UCSD News

A Sampling of Clips for
August 13^th, 2007

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The Myth, the Math, the Sex
The New York Times, Aug. 12 – In study after study and in country after country, men report more, often many more, sexual partners than women. But there is just one problem, mathematicians say. It is logically impossible for heterosexual men to have more partners on average than heterosexual women. Those survey results cannot be correct. (Quotes Ronald Graham, a professor of mathematics and computer science at UCSD More

Wedded to Work, and in Dire Need of a Wife
The New York Times, Aug. 11 – Working women, whether married or single, also see their lack of devoted spousal support as an impediment to getting ahead in their careers, especially when they are competing against men who have wives behind them, whether those wives are working or staying at home. And research supports their argument: it appears that marriage, at least marriage with children, bolsters a man’s career but hinders a woman’s. (Quotes Mary Blair-Loy, a UCSD sociologist and author of “Competing Devotions”) More

How to Make Peace Using the Principles of War
Christian Science Monitor,Opinion, Aug. 13 - On July 31, the United Nations Security Council voted to authorize the creation of a peacekeeping mission to Sudan's Darfur region with a maximum strength of 20,000 military personnel and 6,000 police. After hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions driven from their home, can this intervention succeed? Only if we learn from the mistakes of the peacekeeping failures of the 1990s. (Written by P. Surdas Mohit, a planetary geophysicist at UCSD’s Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics) More

Two Molecular Pharmacologists Create Drugs the Natural Way
Wired Magazine, Aug. 12 -- Mother nature can make drugs and other complicated molecules without using any toxic chemicals. Professors Bradley Moore of UCSD and Christopher Walsh of Harvard Medical School have figured out how to do it too. More

The Center Cannot Hold
San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. 12 -- Elyn R. Saks has been to hell and back. In this articulate and at times profoundly disturbing memoir, Saks, a professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and adjunct professor of psychiatry at UCSD, recounts her nearly lifelong struggle with schizophrenia, including voices, visions and profound depersonalization. More

China Prepares to Welcome World to 2008 Olympics
The San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 12 - Hosting the Summer Olympics is a coup for any country, but China regards the 2008 Beijing Games as nothing short of a historic marker of its return to glory. (Quotes Susan Shirk, director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at UCSD) More

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Workshop Invaluable for Local Math Teachers
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 13 -- At a time when schools are starving for qualified math teachers, summer courses such as the one at the Mission Valley campus of Point Loma Nazarene University are invaluable, educators say. UCSD, meanwhile, will host a one-day seminar for secondary math teachers in September. More

Democrats' Grueling Week Over; Republicans to Look for Flaws
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 12 – The leading Democratic candidates have survived a grueling week in which they were forced to navigate through a minefield of debates and appearances before some of the party's most demanding constituent groups. But already, Republicans are sifting through their comments, hoping to find remarks that will haunt the eventual Democratic nominee in the general election campaign. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More

UCSD to Go Through Audit by IRS
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 11 – UCSD is undergoing an IRS audit – an uncommon procedure that may become more prevalent in the coming months. UCSD officials declined to provide many details, except to say the Internal Revenue Service will spend several months reviewing the university's payroll, accounts payable, student accounting and other financial transactions processed in 2005. The campus characterized the audit as “routine.” More

College Students Hitting Books Instead of Beaches
10News, Aug. 11 -- A record number of students are spending Saturday hitting the books instead of the beaches, as summer has become just one more set of classes in the University of California system. A move to year-round classes and a four-quarter calendar has meant a record number of UC students are taking classes during summer. Campuses like UCSD, UCLA and UC Santa Cruz are reporting record summer enrollment. More

Jogging Down the Comeback Trail
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 12 – The comeback is a central theme in American life. Celebrities stage comebacks all the time, as do disgraced politicians and injured athletes. Is it possible for a brand to do the same? (Quotes On Amir, a marketing professor at the Rady School of Management at UCSD) More

Museum Scours Country for Outstanding San Diego Art
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 12 – Catherine Gleason and UCSD Professor Emeritus Bram Dijkstra are hot on the trail of San Diego masterpieces. They're scouting out the best works by San Diego artists from the first half of the 20th century. The chosen pieces will be included in an exhibit at the Oceanside Museum of Art's new Central Pavilion, under construction on Pier View Way. More

Heart Award
San Diego Business Journal, Aug. 13 -- A month before the UCSD Medical Center will break ground on the Sulpizio Family Cardiovascular Center, the hospital received the American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines Coronary Artery Annual Performance Achievement Award. More