A Sampling of Clips for
July 20th, 2007
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Huge Dust Plumes from China Cause Changes in Climate
The Wall Street Journal, July 20 -- One tainted export from China can't be avoided in North America -- air. An outpouring of dust layered with man-made sulfates, smog, industrial fumes, carbon grit and nitrates is crossing the Pacific Ocean on prevailing winds from booming Asian economies in plumes so vast they alter the climate. "There are times when it covers the entire Pacific Ocean basin like a ribbon bent back and forth," said atmospheric physicist V. Ramanathan at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. More
Marguerite Vogt Dies
The Scientist, UK -- Marguerite Vogt, whose early work on polio virus characterized how the virus forms plaques in culture, died this month of natural causes. She was 94. Vogt was a longtime professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif. Her best-known work on polio was conducted in the 1950s, and for decades following she continued to study viruses and the genetics of cancer, only retiring from benchwork as an octogenarian. (Quotes Martin Haas, a professor at UCSD and longtime friend and collaborator of Vogt) More
A Year After the Lebanon War
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, July 20 – It has been just over a year since war broke out between Israel and Lebanon. I spent 2005-06 as a visiting Fulbright professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the American University of Beirut. I learned of the events that started the war on a Wednesday morning in my campus office. We had planned to fly to France on Friday on our way back to San Diego. It had been a wonderful year as we worked and renewed old friendships in Lebanon and Syria. (Written by Michael Provence, an associate professor of modern Middle Eastern history at UCSD) More
UC Professional Programs Face Steep Fee Hikes
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 20 -- The 11,000 students enrolled in University of California medical, law, business and other professional school programs may face steep fee increases starting in fall 2008. (Mentions UCSD’s schools of pharmacy, medicine, business and international relations and Pacific studies) More
Small Chip, Big Potential
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 20 -- In a research lab at MaxLinear, engineer Safy Fishov shows off the Carlsbad company's new radio-frequency tuner chip, which helps bring television to mobile phones. The chip is ridiculously tiny – about half the size of an individual dial button on the keypad of a cell phone. (Quotes Ian Galton, a professor at the Integrated Signal Processing Group at UCSD) More