A Sampling of Clips
for September 26^th, 2008

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Carbon Is Building Up in Atmosphere Faster Than Predicted
The Washington Post, Sept. 26 -- The rise in global carbon dioxide emissions last year outpaced international researchers' most dire projections, according to figures being released today, as human-generated greenhouse gases continued to build up in the atmosphere despite international agreements and national policies aimed at curbing climate change. (Mentions research by two scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCSD showing that even if humans stopped generating greenhouse gases immediately, the world's average temperature would "most likely" increase by 4.3 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of this century) More

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Study: Stroke Drug Helps, Even If Given Later
USA Today, Sept. 25 -- Stroke sufferers can still benefit from clot-busting medicine even if they receive it an hour or so beyond the current three-hour window after symptoms start, an important new study suggests. (Quotes Dr. Patrick Lyden, head of the UCSD stroke center, who wrote an accompanying editorial about the study in the New England Journal of Medicine) More

Grueling Prep Work Precedes Critical Clash
The Washington Post, Sept. 26 -- If John McCain decides to participate, he and Barack Obama will stride across the stage of the University of Mississippi's performing arts center in Oxford at 9 tonight, shake hands and take up positions behind lecterns whose height was negotiated by the two candidates' lawyers. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More

Invention: Universal Detector
New Scientist, U.K., Sept. 26 -- Kevin Tetz and colleagues in the Ultrafast and Nanoscale Optics Group at UCSD, have designed a system to test for any surface contamination on the surface of, well, anything. More

Mercy Returns From Mission
Navy Times, Sept. 26 -- With scores of friends and relatives cheering from the pier, the hospital ship Mercy nudged into its berth at the Naval Base in San Diego on Thursday, wrapping up a four-month humanitarian deployment to Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. Along with some 400 military medical personnel, medical professionals and college students from several organizations, including UCSD’s Pre-Dental Society and Free Dental Clinic came aboard. More

County Economic Growth Slowed in '06
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 26 -- After years of outpacing the rest of the country in economic growth, San Diego County had fallen nearly to the national average even before the local real estate industry went into free fall. (Quotes UCSD economist Ross Starr)
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Fall Classes Begin at UCSD Thursday
CBS News 8, San Diego, Calif., Sept. 25 -- Fall quarter classes begin at UCSD, and they'll be filled by a record number of students. The school has an enrollment of 28,561 students and 4300 of them are incoming freshman. More

The Preuss Push
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion, Sept. 26 -- Much of the governance of the innovative Preuss School established by UCSD and most of the performance of its teachers and disadvantaged students are strong. That's a comforting finding of the report by MGT of America, a leading educational consultant. More

Grow Figure
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 26 -- “It's safe to say that humans have adapted every edible or usable fruit and vegetable,” said Martin Yanofsky, an associate professor of biology at UCSD who studies the development of flowers and fruits in higher plants. More

Torrey Pines Mesa Research Facility on Tight Schedule
San Diego Business Journal, Sept. 25 -- A local consortium, which includes UCSD, is on track to break ground in January on a $115 million stem cell research facility to be built atop Torrey Pines near the Salk Institute and the Torrey Pines Golf Course. More

Dancing in the Streets
La Jolla Light, Sept. 24 -- Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater is teaming once again with the Metropolitan Transit System to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Trolley Dances. Isaacs retired last year from UCSD. More

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