A Sampling of Clips for 
October 21, 2005

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Tech School Kicks off a Multimedia Halloween
New York Times, Oct. 21-Forget the Monster Mash. This Halloween, there's a multimedia mashup at one California college that includes an interactive film depicting a scary future of technology. Adventurous filmgoers are encouraged to dress up in Halloween costumes and bring cell phones and laptops to play a part in the movie, which will take place at UCSD and celebrate the opening of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) on Oct. 28. More

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CNetnews.com, Oct. 21

The Birth of a Language
New Scientist, Oct. 22-When Carol Padden first visited Al-Sayyid, a small Bedouin village in the Negev desert in Israel, her expectations were not high. Padden, a linguist at UCSD, first went there in 2000 to study a newly discovered sign language. More

UCSD Professor to Receive Prize
Voice of San Diego, Oct. 21-UCSD professor Michael Davidson is the university's first recipient of a prestigious poetry prize. Davidson was selected as the recipient of the Roy Harvey Pearce Prize for New Poetry by judges from UCSD, Otis College of Art and Design, UC Berkeley and Tuumba Press. More

Controversial UCSD TV Show Back On Air
Channel 10 News, Oct. 21-A controversial campus television show at UCSD that was shut down last March is back on air. More

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CBS, San Francisco, Oct. 21
Contra Costa Times, Oct. 21
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 21

Science Department at Preuss has Pledge
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 21-A San Diego-based biotech company has pledged to give the Preuss School at UCSD $108,000 over three years for its science department. More

Scientists Seek to Set the
Record Straight on Global Warming
Charlotte Observer, Oct. 21-As one study after another has pointed to carbon dioxide and other man-made emissions as the most plausible explanation for global warming, the cautious community of science has embraced the idea initially dismissed as far-fetched. The result is a convergence of opinion rarely seen in a profession where attacking each other's work is part of the process. Every major scientific body to examine the evidence has come to the same conclusion: The planet is getting hotter; man is to blame; and it's going to get worse. (Quote by Naomi Oreskes, a science historian at UCSD.) More