A Sampling of Clips for February 7^th, 2008

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McCain's Rivals Vow to Stay in Race
USA TODAY, Feb. 6 -- John McCain won delegate-rich states from coast to coast on Tuesday to solidify his lead for the Republican presidential nomination as two rivals with multiple victories themselves vowed to deny him that prize. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Sale Gives PR Firm the Benefits of Becoming Employee-Owned
The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 7 -- As employee-owned companies have grown in number and become established in the past 10 years, more are buying up other companies, partially because of big potential tax breaks, says Martin Staubus, director of consulting at the Beyster Institute, which focuses on employee ownership at the Rady School of Management at UCSD. More

Making for Easier Assimilation
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 7 – The federal government's massive assimilation campaign, which the Bush administration launched in 2006, is continuing to expand. This spring, the government will offer a free Web-based English class to immigrants on its new site, www.WelcometoUSA.gov. (Quotes Tomás Jiménez, a sociology professor at UCSD) More

Climate Alters the Water Equation
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 7 – Mankind has messed with the climate of the West, and as a consequence, long-established rules about managing water supplies have become obsolete.  Those are the primary conclusions of two reports published last week. The first study, released in the journal Sciencexpress, was conducted by a team of scientists led by Tim Barnett, a climate researcher at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More

Ion, the Prize
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 7 -- Scientists have known about ion channels – or at least suspected their existence – for more than a century. But it has only been in recent decades that researchers have begun to appreciate fully the pores' profound significance in human health and well-being. (Quotes Nick Spitzer, a professor of biology at UCSD) More

Climate-change Seminars Offered to Schoolteachers
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 6 -- The Birch Aquarium and Sally Ride Science yesterday announced a program to help elementary and middle school educators teach about climate change. More

Another Blossoming Tech Sector
bizSan Diego, February 2008 -- UCSD is already a hotbed for telemedicine research, a lot of it happening at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. More

Donation Supports UCSD Professorship
San Diego Business Journal, Feb. 6 -- Hearty kudos goes out to the Nicholas family for recently putting up most of the $500,000 endowment for a third chair in Greek history at UCSD’s History Department, the university said Feb. 1. More