A Sampling of Clips for May 22^th, 2009

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Founding UC San Diego Chancellor Herbert York Dies
The Guardian, U.K., May 21 -- Herbert York, founding chancellor of UCSD, and a world-renowned physicist who worked on the development of the atomic bomb, has died of leukemia. He was 87. More

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Low Vitamin D Levels May Initiate Cancer Development
U.S. News & World Report, May 22 -- Low levels of vitamin D may contribute to cancer development, U.S. researchers have found. "The first event in cancer is loss of communication among cells due to, among other things, low vitamin D and calcium levels," study leader Cedric Garland, an epidemiologist at the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD, said in a university news release. More

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Global Warming Now Audible, Study Says
National Geographic, May 21 -- According to a new study, it's now possible to hear the rise of global warming in the form of more, larger, more intense storms—signs of climate change, many scientists say. The noise of waves crashing ashore creates very specific vibrations, according to study leader Peter Bromirski of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. And those vibrations indicate how severe storms at sea actually are. More

Making a Mockery of Being Green
The Wall Street Journal, May 22 -- On Wednesday at 9 p.m., “The Goode Family,” created by UCSD alumnus Mike Judge, will have its premiere on ABC and become the first animated series on the network’s prime-time lineup since 1995 when “The Critic” starring Jon Lovitz ended its second season. More

Dollar Tumbles Against Euro On Investors' Unease About Inflation
USA Today, May 21 -- Investors drove the dollar to a four-month low against the euro Thursday, amid concerns that the Federal Reserve's massive crisis-fighting campaign might ignite inflation. (Quotes UCSD economist James Hamilton) More

The Future is Green
KPBS, May 22 – A whole new generation of "green businesses" are starting to enter the marketplace. These companies do familiar things in a different way. Their catchwords are sustainability, non-toxic, and a reduced carbon-footprint. And it seems that the marketplace is finally ready. Steve Bennett discusses these trends. He is director of business development at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCSD's Rady School of Management on their "Going Green" executive education program. More

'I Changed Australia': Sol Trujillo
The Australian, May 22 -- Sol Trujillo's scorn for the Rudd Government's $43 billion national broadband plan on the sidelines of a technology conference in the US prompted a rebuke from Australia's consul-general to New York, Phil Scanlan, and dismay among others who regard the project as cutting edge. (Quotes Internet pioneer Larry Smarr, a physicist at UCSD and director of Calit2) More

Freephone Art Project Offers the Deported a Chance to Phone Home
Los Angeles Times, May 21 -- A group of Master of Fine Arts students and recent graduates from UCSD are busy organizing the Freephone Art Project, an unusual art "installation" that will provide people who may have been deported from the United States via the Tijuana border a chance to make one free call after they have been returned to Mexico. More

The Importance of Napping
WKOWTV, Madison, Wis., May 22 -- College student Sarah Raifsnider says napping improves her grade point average. In fact, she says she'll take a 20 minute power nap before a test to restart her day. And the university she attends is all for it. UCSD recently held its first ever 'nap-in'. More

Investors Cast Adrift on a Sea of Uncertainty
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 22 -- What's an investor to do? After a punishing plunge in the stock market convinced many of us that the long-standing mantra of holding stocks for the long run is rubbish, the market goes and stages a stunning, two-month rally. (Quotes Allan Timmermann, professor of finance at UCSD’s Rady School of Management) More

Preparing for Life Coming from Mars
Voice of San Diego, May 20 -- The National Academy of Sciences this month released one of those reports that make for great plot devices in science fiction thrillers. It was titled: "Assessment of Planetary Protection Requirements for Mars Sample Return Missions." And on the high-powered committee that wrote the report (which was actually an update of a 1997 report) was Mark Thiemens, the physical sciences dean at UCSD. More

X Prize Founder Peter Diamandis Targets
Breakthroughs With More Incentive Prizes
Xconomy, May 22 -- It has been almost five years since a team of aerospace entrepreneurs funded by a software billionaire claimed the Ansari X Prize, the $10 million prize competition to develop the first reusable private spacecraft. Since then, the frustrated space enthusiast who established the X Prize as a way to re-ignite astronautical, Peter Diamandis, has won some prizes of his own. (Mentions UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

Bless This Crew of Visionaries, Joy-Bringers, and Nutcakes!
San Diego Reader, May 22 -- Zirk Ubu, one of San Diego’s alternative circus troupes, includes no elephants, but its members perform several traditional circus-associated acts — juggling, stilt walking, blockhead work, aerialism, clowning, puppetry — and a whole lot of new nuttiness, new ideas about what circus can be and what role it can play in our culture. (The troupe includes Nancy Caciola, a professor of medieval studies at UCSD, and Richard Cohen, a professor of religious studies, primarily Buddhism and Hinduism also at UCSD) More

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