A Sampling of Clips for
March 20, 2006
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Four Research Groups
to Form Stem Cell Center
Contra Costa Times, March 18 -- Four San Diego research centers said Friday they were joining forces to create a new, nonprofit institution to study stem cells. The new alliance -- San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine -- is made up of UCSD; Burnham Institute; Salk Institute; and Scripps Research Institute. The collaboration is intended to bring together researchers from various disciplines to study stem cells, which some believe hold promise for treating such debilitating diseases such as Parkinson's and diabetes. More
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Ride Urges Emphasis
on Math, Science Studies
USA Today, March 19 -- Jobs requiring science or engineering training will rise. China graduated 500,000 engineers in 2004, and India, 200,000. The USA graduated 70,000. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know where many of those jobs will go. (Q&A with Sally Ride, professor of physics at UCSD.) More
Freud in Our Midst
Newsweek, March 27 issue -- On his 150th birthday, the architect of therapeutic culture is an inescapable force. Why Freud—modern history's most debunked doctor—captivates us even now. (Quotes Patricia Churchland, chair and professor of philosophy at UCSD.) More
Technology Review Identifies Emerging Technologies That Will Make a Difference
Genetic Engineering News, March 20 -- With new technologies constantly being invented in corporate and academic labs around the world, identifying which ones will transform computing, medicine, telecommunications and business always is a challenge. In "10 Emerging Technologies," a special package in the March/April issue of Technology Review, MIT's magazine of technology, the editors name those that they feel will soon have a significant impact. (Quotes Trey Ideker, who runs the Laboratory for Integrative Network Biology at UCSD.) More
Project Takes Fish
Collection Into the Digital Age
Kansas City InfoZine, March 20 -- The same medical technology used to image brain tumors and torn knee ligaments is now taking the field of marine biology to a new dimension: anyone with Internet access will be able to look at fish as never before. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded researchers at UCSD’s Keck Center for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Scripps Institution of Oceanography a grant to use magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to create a high-resolution, 3-dimensional, online catalog of fishes. More
Artists Who Run in Packs
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 19 -- The individual artist is hardly an endangered species, but the 2006 Whitney Biennial has enthusiastically embraced other options like collectives, fictional artists, a gallery that isn't really a gallery and a corporation that really isn't a corporation. (Lists UCSD artist Natalie Jeremijenko and Dee Dee Halleck, professor emeritus of communication.) More
