A Sampling of Clips for
April 6 th, 2007
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Record Number of Freshmen
Are Admitted to UC System
San Francisco Chronicle, April 6 -- The University of California system offered fall admission to a record 57,318 high school seniors, and more than one-third of them come from families in which neither parent has a college degree. According to university-wide statistics released Thursday, fall 2007 admissions increased 3.8 percent from fall 2006. (Mentions UCSD) More
Similar story in
San Diego Union-Tribune
Security Situation Deteriorates in Basra
The News Hour, PBS, April 5 – Margaret Warner speaks about new violence in southern Iraq with Babak Rahimi, an assistant professor of Islamic studies at UCSD, who was in southern Iraq in 2005 studying Shi’ite political groups and Tom Parker, executive director of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center in New Haven, who has been teaching terrorism studies at Yale University. Parker is a former British counterterrorism official, who has worked for the coalition provisional authority in Baghdad. More
Rapid Consolidation
Science Magazine, April 6 -- We learn and remember better when new material can be related to what we already know. Professional athletes can remember details of particular plays that occurred in a long match. Experienced poker players can reconstruct the card distribution and betting sequence that occurred in previous hands. This is possible because these individuals have a rich background of relevant experience and therefore can organize new material into meaningful and orderly patterns. (Written by Larry Squire, a professor of psychology and neurosciences at the UCSD School of Medicine) More
Student Stuntmen
Time Magazine, April 5 -- What would possess seemingly sane people to treat concrete walls like trampolines? To leap over handicap-access ramps like Donkey Kong? The answer is parkour, a jaw-dropping hybrid of gymnastics and cross-country running that is equal parts Spider-Man whimsy and hard-core stamina. (Mentions UCSD) More
Stopping Alzheimer's From Getting Worse
ABC7, Los Angeles, April 5 -- Louise and Jim Arnold have been through a lot in their marriage, but nothing worse than when Jim was diagnosed with Alzheimer's four years ago. But they felt better when Jim volunteered for a clinical study to test a new treatment. "It could very well be the first drug to market that actually changes the progress of the disease," Dr. Adam Fleisher, a UCSD neurologist, said. More
Another Side of Terrorism in the Middle East
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, April 6 -- Gary Fields, who is currently writing a book on “The Wall” in the Palestinian territories and teaches in the Department of Communication at UCSD, writes about his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East. More
Movement Control Function Is Identified
UPI, April 4 -- Researchers led by cognitive neuroscientist Adam Aron, an assistant professor of psychology at UCSD, discovered white matter tracts -- bundles of neurons that form direct, high-speed connections, between distant regions of the brain -- appear to play a significant role in rapid behavior control. More
New Research May Help
Restore Sand to Thinning City Beaches
KPBS, April 6 -- Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD researchers have finished an underwater survey that shows how sand builds up along Southern California's continental shelf. The new data shows offshore areas where sand can be taken -- its sand stays offshore and doesn't flow back onto beaches. More