UCSD News

A Sampling of Clips for
December 3^rd, 2007

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Video Sites Let Scientists Show Off Experiments
MSNBC, Dec. 2 -- Created by four science and film students at UCSD, the video shows a typical recrystallization experiment straight out of Chemistry 101. The six-minute epic complete with bloopers got 1,205 views on Google Inc.'s YouTube, but the number increased fourfold when the video was posted to SciVee, one of a number of online video-sharing startups designed to let scientists broadcast themselves toiling in the laboratory or delivering lectures. More

The Fabulously Philanthropic Four Keep UCSD Close to their Hearts
San Diego Metropolitan, December 2007 -- They are San Diego’s philanthropically fabulous four: Audrey Geisel was the honorary chair, while Irwin Jacobs, Malin Burnham and John Moores served as the more active co-chairs. Launched in July 2000, “The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What’s Next?” was the most ambitious fundraising effort in campus history. More

Metro Movers to Watch in ’08
San Diego Metropolitan, December 2007 -- As we do each fall, we ask readers, associates and friends to give us their best predictions on who will be making news in the new year and why. This year brought a record number of suggestions, which made the picks that much more difficult. This year’s movers include Tony Haymet, director of UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, JoAnne Starr, a founding member of the Rady School of Management at UCSD, and Steve Kay, the new dean of UCSD’s Division of Biological Sciences. More

Earth's Tropics Belt Expands
FOX News, Dec. 2 -- Earth's tropical belt seems to have expanded a couple hundred miles over the past quarter century, which could mean more arid weather for some already dry subtropical regions, new climate research shows. (Quotes Richard Somerville, a scientist at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

50 Years On: The Keeling Curve Legacy
BBC News, Dec. 2 -- It was 50 years ago that a young American scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Charles David Keeling, began tracking CO2 in the Earth's atmosphere at two of the world's last wildernesses - the South Pole and the summit of the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii. His very precise measurements produced a remarkable data set, which first sounded alarm bells over the build-up of the gas in the atmosphere, and eventually led to the tracking of greenhouse gases worldwide. More

100 Notable Books of 2007
The New York Times, Dec. 2 – The New York Times singled out “Next Life,” by UCSD professor Rae Armantrout as one of the 100 notable books of the year. The book is a work of poetry that conveys the invention, the wit and the force of mind that contests all assumptions. More

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California Schools Move to the Head of the Class
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1 -- In a first-ever ranking of high schools by U.S. News & World Report magazine -- best-known for its influential and controversial ranking of colleges and universities -- 23 of the top 100 schools in the nation were from California, including 10 from the Los Angeles area. (Mentions the Preuss School at UCSD, which ranked 10th in the nation) More

U.S. American Cooperation a Must, but How?
UPI, Nov. 29 -- Cooperation is heralded as the building block du jour of South American energy security, but doubt persists about the region's ability to make the block itself. (Quotes UCSD professor David Mares) More

JusticeCorps Helping Make Sense of Legal Maze
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 3 -- The San Diego Superior Court has launched its first JusticeCorps program, composed of 22 college students trained to assist people representing themselves in court with certain tasks, such as filling out forms. The students, all from UCSD, are required to work 300 hours during the academic year. More

Extending UCSD's Network and Raking in the Big Bucks
The San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov. 30 -- For a lot of people, asking others for money can be awkward and uncomfortable, but Rebecca Newman, associated vice chancellor for development at UCSD, has found that when it's for the right cause, she's pretty good at it -- $1 billion good, to be exact. More

U.S. Navy Ships Denied Port Calls to Hong Kong
The Times Argus, Dec. 2 -- A spat over China's denial of port calls to U.S. naval vessels has led the Pentagon to deploy an increasing number of large ships to transit the Taiwan Strait in some of the most sensitive waters in East Asia. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Susan Shirk) More

Fire Merger Plans in Trouble Again
North County Times, Dec. 2 -- The idea of unifying rural San Diego County fire agencies could once again be in trouble, even after two years of study, conceptual approval by voters and a state agency's vote to make it happen. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More

Macular Degeneration Study Seeks Volunteers
North County Times, Dec. 1 --The Shiley Eye Center at UCSD is participating in a national study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health designed to determine whether a modified combination of vitamins, minerals and fish oil can further slow vision loss from age-related macular degeneration, an illness that damages the eyes. More

Wachovia Foundation Contributes $5M to New Management School at UCSD
San Diego Business Journal, Dec. 3 -- The Wachovia Foundation contributed $5 million to UCSD’s Rady School of Management to support the construction of the second phase of the Rady School campus and establishes the foundation as a founder-level donor for the school. This designation is for donors at the $5 million level. More