A Sampling of Clips
for September 23^rd, 2008

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

Siblings Among Students Being Welcomed at UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 23 – Four Mira Mesa siblings who were home-schooled together are among the estimated record 28,561 students who began arriving at UCSD yesterday for the fall quarter. More

Doctors Say Children Need Regular Vision Exams
WRCB, Chattanooga, Tenn., Sept. 22 -- Sure a vision exam sounds good in theory, but not many parents are taking their kids to the eye doctor. A new study at UCSD found 90 percent of school age children in California have never had a vision exam. More

Acidifying Oceans Are Brewing Up an Underwater Din
New Scientist, Sept. 23 -- The big blue ocean is getting noisier. Sound can now travel further than it did a century ago, thanks to carbon emissions that have made the oceans more acidic. (Mentions research by Mark McDonald of Whale Acoustics, Colorado and John Hildebrand at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, California, suggesting that blue whales are calling at lower frequencies than they used to) More

Is All Fat Evil?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 23 -- Fat. It's a subject plump with confusion. Which fats are good for us? Which ones aren't? What foods contain which fats? How much of each should we consume? (Quotes Christine Zoumas, senior research dietitian and clinical instructor at the UCSD School of Medicine) More

Anatomy of Achievement
San Diego Magazine, October 2008 -- If there’s a single entity to be credited with laying the foundation for San Diego’s emergence as a major life sciences research center, our booming biotech industry and exceptional local healthcare, it’s the UCSD School of Medicine. More

Top Docs 2008 - The List
San Diego Magazine, October 2008 – The San Diego County Medical Society, working collaboratively with San Diego Magazine, has continued and will continue to evolve our process for identifying those board-certified physicians within the county who are held in highest regard by their peers. Many UCSD doctors made the list. More

Americans' Addiction to Borrowing Root of Crisis
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 21 -- As Congress considers a plan for the government to take over hundreds of billions of dollars of bad debt from Wall Street, many economists say it is only treating the symptoms, rather than the cause, of the nation's economic problems. The real disease is the American addiction to borrowing. (Quotes Sylvain Champonnois, a finance specialist at UCSD) More

Blacks, Latinos Outnumbered on UCSD Campus
KPBS, Sept. 22 -- The fall semester begins at UCSD this week -- and the campus welcomes a record-breaking number of students. However only a small portion is black or Latino. More

Community Members Come Together
Del Mar Times, Sept. 23 -- From 11 a.m. to noon Sept. 27, community members will rally outside UCSD's Gilman parking structure, which features solar panels to generate renewable energy, to highlight the campus' commitment to sustainable energy and reducing global warming pollution and call on leaders to invest in solutions that will fight global warming and create green jobs. More

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