A Sampling of Clips for 
August 25, 2005

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Survey: Korea Ranks Third in Gender Equity Among IT Grads
Chosun.Com, Aug. 25 -- At a recent 100th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, a team led by Prof. Maria Charles of the University of California-San Diego announced results of a survey of 21 major industrialized nations. Based on OECD data, it showed that the nation with the lowest ratio of female-to-male computer science graduates was the Czech Republic, with 6.42 men for every woman. Korea came third with 1.92 men for every woman, behind surprise winner Turkey (1.79) and Ireland (1.84). More

Colleges That Get It Right
Washington Monthly, Aug. 25 -- What does America need from its universities? A new college ranking report attempts to answer this question based on guidelines of social mobility, ethics and service. (Cites UC San Diego as among national university leaders in public service and innovative spin-off companies.) More

Surfing Legends Surf for a Cure
Epoch Times/ Global Surf News, Aug. 25 -- An overcast San Diego day shined brightly with aloha as the legends of surfing gathered at Scripps Pier on Sunday to surf for a cure. The Annual Luau and Longboard Invitational, now in its 12th year, has earned an international reputation for uniting legends of surfing with the business, scientific and medical communities, as well as enthusiastic locals, to help raise money for the fight against cancer. (Quotes Dr. Mark Bracker, professor of family and preventive medicine at UC San Diego, and Dr. Dennis A. Carson, director of the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center.) More

Deep Magmatic Plumbing of Mid-Ocean Ridges Revealed
Innovations-Report (Germany), Aug. 25 -- Some of the highest quality images ever taken of the Earth's lower crust reveal that the upper and lower crust form in two distinctly different ways. A team led by researchers from Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory will publish the results of their work in the August 25 issue of the journal Nature. (Cites research partnership with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.) More

Supercomputing: Pittsburgh Handles
User Support and Security for Tera
Grid Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 25 -- The prominent new role for the Pittsburgh center is the latest twist in its up-and-down history. It was one of five original supercomputing centers established by the National Science Foundation in the 1980s, part of the agency's effort to make high-performance computers available for scientists doing nonclassified research. But the agency's computing policy shifted and it dropped support for some of the centers, focusing much of its financial support on just two, the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. More

Germ-Fighting Towels Slow Bacterial Growth
KFMB-TV, Aug. 25 -- A new line of bacteria-fighting bath towels is about to hit stores, but some say it's more protection than you really need. (Quotes Dr. Victor Nizet, professor of microbiology at UC San Diego.) More