UCSD News

A Sampling of Clips for
August 3^rd, 2007

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Could Tiny Sensors Detect Bridge Crises?
CBS News, Aug. 3 -- Scientists from Los Alamos Labs in New Mexico and from UCSD say tiny sensors would be set up on bridges and other structures, and would give a hint if damage is forming and spreading. More

Brown Clouds Are Increasing High Altitude Melting
Wired, Aug. 2 -- Just in case you think global warming isn't bad enough, scientists have concluded that pollution-filled "brown clouds" are pitching in too, helping to accelerate the melting glaciers in the mountains of Asia. The research was led by V. Ramanathan from UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California. The team published their results in the latest issue of the journal Nature. More

Caltrans to Inspect Bridges
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 2 -- Caltrans officials on Thursday began emergency structural inspections of 69 bridges across California in the wake of the collapse of a span in Minnesota. (Quotes Chia-Ming Uang, a structural engineering professor at UCSD) More

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GOP Senators Have Hung Schwarzenegger Out to Dry
San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 3 -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, cast in a recent Time magazine cover story as a leader of a new nonpartisan political movement, is grappling with a monthlong California budget stalemate that has become mired in partisan differences. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Thad Kousser) More

Bali Beckons for Local Student
Mountain View Voice, Aug. 3 -- Ryan Feinstein, born and raised in Mountain View and a graduate of Mountain View High School, is spending this summer far from home: on the Southeast Asian island of Bali, where he is pursuing his vision for social activism and youth leadership on an international scale. Feinstein, now a junior at UCSD and an international studies major, is visiting the island, a province of Indonesia, for the seventh time in three years as part of his involvement with the Bali Institute for Global Renewal, where he began as an assistant in his freshman summer. More

Indian History Woven into Basket Exhibit in Escondido
The North County Times, Aug. 1 -- It's odd to think that tourism could have a significant impact on an art form, but that's exactly what happened in the West during the 1880s. "That was the period when the transcontinental railroad reached California, bringing in tourists from back East," explained Jessica Horton, who graduated from UCSD. More

UCSD'S Igor Grant Receives Lifetime
Achievement Award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology
San Diego Daily Transcript, Aug. 2 -- Igor Grant, M.D., professor and executive vice-chair of the department of psychiatry UCSD School of Medicine has received the top national award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology. More