A Sampling of Clips for
September 26th, 2007
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Brain Registers Taste of Food Differently in Anorexic Women, Study Finds
FOX News, Sept. 26 -- Women suffering from anorexia have "distinct" differences in the part of the brain that recognizes taste, according to new research reported online by the journal Neuropsychopharmacology in advance of publication. The study was led by Dr. Angela Wagner, of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and Dr. Walter H. Kaye, of the University of Pittsburgh and the UCSD School of Medicine. More
Deep Trouble
The Smithsonian, September 2007 -- Research has shown that, with paltry few exceptions, the planet's coral reefs have experienced a prolonged, devastating decline in recent decades. But determining which factor, or factors, is most responsible for that decimation has proved vastly more difficult. To help answer some of these questions, a team of researchers from UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography set out in a converted World War II freighter in September 2005 to study reefs in the South Pacific's remote Line Islands. More
U.S. Researchers Turn Words to Music
CBC News, Canada, Sept. 25 -- U.S. electrical engineers and computer scientists have developed "Google for music," a search engine that takes words and finds tunes to match. Users can search "high energy instrumental with piano," "funky guitar solos" or "upbeat music with female vocals" and locate the songs they want, said the researchers, from UCSD. More
Solving Puzzle of Paying for College
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 26 -- About two-thirds of undergraduates at UCSD receive financial aid, and the average grant and scholarship package totals $9,500. As college prices have soared, so has financial aid. More
Affordable Textbooks; Affordable Education
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Sept. 26 -- On top of tuition and fee hikes, textbooks now cost students $900 a year on average, equal to 25 percent of the tuition and fees of the average four-year public university and 43 percent of the tuition and fees at a community college. Textbook prices are increasing at more than four times the inflation rate. (Co-authored by Erin Steva, the UCSD campus organizer for CALPIRG, a public interest organization) More
Military Aspect of Immigrant Bill Eyed
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 26 -- Legislation that could grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented high school graduates is creating a schism among Latino educators and others who have typically favored legalization efforts. (Quotes Jorge Mariscal, director of UCSD’s Chicano Studies program) More
Fellow Academics Question Validity of Illegal Immigration Study
Voice of San Diego, Sept. 26 -- Despite several caveats and estimates, a San Diego State University report about the costs of illegal immigrants on San Diego County's government pegged the annual tab at $101 million. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steve Erie) More