A Sampling of Clips for
March 5th, 2007
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Paying Tribute to UCSD's Leon Thal
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 5 -- There are occasionally those among us who achieve great things through their individual energy, vision and charisma. Our community and the world recently lost such a person: Dr. Leon Thal, chair of Neurosciences at UCSD and a global leader in the fight against Alzheimer's disease. Today, colleagues, friends, patients and family members from around the country will gather at UCSD to pay tribute to the memory of Dr. Thal. More
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Exploring the Difficult to Define
The New York Times, March 5 -- You might think that by now New York audiences would know the composer Joji Yuasa — those, at least, whose memories reach back to the 1980s, when his work was often played here. Yet short memories are not the only reason Mr. Yuasa’s work isn’t better defined in the collective musical consciousness; it is also because his music is hard to define at all. Mr. Yuasa, now 77 and a professor emeritus at UCSD, has done it all — sometimes in the same piece. More
Indian-American Students Find
Home in Indian Movie-inspired Moves
International Herald Tribune, March 4 -- Bollywood dance competitions involve teams of Indian-American college students who bring the music and dance traditions of their forebears into a American world of pre-performance huddles, cheerleading and a thirst for first place. (Quotes Rohit Bal, 20, a management science major at UCSD) More
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A `Diagnostic Moment'
for the Life of our Planet
The Toronto Star, March 3 -- With compelling statistics, dramatic photographs, and a well-honed, accessible presentation of scientific research, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore paints an arresting picture of a planetary emergency, from the melting of the snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro and the polar ice caps to the disappearance of Lake Chad, once the world's sixth largest lake, now a mere mud hole. (Mentions research by Naomi Oreskes of UCSD) More
More Nonprofits Learn Benefits of Lobbying
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 5 -- One of the deep-rooted convictions in the nonprofit sector is the belief that charities should steer clear of lobbying. Nothing could be less true, even if the idea of nudging lawmakers one direction or another is foreign to most nonprofit executives. (Quotes Gretchen Pelletier, a writer in the development office at UCSD) More
Global Warming's Link
to Wacky Weather Cloudy
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 4 -- Is global warming making our local weather weirder? Climatologists would like to be able to answer that question. Unfortunately, they can't. (Quotes Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a climatologist at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More
Health Experts Say Most Seafood
OK for Pregnant Moms, Young Children
North County Times, March 4 -- Message from health experts to pregnant mothers and their young children: It's good to eat your seafood. Even so, those benefits have been obscured by warnings of the dangers from eating mercury-contaminated seafood. But a growing number of studies have demonstrated that the risks have been exaggerated. And now, the experts have changed their message. (Quotes Christina Chambers, an expert on fetal development and assistant professor of pediatrics at UCSD) More
Student Inventors Grab Prize, Seek Patent
San Diego Business Journal, March 2 -- Four electrical engineering students from UCSD want to patent a novel way of producing solar energy. Meanwhile, their method has already generated a prize for the students, who have named their enterprise SolASE Co. More
Russia Superpower Status
Linked to Oil, ex-CIA Official Says
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 4 -- Russia is trying to use its oil wealth to become a superpower again, a former CIA deputy director says. Adm. Bobby Inman, 75, spoke as part of the Next Generation Project, hosted by UCSD's School of International Relations and Pacific Studies. More
Performance Both Educates, Aids
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 3 -- In life there are many ways to learn, and in San Diego there's a group that strives to merge cultural identity with college education. One way the San Diego Indian American Society does this is by throwing its annual Unity in Diversity event, the proceeds from which go toward SDIAS' two scholarship funds. Ismahan Warfa, who is a freshman majoring in human biology at UCSD, was one of five students in the county to receive a $4,000 scholarship – specifically earmarked for first-generation college students – from SDIAS last year. More
Friend's Urging Works out for Macks
Ventura County Star, March 4 -- For as long as he can remember, Dan Macks wanted to participate in college athletics. Macks loved the pageantry, camaraderie and competition involved. But when he wasn't recruited out of high school, Macks figured his chances were gone and he would have to remain just a fan. He was wrong. After a friend encouraged Macks to try out for track and field at UCSD last season, Macks made the team as a walk-on. More
Local High Schools Participate
in First Annual Statistics Bee
10News, March 3 -- The first of what organizers plan to make an annual statistics competition for high school students took place Saturday morning at UCSD. More