A Sampling of Clips for
April 3, 2006
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UCSD Recognition
Fox TV6 San Diego, March 31 -- Six UCSD doctorate programs were ranked among the top 10 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, the university announced Friday. More
To see rankings, go to U.S. News & World Report
UCSD Opens Branch in Mexico
NBC San Diego, March 31 -- UCSD has opened a branch office in Mexico City. Thursday's opening is part of the university's plan to forge a partnership with Mexico. The "UCSD Partnership with Mexico" initiative was announced in November by Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. The partnership will focus on improving air quality in the Baja-San Diego region, building a technology corridor on both sides of the border and developing and improving economic policies in Mexico. More
Not getting enough sleep? Strategies
to help you get through the workday
Boston Globe, April 2 -- Chances are half of your colleagues at work are desperate for a nap. Many adults don't get enough sleep, according to the National Sleep Foundation, the problem particularly ''acute" among Generation Y workers: one in three young workers struggle to get out of bed each morning. (Quotes Daniel Kripke, professor of psychiatry at UCSD) More
The ‘Sleeping Giant’ Awakens (Again)
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 31 --The recent demonstrations in support of humane immigration reform that does not exploit hard-working families dwarf the demonstrations of the Chicano Movement era – 4,000 in Dallas, 5,000 in San Francisco, 20,000 in Phoenix, 50,000 in Detroit, 50,000 in Denver, 100,000 in Chicago and more than 500,000 in Los Angeles. (Guest editorial by Jorge Mariscal, director of the Chicano/Latino Arts and Humanities Program at UCSD.) More
First Walkouts Transform
Into Variety of Reactions
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 1 -- Tensions surrounding immigration-policy protests have risen so high in North County that administrators were forced to shut down Oceanside and Vista schools. In San Diego, hundreds of truants protesting proposed changes in immigration laws have rallied every day this week at Chicano Park. But near El Cajon, Steele Canyon High School teacher Kim Dickinson persuaded eight students waiting for rides Tuesday to a San Diego demonstration to return to class. She challenged them to research the legislation they were protesting. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of UCSD's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.) More
Calit2 Monitors
Future Horizon for Newest Technologies
KPBS, April 3 -- Back in 2000 when California was flush with money, then-Governor Gray Davis directed hundreds of millions of dollars to create four institutes of innovation. One became the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Techonology, or Calit2. More
Real Sex, College Edition
Inside Higher Ed, March 30 -- The oral sex-loving fictional characters of the WB’s The Bedford Diaries, a sexually charged series about students attending a fictional New York City college, have got nothing on Steven York, a real-life recent graduate of UCSD. With a little help from a porn actress, he’s set off lasting campus debates after literally letting it all hang out on a student TV program. (Quotes Gary R. Ratcliff, acting assistant vice chancellor of student life at UCSD, and students Andrew Tess and Christopher Sweeten.) More
Seismic Challenge Thrills Students
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 2 -- The engineering students from UCSD hooted and cheered as a 5-foot-high, scale-model dormitory built by junior Eric Kjolsing began to shimmy on the earthquake simulator. The maple and balsa wood model had remained intact during two mandatory “quakes,” but now the magnitude of shaking was set to go off the charts. More
Real Race
in San Diego Is Courtesy of Scandal
Congressional Quarterly, April 3 -- Last time they checked, nothing had been added to the drinking water in San Diego. But then, it’s also not altogether clear when they last checked. Municipal services are not what they used to be in the town they still call “America’s Finest City.” The sewers don’t work, the city’s pension system is more than $1 billion in the red, and local politicians are dropping like flies from corruption scandals and assorted legal problems. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steven Erie) More
Style Maker:
Q&A with UCSD Historian Emily Thompson
San Diego Union-Tribune, sdhome magazine Spring issue More
Binational Balancing
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3 -- A continent and an international border lie between the styles of New Yorker Monica Bill Barnes and Tijuana's Lux Boreal Danza Contemporánea. Yet the bicoastal, binational artists, who jump-started Sushi's East/West Performance Festival at UCSD's Molli & Arthur Wagner Dance Studio last weekend, share some vital common ground. More
UCSD Presents Lecture Series
on Cities of the Past and Present
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 2 -- The city in history and how urban areas will evolve is the theme of a series of seven free lectures starting Thursday at UCSD, presented by the UCSD Center for the Humanities. More
Parkinson’s Often Misdiagnosed
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3 -- As many as 200,000 of the estimated 1 million people in North America who learn they have Parkinson's disease, a progressive disorder marked by tremors and slow movement, may be misdiagnosed because the condition requires special expertise to recognize and treat. (Quotes Dr. David Song of UCSD’s Thornton Hospital.) More
Mother Battles Cancer
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 1 -- Rebekah Price is not your typical cancer patient. She has a full head of silky hair, dyed black for fashion, and looks vibrant in her form-fitting black top and pants and striking purple nails. You have to study her closely to find the three transparent fentanyl pain-killing patches on her left deltoid, obscured by the bright colors of her tattoo. (Quotes Dr. Lyudmila Bazhenova, oncologist at UCSD's Moores Cancer Center.) More
Moores UCSD Cancer Center
Creates Bioinformatics Center
HPC Wire, March 31 -- As new biomedical technologies emerge, medical research, particularly cancer-related research, is becoming more and more information intensive. To analyze and integrate massive amounts of complicated data so that it is useful to cancer patients and their physicians, the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD is creating a major center for bioinformatics. The Cancer Center has named Nicholas J. Schork, Ph.D., a respected expert in quantitative genomics and UCSD Professor of Psychiatry and Biostatistics, to lead the effort. (Also quotes Dennis Carson, M.D., director of the Cancer Center.) More
