A Sampling of Clips for October 21^th, 2009

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In Greenland, Ice Unlocks Climate Change History
PBS Newshour, Oct. 19 -- Scientists dig deep into Greenland's ice to unearth the history of climate change. Climatologist and Climate Central correspondent Heidi Cullen reports. (Features interview with Jeff Severinghaus, professor of geosciences, at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography) More

National Book Awards Finalists Are Announced
The New York Times, Oct. 14 -- International roots characterized the fiction finalists for the National Book Awards, which were announced on Wednesday.
Among the five finalists were Colum McCann, the Irish-born author of “Let the Great World Spin,” a novel about a sprawling cast of characters in 1970s New York City, Daniyal Mueenuddin, who was raised partly in Lahore, Pakistan, and currently lives on a farm in the Punjab region of Pakistan, for “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders,” and Marcel Theroux, who was born in Uganda and lives in London, for “Far North.” (Mentions UCSD literature professor Rae Armantrout, nominated in the category of poetry for “Versed.”) More

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For Decades, Puzzling People With Mathematics
The New York Times, Oct. 19 -- For today’s mathematical puzzle, assume that in the year 1956 there was a children’s magazine in New York named after a giant egg, Humpty Dumpty, who purportedly served as its chief editor. (Quotes Ronald Graham, a mathematician at UCSD) More

Port Huron Project Videos on View at LACE
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 20 -- In July 2008, artist Mark Tribe's Port Huron Project -- a multi-year effort involving staged re-creations of historic protest speeches of the Vietnam era at their original locations -- came to Los Angeles with a re-enactment of farm labor leader Cesar Chavez's 1971 speech decrying the war at a rally in Exposition Park sponsored by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice. UCSD visual arts assistant professor Ricardo Dominguez portrayed Chavez. The L.A. event was co-sponsored by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. More

Pasadena Museum of California Art launches its first Reading Series
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 20 -- The happily local Pasadena Museum of California Art is launching a fitting reading series, Written in California. The free series kicks off Thursday at 7 p.m., with discounted ($5) access to the galleries for the hour prior. Thursday night will feature Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, who was nominated for the National Book Award for her debut novel, "Madeline Is Sleeping." She now lives in Southern California and teaches at UCSD, so she could read her recent short fiction or from her second book, 2008's "The Ms. Hempel Chronicles." More

UC Berkeley to Admit More Out-of-State Students
San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 21 -- Starting next fall, UC Berkeley will admit hundreds of additional out-of-state residents and international students instead of Californians as a way to make up for state budget cuts. Chancellor Robert Birgeneau said Tuesday that his campus will be admitting as many as 600 fewer "unfunded" California students a year to offset a 20 percent cut from Sacramento. Those slots will instead go to out-of-staters. (Mentions UCSD) More

Huge Diabetes Conference on Tap Downtown Saturday
North County Times, Oct. 21 -- The best weapon against diabetes is information, and there will be plenty on tap at the 15th annual "Taking Control of Your Diabetes" conference and health fair Saturday at the San Diego Convention Center. Dr. David Edelman, a nationally known diabetes expert and UCSD School of Medicine professor who helped create the event, said the conference is a must for patients who want to keep abreast of the latest information, scientific breakthroughs, and medicine to manage the disease. The American Diabetes Association estimates that 23.6 million Americans have diabetes, though only about 17 million have been diagnosed. More

Do Those H1N1 Prevention Tips Work?
KFMB, Oct. 20 -- Some people will try anything to keep from getting sick. An email is going around with a list of home remedies that supposedly can keep you from getting swine flu. The email says that a neurologist in India is recommending things like nasal cleansing and gargling to help prevent H1N1. (Quotes Randy Taplitz clinical director of infectious diseases at UCSD Medical Center) More

Theatre Review: Everything that is Old
is New Again with Likable Long Story Short
North County Times, Oct. 20 -- It's been nearly 50 years since Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt wrote "I Do! I Do!" ---- a two-person musical chronicling a couple's 50-year relationship, set entirely in their bedroom ---- so perhaps it's time the formula got a 21st-century update. (Mention set design by Victoria Petrovich, professor at UCSD's Department of Theatre and Dance) More

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Former Federal Bank Chief to Speak at UCSD Event
San Diego Daily Transcript, Oct. 20 -- Former Federal Bank chief executive William Poole is scheduled to discuss the Federal Reserve’s exit strategy and the idea of being “too big to fail” on Thursday at the last 2009 Economics Roundtable at UCSD. More

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