A Sampling of Clips for 
May 14 - 16, 2005

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

Study Says Tasers
Don't Cause Heart Rhythm Disturbances
New York Times, May 14-An independent academic study of Taser electric stun weapons led by Dr. Ted Chan of UCSD has found that they do not cause heart rhythm disturbances when used for short periods on healthy adults. More

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MSNBC, May 13

Ocean Waters Yield Cancer Therapy
BBC, May 13-Scientists believe they can make cancer drugs from the humble sea squirt. (Refers to research by UCSD.) More

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Chemical and Engineering News, May 16

Crossing Boundaries
Chronicle of Higher Education, May 20-UCSD students led by Wayne A. Cornelius, director of San Diego's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD, recently participated in a program that involved interviewing more than 600 potential migrants in the states of Jalisco and Zacatecas in order to determine whether U.S. immigration policies were affecting their decisions to cross the border. More

Colourful Language
Nature, May 2005-Synaesthesia - a phenomenon that occurs when one sense is stimulated by another - has intrigued scientists for more than a century. (Refers to research led by V. S. Ramachandran, a professor of psychology at UCSD.) More

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Science Direct, April 2005

Rivals Zero In on Key Voters
Los Angeles Times, May 15-James K. Hahn and Antonio Villaraigosa raced the breadth of Los Angeles on the final Saturday before election day, striving to pull together the patchwork coalition each needs to prevail in their bitterly fought mayoral rematch. (Quote by Steven P. Erie, an urban studies professor at UCSD.) More

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KTLA, May 15

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San Diego Union-Tribune, May 16

L.A. Needs Boldness in City Hall
Los Angeles Times, May 15-The economy of Los Angeles has serious problems that need fixing, but you wouldn't know it by following the mayoral election. (Quote by Steven Erie, a professor at UCSD.) More

Climate: Earth Brightens Up
UPI, May 16-The 25-year battle for clean air seems to be paying off in a brighter and possibly warmer Earth. (Refers to research by Lynn Russell, associate professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

'Max Tivoli' Author Wins California Book Award
San Francisco Chronicle, May 16-Novelist Andrew Sean Greer and poet Adrienne Rich are among the winners of the 74th annual California Book Awards, which were announced earlier this month by the Commonwealth Club. The gold medal for nonfiction went to UCSD professor emeritus Chalmers Johnson for his book, "The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic." More

A Whole New Ballgame
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 15-UCSD administrators are recommending a controversial and unique proposal to offer athletic scholarships, signaling a shift for a university that has historically provided low funding for its sports program and emphasized broad participation instead of pushing students toward professional sports. (Quotes by Vice Chancellor Joseph Watson, Donald Tuzin, chairman of UCSD's faculty senate and Earl Edwards, UCSD's athletic director.) More

Study Reveals Smog Clearing Properties of Atmosphere
Medical News Today, May 14-Chemists at UCSD and Purdue University have discovered that natural chemical processes in the atmosphere may be removing smog and other damaging hydrocarbons at a faster rate than once believed. More

Lipids Get New Comprehensive Classification System
Medical News Today, May 15-In response to the growing number of lipids expected to be discovered through lipidomics and in anticipation of the massive amounts of data that will be generated by the lipid community, an international group of scientists led by UCSD has developed a comprehensive classification, nomenclature, and chemical representation system for lipids. More

Stock Options Not for Most Americans
Miami Herald, May 15-President Bush argues that Americans are ready to trade in their traditional benefits for their own investment accounts. But research shows that millions fail to get even the most elementary investment decisions right -- even Nobel Prize-winning economists. (Quote by Clive W.J. Granger, an emeritus professor at UCSD and 2003 Nobel Prize winner.) More

For Schools, Beauty Runs Budget-Deep
Contra Costa Times, May 14-College can feel like prison during finals week, but the real chore these days is making sure a campus doesn't look like a penitentiary. (Refers to UCSD and the San Diego Supercomputer Center.) More

Local Scientists Team Up on Stem Cell Research
San Diego Business Journal, May 16-While the fierce debate over where to situate the control room of the leaders of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine dominated recent headlines, scientific leaders at four major research institutions in La Jolla have planned extensively for the upcoming grant-making process behind the scenes. (Refers to UCSD.) More

S.D. Gets Rare Chance to Ponder Biblical Mystery
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 16-The San Diego Natural History Museum will announce tomorrow an ambitious, six-month exhibition of the Dead Sea Scrolls beginning in July 2007. The exhibition's journey to San Diego began with a lunch and a phone call. (Quote by David Noel Freedman, a well-known biblical scholar at UCSD.) More

Ed-Buzz
Voice of San Diego, May 16-Gompers Charter Middle School, in partnership with UCSD, is actively seeking teachers for this fall. Forty-eight teaching positions are open for the school, which was just authorized in March by the San Diego Unified School District to become charter beginning July 1. More

Garden Festival to
Highlight Botanical, Dance Creations
North County Times, May 14-Modern dance and some of the city's most beautiful gardens will be the showpieces of Saturday's Encinitas Garden Festival, a new daylong celebration of the city's creative and floricultural prowess. (Quote by Patricia Rincon, a member UCSD's dance faculty.) More

Political 'Death' Intriguing, Though Not Yet Fully Realized
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 16-During the 1980s and early 1990s, Centro Cultural de la Raza served the city and a diverse audience as a thriving performance venue. Never flush financially, yet active and significant artistically, the Balboa Park organization, along with Sushi Performance and Visual Art, UCSD-sprung writer/performers and the San Diego Rep offered strong, innovative alternatives to the mainstream theaters here. Then, the Centro simply "disappeared" from the performing arts scene. More