A Sampling of Clips for October 13^th, 2008

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Nobel Prize Winner Dr. George Palade Dies at 95
MSNBC, Oct. 13 -- Dr. George Palade, who won a Nobel Prize in 1974 for his work isolating and identifying cell structure and helped create one of the leading cell biology programs in the nation at UCSD, has died. He was 95. More

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Glowing With Pride
Nature, Oct. 13 -- This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to the discoverers and developers of green fluorescent protein, widely used in biology to trace cellular processes. Nature News caught up with an excited Martin Chalfie of Columbia University in New York, who showed that the gene for GFP could be expressed in other organisms. He shares the prize with Osamu Shimomura, now an emeritus professor at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and Roger Tsien at UCSD. More

Britons Give California Colleges the Nod
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 10 -- California is the nerve center of world-class higher education in the U.S., according to a new survey from a British trade publication for academics. Nine California campuses made the top 200 in rankings of world universities by London-based Times Higher Education and QS Quacquarelli Symonds, an independent research firm. UCSD was ranked number 58. More

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Alaska Pollock Fishery Near Collapse: Greenpeace
Reuters, Oct 10 -- Stocks of Alaska pollock, a staple of the U.S. fast food industry, have shrunk 50 percent from last year to record low levels and put the world's largest food fishery on the brink of collapse, environmental group Greenpeace said on Friday. (Quotes Jeremy Jackson, director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

McCain, a Candidate Who Embraces Opposites
International Herald Tribune, Oct. 11 -- At the presidential debate in Nashville last Tuesday, Senator John McCain made his case for fiscally conservative, smaller government, calling for an "across the board" spending freeze and denouncing what he described as Senator Barack Obama's "government will do this and government will do that" approach to health care. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Keith Poole) More

Analyst Reaction to G7 Statement Communiqué
Forbes, Oct. 11 -- The finance ministers of the Group of Seven top world industrial countries committed themselves to use all available tools to systemically support the global financial system and ensure banks have the capital and liquidity they need. (Quotes UCSD economist Ross Starr) More

Van Driver's Work in Mass. Aided Nobel Winners
Boston Globe, Oct. 11 — When two American scientists, including UCSD researcher Roger Tsien, won a Nobel Prize this week in chemistry, the driver of a car dealership's courtesy van had reason to take special interest. Research done by Douglas Prasher at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Falmouth, Mass., was critical in helping the winners figure out how to use a glowing green protein from jellyfish to study how cells work. Prasher now works at Bill Penney Toyota in Huntsville, Ala. More

Fat Study Focus of Grant
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 11 – When most people think of fat, they imagine expanding waistlines and clogged arteries. But work by a national team of researchers led by scientists at UCSD is shedding new light on the active role that these molecules, known as lipids, play in diabetes, stroke, cancer, arthritis, Alzheimer's disease and many other ailments. More

Growing Green Industry in San Diego
KPBS, Oct. 13 -- The American hopes of reducing fossil fuel dependence are growing, but we've got a long way to go. In San Diego, UCSD may be the strongest engine in the effort to get us there. UCSD has been preeminent in research into global warming. It's fair to say that UCSD scientists established the link between carbon emissions and climate change. Now, UC San Diego is still researching the problem, and they are also trying to make an impact on it. More

Class Assignment: Read the Teacher's Books
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 11 – Sarah Bynum's second novel, “Ms. Hempel Chronicles,” just out in September, features another youthful protagonist: an educator in her first year as a seventh grade teacher. It's a poignant, more straightforwardly told story of students trying to figure out how adult they can be and a teacher, a punk rocker in her high school days, who isn't sure how much of a grown-up she wants to be yet. Bynum is an associate professor of writing at UCSD. More

GOP Has Numbers on its Side in 50th District
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 11 -- When Nick Leibham looks at the 50th Congressional District, he doesn't see a Republican stronghold. He sees a Democratic beachhead. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

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