A Sampling of Clips for 
February 09, 2006

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Mom's Antidepressant Use Raises Newborn's Risk for Lung Condition
ABC News, Feb. 8 - Women who use commonly prescribed antidepressants late in their pregnancies run a higher risk of delivering infants with a serious breathing problem, a new UCSD study released Wednesday shows. More

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Program Gets Teens Off the Couch
Forbes, Feb. 8 -- A combo of computers, doctors and telephone reminders can help teens improve their eating habits and exercise more, a new study finds. The one-year study was conducted by researchers at UCSD, and included 819 adolescents, aged 11 to 15. About half were assigned to take part in "Patient-Centered Assessment and Counseling for Exercise + Nutrition" (PACE+), while the others were put in a control group that received no special attention. More

Army Effort to Enlist Hispanics
Draws Recruits, and Criticism
New York Times, Feb. 9 -- In Denver and other cities where the Hispanic population is growing, recruiting Latinos has become one of the Army's top priorities. The increase comes at a time when the Army is struggling to recruit new soldiers and when the enlistment of African-Americans, a group particularly disillusioned with the war in Iraq, has dropped off sharply, to 14.5 percent from 22.3 percent over the past four years. (Quotes Jorge Mariscal, a Vietnam veteran who is director of the Chicano/Latino Arts and Humanities Program at UCSD.) More

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Perusing the Professors
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 9 -- A university-level art department's true worth is shaped to a large degree by the quality and approach found in the artworks produced by its faculty of working artists. And the mostly mixed-media works filling UCSD's University Art Gallery make no bones about emphasizing the conceptual over more formal concerns in artmaking practices. The exhibition's featured artists-art professors - Amy Adler, Jordan Crandall, Teddy Cruz, Ricardo Dominquez, Natalie Jeremijenko, Sandra Kogut and Brett Stalbaum - are all well-versed in their respective disciplines and their pieces reflect this expertise. More

From Technical Problem to New Company
North County Times, Feb. 9 -- It's a story that happens everywhere: A tech-savvy college student struggles to help a tech-naive parent. But UCSD computer science student Ryan Sit took it further. Sit turned his mother's struggles with her digital camera into his master's thesis. And he turned that thesis into a new online photo-sharing company, DropShots. (Also mentions UCSD professors Stefan Savage, William G. Griswold, and James D. Hollan.) More

Lawmakers Slam
UC President over Pay Raises, Secrecy
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 9 -- In the first of several legislative hearings scheduled on the University of California's executive pay practices, state senators repeatedly criticized UC officials yesterday for condoning a culture of secrecy and spending public dollars irresponsibly. Senators grilled UC President Robert Dynes for 90 minutes about what they characterized as excessive executive compensation packages, administrators' questionable corporate board involvement and why UC had not learned its lesson a decade earlier, when similar revelations came to light. (Mentions UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox). More