A Sampling of Clips for March 9^th, 2009

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Statin Study: Lower Cholesterol,
Diminished Joy of Sex Linked
USA Today, March 9 -- The greater the drop in cholesterol from taking statin drugs, the more sexual pleasure is reduced, suggests a study led by Beatrice Golomb of the UCSD School of Medicine due Friday at the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Chicago. More

Gore Urges Gathering
to 'Lead in the Greatest Crisis'
San Diego Daily Transcript, March 9 -- Former Vice President Al Gore delivered impassioned pleas to the students, faculty and other guests at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD Friday night to work together and help solve climate change. More

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Dr. Robert Winslow Dies at 67;
UC San Diego Artificial Blood Pioneer
Los Angeles Times, March 9 -- Dr. Robert Winslow, a UCSD researcher who was one of the pioneers in the development of artificial blood, died at his home Feb. 2 after a long battle with brain cancer. He was 67. More

Cognitive Scientists Seek
to Quantify Body Movement
Los Angeles Times, March 8 -- With a dozen high-def cameras and a couple of camcorders, plus pens, notebooks, sketch pads and laptops, more than 40 people spent three recent weeks in a black-box theater on the campus of UCSD documenting what was occurring there. More

California Marijuana
Dispensaries Cheer U.S. Shift on Raids
The Wall Street Journal, March 9 -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's announcement that the federal government will no longer raid medical-marijuana dispensaries was cheered by California dealers as well as state legislators who seek to legalize and tax sales of the drug. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Thad Kousser) More

The Grand Challenge for Science and Math
Business Week, March 9 -- The Grand Challenges Summit was a conference to discuss the most important challenges facing society and how engineering and science can help solve them. (Quotes Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Mario Molina from UCSD) More

Give Us a Commercial Break!
The Washington Post, March 8  -- The ad breaks directly inform the pacing of the television program: They are the equivalent of a rest in a bar of music -- a pause that gives the content weight and meaning. (Quotes Leif Nelson, a professor at UCSD’s Rady School of Management) More

U. Michigan to Launch
Embryonic Stem Cell Programs
Forbes, March 9 -- The University of Michigan announced Monday it was launching the state's first major embryonic stem cell research program since voters eased restrictions on such work in November. (The University of Michigan operates a laboratory with UCSD to perform stem cell work researchers have been unable to do in Michigan) More

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Zap and Destroy
NBC Washington, March 9 -- Not everyone is a candidate for a liver transplant, but now there's an alternative. Now, a new minimally invasive option for treating liver tumors called microwave ablation is being performed at UCSD Medical Center and Moores UCSD Cancer Center. More

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U.S. Scientists Identify
Key Protein in Immune Cells Division
Xinhua, March 8 -- U.S. researchers said on Sunday that they had identified a key protein that is required for immune cells called B lymphocytes to divide and replicate themselves. Joseph Cantor from the UCSD School of Medicine is the first author. More

Together We Won't
Boston Globe, March 8 – In the ongoing effort to fix America's ailing schools, one of the most popular ideas is to shrink the number of school districts. (Mentions research by Brian Knight at Brown University and Nora Gordon at UCSD) More

UC San Diego Takes a Nap
KPBS, March 9 -- The beginning of Daylight Saving Time has cut short the sleep of a lot of us. And a UCSD professor thinks that's a good reason to hold a Nap In. Students are invited to take nap this afternoon at the Price Center. More

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A Top UC School But No Regent
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 8 -- In this county sit the six colleges that comprise UCSD. It draws the third-highest number of applicants in the UC system. It gets high scores from independent rankings of the nation's universities. Yet no San Diegan sits on UC's Board of Regents. More

Seth Lerer, 'Cartographer'
of Children's Literature
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 8 -- Seth Lerer takes a long view of children's literature – a very long view. The first sentence of his recent book on the subject reads: “Ever since there have been children, there has been children's literature.” And while he makes a point of saying “my book is not a global history,” it does take us back to the Greeks and Romans, to affirm how they created stories geared toward young people. Lerer is the new dean of Arts and Humanities at UCSD. More

Fish Story
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 9 -- In a novel and visually dramatic study, Loren McClenachan, a marine biologist and graduate student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has documented how much marine life has changed in the Florida Keys and, by extrapolation, almost everywhere else in the world. More

Endangered Primary Care Docs
Voice of San Diego, March 9 -- For the past eight years, I have been Chief of the Division of Family Medicine at UCSD. We are part of the larger Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at UCSD School of Medicine -- a group of about 90 faculty whose missions include the delivery of primary health care, the study of population health, social determinants of health, outcomes produced by our health care system, and methods of preventing health problems from occurring in the first place. (Written by Gene Kallenberg of the Division of Family Medicine at UCSD) More

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