A Sampling of Clips for April 20^th, 2009

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The Hammer Museum Gets Together with Artists, Outside the Box
Los Angeles Times, April 19 -- The Hammer Museum not long ago held the final meeting of its second artist council, a group of a dozen artists from around the world who'd been brought together to address some of the museum's more vexing logistical and philosophical problems. (Mentions Teddy Cruz, professor in the visual arts department at UCSD) More

This Week in Magazines: A Remarkably Resilient
Progressive Turns 100, Eliot Spitzer Gropes to Turn a Corner
Huffington Post, April 20 -- Now let us all sing happy 100th birthday to the Progressive.  The April issue may prove that amid the industry's escalating revenue travail, there can be hope, even if you are, as editor Matthew Rothschild concedes, "woefully undercapitalized" for what amounts to a full century. (Mentions Lev Manovich, professor in the visual arts department at UCSD) More

Republican State Lawmakers Face Recall Efforts
Wall Street Journal, April 20 -- In February, a half-dozen Republican state legislators crossed party lines to approve a plan to close California's $42 billion budget shortfall. Their "ayes" ended a 15-week impasse that had delayed tax-refund checks and public-works projects. (Quotes Thad Kousser, a political-science professor at UCSD) More

Climate Change Focus of Forum
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 19 -- Climate experts will talk about the potential effects of global warming in California during a free public forum Monday at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.
The state's Climate Action Team has released a report outlining possible environmental and social effects of climate change. It looked at wildfires, water supplies, farming and other natural-resource issues. More

Review: The Farewell to Esa-Pekka Salonen begins at Disney Hall
Los Angeles Times, April 17 -- Esa-Pekka Salonen's last program as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic ended quietly Thursday night. He is leaving not with a bang but with a prayer, a blessing, a benediction. And he is leaving all the lights in the house on as he goes. The house is Walt Disney Concert Hall, as well as the house of music. (Mention James F. Ingalls, professor in the theatre and dance department at UCSD) More

UCSD Creates a Computer that KNOWS Good Music?
XETV, April 18 -- Can a computer really judge the quality of a song? Some researchers at UCSD believe their new program might make that possible. "Right now its the computers that have the headphones on and is actually listening to the audio in the music and deciding" said UCSD professor Gert Lanckriet. More

Smart Style: Style Calendar
San Diego Union–Tribune, April 20 -- Project Trashion: As part of UCSD's Earth Week, the university will host a charity eco-fashion show featuring clothing made out of “trash.” Water bottles, trash bags and more will be on display at this nonprofessional runway show. It begins at 7 p.m. at The Loft on the UCSD campus. For more information, go to http://earthweek.ucsd.edu. More

The Week in Mexico
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 19 -- Wayne Cornelius retirement: UCSD announced the upcoming retirement of Wayne Cornelius, founding director of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies and the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD. More

Fading Faces of History
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 18 -- Their stories remain wrenching, yet they know little time remains to repeat them. Eve Wertheimer, a Holocaust survivor, tells people how, frozen and clothed in rags, she decided she'd had enough. If she was going to die, she wasn't going to do it marching through the snow.  (Mentions Deborah Hertz a professor in the Judaic studies program at UCSD) More

More Lines of Stem Cells Eligible for U.S. Funds
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 18 -- Scientists conducting research on stem cells created from excess human embryos at fertility clinics around the country will become eligible for federal funding under draft guidelines released yesterday by the National Institutes of Health. For the past eight years, scientists using those cells had to find funding outside the U.S. government because of restrictions based on moral objections to the destruction of human embryos. (Quotes Larry Goldstein, a Howard Hughes Institute stem cell researcher at UCSD) More

Darwin's Rottweiler Biologist Richard Dawkins
Talks about the Creator of Evolutionary Theory
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 20 -- Richard Dawkins was in San Diego to receive the Nierenberg Prize for science in the public interest from Scripps Institution. Dawkins' nickname, "Darwin's Rottweiler," recalls the naturalist Thomas Henry Huxley, who was known as "Darwin's bulldog" because of his staunch defense of evolution. In Charles Darwin's day, his theories of evolution and natural selection aroused plenty of controversy, though the debate was arguably less nasty than it sometimes seems today. (Mentions Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Partnership to Expand Solar Use In Calif.
KPBS, April 17 -- UCSD and UC Davis are working together to expand solar energy development in California. The two universities are using a $700,000 grant from the California Energy Commission to help coordinate and expand the use of solar energy. Through the California Solar Energy Collaborative, UCSD and UC Davis will reach out to utilities, solar equipment manufacturers and investors interested in funding solar projects. More

Keeping Languages Alive
OC Register, April 19 -- At the recent meeting of G-20 nations in London, officials from many nations agreed on one thing – that the United States is to blame for the world recession. President Barack Obama agreed, speaking in Strasbourg of "the reckless speculation of bankers that has now fueled a global economic downturn." Mentions economist James Hamilton at UCSD. More

Power Couples: Robert B. Horsman and Katherine Kennedy
San Diego Business Journal, April 20 -- Robert B. Horsman and Katherine Kennedy came to San Diego in 1971 and consider the organizations in the community that they’re involved in to be their children. Horsman helped found and fund San Diego National Bank in 1981. He’s chairman of the Kyoto Symposium Organization, president of the San Diego Opera board and past UCSD Foundation board member. More

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