A Sampling of Clips for March 10^th, 2008

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"Horton" Directors Honorary Citizens of Whoville
Reuters, March 10 -- "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who," which opens in theaters Friday, is the first of the classic stories written by Theodor Seuss Geisel to be made into a computer-animated feature film. The directors did a lot of research, including a visit to archives at UCSD. More

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Engineer Studies Fat Cells to Fight Obesity
USA Today, March 10 -- What if, instead of having to exercise to burn off fat, your fat cells would do it for you? A Tufts University chemical engineer, Kyongbum Lee, is working on a novel way to treat obesity that he says may do just that. (Quotes Shankar Subramaniam of the bioengineering department at UCSD) More

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Breast Cancer Survivors Can and Should Exercise
Los Angeles Times, March 9 -- Exercise in all forms is beneficial to breast cancer survivors, helping to improve quality of life as well as increasing survival rates. "Exercise promotes better blood flow through the body and the brain," says Cheryl Rock, professor of family and preventive medicine at UCSD. "It can be empowering, and they're reminded they can do things to make themselves feel better." More

'Magic Mirror' Reveals Effects of Bad Habits
ABC7, Los Angeles, Calif., March 9 -- We all have bad habits but some are more aging than others. Now new technology reflects those back at you, and lets you peek into the future. Researchers at UCSD recently put it to the test. More

Illegal Immigrants Slip as Hot Voter Issue
Houston Chronicle, March 9 -- Once billed as the hot-button issue for the 2008 presidential race, pollsters and pundits expect illegal immigration to fade from the spotlight heading into the November general election. (Quotes Marisa Abrajano, an assistant political science professor at UCSD) More

The Vitamin D Miracle: Is it for Real?
Globe and Mail, Canada, March 9 -- In the summer of 1974, brothers Frank and Cedric Garland had a heretical brainwave. Their hypothesis, painstakingly developed and published six years later in the International Journal of Epidemiology, was that sunlight has a powerful anti-cancer effect through its role in producing vitamin D in bare skin. Cedric Garland is now a professor of preventive medicine at UCSD. More

Arizona at a Crossroads
over Water and Growth
Arizona Republic, Opinion, March 9 -- "Lake Mead 50 percent chance of drying up by 2021," screamed headlines around the West in mid-February after the publication of a new study in the prestigious journal Science. Many water managers responded by accusing the Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers of using overly pessimistic future scenarios and of politicizing climate change. More

Distance Learning, Bond Style
Daily News & Analysis, India, March 10 -- A group of aerospace engineering and computer science students gathers once a week in Atkinson Hall of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology to learn about designing technology for the developing world. Their instructor prefers to take classes of the popular ‘Design for Development’ course from his desktop in Mumbai — through videoconferencing that is. More

Meet a Real Dr. House
Fox6News, March 8 -- Working on cures for the rare and obscure, there's a real-life Dr. House in San Diego. Dr. Hal Hoffman is an associate professor of pediatrics and medicine at UCSD.  More

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Partnerships in Scholarship
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 10 -- In the higher education hierarchy, the UC schools have historically been the elite research and doctoral-granting institutions, while the Cal State campuses were designated teaching schools. Try telling that to San Diego State University. (Mentions UCSD) More

Dr. Seuss' Menagerie Well-tended
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, March 8 -- Audrey Geisel is Mrs. Seuss. That's the persona she took on when her husband died in 1991. (Mentions UCSD’s Geisel Library) More

Questions for Steffanie Strathdee
Voice of San Diego, March 10 -- Earlier this year, UCSD researcher Steffanie Strathdee released a study chronicling various characteristics of female sex workers in Tijuana and other border cities. The results were shocking. More

Nuts and Bolts of Eco-Building Gets Down to Sorting Debris in Bins
San Diego Business Journal, March 10 -- You can credit global climate change or Al Gore, but whatever the reason, building green is all the rage these days. Mike Gallen, a project manager for the San Diego office of PCL Construction Services Inc., is recycling 75 percent of the unused construction debris for an 80,000-square-foot music school for UCSD. More

Union Hospital Workers Picket UC Sites for Better Wages
San Diego Business Journal, March 10 -- Health care workers held an informational picket at three University of California campus sites in San Diego on Feb. 28. It is the fourth picketing effort that UC workers across the state have held since contract negotiations began in August, according to Lakesha Harrison, union president. (Mentions UCSD) More