A Sampling of Clips for October 27^th, 2008

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Two Greenhouse Gases on the Rise Worry Scientists
MSNBC, Oct. 27 -- Carbon dioxide isn't the only greenhouse gas that worries climate scientists. Airborne levels of two other potent gases — one from ancient plants, the other from flat-panel screen technology — are on the rise, too. And that's got scientists concerned about accelerated global warming. The gases are methane and nitrogen trifluoride. Earlier efforts to determine how much nitrogen trifluoride is in the air dramatically underestimated the amounts, said Ray Weiss, a geochemistry professor with Scripps Institution of Oceanography and lead author on a nitrogen trifluoride paper. More

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Study: AIDS Treatment Should Start Sooner
CBS News, Oct. 27 -- People who have the AIDS virus should start drug treatments sooner than current guidelines recommend, suggests a large new study that could change the care of hundreds of thousands of Americans. (Quotes Robert Schooley, infectious diseases chief at UCSD) More

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Migrants Returning South of Border
MSNBC, Oct. 24 -- Thousands of Latin American immigrants both legal and illegal are going back home as the economic crisis in the U.S. causes jobs to dry up in the construction, landscaping and restaurant industries. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies) More

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Slowing an Immune System in Overdrive
The New York Times, Oct. 27 – Q&A with Dr. Gary Firestein, the recipient of the Arthritis Foundation's 2006 Lee C. Howley Sr. Prize for Research in Arthritis, who heads the division of rheumatology, allergy and immunology at UCSD. His research into the causes of rheumatoid arthritis led to the development of so-called anti-TNF therapies that have revolutionized treatment. More

The Computer as Collaborator
The New York Times, Oct. 27 -- Computer science -- it's not just about hardware and software anymore. It's about oceans, stars, cancer cells, proteins and networks of friends. Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell University , says his discipline is on the way to becoming "the universal science," a framework underpinning all others, including the social sciences. (Mentions UCSD) More

Academics Bring a Gravitas to Classroom
Financial Times, Oct. 27 -- EMBA students usually have a demanding, full-time job and opting for the academic rigour of a management qualification on top of this calls for determination, focus and hard work. Robert Sullivan, dean of the Rady School of Management at UCSD, says that approximately 45 per cent of the school’s EMBA students hold advanced degrees and of them 75-80 per cent have science or technology backgrounds. More

Forget Ringtones; Cell Phones Could Reach Out and Tap You
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 27 –Researchers from UCSD and Microsoft presented a paper last week that explores how the next generation of cell phones or computer games might employ new forms of “vibrotactile feedback” to improve communications between people and machines. More

Opposing Views on the Economy
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 26 -- In just 86 days, a new president will be sworn into office, facing the greatest economic challenge since Franklin Roosevelt assumed the helm. First, of course, is the immediate and overwhelming problem of how to fix the broken financial system while ensuring that not too many people lose their jobs or their homes. (Quotes UCSD economist James Hamilton) More

Tuned In, Turned On to Election
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 26 -- If he had to pick the moment when our presidential election became the perfect subject for his celebrity-news program, “Showbiz Tonight” executive producer Dave Levin votes for the day in late July when Sen. John McCain went to Paris. Hilton, that is. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Sam Popkin) More

Walking for a Diabetes Cure
NBC San Diego, Oct. 26 -- More than 4,000 people participated in the Walk to Cure Diabetes on Sunday, October 26, 2008. The annual fundraiser, held by the San Diego chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund, started at the UCSD School of Medicine and wrapped around the campus. More

Sacred Objects to be Returned to Local Tribes
North County Times, Oct. 25 -- Hundreds of items, including some ancient human remains considered sacred by American Indian people, are waiting to be recovered. (Mentions UCSD) More

Election Day Could Be Tough for Fiscal Issues
North County Times, Oct. 25 -- Economic worries may doom a host of state and local tax and bond proposals on the Nov. 4 ballot, say political scientists, taxpayer advocates and a few voters asked about their plans. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

NIH Awards UCSD $10M
San Diego Daily Transcript, Oct. 24 -- The UCSD School of Medicine has received a contract from the National Institutes of Health to enhance and maintain the Neuroscience Information Framework — a dynamic inventory of web-based neurosciences data, resources, and tools that scientists and students can access via any computer connected to the Internet. More

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