A Sampling of Clips for May 28-31, 2011

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UCSD Wins NCAA Softball Title
Union-Tribune, May 30 -- Score one for the underdogs as the 16th-ranked UC San Diego Tritons trounced the No. 1 University of Alabama-Huntsville Chargers 10-3 to capture the NCAA Division II Softball Championship on Monday. More

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La Jolla Gears Up for New Era of Ocean Research
Union-Tribune, May 28 -- A $56 million laboratory is going up at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and construction of a $26.5 million building is planned to start on the campus this summer. Both should be done by the end of 2012, adding 150,000 square feet of high-tech space, including a huge concrete tank for developing innoative ocean-sensing technologies. More

Birds Inspiring New, Improved Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Yahoo News, India, May 29 -- Engineers at UC San Diego are studying the flight and movement of various types of birds to design a prototype unmanned aerial vehicle, with improved maneuverability. More

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Credit Card Spam Payments Handled by Just a Few Offshore Banks
Fox Business, May 31 – Credit card transactions for products and services advertised via junk email originate with just a handful of banks, according to a team of California academics. Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Diego used prepaid Visa and MasterCard debit cards to follow the money trail from their inboxes to the offshore bank accounts of spammers and their suppliers. In their report, published on a UC San Diego web site, the research team revealed that just three offshore banks processed payments for 95% of web sites featured in common spam messages. More

Out of Fear, Colleges Lock Books and Images Away From Scholars
Chronicle of Higher Education, May 29 -- A library of 8.7 million digital volumes. A trove of 100,000 ocean-science photos. An archive of 57,000 Mexican-music recordings.  A common problem bedevils those different university collections. Wide online access is curtailed, in part because they contain "orphan works," whose copyright owners can't be found. And the institutions that hold the collections—a consortium of major research libraries and the University of California campuses at San Diego and Los Angeles—must deal with legal uncertainty in deciding how to share the works. More

Nanoengineers' Feat
The Daily Star, May 31 -- A new biomaterial designed for repairing damaged human tissue doesn't wrinkle up when it is stretched. The invention from nanoengineers at the UC San Diego marks a significant breakthrough in tissue engineering because it more closely mimics the properties of native human tissue. (Mentions Shaochen Chen, professor in the Department of nanoengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.) More

A Librarian's Many, Many Records
Union-Tribune, May 29 -- Brian Schottlaender is the very model of a modern major league librarian. He has an impressive title, “Audrey Geisel University Librarian,” and a massive task, overseeing all libraries on the UC San Diego campus. Last year, he won the American Library Association’s most prestigious prize, the Melvil Dewey Medal. More

UCSD Administration Denies Research Access to La Jolla Skeletons
San Diego.com, May 29 -- Since 2006, lobbyists for the Kumeyaay have petitioned to gain control of the skeletons that were unearthed on UC San Diego land in 1976. Called “the genetic crown jewels of the peopling of the Americas” by some researchers, UC San Diego administrators have since withdrawn scientific access to the skeletons. The university’s findings that the remains could not be affiliated with the Kumeyaay because of carbon dating and other relevant data carefully followed federal guidelines. (Quotes UC San Diego anthropologist Margaret Schoeninger.) More

Preuss School UCSD Raises Record $375,000 at Annual Benefit
La Jolla Light, May 28 – A World of Possibilities” was the theme of the 2011 benefit for The Preuss School UCSD on May 14 at the Hyatt Regency-Aventine. The charter middle and high school’s mission is to provide a top-notch education for motivated, low-income students. Record-breaking net proceeds of $375,000 will be used in support of the school’s 820 students. More

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