A Sampling of Clips for
June 4th, 2007
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In Silicon Valley, the Crash Seems Like Just Yesterday
The New York Times, June 3 —The average valley entrepreneur tends to spot bubbles everywhere, much the way granddad feared financial ruin every time a grandchild carelessly scraped leftover food into the trash. “There’s such a heightened sense of bubble awareness in Silicon Valley that people confuse any expression of enthusiasm for a bubble,” said Paul Kedrosky, the executive director of the William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement at UCSD. More
Elephants' Big Feet the Better to Hear With
Los Angeles Times, June 2 - The elephants' messages were urgent: Lions hunting nearby. Instead of pricking up their ears, the other elephants listened to the warnings with their feet. But they heeded the alarms only from animals they knew, according to a new study. For the research, scientists from Stanford University, UCSD and the Oakland Zoo traveled to Namibia's Etosha National Park, where they found herds of wild elephants gathered near a remote watering hole. More
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Outlaw DNA
The New York Times, June 3 -- Repoxygen was an obscure gene-therapy drug developed at a pharmaceutical lab in Oxford, England, to fight anemia. It works by worming a specialized gene into its host’s DNA. In the right circumstances, the gene directs cells to start making extra erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that drives the production of red blood cells. (Quotes Theodore Friedmann, a geneticist at UCSD) More
Stanley Miller
The Economist, May 31 -- Biologists often talk of evolutionary theory as though it had solved the mystery of life. It has undoubtedly solved the mystery of how life changes and develops, but it has not solved the deeper question of where life came from in the first place. Still, every flash in the pan in the search for the elusive elixir is an excitement, and the experiment carried out 55 years ago by UCSD Professor Emeritus Stanley Miller both dazzled the world and defined the career of this keen, young researcher. More
10News Looks at UCSD's Outreach Program
10News, May 26 – 10News profiles UCSD’s outreach programs and interviews UC President Bob Dynes. More
Fed Faces Pressure to Raise Rates, Options Show
Bloomberg, June 4 -- In the options market where the savviest investors take apart conventional wisdom, the Federal Reserve is facing growing pressure to consider raising interest rates as soon as December. (Quotes UCSD economist James Hamilton) More
U.S.-China Relations in the 21st Century
Chronicle of Higher Education, June 8 – Q&A with Susan Shirk, director of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at UCSD and author of “China: Fragile Superpower.” More
Wars Weigh on VA Health Care, Experts Say
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 2 –Even with big boosts in funding, the Veterans Affairs medical system is sagging under the burden of treating wounded troops from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, several experts on veterans' health said during a forum Thursday night at UCSD. More
Open Your Wallet
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 3 –UCSD is offering naming rights to parts of the $53 million music building that's expected to open on the La Jolla campus in the fall of 2009. While it will be called the Conrad Prebys Music Center in honor of the Point Loma developer and philanthropist who donated $6 million, there are plenty of other naming opportunities, assuming you're willing to make a significant contribution. More
In a Fog
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 2007 -- Alexander Gershunov, a researcher at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, explains the June Gloom phenomenon. Gershunov, who goes by the nickname Sasha, asks me if I want the long or short answer. I go for long. He heaves a Russian sigh and clears his throat. Forty-five minutes later, he’s shed a good bit of light on why our skies are fogged up most mornings in late spring/early summer. More
Time Travel
San Diego Magazine, June 2007 -- The San Diego Natural History Museum’s “Fossil Mysteries,” showcasing the creatures that inhabited Southern California and Baja during a 75 million-year timeline, opens this month. It took three years and $8 million to design and launch the first permanent exhibit built by the museum in 25 years. The staff consulted with more than 50 scientists worldwide, including geologists from San Diego State University, UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. More
Spintronic Logic Gate Promises Computing Advance
New Scientist, UK, May 2007 -- Faster and more flexible computers that utilise electron spin, as well as charge, appear feasible based on a novel design by a UCSD research group. More
UCSD's Rady School Opens Otterson Hall
The San Diego Daily Transcript, June 1 -- The Rady School of Management at UCSD celebrated the opening of Otterson Hall on Friday. More
OSU Engineering School Names Director
Portland Business Journal, June 1 -- Oregon State University has named a leader from one of the nation's top engineering schools as the director of its new School of Civil and Construction Engineering. Scott Ashford has been a professor since 1996 at UCSD, where he helped the Jacobs School of Engineering climb the national rankings from 43rd to 11th. More