A Sampling of Clips for June 2^nd, 2009

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Clive Granger, U. of Calif. Economist Who
Shared Nobel for Work with Statistics, Dies at 74
The Washington Post, June 2 -- Economist Clive W.J. Granger, who shared a Nobel Prize for work that changed how analysts look at financial data, has died in San Diego. He was 74. Granger died Wednesday, according to a news release from UCSD, where he was a professor emeritus. More

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Panel Is Set to Review NASA’s Plan for Human Space Flight
The New York Times, June 2 -- The first American woman in space, a co-founder of a small aerospace company and a retired United States Air Force general are among the members of an independent panel that will review the course of the nation’s human space flight program. The panel includes Charles Kennel, chairman of the National Academies Space Studies Board and former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD and Sally Ride, a UCSD professor. More

Herbert York, 1921-2009: Physicist and Champion of
Arms Control Helped Build U. of California at San Diego
Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2 -- Herbert F. York, a renowned physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb and then became an arms-control advocate and founding chancellor of UCSD, died May 19 in San Diego after a long illness. He was of 87. More
 
The Politics of Facebook in Iran
Australia.TO, June 1 -- Recently unblocked, Facebook provides a space for political discourse in Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran has been and remains one of the world’s harshest censors of the Internet, frequently blocking sites that are deemed “immoral” and politically offensive to the unelected authorities in power. (Co-authored by UCSD researcher Babak Rahimi) More

Riding My Own Train Set in Japan
Seoul Times, June 2 -- I'll let you into a little secret; I never had a train set as a kid. While this may be a strange and unimportant fact to relate to readers of the Seoul Times, it has some relevance when I think of a recent trip to Japan; for it is there that I discovered, or even rediscovered, an interest in trains. (Mentions UCSD visual arts professor Jean Pierre Gorin) More

New Cecut Director Provokes Protests – and a Debate
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 2 -- A chorus of protests has followed the former Baja California education secretary's appointment to the post of director of the Centro Cultural Tijuana earlier this month. Painters, writers, musicians, actors, students and journalists are now campaigning for his removal, enlisting support across Mexico – and across the border in California. (Quotes Teddy Cruz, a San Diego architect and member of UCSD’s visual arts faculty) More

Campuses Foresee Far Fewer Students
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 2 -- California's higher-education leaders warned yesterday that they will have no choice but to limit enrollment and class offerings as they struggle to maintain quality in the face of deep state budget cuts. (Mentions UCSD) More

Early Cancer Diagnosis Startup Wins Entrepreneur Challenge
Xconomy, June 2 — A biotechnology company aiming to revolutionize early-stage cancer screening last night won the UCSD Entrepreneur Challenge. Biological Dynamics, led by bioengineering PhD student and CEO Raj Krishnan and his fellow graduate students David Charlot and Roy Lefkowitz, took home the $40,000 first prize. More

Tainted Catch
San Diego Reader, June 1 -- A quarantine on the recreational harvesting of all mussel species was issued at the beginning of May by the California Department of Public Health and will be in effect through October 31. Eating affected mussels could cause paralytic shellfish poisoning or domoic acid poisoning. According to Melissa Carter, a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, she and her colleagues found domoic acid in seawater samples collected from Scripps Pier between April 20 and May 5. She notes that it was “at fairly low concentrations.” More

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