A Sampling of Clips for 
March 1^st, 2007

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March 1, 2007

Friendster for Proteins
Forbes, March 1 -- Peter Sorger spent eight years developing new laboratory gadgets and arcane mathematical theorems to explain how networks of genes and proteins can go awry, causing cancer, arthritis and other diseases. But when he went looking for cash to start a company in 2000, the best year ever for biotech venture capital, the vcs wouldn't give him decent terms. (Quotes Trey Ideker, a bioengineer at UCSD) More

New Center at UCSD to Delve
into Art Mysteries with Science
North County Times, March 1 -- UCSD is extending its science prowess to the field of high-tech art restoration and preservation, and it's bringing in an internationally renowned expert to lead the effort. Maurizio Seracini, famed for his analysis of works by Renaissance painter Leonardo Da Vinci, has been named founding director of UCSD's new Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology. More

Tech Tidal Wave Heads Toward Tribe
Denver Post, March 1 -- In one of the most starkly beautiful and sparsely populated deserts in the country, among a Navajo people who live in large numbers without electricity, running water, paved roads or telephone service closer than 10 miles, cutting-edge supercomputer technology is about to hook them up. It will cause an explosion in educational opportunities, emergency communications, business possibilities, scientific and technological research, and state-of-the-art telemedicine, according to a cadre of young and zealous Navajo engineers and partners at UCSD, University of New Mexico and so on. More

New Study Says Immigration
Helps California’s Economy
KPBS, Feb. 27 -- A new report from the Public Policy Institute of California or PPIC says that overall immigrant workers have helped California’s economy. The study says there's no indication immigrant workers took jobs from native workers and that from 1990 to 2004 average real wages for native workers went up by 4 percent. Full Focus talks to Gordon Hanson, labor economist at UCSD, about the issue. More

Studies Shed New Light on Blue Whales
UPI, Feb. 28 -- U.S. researchers have discovered blue whales -- the largest mammals on Earth -- use calls tied to specific behavior and gender. Scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, in a separate study, used recordings of blue whale songs to determine the animal's population distributions worldwide. More

California Lawmakers
Propose Lifting Term Limits
KPBS, Feb. 27 -- "Throw the bums out!" That was the message from California voters back in 1990 when they approved term limits for members of the Assembly and Senate. Now there's an initiative that could both tighten term limits and give current officeholders a little more time on the job.  Full Focus looks at the pros and cons of term limit reform and interviews UCSD political scientist Thad Kousser about the issue. More

Pop Art
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 1 -- For all the vastness of the
universe, its real work occurs at the scale of elementary particles –
subatomic entities with names like proton, positron, quark and baryon.
(Quotes UCSD physicists Vivek Sharma and Han Paar) More