A Sampling of Clips for March 25^th, 2009

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Interpreting Mexico
Los Angeles Times, Opinion, March 25 -- On her first official trip to Mexico beginning today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will confront a range of bilateral issues and tensions: drug violence, trade and immigration, among others. Times editorial writer Marjorie Miller asked experts on both sides of the 2,000-mile border including Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD, to discuss issues likely to come up on the two-day visit. More

U.S. Biologists Discover
Protein Link to Wound Healing
Xinhua, March 24-- UCSD biologists reported on Tuesday that they have discovered a crucial protein link to wound healing, which may help treat severe complications of diseases such as diabetes and eczema . More

Obama Bets Bank Fix
Won't Be a Political Risk
San Francisco Chronicle, March 25 – President Obama is banking that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's complicated new plan to fix big U.S. banks doesn't transform their toxic assets into toxic political risk. (Quotes Takeo Hoshi, acting dean of UCSD’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies) More

Dozens of Temblors Hit Under the Salton Sea
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 25 – Dozens of earthquakes have occurred under the Salton Sea since last weekend, including a 4.8 magnitude temblor shortly before 5 a.m. yesterday. Scientists say it's a long shot the temblors could trigger a large quake along the southern end of the nearby San Andreas Fault. “I don't want to sensationalize this event,” said geophysicist Neal Driscoll, who has been studying the geology around the sea with Scripps Institution of Oceanography colleague Graham Kent for four years. “Whether these are telling us something will happen, we just don't know.” More

UCSD Creates
Engineering Leadership Center
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 25 -- UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering is establishing the Bernard and Sophia Gordon Engineering Leadership Center. Through the Gordon Foundation, Bernard and Sophia Gordon contributed $2.5 million. Included in the center's plans are leadership courses and forums led by engineering leaders in industry, government, military and academia. More

Sea Level Rise, Storms and San Diego
KPBS, March 25 -- Like other shorelines around the world, San Diego County's coast is at risk of being swallowed by the ocean. UCSD researchers say the sandy beaches we walk on today could be gone in our lifetime. More

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