A Sampling of Clips for March 27^th, 2008

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‘Critical Care’ is a Rising Med School Specialty
U.S. News & World Report, March 26 -- Stephen Weston finds everything about the intensive care unit exciting: the life-and-death decisions, the teamwork between specialists, and the head-scratching that goes into treating complex cases. A second-year medical student at UCSD, he was introduced to hospital work when he had a job as a respiratory therapist. Now he's found a specialty that will put him squarely in the ICU: critical care medicine. More

Howland Aiming for Rare Back-to-Back-to-Back Final Fours
ESPN, March 26 -- The simple basketball truth is that UCLA’s coach Ben Howland, one of the ultimate grinders in the business, deserves to be mentioned with the coaching elite. His numbers demand it. (Quotes UCSD coach Chris Carlson, who worked with or for Howland on four different staffs) More

Banks Fail to Lower Mortgage Rates as Bernanke Cuts
Bloomberg, March 27 -- The difference between the 10-year government bond yield and the average U.S. fixed mortgage rate was 2.7 percentage points last month, the widest spread since 1986, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Banks are defying Bernanke and hoarding cash after writing down the value of more than $200 billion of mortgage-related securities since July. (Quotes Clive Granger, the 2003 Nobel laureate in economics and professor emeritus at UCSD) More

Texas May Ask Fox to be UT Chief
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 27 – UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox could be a candidate to run the University of Texas System after its leader takes the reins of the University of California. More

Graphic Evidence
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 27 – Fifty years ago this month, geochemist Charles David Keeling began recording the curve of the Earth. That may be stating it a bit grandiosely, but not too much.  He was working for Roger Revelle, then director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla and one of the founders of UCSD. More

Cancer Survivor, Researchers Discuss
Best Way to Communicate about Cancer
KPBS, March 26 -- Is there a right way and a wrong way to talk about cancer? And how does the way we communicate about it help us deal with the illness? Wayne Beach, a professor of communication at San Diego State University and a researcher at the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD, helps answer some of these questions on These Days. More

Doctor Spots, Treats Mysterious Illness in Child Patient
NBC San Diego, March 27 -- Officials said that a local pediatrician attending a CME class on Kawasaki Disease recognized the symptoms in one of her patients and referred the child to Dr. Jane Burns, a Kawasaki Disease researcher at UCSD who sees patients at Rady Children's Hospital. More

Six Artists Spotlighted in Exhibit
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 27 – The familiar banality of suburban landscapes is a common thread linking collections from six San Diego-area artists in this spring's “Innocence Is Questionable” exhibit at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido. Five of the six artists in the exhibit are connected to the Visual Arts Department at UCSD. More

Education
San Diego Metropolitan, March 27 -- Gracia Molina Enriquez de Pick, an activist in the international feminist movement and lifelong proponent of educational reform -- especially for Latinos and Chicanos, will be recognized by UCSD on April 1 for her $125,000 challenge gift that will endow The Gracia Molina de Pick Endowed Fund for Chicano/a Studies to support the Chicano/a, Latino/a Arts and Humanities minor program in the division of Arts and Humanities. More