A Sampling of Clips for August 12^th, 2009

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Study: Recovered Alcoholics Still Face Difficulties Recognizing Emotions
ABC News, Aug. 12 - Researchers have demonstrated that after recovery, the brains of people suffering from alcoholism still process things differently, which may lead to difficulties recognizing emotions in others. "The upshot, really, is that people who have had serious alcoholism problems sometime in the past, they could be misreading facial cues," said Ksenija Marinkovic, assistant professor in residence in the radiology department at UCSD. "Not everybody is able to read facial cues in the same way." More

Experimental Drug Effective in Killing Roundworms-Paper
Reuters, Aug. 11 -- An experimental drug developed by scientists in China appears to be effective in killing roundworms, a parasite that lurks in the intestines and which affects nearly two billion people in tropical countries. Researchers from UCSD took part in the work. More

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Muslim Students Reflect on Ramadan Celebration
ABC News, Aug. 11 -- In a Muslim country, celebrating Ramadan is relatively simple: Most people are fasting from sunrise to sunset. But in the U.S., most people are eating, and enticing food commercials, an overabundance of restaurants and watching others eat can make celebrating the holiday more challenging. (Quotes Abdullah Shamari, 19, of Pomona, Calif., a rising sophomore at UCSD) More

Ice-Core Researchers Hope to Chill Out
Nature, Aug 11 -- Researchers in the United States and Europe are seeking funding so that the ice cores used to study Earth's past climate can have the same luxuriously chilly storage facilities currently enjoyed by prize tuna. (Quotes Jeffrey Severinghaus, an International Partnerships in Ice Core Sciences  steering-committee member from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Out of College at 17, and en Route to
Law School at 19: A Father’s Perspective
The New York Times, Aug. 12 -- We’ve published more than 100 comments on our post yesterday about Kate McLaughlin, the California teenager who has already graduated from college and is en route to law school. McLaughlin graduated from UCSD at 17. More

Why Humans Can Talk and Chimps Can't
New Scientist, U.K., Aug. 12 -- A brain region critical to speech and language ballooned after humans split from chimpanzees, a new study finds. Natalie Schenker, a neuroscientist now at UCSD, co-led the study. More

Ocean Health Plays Vital Role in Coral Reef Recovery
The Palestine Telegraph, Aug. 11 -- A new research study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD suggests that by improving overall ocean health, corals are better able to recover from bleaching events, which occur when rising sea temperatures force corals to expel their symbiotic algae, known as zooxanthellae. More

Texas Universities Should Capitalize on California's Budget Shortfall
Austin American-Statesman, Opinion, Aug. 12 -- The emergency budget deal that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two weeks ago for California might bring to an end that state's 50-year run as the home of the nation's strongest public universities. (Mentions UCSD) More

Scientists Report Back From Garbage Patch
NBC San Diego, Aug. 12 -- Scientists from UCSD have made their way to the Northern Pacific to explore a blob of degraded plastic that is reportedly the size of Texas or bigger. More

Exhibit Unlocks Mystery of Nancy Drew
La Jolla Light, Aug. 11 -- Throughout the month of August, UCSD Arts Library will host a display in the foyer of the Seuss Room in the Geisel Library's west wing commemorating the titian-haired, convertible-driving, mystery-solving girl detective Nancy Drew. More

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