A Sampling of Clips for October 10^th, 2008

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George Palade, Nobel Winner
for Work Inspiring Modern Cell Biology, Dies at 95
The New York Times, Oct. 9 -- George E. Palade, whose discoveries about the intricate inner workings of cells helped give birth to the field of modern cell biology and earned him a Nobel Prize, died Tuesday at his home in Del Mar, Calif., at 95. In 1990, at 77, he became the first dean for scientific affairs at the School of Medicine at UCSD. He retired in 2001. The school named a building for him in 2004, and a professorship was endowed in his name in 2006. More

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The Little Protein That Glowed
Los Angeles Times, Opinion, Oct. 9 -- Two join Osamu Shimomura as the new chemistry laureates: Marty Chalfie, who was the first to use GFP to light up bacteria and worms, and Roger Tsien, a UCSD researcher, who has been in the forefront of fluorescent protein research since 1994 and has created a series of fluorescent proteins whose colors span the spectrum. More

Nobel City
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 10 -- The Nobel Prize shelf at UCSD is getting impressively crowded. Roger Tsien, a 56-year-old professor of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry, is the latest laureate, winning the Nobel announced this week in chemistry for his work with two other scientists in designing and creating fluorescent molecules that light up the inner workings of living cells. Their work was cited as having opened vast new avenues into research on diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and cancer.  More

Poor Sleep May Impact Elders' Physical Abilities
Reuters Health, Oct. 9 -- Poor quality sleep may lead to poorer physical function among otherwise healthy older men, study findings suggest. "Men with poorer sleep quality, such as frequent awakening episodes, had weaker hand grip, slower walking speed, poorer walking balance, and were less likely to rise from a chair without using their hands," Dr. Thuy-Tien L. Dam told Reuters Health. Dam, who was with UCSD at the time of the study. More

Victory Within Grasp, Obama Faces A New Choice
Huffington Post, Oct. 9 -- As two major developments become increasingly likely - a Democratic presidential victory on November 4 and a sustained economic crisis - Barack Obama faces a difficult choice: does he begin now to prepare the electorate for tough times, or does he continue to maintain a politically contrived optimism on the assumption that he can shift gears after election day. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More

Shop Talk
Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 10 -- Energy guru: UCSD has hired Byron Washom as director of strategic energy initiatives. Mr. Washom had set a record in 1984 for efficiency of solar-energy conversion — a record that stood until last year, when it was broken by Sandia National Laboratories. San Diego announced earlier this year that it is embarking on various innovative renewable energy projects that will produce more than seven megawatts of energy for the university. More

Success on the High School Exit Exam
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Oct. 10 -- The latest results of the state high school exit exam provide plenty of troubling news for California families, taxpayers and policymakers. One in 10 members of the class of 2008 failed the test, the highest proportion since the test became a requirement for graduation in 2006. (Co-authored by Julian Betts, an adjunct fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and a professor at UCSD, where he chairs the Department of Economics and Andrew Zau, a senior statistician in the economics department at UCSD) More

Pultizer Prize Winning Composer's Work at Salk Institute
KPBS, Oct. 9 -- This Saturday night, a percussive work of music called Santuary will be performed at the Salk Institute in La Jolla. Sanctuary was composed by UCSD Music Professor Roger Reynolds. It'll be performed by the percussion ensemble Red Fish Blue Fish. Saturday's concert seeks to meld the musical nature of the piece with the serene open performance space at Salk. More

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