A Sampling of Clips for 
January 18, 2006

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A Warming World: The Difference
a Degree Makes Seashore Sea Change
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 16-On the edge of the California coast, in the tide pools that tourists can see from Cannery Row, delicate anemones and sea stars are helping to tell the story of a warming world. (Refers to research by Roger Revelle, Charles David Keeling, and John McGowan.) More

Group Wants UC to Cut Sudan Ties
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 18-Standing near a mock graveyard intended to commemorate victims of political violence in Sudan, a group of UCLA students and other activists on Tuesday urged the University of California's Board of Regents to divest from companies with business links to the Sudanese government. The regents are scheduled to begin a two-day meeting today at UCSD and are expected to consider the divestment issue Thursday. More

Age is Just a Number, Survey Finds
Forbes, Jan. 18-Feelings of closeness with loved ones and active lives are providing a majority of American seniors with the sense that they're aging successfully, a new study by UCSD finds. More

Study Targets Better Asthma Treatments
UPI, Jan. 17-A study by UCSD researchers says inhaled corticosteroids may be more effective than other treatments for mild-to-moderate childhood asthma. More

Schwarzenegger's
Visit Focuses on Tuition Freeze
KFMB, Jan. 18-Governor Schwarzenegger will speak at UCSD Wednesday morning, where he will highlight his budget proposal for California colleges and universities. More

UCSD Scientists Join Massive Ocean Study
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 18-UCSD scientists are joining a $24.5 million effort to study the vast number of microbes in the world's oceans. The project, announced yesterday at the Birch Aquarium at UCSD, aims to map the genes of the tiniest marine creatures. (Quote by Larry Smarr, director of CalIT2 and a lead scientist on the project.) More 

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Regents Delay Vote on UCSD Housing
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 18-Plans for a $120 million housing complex for UCSD transfer students were scrutinized by UC regents yesterday, but the vote for initial funding was delayed. More

Curiosity Peaked
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 18-Questions erupt with discovery of two active undersea volcanoes made by scientists including Hubert Staudigel, a research geologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. For Instance: What are a bunch of eels doing there? More

UCSD Receives Grant
to Boost Minority Interest in Clinical
Research, Careers in Health Sciences
North County Times, Jan. 18-UCSD received a $1.29 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to increase minority student interest in clinical research and careers in health sciences, it was announced Tuesday. More

Study Finds Evolution
Doesn't Always Favor Bigger Animals Innovations Report, Jan. 18-Biologists have long believed that bigger is better when it comes to body size, since many lineages of animals, from horses to dinosaurs, have evolved into larger species over time. But a study published this week by two biologists at UCSD in an early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that maxim, known as "Cope's Rule," may be only partly true. More

Screen Test
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 17-Doctors debate whether current medical methods are an effective way of detecting prostate cancer. (Quote by Dr. Joseph Schmidt, head of the division of urology at UCSD.) More