A Sampling of Clips for December 16^th, 2008

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Fruits, Veggies Slash Breast Cancer Risk: U.S. Study
Scientific American, Dec. 16 -- Certain breast cancer survivors who load up on fruits and vegetables, eating far more than current U.S. guidelines, can slash their risk the tumors will come back by nearly a third, according to a study released on Monday that included the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD.  More

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MIT Uses Nanotubes to Help Fight Cancer
The New York Times, Dec. 15 -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology today announced that a group of scientists there have developed nanotechnology that can be placed inside living cells to determine whether chemotherapy drugs are reaching their targets or attacking healthy cells. (Mentions research at UCSD, where scientists discovered a way to use nanotechnology-based "smart bombs" to send lower doses of chemotherapy to cancerous tumors, thus cutting down the cancer's ability to spread throughout the body) More

New Genetic Analysis Might Boost Breast Cancer Care
U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 16 -- Examining subnetworks of genetic activity in a patient's tumor better predicts the spread of breast cancer than conventional techniques, UCSD scientists, working with Korean researchers, say. More

Whale-Watching Tours and Festivals Along the Pacific
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 12 -- From the deck of a boat or a sandy shore, the California coast offers some of the best seats for watching the annual migration of gray whales. Naturalists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (La Jolla), one of the world's oldest and largest ocean and earth science research facilities, will lead twice-daily whale-watching tours starting Dec. 26 aboard San Diego Harbor Excursion vessels. More

Going Greener
Voice of San Diego, Dec. 15 – UCSD, which already calls itself one of the "greenest" universities in the nation, today will announce plans to build a fuel cell plant that will create and store clean energy at night for use during the daytime peak hours. More

UCSD Plans to Convert Methane Gas into Electricity
San Diego 6, Dec. 16 -- UCSD plans to convert methane gas from the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant into electricity, using fuel-cell technology, it was announced Monday. More

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Hall of Fame
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 16 -- Two former San Diegans were among a dozen 2008 inductees to the California Hall of Fame yesterday. Children's author Ted Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, and double-Nobel laureate Linus Pauling, who taught at UCSD in the 1960s, were honored posthumously. More

Who Uses the Most Water
Voice of San Diego, Dec. 16 -- No one uses more water in San Diego than the city government itself, consuming enough last year to have supplied 25,000 households. On water conservation, the city is leading by example. (Mentions UCSD) More

Education
San Diego Metropolitan, Dec. 15 -- The Rady School of Management at UCSD will launch a Ph.D. program in management in the fall of 2009. "Offering a Ph.D. program allows the university to build on the firm foundation provided by the teaching and research strengths of both the Rady School and UCSD as a whole," says Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. More

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