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December 13 , 2005

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More Migrants Dying To Get In
CBS News, Dec. 11 (60 Minutes)- Just last week, President George W. Bush promised to spend billions of dollars to stop illegal immigrants from crossing our 2,000-mile border with Mexico. It's not the first time a president has pledged to do that. In the early 1990s, the Clinton administration also vowed to tighten the U.S.-Mexican border. (Q & A with UCSD Professor Wayne Cornelius.) More

Happiness in Old Age Depends on Attitude
Fox News, Dec. 12-Happiness in old age may have more to do with attitude than actual health, a new study by UCSD suggests. More

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Missing in Action
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 11-It's a paradox: Even as the local Hispanic population grows, the number of Latino-themed plays here has shrunk. The topic of opportunities for Latinos in theater is a touchy one in a state in which a black man on the University of California Board of Regents, Ward Connelly, led the fight to end affirmative action in admissions. Yet at UCSD, despite the demise of such "entitlement" programs, Chicano scholar and stage director Jorge Huerta has been named associate chancellor and chief diversity officer. More

Nurses Group, UC
Come to Terms on 2-Year Pact
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 13-After almost a year of negotiations, the California Nurses Association and University of California have reached a tentative contract agreement for more than 9,000 nurses at UC facilities statewide. More

Atkinson named to
Carnegie Foundation Teaching Board
San Diego Daily Transcript, Dec. 12-Richard C. Atkinson, president emeritus of the University of California and chancellor emeritus of UCSD, has been named to the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, an organization focused on improving learning in the nation's colleges and schools. More

Celebrating Kyoto in San Diego
San Daily Transcript, Dec. 12-The Kyoto Prize is Japan's highest private award for lifetime achievement. Since its inception in 2002 at the University of San Diego, the Kyoto Laureate Symposium has expanded its base to include presentations by the laureates of the Kyoto Prize at San Diego State University and UCSD in what has become an historic collaboration among San Diego's major institutions of higher learning. (Article co-written by Mark Thiemens, dean of physical sciences at UCSD.) More

A First at Salk: Human
Stem Cells in Brains of Mice
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 13-In a first, Salk Institute scientists have created mice with mature and active brain cells grown from human embryonic stem cells. (Quote by Michael Kalichman, director of the Research Ethics Program at UCSD.) More

Compensation Culture's High Cost
San Diego Union-Tribune, Richard Louv, Dec. 13-In the United States, we have a "litigious society." Accidents? They don't exist. Only perpetrators. Every one of life's bumps deserves just compensation. But with the compensation come unintended consequences. (Quote by Michael Schudson, a UCSD sociologist.) More