A Sampling of Clips for June 7, 2011

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Watermelon Drop
San Diego Union Tribune, June 6 -- Since 1965, UC San Diego students have practiced the tradition of throwing a watermelon from seven stories up and measuring the distance of the farthest splattered piece. More

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2011 Marconi Prize Goes to Giants
of Cellular Communications, Data Storage
Computer World, June 7 -- The 2011 Marconi Prize, sometimes described as the Nobel Prize in Information Technology, has been awarded to two major contributors to cellular communications: Qualcomm Co-founder Irwin Jacobs and the late information theorist and professor Jack Wolf. (Mentions UC San Diego.)
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Hypertension Opens the Door to Disease
San Diego Union Tribune, June 7 -- High blood pressure or hypertension seems increasingly to be a part of American life. A March survey by the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that more than 59 million Americans 18 and older – one-fifth of the total population – were diagnosed with hypertension. (Interview with Dr. Lori Daniels, a cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at UC San Diego.) More

Family Looks to China for Child's Stem Cell Treatment
The Detroit News, June 7 -- Stem cell therapy or transplants have become a huge industry overseas, often catering to families of special needs children desperate for treatment options, regardless of cost. Thousands of procedures are conducted each year in China, the Dominican Republic and Mexico. But U.S. scientists caution parents to be wary of such treatments and say there's no evidence the therapy works in treating neurological conditions such as cerebral palsy.  (Quotes Larry Goldstein, director of the UC San Diego Stem Cell Program.) More

Celiac Disease Treated With Diet
Las Vegas Review-Journal, June 7 -- For the past decade the gluten protein has become the nutrition world's big public enemy. More and more people are being diagnosed with celiac disease, a condition where one's body cannot tolerate gluten and the resulting autoimmune response is an attack on the intestinal tract. (Quotes Dr. Martin Kagnoff, director of the K. Warren Medical Research Center for Celiac Disease at UC San Diego.) More

UCSD Claims Victory in Greenhouse Gas Reductions
North County Times, June 6 -- The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration has granted UC San Diego and the nine other UC system campuses an exemption from using an extremely potent greenhouse gas to safety-test retrofitted lab fume hoods. In its place, the campuses are now permitted to test with nitrous oxide. More

Positive Peer Pressure Greens Campuses
International Business Times, June 7 -- Positive peer pressure and pizza were apparently what helped interns from the Alliance to Save Energy‘s Green Campus Program motivate college students to save energy during the Campus Conservation Nationals, a nationwide competition between college and university residence halls. During this time, a number of residence halls competed against one another for the title of greenest dorm, and for the title of greenest school (taken, this year by DePauw University). Among them were six Green Campus schools in California – Cal Poly Pomona, Humboldt State University, San Diego State University, UC Irvine, UC Santa Cruz and UC San Diego – which, all told, managed to save their schools $485,000 in utility bills.
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