A Sampling of Clips for July 22^th, 2009

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Report: Fewer Mexicans Entering U.S.
USA Today, July 21 -- The number of Mexicans moving to the USA has dropped sharply since the middle of the decade, according to a new report by the Pew Hispanic Center. (Quotes David Fitzgerald, associate director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD) More

Will Climate Change Disorientate Fish?
BBC News, July 20 -- Humans are regularly lost at sea but what about fish? New research by David Checkley at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and his colleagues, suggests that climate change could disorientate fish by enlarging their ear bones, which they use to navigate. More

Stanford Graduate Receives Fellowship to Teach Mathematics to High School Students
Voice of America, July 21 -- Growing up in India, Deepti Gupta realized the importance of education. She is a recent graduate and she tells us a bit about her background. She received her undergraduate degree in math from UCSD. More

Doctor’s Fight Against Diabetes is Personal
San Diego News Network, July 21 -- When Steve Edelman became a doctor, he opted to specialize in the care and treatment of patients with diabetes, a treatable disease with no known cure that has grown to epidemic proportions in the U.S. Edelman, a diabetic for 39 years, is a professor of medicine at UCSD, director of the Diabetes Care Clinic at the VA Medical Center and founder/director of the nonprofit Taking Control of Your Diabetes in Del Mar. More

Beyond the Simple Abortion Debate
San Diego News Network, Opinion, July 21 -- The murder of Dr. George Tiller, the Kansas physician who performed late-term abortions, provides yet another example of the fanaticism generated by the abortion issue. (Authored by Ben Williams, professor emeritus in the psychology department of UCSD, where he has been a faculty member since 1973) More

Yellow Barn Celebrates 40th Anniversary
Commons News, Vt., July 21—Yellow Barn Music Festival presents a star-studded weekend starting Thursday, July 16, culminating in a gala 40th Anniversary celebration on Saturday, July 18, featuring renowned Hungarian-born pianist Peter Frankl in a performance of the Brahms Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26. (Mentions Grammy- and Cannes Award-winning soprano Susan Narucki, who is on the UCSD faculty) More

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