A Sampling of Clips for
April 4, 2006
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Scientists Focus on Warming Disasters
Washington Post, April 3 -- A man stands on a railroad track as a train rumbles closer. "Global warming?" he says. "Some say irreversible consequences are 30 years away. Thirty years. That won't affect me." He steps off the tracks -- just in time. But behind him is a little blonde-haired girl left in front of the roaring train. The screen goes black. A message appears: "There's still time." (Quotes Tim Barnett, a senior scientist at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More
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Turning College Students
Into Lifelong Philanthropists
Chronicle of Philanthropy, April 6 -- Getting college students to become lifelong donors is a challenge for many colleges and universities. At UCSD, officials decided that giving students a chance to raise, invest, and distribute charitable funds would help make them loyal donors to their alma mater, as well as to other causes. Early signs show their hunch is working. More
Interviews: Stalemate in Iraq
PBS NewsHour, April 3 -- So, is outside pressure doing anything to change the political equation in Iraq? For that, we turn to two people who have been watching this situation closely. Trudy Rubin, who is a foreign affairs columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, she's traveled to Iraq frequently. And Babak Rahimi, an assistant professor of Islamic studies at UCSD. He's also a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace. More
Two Top Researchers
Leaving UCSD for Jobs in Singapore
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 4 -- Two top administrators at the UCSD School of Medicine will leave their posts this fall to take jobs with Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research, joining a parade of renowned researchers lured by the Asian country's commitment to biomedical science. Vice Chancellor Edward Holmes, who also is dean of UCSD's School of Medicine, and his wife, Dr. Judith Swain, a cellular cardiologist who is the university's dean of Translational Medicine, will join A*STAR, which is Singapore's equivalent of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. More
Surfing Scientists
Catch More Than the Waves
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 4 -- A group of San Diego scientists in the drug discovery business have a board meeting like few others. They congregate in the water at dawn on their surfboards. While waiting to catch waves, they exchange the latest drug development news. (Group includes Dr. Gary Firestein, professor and director of UCSD’s Clinical Investigation Institute.) More
Deep-Sea Fish Populations Boom Over the Last 15 Years, News Scripps Study Shows
Mongabay.Com, April 3 -- The largest habitats on Earth are located in the vast, dark plains at the bottom of the ocean. Yet because of their remoteness, many aspects of this mostly unexplored world remain mysterious. New research led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, has produced a rare insight into animal populations in the deep sea. More
A Shanty Town’s Danger and Hope
Voice of San Diego, April 4 -- It's 5:30 a.m. and dozens of workers emerge from the green folds of the canyon where they have been sleeping. The men, red faced, puff down the slick, muddy path that descends steeply into the valley away from their hidden camp. They huddle up against the cold and prepare for a long walk to stand at the side of a nearby street and wait for work. (Quotes Gordon Hanson, a professor of economics at UCSD and one of the world's foremost experts on Mexican immigration.) More
Town Hall Meeting to Focus
on Health Care and the Poor
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 4 -- The county will sponsor five town hall meetings to gather public opinion on whether the region's hospitals, clinics and doctors can provide adequate care for people least able to afford it. (Mentions UCSD Medical Center.) More
