A Sampling of Clips for August 14^th, 2009

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They Snooze Less, but They Don't Lose
ABC News, Aug. 14 - A lucky few can get by just fine on six hours of sleep, and a new study suggests a genetic mutation might help explain why. (Quotes Dr. Daniel F. Kripke, emeritus professor of psychiatry at UCSD) More

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Boy Scouts Hunting the Tech-Savvy Generation
The New York Times, Aug. 14 -- The largest youth organization in the country is taking on a new approach as it targets the tech-savvy generation, and announced this week that its bible - the Boy Scout Handbook - is going online. (Quotes Evan Chaffee, a 21-year-old former Eagle Scout who was on the committee that designed the handbook, and is now a UCSD student) More

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Marines Deploy to UC San Diego Before Leaving for Southeast Asia
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 14 -- In a few days, the Marines of the 2nd battalion, 5th Regiment will leave Camp Pendleton for a six-month deployment in Southeast Asia. It's a far different assignment than in 2003 when the battalion played a key role in toppling Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. And so 100-plus officers and noncommissioned officers of the Two-Five spent two days this week at UCSD, listening to lectures about China, Japan, India, North Korea, Indonesia and the other nations of this growing and contentious region of the world. More

Treatment Leads to an Unexpected Improvement in Vision for One Patient
MIT Tech Review, Aug 14 -- Twelve months after receiving an experimental gene therapy for a rare, inherited form of blindness, a patient discovered that she could read an illuminated clock in the family car for the first time in her life. The unexpected findings suggest that the brain can adapt to new sensory capacity, even in people who have been blind since birth. (Quotes Kang Zhang, an ophthalmologist and director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at UCSD, who was not involved in the study) More

Reporting From the Gyre
Voice of San Diego, Aug. 13 -- Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography are 11 days into an unprecedented "plastics watching" expedition in the North Pacific Gyre. They say there's a lot to see, and it's not pretty. More

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Arts School Encoring
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 13 -- On a humid August day in Paradise Hills, dozens of teenagers are crammed into a dark and stuffy studio watching — visibly in awe — as famed musician and UCSD Professor Mark Dresser plucks away at his bass. Welcome to the School of the Creative and Performing Arts' first-ever Summer Intensive, a two-week session of workshops led by professional artists from San Diego and across the country. More

San Diego Native to Skipper San Diego-Based Sub
San Diego 6, Aug. 13 -- A San Diego native and UCSD alumnus took command of a San Diego-based submarine today in a pier-side ceremony in Point Loma. Cmdr. Gerald Miranda joined the Navy in 1990 after graduating from UCSD. He's held posts on three other submarines. More

Ensemble XII: Bang a Drum... or Two ... or Three ...
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 13 -- Expect to experience percussion nirvana Sunday at 8 p.m. when Ensemble XII performs at downtown's all-ages Sushi — a Center for Urban Arts (sushiart.org). The ensemble will be joined by Swiss composer-percussionist Fritz Hauser and renowned UCSD percussionist and music instructor Steven Schick (who is also the artistic director of the La Jolla Symphony and driving force behind the San Diego percussion ensemble red fish blue fish. More

JPEO JTRS Teams with UCSD on Project 25
San Diego Daily Transcript, Aug. 13 -- The Joint Program Executive Office, Joint Tactical Radio Systems is working on Project 25, a waveform porting project in conjunction with UCSD’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology facility. More

Providing Risk Protection and Aid
San Diego Daily Transcript, Aug. 13 -- Federal policy on homeland security is about to change under an Obama restructure plan according to Stephen Flynn, Ph.D., a member of a transition team for the new president. Flynn addressed a group at the UCSD Faculty Club sponsored by the School of International Relations/Pacific Studies. More

Del Mar Composer Named UC's 'University Professor'
Del Mar Times, Aug. 13 -- Roger Reynolds, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and professor of music at UCSD, has been appointed University Professor by the University of California Board of Regents. More

UCSD Student Michael Nekrasov Combines Passion
and Expertise in Summer Study Abroad Program in Taiwan
Carmel Valley News, Aug. 13 -- Michael Nekrasov, a Carmel Valley resident and fourth-year student at UCSD, has combined his education with two of his passions, and the results have taken him across the world. More

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