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March 8, 2006

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AAU, UCSD Awarded
National Institutes of Health Funding
African News Dimension, March 8 – The Pathology Department of the Addis Ababa University (AAU) and the School of Medicine of UCSD have been awarded National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for a collaborative research project. More

UCTV to Broadcast Entertaining
Nanoscience Program on TV and Internet
AzoNano News, March 8 -- What could a stadium-sized bowl of peanuts, a magic tennis ball, shrinking elephants, and a crazed hockey player possibly teach us about nanoscience? Not Too Serious Labs’ production “When Things Get Small” - a departure from your typical science-for-television fare - uses these and other comic inventions to take viewers on a comically corny romp into the real-life quest to create the smallest magnet ever known. (Mentions a UCSD-TV partnership with Calit2, and quotes Larry Smarr, director of Calit2.) More

Analysis: Allergy Patients Not Complying
United Press International, March 8 -- If you were a patient who was prone to near-fatal food-allergy reactions that could strike without warning and you could save your life by carrying and using a device the size of a pen, would you ever leave home without it? Unfortunately, the answer is yes, based on recent compliance studies in allergic patients. (Quotes Richard O'Connor, a clinical professor of medicine at UCSD.) More

UNL to Participate in Physics Experiment
Daily Nebraskan, March 8 -- What gives matter mass? What is dark energy? These may seem like impossible questions, but scientists around the world, including some at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, are preparing to conduct an experiment that may someday find the answers. Other sites include the California Institute of Technology, UCSD, Purdue, University of Florida, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Washington. More

U.S. May Ban Krill Fishing for Sea’s Sake
San Francisco Chronicle, March 8 -- Federal regulators are considering for the first time a West Coast ban on fishing for some of the ocean's tiniest creatures, the shrimplike krill that support a vast food web of fish, seabirds and whales. After warming ocean waters and a drop in krill numbers last spring set off a domino effect of sea life deaths, a group that advises the U.S. Department of Commerce on fishing regulations is expected today to limit the fishing of krill in federal waters, 200 miles from shore. (Cites research by UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

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