A Sampling of Clips for November 3^rd, 2008

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The Father of Portfolio Theory on the Crisis
The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 3 -- In the early 1950s, when young Harry Markowitz was looking for an area of economics to pursue, a chance encounter with a stockbroker in Chicago led him to apply a new logic about risk to what had been an investment industry based on touting individual stocks. He revolutionized the investing world by showing how to create diversified portfolios that reduce risk and maximize return. Markowitz is now a professor at UCSD’s Rady School of Management. More

Slimy Snails Do the (Underwater) Locomotion
MSNBC, Nov. 3 -- How can a snail crawl along the surface of a pond while hanging upside-down underwater, especially when there’s seemingly nothing to grab? The spot-on snail solution, according to a team of engineers, including UCSD researchers, is finding the perfect balance between surface tension and the motion of the snail’s large, slime-trailing foot. More

Counting On Wal-Mart Women
Newsweek, Oct. 31 -- Just about every poll shows Barack Obama ahead in key battleground states, yet an internal McCain campaign memo, conveniently leaked to the media, calls the race "functionally even." (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin, who does polling for The Economist magazine) More

Bright Light Beats the Blahs
USA Today, Nov. 3 -- But if darker, shorter days dampen your mood, sap your energy, send you on eating binges or plunge you into a full-fledged depression, a candle won't be enough. Bright light — and lots of it — is a better prescription, say experts in the link between light and mental health. "It's been known for a long time that darkness makes us sad and bright light makes us happy," says Daniel Kripke, a professor emeritus of psychiatry at UCSD. "Now it's been shown scientifically." More

Health Insurance Firms Offering Online Therapy for Insomnia
Los Angeles Times, Nov. 3 -- Health insurers are sometimes better known for causing sleepless nights than for creating restful ones, but in the last few months, helping consumers get a good night's sleep has become a priority for most of the top-tier U.S. health insurance companies, including WellPoint, Aetna, Cigna, Kaiser Permanente and several Blue Cross plans. (Quotes Sonia Ancoli-Israel, head of the sleep disorders clinic at UCSD) More

U. of Illinois Starts Construction of Sustainable Supercomputer Center
Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 3 -- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will break ground Wednesday for an 88,000-square-foot building to house a new petascale supercomputer that it plans to bring online in 2011. (Mentions the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD) More

Local College Named in Top 10 Best Value
NBC San Diego, Oct. 31 -- UCSD has been named one of the nation’s Top 10 “Best Values in Public Colleges” in the December 2008 issue of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, the magazine’s editors announced Friday. More

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Students Drop Giant Pumpkin
14News, Indiana, Nov. 3 -- It was named "Dow Jones" and just like the market has been doing lately, it dropped. Some students at UCSD dropped a huge pumpkin from the 11th story of of the tallest building on campus Friday night. More

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A Wireless Way to Thrive
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 2 -- The melding of health care and wireless technology is creating new tools for health care providers, including the “m-diet” system from a UCSD medical research team. More

Tapping into a Mesmerizing Telematic Tapestry at UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 2 – Last weekend at UCSD's Visual Arts Black Box Performance Space, UCSD Professor Mark Dresser was able to weave a mesmerizing and exquisite telematic tapestry of improvisational avant-garde art, dance, image and music, in a program titled “Multiplicities: An Inter-Art Telematic Performance.” More

Obama May Help Leibham Tighten Race with Bilbray
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 2 -- With Barack Obama positioned to win California in a landslide on Tuesday, one Democratic congressional candidate in San Diego County – Nick Leibham – hopes he might be able to ride Obama's coattails into office. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More

Scripps Coastal Reserve Trail is Wonder Near Water
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 1 – Scripps Coastal Reserve is part of UCSD's Natural Reserve System. Known as the Knoll, this coastal bluff offers a Biodiversity Trail loop that takes only about 20 minutes to complete. More

Women’s Activism, Chicana Feminisms to be Explored Nov. 6 at UCSD
La Prensa, Oct. 31 -- Dionne Espinoza, Ph.D., an associate professor of Chicano/a and Liberal Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, will give the inaugural talk for the Gracia Molina de Pick Latina Feminisms Lecture Series at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Cross-Cultural Center at UCSD. More

Nonprofit Profile - UC San Diego Extension
San Diego Business Journal, Nov. 3 – The San Diego Business Journal profiles UCSD Extension. The newest of four specialized master’s degrees, the joint Health/Law Master’s Degree — conferred by UCSD and California Western School of Law — is the first of its kind in the western United States. Mor

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