A Sampling of Clips for 
April 7, 2006

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Immigration Debate
BBC The World, April 6 -- Host Lisa Mullins speaks with UCSD Professor Wayne Cornelius, an analyst and expert in immigration issues, about the likely impact of the proposed immigration reform legislation. More

Do My Ears Deceive Me
BBC, April 8 -- Like optical illusions, aural illusions can be great fun. But more than that, they can tell us all sorts of things about how the human brain works, and how we appreciate music. UCSD psychology professor Diana Deutsch, a world expert in the field, joins Chris Maslanka to play a few tricks with your ears - and reveal their secrets.  More (Note: radio clip available Saturday)

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Stem Cell Institute Maps Out Strategy
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 7 -- How to spend $3 billion for stem cell research is proving to be a monumental and sometimes divisive task for California's Institute for Regenerative Medicine. What's the low hanging fruit in stem cell research that could move the science forward? Should funding priority be given to research that could help the largest number of people, or should it be directed to orphan diseases that affect a small segment of society and aren't of interest to big pharmaceutical companies? (Quotes Dr. Edward Holmes, dean of the UCSD School of Medicine.) More

Four UCSD Professors
Named Guggenheim Fellows
San Diego Daily Transcript, April 6 -- Four members of the faculty of UCSD have been named Guggenheim Fellows for 2006. They are Anthony Davis, professor of music; Robert Edelman, professor of history; John Skrentny, professor of sociology and Joel Sobel, professor of economics. More

UCSD Engineering
Students Place Third in Competition
San Diego Daily Transcript, April 6 -- From designing a dorm model that would withstand a Northridge-sized earthquake to creating a chemical-free water filtration system, UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering structural engineering students proved themselves innovative leaders at the 2006 American Society of Civil Engineers' Pacific southwest regional collegiate conference held at UCLA. More

Nation Watches as Rivals
Race for Cunningham Seat
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 7 -- For weeks, candidates and their staffs have trudged dutifully to forums, occasionally outnumbering audiences, and seemingly confirming the notion that “all politics is local.” But with millions being spent on TV advertising, political themes that could play anywhere in the country, and intense interest by national political parties, the special election campaign for the 50th Congressional District at times seems anything but a local affair. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson, an expert on Congress.) More

Nanopore Method Could
Revolutionize Genome Sequencing
PhysOrg.Com, April 6 -- A team led by physicists at UCSD has shown the feasibility of a fast, inexpensive technique to sequence DNA as it passes through tiny pores. The advance brings personalized, genome-based medicine closer to reality. (Quotes Massimiliano Di Ventra, associate professor of physics at UCSD, who directed the project.) More