A Sampling of Clips for May 6^th, 2009

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Doctor Sounds Alarm Ahead of Tobacco Vote
The New York Times, May 6 – As a pulmonologist who has cared for hundreds of smokers who died of lung cancer, David Burns, a retired medical school professor at UCSD, is an unabashed campaigner against smoking. That is why, with the Senate just weeks away from a vote on landmark legislation to regulate tobacco, Dr. Burns, 61, is now willing to sidestep the protocols of peer-reviewed science. He wants to sound one more alarm about the dangers of smoking. More

Science Course That's Tube City
Chicago Tribune, May 6 – Blake Cole, 19, emerged from the surf on a Saturday morning, longboard under his arm, and professed himself satisfied. "Having fun and doing science," he said. "That's what it's all about." Indeed, the essence of the Physics of Surfing, a course for freshmen at UCSD, is to mix physical exertion and intellectual rigor. More

US Delegation to Attend WOC in Manado
ANTARA News, Indonesia, May 6 – The US government is sending a delegation of more than 40 representatives to participate in the World Ocean Conference (WOC), scheduled for May 11-15, 2009, in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Other delegation members will include Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography Dr. Tony Haymet. More

UCSD Professor Discovers
Important Franklin Letters
KPBS, May 6 -- While researching a book on Benjamin Franklin, Alan Houston, a political science professor from UCSD, used his last day in London to make another trip to the British Museum to look at one last bit of reference material he'd heard about. While he read a book of letters from the 18th Century, Professor Houston got more excited than perhaps anyone has been in the British Museum for some time. He realized he'd discovered a treasure trove of copies of letters written by and to Benjamin Franklin. Letters that no one had seen in the past 250 years. More

Your Political Opinions Might Be Genetic
KPBS, May 5 -- A UCSD professor says liberal or conservative politics might run in your family. Experts say that our political opinions are the result of social or material motives. But political science professor James Fowler says genes are a factor as well. More

National Nurse Week
KUSI, May 5 -- Joe Lizura was down in Hillcrest at UCSD Medical Center, where they're celebrating National Nurse Week. More

UCSD Makes Admissions Error – Again
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 6 -- For the second time this spring, the admissions office at UCSD has temporarily gotten its thumbs up/thumbs down wrong for a batch of prospective students. This time there is a happy ending – 607 transfer students initially listed as rejected have been accepted. More

UCSD Alzheimer's
Researcher Stars in New HBO Doc
Voice of San Diego, May 5 -- Paul Aisen, a neuroscientist at the UCSD School of Medicine and one of the world's leading experts on drug therapies for Alzheimer's disease, is featured prominently in HBO's upcoming three-part documentary series on the affliction. More

A Packed Globe Season
that 'Hits the Right Tone'
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 3 -- A pair of world-premiere musicals – one chronicling the life of a showbiz legend, the other composed by one of theater's most celebrated young talents – headline the Old Globe Theatre's 2009-10 winter season, a lineup that ranges from the Rat Pack to religion-centric comedy to some shaken-up Shakespeare. (Mentions Kim Rubinstein, head of UCSD's undergrad acting program) More

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