A Sampling of Clips for
March 2 nd, 2007
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March 2, 2007
Fifty Years
of 'The Cat in the Hat'
NPR, March 1 -- The Cat in the Hat, the book about a mischievous, irrepressible soul who always seemed kind of ageless, is 50 years old. At the time of its debut in 1957, the Cat was an instant success. The Dr. Seuss classic is still captivating to children and the adults who read to them. (Mentions UCSD) More
Exploring Identity as a Problematic Condition
The New York Times, March 2 – Lorna Simpson, who studied at UCSD and whose refined and impassioned work is the subject of a 20-year retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, began her career with an intense interest in socially engaged “street photography.” Then she did something unexpected to that genre. And then she did something else to it. More
Brain Evolution Studies Go Micro
Science Magazine, March 2 -- On the macro level, many of the differences between human and other primate brains have long been obvious. Yet in recent years, a growing number of researchers have become convinced that size isn't the whole story. Work over the past decade by Katerina Semendeferi, an anthropologist at UCSD, suggests that the human frontal lobes, the seat of many advanced cognitive functions, are not proportionately larger than those of other apes. More
Humans Affect Animal
Adaptation to Warming
Earth & Sky. March 2 -- By looking into the past, a researcher is trying to understand how animals might adapt to global warming now. Richard Norris of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD has been studying a climate warming event of 55 million years ago. Although there seemed to be major extinctions in the deep ocean, he said, that ancient climate change wasn’t as detrimental for animals on land. More
Family Ties Bolster in 'Wakonda's Dream'
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 2 -- It will be a family affair when UCSD music professor Anthony Davis' new opera, “Wakonda's Dream,” receives its world premiere Wednesday at the 2,600-seat Orpheum Theatre in Omaha, Neb. The ambitious piece, which was commissioned by Opera Omaha, features Davis' 9½-year-old son, Jonah, a fourth-grader at Explorer Elementary School in Point Loma. More
Dr. Seuss' Birthday
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 1 -- The cat is out of the bag. Tomorrow is the 103rd birthday of “Cat in the Hat” author Ted Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss. So UCSD is celebrating with cake for students and staff outside the Geisel Library. It's also a special occasion for the storybook “Cat in the Hat,” who turns 50 this year. Geisel's widow, Audrey, is the guest of honor. UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox will read to students at Hawthorne Elementary school in San Diego tomorrow morning – Seuss books, of course. More
Banking for the Future
NBC San Diego, March 1 -- San Diego is the first city in the nation to participate in a new and controversial procedure -- investing their own adult stem cells for future use, according to NBC 7/39. Dr. Ron Rothenberg is the first of five donors in the U.S. to bank his own stem cells. (Quotes Dr. Larry Goldstein, director of UCSD's stem cell research program) More