UCSD News

A Sampling of Clips for
December 7^th, 2007

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Ketamine Impairs Brain by Releasing Superoxide
The Washington Post, Dec. 6 -- Researchers at UCSD say they have figured out how the drug ketamine impairs the brain, a finding they claim could lead to new treatments for schizophrenia. More

Is a Carl Doomed to Be a C Student? We Don't Think So
The Wall Street Journal, Opinion, Dec. 7 – We like our names. And that preference can have negative repercussions, according to research published last month. Major leaguers with "K" initials tend to strike out more, perhaps reflecting the batters' unconscious pull to appear next to the strikeout symbol "K" on scorecards. (Mentions research by Leif Nelson, of UCSD’s Rady School of Management) More

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A Strong Return for Concert Series
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 5 -- On Monday night, "In Memoriam Dylan Thomas" returned to Monday Evening Concerts to help it begin its second season divorced from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and at the Colburn School's Zipper Concert Hall. The series is again finding firm new footing under Justin Urcis as managing director. (Mentions Steven Schick, a UCSD music professor who performed in the series) More

Magazine's List Places Preuss School at No. 10
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 7 -- The Preuss School, a UCSD-based public charter school, has been ranked the 10th-best school in America by U.S. News & World Report. The magazine analyzed 18,790 high schools in 40 states and ranked them based on a variety of metrics, such as test scores, college readiness and the performance of disadvantaged students. More

Immigrants and What's Good for Society
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Dec. 7 -- The rancor sparked by a failed New York plan to permit illegal immigrants access to driver's licenses and the fallen federal and state versions of the DREAM Act highlight a dangerous obsession with keeping illegal immigrants from accessing the supposed privileges of citizenship at any cost. (Written by Tomas R. Jiménez, an assistant professor of sociology at UCSD and a Fellow at the New America Foundation) More

Timetable Moved Up on Marine Preserves
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 7 -- Ocean waters off San Diego County and the rest of Southern California likely will be carved into new marine conservation areas years earlier than expected, state officials said yesterday. The reserves could benefit dwindling species but damage the fishing industry in the region – arguably the state's biggest battleground on the issue. (Quotes Ed Parnell, a marine ecologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More

FBI Seeks Public's Help Finding Fake-bomb Plotter
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 7 -- The FBI is asking for the public's help in identifying who planted a fake bomb that led to the evacuation of UCSD medical school buildings at the La Jolla campus Wednesday. More

George Chamberlin's Money in the Morning
San Diego Daily Transcript, Dec. 7 -- There was plenty of reaction to the mortgage plan proposed by the Bush administration yesterday. A sizeable number of people have criticized the plan, calling it a bailout. A group called Freedom Works sent a letter to Congress advising against "excessive new regulations or federal intervention." The letter was signed by 61 economists, including UCSD professor Erik Gartzke. More