A Sampling of Clips for September 4^th, 2008

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Scientists Identify Aerosols Making Up Smoggy Haze Over Mexico City
Xinhua, Sept. 3 -- UCSD scientists examining smog over Mexico City have found that agricultural and cooking fires along with burning industrial waste contribute a surprising amount of pollution, according to a press release on Wednesday. More

Science in Thrall to Ideology Keeps Bogus Debate Alive
Irish Times, Sept. 4 -- The story of how the science of global warming has been hijacked and politicized was outlined at a lecture in Trinity College Dublin last night by Prof Naomi Oreskes of UCSD. More

Cracking Anthrax
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 4 -- Robert Koch, a pioneer in microbiology, finally isolated anthrax in 1877, helping launch a scientific effort to understand and overcome the microbe. That effort continues around the world, including inside labs at San Diego State University and UCSD. More

Q&A: Dean of Arts & Humanities
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 4 -- Seth Lerer, a national literature scholar who has written 10 books covering topics such as the history of children's literature and the history of the English language, takes over in January as dean of arts and humanities at UCSD. More

Report: Some UCSD Emergency Loans Fraudulent
Contra Costa Times, Sept. 3 —An audit by UCSD has found that at least 13 percent of emergency loans granted to campus employees were based in part on fraudulent documents. More

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New Drugs Could Lower Olympic Hurdles
Voice of San Diego, Sept. 4 -- In August, just prior to the start of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the local media reported that researchers at the Salk Institute in La Jolla had successfully tested two experimental "endurance" drugs on mice. The experimental drugs, while not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in humans, significantly improved the performance of the mice. (Written by Dr. Mary Devereaux, a biomedical ethicist at UCSD’s Research Ethics Program, and a fellow San Diego's Center for Ethics in Science and Technology) More

Stem Cell Center Moving Ahead
La Jolla Light, Sept. 3 -- Plans to build a center that would bring together the area's top stem cell researchers in one facility on land across from UCSD are entering another phase with the release of a draft report on the project. More

Gift Music to UCSD's Ears
La Jolla Light, Sept. 3 – Forty-three years after arriving in San Diego, Conrad Prebys is giving back to his community in a huge way, having just given a $3 million gift—on top of the $6 million gift he gave a year ago—to UCSD to build a music center with a world-class, 400-seat concert hall. More

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