A Sampling of Clips for
April 10, 2006
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UCSD, Australia Form Biotech Team
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 10 -- Scientists from UCSD and Australia will work together on stem cell projects under an agreement expected to be announced this morning. With the annual gathering of the world's biotechnology industry as a backdrop, Steve Bracks, premier of Australia's state of Victoria, is expected to announce that 300 scientists from the country's Stem Cell Centre, its largest university and UCSD will join forces in one of the hottest and most promising areas of scientific research. More
This Boring Headline is Written for Google
The New York Times, April 9 -- Journalists over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web, analyzing and ranking online news articles on behalf of Internet search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. (Quotes Michael Schudson, a professor at UCSD, who is a visiting faculty member at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.) More
Allan Kaprow,
Creator of Artistic 'Happenings,' Dies at 78
The New York Times, April 10 -- Allan Kaprow, an artist who coined the term "happenings" in the late 1950's and whose anti-art, audience-participation works contributed to radical changes in the course of late-20th-century art, died on Wednesday at his home in Encinitas, Calif., near San Diego. He was 78. (Kaprow was a founding member of UCSD’s visual arts department; also quotes UCSD Professor Emeritus David Antin) More
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Efforts Under Way
to Revive N. Korea Nuclear Talks
Reuters (Canada), April 10 -- Diplomatic efforts to revive six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear arms program gathered steam in Tokyo on Monday, but prospects for a key meeting between U.S. and North Korean negotiators were unclear. Christopher Hill, Washington's top envoy to the talks reiterated upon his arrival in Tokyo that Pyongyang should return without preconditions to the negotiations, which have been stalled since November. (Quotes Susan Shirk, research director at UCSD’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, which is sponsoring the forum.) More
A Migrating Concern
Voice of San Diego, April 10 -- A key element of the Senate's tenuous immigration compromise could flood San Diego with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants seeking to start off their green card applications by leaving the country and returning through a border city. Though the bill is currently floundering and is likely to change significantly before anything gets passed into law, several San Diego experts and politicians have deep concerns about how the legislation could eventually shape up. (Quotes UCSD experts Gordon Hanson, Wayne Cornelius and Chris Woodruff) More
Organizers Aim
to Get Marchers Onto Voter Rolls
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 9 -- People who participate in the march for immigrant rights today will see as many as 100 voter registration volunteers working the crowd downtown, along with voter registration tables at the start and end points. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD) More
Food Antioxidants,
Vitamin D Fight Breast Cancer
Forbes, April 7 -- A range of foods such as soybeans, fruits and green tea contain powerful antioxidants that help reduce a woman's risk for breast and ovarian cancer, new studies find. (Mentions research by UCSD and quotes Cedric Garland, adjunct professor of family and preventive medicine UCSD and the Moores Cancer Center) More
Science Briefs: Limit Water, Limit Ants
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 5 -- Southern Californians plagued by ant infestations may find relief by simply shutting off their outdoor irrigation, UCSD scientists have found. More
Students Share Illuminating
Studies of Urban Issues in the Real World
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 9 -- Nico Calavita, a public administration professor at both San Diego State and UCSD, had a sobering message in his recent address to this year's crop of UCSD urban studies students: “Beware the real world outside.” For the UCSD students, there already had been plenty of reality checking extending beyond the ivory tower. Sixty-one of them, mostly graduating seniors, balanced their natural idealism with six months of field research and internships on real-world issues. They shared their findings at the 16th annual Urban Studies Expo, held last month at UCSD's Price Center. More
Surprises Aplenty at UCSD’s Stuart Collection North County Times, April 9 -- A 180-ton teddy bear fashioned of Pala granite. Talking and singing trees. Neon letters that spell out vices and virtues. These and more than a dozen other creations compose the Stuart Collection, a body of site-specific sculpture that enlivens UCSD’s sprawling, 1,200-acre campus. More
Ghostwriting the Airport’s Story
Voice of San Diego, April 10 -- As the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority argues its case for building a new international airport in San Diego, Midge Costanza's op-ed piece is just one example of the behind-the-scenes work that the public body has undertaken to manage public opinion. A review of nearly two years of GCS Public Relations invoices obtained by voiceofsandiego.org through a California Public Records Act request opens a window into the effort that, according to polls, appears to be working. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie, and mentions Professor of economics Richard Carson.) More
Biochemists Discover Bacteria’s Achilles’Heel Infection Control Today, April 10 -- Researchers at UCSD have determined what factors turn on protein production in bacteria, a finding that provides new targets for the development of antibiotics. In the study, published in the April 7 issue of the journal Molecular Cell, researchers Sean Studer and Simpson Joseph in UCSD’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry report how the messenger RNA instructions to make a protein are unfolded in a bacterial cell, so that they can be read by the cell’s protein-making machinery. More
Behind the Scenes at Fest,
the San Diego Connections
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 10 -- When playwright Lee Blessing recently accepted his prestigious (and lucrative) Steinberg / American Theatre Critics Association award for best new American play at the recent Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville, he segued to a surprise announcement. After thanking such regional theater heads as La Jolla Playhouse's Des McAnuff for supporting his work when New York productions were "difficult," Blessing also thanked Melanie Marnich "for agreeing to marry me even though I am a playwright." The joke: She's a playwright, too. (Marnich is a UCSD theater graduate; another UCSD grad, actor Carla Harting, returned to Actors Theatre for her third Humana Festival.) More
