UCSD News

A Sampling of Clips for
September 13^th, 2007

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Report: Climate Research Making Progress
Associated Press, Sept. 13 -- Despite some progress, the government's climate change research program is threatened by satellite and other cutbacks, a study says.

A major problem, the National Research Council said Thursday, is the program director's lack of authority to organize spending and research among the 13 different agencies that study the impacts of climate. (Quotes Veerabhadran Ramanathan, professor of atmospheric and climate sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD). More

Preuss Officials on Paid Leave in Grade Probe
San Diego Union Tribune, Sept. 13 -- The principal of the nationally recognized Preuss School on the UCSD campus has been placed on leave while university auditors investigate allegations of grade irregularities.

Since June, university auditors have been looking into reports that grades were changed and recorded inappropriately at the public charter school. Grades for the past three to four years are being reviewed. More

UC San Diego Developing $125 Million Cancer Treatment Center
North County Times, Sept. 13 -- UC San Diego is working to develop a $125 million proton-and particle-therapy cancer treatment center, university officials announced Wednesday.

Proton and particle therapy, now available at only a few clinics nationwide, enables doctors to better target and destroy cancerous tumors, according to UCSD. Traditional radiation therapy, which is not as precise, sometimes damages or destroys healthy tissue surrounding tumors. More

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Perry Goes on Attack Against Democrats
Houston Chronicle, Sept. 12 -- He skipped Texas' GOP straw poll, but Gov. Rick Perry delivered a red-meat speech at the California Republican Party convention scoffing at Al Gore over global warming and taking on Nancy Pelosi and the Clintons. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin). More

San Diego Woman Part of Pioneering Surgery
San Diego Union Tribune, Sept. 13 -- A San Diego woman has become the third U.S. patient to have her gallbladder surgically removed through her vagina by a technique that caused little pain and no scars.

The operation took place Tuesday at UCSD’s Thornton Hospital in La Jolla and was announced yesterday. More

UCSD Professor Talks About Her Struggle with Schizophrenia
KPBS.org, Sept. 12 -- About one percent of America's population is schizophrenic. That means there's a fair chance you know someone who has the mental illness, but you just don't know it. For years, Elyn Saks hid her schizophrenia from her friends and co-workers. When she was young, even her parents didn't know.

But now the woman who is professor at both USC and UCSD has told everyone, basically. More

Napping is Good for Business...and It May be Good Business, Too
WALB, Sep. 12 -- You're hard at work, eyes squinted at a sea of erratically moving numbers, doggedly typing away, but little by little that familiar, dreaded lethargic haze seeps over you. It's that time of day, and try as you might, you can't stay awake without several bitter cups of coffee, a red bull (or five), and on some days even caffeine pills. You would pay for some sleep right now.

If necessity really is the mother of invention, the mushrooming domestic "sleep economy" indicates that modern-day Americans are a tired lot. (Mentions Sara Mednick, Assistant Professor at UCSD). More