A Sampling of Clips for April 3^rd, 2008

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UCSD Announces Neonatal ICU Expansion
10News, April 2 -- Nine beds will be added as part of an expansion to the UCSD Medical Center's neonatal intensive care unit to handle a rise in the number prematurely born infants, it was announced Wednesday. More

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Dust Plays Huge Role in Climate Change
Christian Science Monitor, April 2 -- Research published April 3 in Nature reveals the tight linkage between atmospheric dust flows and Antarctic temperatures during ice ages over the past 800,000 years. A research review published March 23 in Nature Geoscience online by researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shows that black carbon particles in the atmosphere have a more powerful global-warming effect than any of the greenhouse gases except carbon dioxide. More

Experts to Set Out Advice for Women Pregnant in a Flu Pandemic
CBC News, April 2 --  Women who are pregnant when the next flu pandemic strikes will find themselves with special needs, concerns and risks - and very little science to help decide things like whether it's safe to take flu drugs or necessary to wear medical masks in public. (Quotes Dr. Tina Chambers of UCSD) More

UCSD Joins with Google to Digitize Books
KPBS, April 2 -- The online company Google will begin digitizing tens of thousands of UCSD library books this month. Its part of a larger effort to make university-level research and literature accessible to the masses. More

Latinos, Blacks Underrepresented Among Physicians, Study Says
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3 -- Latinos, African-Americans and some Asian groups are greatly underrepresented among doctors in the county and statewide, according to a new report that said physician diversity improves access and quality of health care for minorities. (Quotes Dr. Carolyn Kelly, associate dean of admissions and student affairs for the UCSD School of Medicine) More

Partial Collapse of Ice Shelf is Felt Around the World
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 3 -- When a huge slice of the Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctica fell into the sea last month, it made quite a splash among glaciologists. “The rate of collapse is the alarming thing,” said Helen Amanda Fricker, a glaciologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. “It disintegrated within days.” More

Gene Quest Begins Anew, Biotech Pioneer Says
North County Times, April 1 -- The quest to understand the human genome has begun anew, pioneering genetic researcher and UCSD alumnus Craig Venter said to about 900 supporters of the local biotechnology industry Monday night. More