A Sampling of Clips for June 8, 2011

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Dogs Offer Break for Stressed-Out Students
NBC (Ch.7/39), June 7 -- Students who have spent hours preparing for their final exams crowded around two dozen dogs along Library Walk at UC San Diego Tuesday. University administrators brought in the certified therapy dogs to help ease the stress of finals week. More

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UCSD Architect to Review 50 Years
San Diego Union Tribune, June 8 -- The San Diego Architectural Foundation will honor UC San Diego campus architect M. Boone Hellmann for his 26 years on campus and for the campus' 50 years of architectural achievement. More

Goodbye Holocene, Hello Anthropocene
San Diego Union Tribune, June 8 -- Thanks to an emeritus professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a new word is gaining international traction to reflect the modern age and it may eventually become part of official scientific nomenclature. The 12,000-year-old Holocene appears to be outdated and Anthropogene -- the recent age of man's environmental influence -- is starting to take its place. It would be a startling change in some regards, since many students of earth science have been taught that humans are an inconsequential blip in the geologic time scale. (Quotes Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric scientist and professor emeritus of Scripps, and Naomi Oreskes, professor of history and science studies at UC San Diego.) More

A Scientist's Life: 20 Things James Fowler has Done
San Diego Union Tribune, June 8 -- James Fowler's official profile is impressive; it tracks his rise as an influential political scientist at UC San Diego. It notes that he wrote the critically-praised book, "Connected: The Surprising Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives." Also, Foreign Policy magazine named him one of its “Top 100 Global Thinkers” and Fowler was named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation not long ago. More

Testosterone Decline: Not Inevitable With Age?
CBS News.com, June 7 -- Testosterone decline is not inevitable with age, according to Australian scientists. Older men in excellent health can maintain their hormone levels, they say. (Quotes Dr. Irwin Goldstein, a clinical professor of surgery at the UC San Diego.) More

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“Library of Fishes” to Feature
Thousands of Specimens From Remote Locations
National Science Foundation, June 7, 2011 --In the 1960s and '70s, Richard Rosenblatt, a marine biologist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, set out on field expeditions to remote places to study the fishes of the Pacific Ocean. Due primarily to a lack of space at Scripps, much of the treasure trove remained unsorted. Thanks to an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Phil Hastings, curator of the fish collection, and colleagues have begun opening the mysterious containers. More

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Visualizing California Climate Change
KQED, June 8, 2011 -- Built by UC Berkeley's Geospatial Innovation Facility, Cal-Adapt is designed to aid local and regional planners in preparing to adapt to climate change by providing scientific data from institutions like Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, U.S. Geological Survey, UC Merced, and the Pacific Institute, and integrating it with mapping and charting capabilities from Google. More

Jellyfish Invasions Not an Issue for San Diego Beaches
Fox 5 San Diego, June 7, 2011 -- The population of jellyfish has exploded dramatically worldwide because of climate changes and their resilient personalities. (Quotes Vince Levesque of Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

The Invention of Lying
The American Prospect, June 3 -- Q&A with Naomi Oreskes, professor of history and science studies at UC San Diego, about her book Merchants of Doubt. More

Hottest Career Opportunities Now
Press Enterprise, June 8 --Researchers at UC San Diego have published a list of job-market hotspots, with an eye to career-building opportunities. (Quotes Henry DeVries, assistant dean, External Affairs, UC San Diego Extension.) More

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