A Sampling of Clips for 
April 15, 2005

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1-Day Strike Hits UC Facilities
Los Angeles Times, April 15-Cooks, janitors, groundskeepers and other service workers staged a one-day strike Thursday at University of California campuses and hospitals, including UCSD, protesting their job conditions and stalled union contract negotiations. More

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UCSD Opens New Moores Cancer Center
Biocommunique, April 11-Exemplifying San Diego's collaborative relationship between academic research, therapeutic development and patient care, UCSD last week celebrated the grand opening of the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center, a new hospital and research center on the campus designed to speed the transformation of basic research into new lifesaving products, while giving patients the best care available. More

Grainy Head Gene
ABC Radio, Australia, April 15-It seems that we've got more in common with flies and mice than we thought. Research teams in Australia and at UCSD have identified the gene that organizes not only the development of skin barrier, but also its repair after injury. It's called the 'grainy-head' gene, after what happens to fruit flies when it's not there. More

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San Diego Union-Tribune, April 15

The Man Who Memorized Pi
Science Magazine, April 14-When Daniel Tammet set the European record for pi memorization last year, memorizing 22,514 digits in just over 5 hours, he attributed the feat to his ability to see numbers as complex, 3-dimensional landscapes, complete with color, texture, and sometimes even sound. Now researchers at UCSD say they've found evidence to support Tammet's claim that his enriched perception is at the heart of his knack for number memorization. More

Playhouse Picks New Managing Director
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 15-Steven B. Libman, who helped steer the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre from a small regional troupe into one of the country's leading ballet companies, has been named managing director of the La Jolla Playhouse, effective July 1. (Quote by Des McAnuff, the playhouse's artistic director.) More

UCSD Loses Coach to Team USA
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 15-UCSD men's volleyball coach Ron Larsen is leaving to be an assistant coach for the U.S. men's Olympic team, the school announced yesterday. More

Glimpse of Victory in War on Root Rot
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 15-It's a bad sign when you can see the sky when looking up through the branches of an avocado tree. (Quote by Gary Bender, a farm adviser with UCSD Cooperative Extension.) More

Tech Innovation Alive and Well in San Diego
Voice of San Diego, Opinion, April 15-I attended the 21st annual UCSD Connect Life Sciences and High Tech Financial Forum on Thursday, and the good news is that technology in all its wonderful iterations, permutations and combinations is alive and well in San Diego. More