, was unveiled on UC San Diego’s campus on May 25. The Chicano Legacy 40 Años mural is 17 by 54 feet and made of thousands of colored glass pieces. It covers the east wall of Peterson Hall on the La Jolla campus. San Diego-based artist Mario Torero created the conceptual mosaic. (Quotes UC San Diego professor of literature Jorge Mariscal.) More

Police Investigate Attempted Rape in UCSD Residence Hall
CBS (Ch. 8), June 3 -- An investigation was under way at UC San Diego where an attempted rape allegedly took place in an on-campus residence early Friday, university police said. More

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