A Sampling of Clips for September 15^th, 2009

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Let's Grade Wall Street Like Colleges
Wall Street Journal, Sept. 15 – Is Harvard really the best? It turns out that depends on who you ask—and what you ask. As students across America return to campus for the new school year, new editions of three prominent college guides variously rank Harvard at No. 1, No. 5, and No. 11. Therein lies a timely lesson for our system of credit ratings.  (Mentions UCSD) More

Books ‘Engaged with North Korea’
Washington Times, Sept. 15 – North Korea says it wants to deal, but even the Chinese are no longer confident that the nuclear crisis can be resolved diplomatically. Does any basis remain for engagement? Yes, reply the contributors to "Engagement With North Korea." Editors Sung Chull Kim of the Hiroshima Peace Institute and David C. Kang of the University of Southern California note that despite intense debate over policy toward Pyongyang, "there has been little sustained effort either to explore the theoretical logic of engagement or to assess whether or not — and if so in what ways — engagement has worked on the Korean Peninsula." (Mentions Stephan M. Haggard professor at UCSD’s School of International Relations and Pacific Studies). More

Green College Innovators 2009: UC San Diego
ABC 7, Sept. 14 – UCSD is not new to the green movement. Each year they find more ways to become more eco-friendly. They give all incoming freshmen water bottles that can be filled at free filtered “hydration stations” around campus. Reusable recycling bags are provided to those in campus housing.  University restaurants and markets use fair trade and locally grown organic foods, as well as cage-free eggs. They’ve also eliminated take-away plastics and polystyrene. More

UCSD Scientists Want To Bottle Nuclear Fusion
KPBS, Sept. 14 -- Fusion is best known for powering the sun and stars. But UCSD researchers are studying ways to transform the process of nuclear fusion into renewable energy on Earth. A team of researchers from UCSD, MIT and UC Berkeley have received a $7 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. More

Who Says Only Adults Can be Inventors?
OC Register, Sept. 14 -- Inventors have long been known as creative individuals who seem to have a knack for seeing an answer to a need that none of us ever knew we had until the product is in our neighborhood store. Kids often amaze us with the way they see the world, but kid inventors, well, they can amaze us with the fact that people so young figure out how to fix a problem in a fun and interesting way. (Mentions UCSD) More

She Conjures ‘Ghosts’ from a Monotype Echo
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 6 -- All My Ghosts” is the name that Viviana Lombrozo has chosen for her upcoming solo exhibition and the term has multiple meanings in her art. One reference is to the medium in which she currently works, the monotype — the kind of print that comes closest to a painting or a drawing. (Mentions UCSD visual arts professor Ernest Silva) More

Suddenly, Maurice Sendak is Everywhere
Contra Costa Times, Sept. 4 -- Higglety pigglety pop! And then there's Rosie, Max and his Wild Things, and Pierre, who just didn't care. Maurice Sendak's images and plump-cheeked, irrepressible characters fill children's imaginations. Even now, perhaps decades after their last perusal of "Where the Wild Things Are," most adults can still recite entire sections of Sendak's classic picture book with delight. (Quotes Seth Lerer, UCSD’s Dean of Arts and Humanities) More

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