A Sampling of Clips for 
April 9 ^th, 2007

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The War of the Words
Newsweek, April 16 -- What is the most pressing environmental issue we face today? "Global warming"? The "greenhouse effect"? At the Oscar ceremonies, Al Gore referred to a "climate crisis," but in his State of the Union address President Bush chose the comparatively anodyne phrase "climate change." (Quotes C.J. Somerville, a leading researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

Nobel-winning Scientist Chooses Unforgettable Works on Memory
The Wall Street Journal, April 7 – Nobel Prize winner Eric Kandel lists his top five favorite books about memory. "Memory and Brain" by Larry Squire, a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at UCSD, is number 3 on the list. Kandel writes that Squire "provides a superb historical overview of the key experiments and insights that have given rise to our current understanding of the problem of memory storage." More

Fat Hormone 'Boosts Colon Cancer'
BBC News, April 7 -- A chemical produced by fat cells makes colon cancers grow faster, a UCSD study has suggested. The British Journal of Surgery study could help explain why severely overweight people appear to be at far greater risk of the disease. Obese people are up to three times more likely to develop colorectal cancer. More

Young Black Men
Dropping Out of 'Job Culture'
Marketplace, April 6 -- The un-employment numbers don't count people who have stopped looking for work — or can't, because they're in jail. For his research at UCSD, Gordon Hanson prefers to measure the number of weeks a person works in a year. By that calculation, the figures for some African-Americans are disheartening. More

UC Leads Way Against E-waste
North County Times, Opinion, April 7 -- Most of us at UCSD are keenly unaware of what happens to [our computers] at the end of their lives. Fortunately, help is on the way. Just last week, the University of California 10-campus system passed a new far-reaching "Environmental Sustainability Policy" that includes provisions on energy, global warming, waste and eco-friendly purchasing. (Written by David N. Pellow, a professor of ethnic studies at UCSD) More

Experts Discuss Stem
Cell Research in La Jolla
North County Times, April 7 --  Embryonic stem cell science is picking up steam, making moral questions about how to do the research and who gets the benefits an urgent matter. That's the message speakers delivered Friday at a conference in La Jolla on the ethics of stem cell research. (Quotes Lawrence S. Goldstein, director of the stem cell program at UCSD) More

Better, More Accurate Image Search
MIT Technology Review, April 9 -- Researchers at UCSD have developed a new image-search method that they claim outperforms existing approaches "by a significant margin" in terms of accuracy and efficiency. The researchers' approach modifies a typical machine-learning method used to train computers to recognize images, says Nuno Vasconcelos, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSD. More

Tumor Doesn't Keep
Lawson from Playing Baseball
North County Times, April 7 -- Like many other college graduates this spring, Matt Lawson has some life decisions ahead of him. Unlike his UCSD classmates, Lawson's decisions could be about how to live, not just where. Lawson, the Tritons' starting center fielder, has played his senior season with the knowledge he has a brain tumor. What type of tumor, he does not know. Cancerous or not, he's in the dark. And that is by design. More

Tritons to Lose Two Hoop Coaches
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 9 -- The task of filling openings in the head coaching positions for both the women's and men's basketball programs looms for UCSD. Janell Jones, who led the Tritons women to the NCAA Division II tournament the last two seasons, will be announced at a news conference today as the new head coach at Division I Mercer University in Macon, Ga. Tritons men's coach Bill Carr is soon to be named to an assistant's position on the staff of new USD head coach Bill Grier. More

Rock Harbor Church
Draws the Young by the Hundreds
Orange County Register, April 8 -- In 1997 at a Costa Mesa senior center, about 250 people gathered to worship in a new church called Rock Harbor, an offshoot of Mariners Church. Today, average weekend attendance is 5,000. Its growth shows how charismatic leaders at the church have managed to target a very specific demographic – hip, young people who want a modern setting but the traditional message of Christ. (Quotes John Evans, associate professor of sociology at UCSD) More

A Caring Faculty
BizSan Diego, April 2007 – The support of worthy causes like advanced education and specialized health care can change the feel of an entire community. That’s why in July 2000, UCSD launched The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What’s Next, which has turned into one of San Diego’s biggest philanthropic efforts. More

UCSD to Use Foundation’s
$400K Gift for Telescope, Observatory
San Diego Business Journal, April 9 -- The James B. Ax Family Foundation has given a $400,000 gift to the UCSD Division of Physical Sciences. The gift will go toward funding a proposed $1 million telescope and observatory that will allow physicists — for the first time — to measure the gravitational waves that emanated from the universe during the first moments of its creation. More