UCSD News

A Sampling of Clips for
June 8^th, 2007

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Biologist Named to Smithsonian Ocean Job
CBS News, June 7 – Nancy Knowlton, a leading biologist at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has been named to the first endowed chair in marine sciences at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. More

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Study: Vitamin D Reduces Cancer Risk
The New York Times, June 8 -- Building hope for one pill to prevent many cancers, vitamin D cut the risk of several types of cancer by 60 percent overall for older women in the most rigorous study yet. ''The findings ... are a breakthrough of great medical and public health importance,'' declared Cedric Garland, a prominent vitamin D researcher at UCSD. ''No other method to prevent cancer has been identified that has such a powerful impact.'' More

Protesters Gather to Back UCSD Teaching Assistants
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 8 -- Dozens of UCSD students and faculty members gathered for a “funeral for academic freedom” yesterday, to draw attention to two teaching assistants whose contracts were not renewed after they criticized course curriculum. More