A Sampling of Clips for 
March 9 ^th, 2007

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Move Over, Mice
APA Monitor, March 2007 -- Babysit a robot. That was the strange summer assignment for research assistants in the machine perception lab at UCSD in 2003. The robot wasn’t much to look at—just a doll with a camera stuck to its head and an umbilical cord linking to a laptop—but the students gamely took on the task of bouncing the robot and cooing at it as if it were a real baby. More

Making Bush's Latin America Visit Meaningful
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 9 -- As President Bush heads to Latin America, it is an opportune time to examine U.S.-Latin American relations and to offer some suggestions to assure that this long-awaited trip is more diplomatic success than failure. (Written by Jeremy M. Martin, director of the Energy Program at UCSD's Institute of the Americas) More

Medical Study Using Severe
Cardiac, Trauma Patients Is Under Way
The North County Times, March 9 -- Paramedics countywide are trying new treatments on patients with severe trauma or cardiac problems as part of a study that aims to improve field medical care and survival rates. The study, called the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, is being coordinated in the San Diego area by the UCSD Medical Center. The county is one of 10 areas in the United States that is participating in the study, which will also be conducted in Canada, said UCSD Emergency Medicine Dr. Daniel Davis. More

Supervisors to Weigh
in on Hospital Move Plans
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 9 -- County supervisors will consider Tuesday whether to oppose UCSD Medical Center's plan to move its acute-care beds in Hillcrest to an expanded Thornton Hospital in La Jolla. More

Official on Sick Leave Is Teaching
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 9 --  Laurie Madigan, a Chula Vista assistant city manager, is teaching a course at UCSD at the same time she is on medical leave from her city job – a job for which she is still collecting her full salary of about $184,000 a year. More

High School, College Students
Strive to Raise Awareness About Darfur
San Diego Daily Transcript, March 9 -- The Amnesty International chapter at UCSD, along with Westview High School students, will host Saturday Reach Out to Darfur, an event to raise awareness about the genocide in the Sudanese region. The event begins 6 p.m. at the International House Great Hall and will include Sudanese speakers, a documentary showing, an art auction, raffles and music. More

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