A Sampling of Clips for
May 22nd, 2007
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College for All
Newsweek, May 22 -- The Preuss School, a public charter at UCSD, admits only low-income students whose parents did not graduate from college. That is a rare thing in American high schools, as is the Preuss principal, Doris Alvarez—still at the top of her game at 70. Preuss (rhymes with choice) began in 1999 when several UCSD faculty, including Bronx-born music professor Cecil Lytle, created the school to bring students from poor families up to University of California standards after UC admission preferences for minorities were outlawed. Preuss is the ninth best high school in the nation, according to Newsweek’s ranking system. More
Scripps Gets $2.5 Million Gift
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 22 -- The widow and family of the late oceanographer Roger Revelle have donated $2.5 million to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD announced yesterday. The gift, which will be used to recruit a climate scientist to the institution and establish an environmental science chair in Revelle's honor, is the largest single donation ever made for an endowed chair in Scripps' 104-year history. More
4,000 Tickets for Gore Speech Gone in an Hour
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 22 -- The 4,000 free tickets for former Vice President Al Gore's presentation last night at UCSD were handed out by the campus box office in about an hour. UCSD officials said Gore has a close connection to the campus because he attributes his early learning about climate change to the late Roger Revelle, a founding father of the university. More
Al Gore Visit
Fox6 News, May 22 -- Former Vice President Al Gore gave his multimedia speech on global warming at UCSD. About 4,000 people attended. More
Bad Deal at the World Bank and IMF
Oakland Tribune, Opinion, May 20 -- The World Bank presidency of Paul Wolfowitz has reached its painful, slow-motion end. To obtain his resignation, his European critics have apparently offered the Bush administration freedom to appoint Wolfowitz's successor at the World Bank. Such a bargain is a setback for World Bank reform. Before a new World Bank president is named, the current antiquated selection process should be changed. (Written by Miles Kahler, the Rohr professor of Pacific International Relations at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and professor of political science at UCSD) More
Incontinence Surgeries Put to Test
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 22 -- A San Diego-led team of researchers has found that the fascial sling, one of two gold-standard surgeries for women suffering urinary incontinence, provided a full cure for 25 percent more patients than the other technique, the Burch colposuspension. Dr. Michael Albo is the report's lead author and co-director of the Women's Pelvic Medicine Center at UCSD. More
Shrinking Aneurysms
ABC8, West Va., May 19 --Each year, 15,000 people in the U.S. will develop a thoracic aneurysm -- a dangerous condition where part of the aorta in the heart bulges out. Doctor Nikhil Kansal, a vascular surgeon at UCSD, says if it ruptures, you're in trouble. More
Tri-City Doctor's Web Site Contains X-rays
North County Times, May 22 --Though Tri-City Medical Center recently fired nine employees for photographing and disseminating patient X-rays, a doctor at the hospital maintains a personal Web site that contains similar anonymous patient records. (Quotes Dr. Michael Kalichman, director of the Research Ethics Program at UCSD) More