A Sampling of Clips for May 7^th, 2009

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Philanthropist Was 'First Lady' of UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 7 — Ellen Revelle was a descendant of the prominent Scripps family and wife of a legendary scientist and educator, but she forged her own legacy as a leader in philanthropy and devoted supporter of arts and education in San Diego. Mrs. Revelle, a native of La Jolla, was active in helping her husband, Roger Revelle, establish UCSD in 1960. Roger Revelle was also a former director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More

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Doctor Sounds Alarm Ahead of Tobacco Vote
CNBC, May 7 -- With the Senate just weeks away from a vote on landmark legislation to regulate tobacco, Dr. David Burns, a retired medical school professor at UCSD, is now willing to sidestep the protocols of peer-reviewed science. He wants to sound one more alarm about the dangers of smoking. More

Winners of Environmental
Prize Warn of Climate Problems
Voice of America, May 6 -- Two American scientists have received a major environmental award, the Tyler Prize, for their work in tracing global warming and chronicling the effects of pollutants on the atmosphere and ice sheets. Indian American scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography has studied the effects of pollutants in shifting precipitation patterns. More

Alchemy in Tanzania?
US News & World Report, May 6 -- In a paper published this week in the journal Nature, scientists report the results of a study of Oldoinyo Lengai's volcanic gas emissions, sampled by the team during a carbonatite lava eruption. "The gases reveal that the carbon dioxide comes directly from the upper mantle, just below the East African Rift," said David Hilton, a geochemist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. More

The Right Price Will Solve the Problem
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, May 7 — Any time there is serious consideration given to water rationing, the public has a right to know why. Short of a catastrophic break in one of the main supply pipelines, water rationing represents a failure to properly manage a water system so that demand equals supply. (Written by Richard Carson, a professor of economics and Ben Fissel, a Ph.D. student in economics UCSD where they work on water issues) More

Scientists Issue Statement
on Water, Climate Change
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 7 — An international group of scientists yesterday issued a “declaration” about water supplies and climate change as part of a workshop sponsored by UCSD, the University of Cambridge and others. More

New Incision-Free
Procedure Leads to Weight Loss
CBS News 8, San Diego, Calif., May 6 -- Amazing technology continues to change the way millions of obese Americans lose weight. The latest is an incision-free procedure at the UCSD Medical Center to correct stomachs that have stretched in patients who had gastric bypass surgery. More

Local Colleges
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 7 — UCSD head baseball coach Dan O'Brien was named California Collegiate Athletic Association Coach of the Year after leading his team to the conference title, and eight Tritons were named to the all-CCAA team. Of UCSD's eight all-conference selections, six made the first team: third baseman Josh Tanner, shortstop Vance Albitz, outfielder Evan Kehoe, pitchers Matt Rossman, Tim Shibuya and Guido Knudson. Second baseman Garrett Imeson was second team, and pitcher Trevor Decker was honorable mention. More

Fees at California's
Public Universities Keep Rising
Sacramento Bee, May 7 -- The University of California Board of Regents is expected to raise next year's undergraduate fees by 9.3 percent at its meeting today. California State University trustees take up the issue next week, when they'll look at raising student fees by 10 percent. (Mentions UCSD) More

University Backs Off in Transfer of Remains
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 7 — In February, UCSD requested federal approval to transfer the nearly 10,000-year-old bones, now locked in a safe near Escondido, to the region's Kumeyaay tribes. But David Tarler, an administrator with the National Park Service, said the absence of a formal hand-over agreement between the university and the Kumeyaay made the request moot. More

UC San Diego Makes
Another Admissions Error
KTLA, May 6 -- More than 600 transfer students initially listed as rejected have actually been accepted to the university, according to a report in the San Diego Union-Tribune. UCSD officials told the paper that the mistake an "administrative error." More

SD Residents Urged
to Look Out for Rattlesnakes
KPBS, May 6 -- Rattlesnake season has arrived, and California residents should take steps to avoid getting bitten as severe reactions are becoming more common, a UCSD doctor cautioned today. More

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