A Sampling of Clips for
October 19th, 2007
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UCSD's New Vice Chancellor
Talks About Life and Learning in a New Academic Year
KPBS, Oct. 17 -- The University of California, San Diego is considered among the best public universities in the country. How does it achieve and maintain that academic excellence? And what does it aspire to do in he future? Today’s guest is Paul Drake, senior vice chancellor of academic affairs at UCSD. Drake is the former dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the university. More
Outspoken Economist Doesn't Talk Like One
San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 19 -- At 6 feet 6 inches tall with a broad-shouldered frame that makes him literally stand above the crowd, Christopher Thornberg, senior lecturer at UC San Diego's Rady School of Management, looks more like a linebacker than an economist. He also doesn't talk like one. "There are three types of housing markets: abysmal, bottomed-out and booming. ... We're in abysmal," he told the Times in June. Or his comment last August: "Rich people will feel the pinch. The top end will take a whack as well," on the housing downturn affecting high-end homes. More
Iana Quesnell's Work at MCASD Show Maturity and an Eye for Detail
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 18 -- It's a map and it isn't. The topography is more beautifully drawn in places than you would reasonably expect a map to be rendered. There also is a lot of open space that a cartographer just wouldn't employ but that an artist like Iana Quesnell uses to great advantage. This grand-scale composition, titled “Triptych: Migration Path” (2007), is the largest work in the latest Cerca Series exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, curated by LucÌa Sanrom·n. Quesnell is still completing her MFA at UCSD, but has had two high-profile exhibitions (this one included) to her credit in less than a year. More
China Now
NPRBoston, Oct. 18 -- China looks like a giant these days -- and in many, many ways it is. The Chinese boom has flooded the world with mountains of Chinese products. It has flooded China's treasury with cash and built a red-hot economy on China's booming coast. But as the 17th Communist Party Congress sat down in Beijing this week -- and yes, the Communist Party still runs this supernova -- it is China's weaknesses that are getting a lot of attention: Corruption. Pollution. Vast inequalities. And big political questions. So, is this the Chinese century? (Mentions Susan Shirk, UCSD political science professor). More
Science Depiction
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 22 -- A concept made famous by the rock and alternative music festival Lollapalooza is inspiring an unusual group of performers: scientists. Several researchers will gather in San Diego today through Sunday for the public launch of Polar-Palooza, an interactive, multimedia event that organizers are billing as a “science concert.” (Quotes Mark Thiemens, dean of physical sciences at UCSD). More
Palomar College Talks Explore Middle East, Immigration
North County Times, Oct 19 -- Problems in the Middle East and illegal immigration, two of the country's top hot button topics, were the focus of a seminar at Palomar College on Wednesday that attracted standing-room-only audiences. History, economics and political perspectives can shed light and help find solutions to some of these pressing concerns, lecturers said. The discussions were part of Political Economy Days, a two-day seminar tackling political concerns ranging from health care to human rights. (Quotes Sanford Lakoff, a professor of political science at UCSD, who lectured on the history and current U.S. policy in the region.) More
UCSD Program Wins 2007 Award for Innovation
San Diego Daily Transcript, Oct. 18 -- UCSD’s Express to Success Program (ETS) has been awarded the 2007 Innovative Program Award from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA). More