A Sampling of Clips for
April
13-15, 2002
UCSD
faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the
University Communications
Office
Fishing
out the world’s oceans
San
Francisco Chronicle, April
15, Pg. A5 -- Between 25 and 30 percent of the world’s fish
populations are overfished, while an additional 40 percent are
fully exploited, Paul Dayton, a marine scientist at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, reported to the Pew Oceans
Commission.
world’s
oceans
Baby boomer blues
Copley
News Service, Apr.
15 – Several mental illness studies, including UCSD
research led by professor of psychology and
neurosciences Dilip Jeste,
have suggested that baby boomers are more prone to depression than
their predecessors.
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Audience
has a job to do in experimental concert here
San
Diego Union Tribune, April
14 – Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and UCSD music
professor Roger Reynolds will perform his latest opus,
“The Angel of Death,” in front of an audience equipped with
special electronic devices designed to measure their responses to
his work.
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Article
also appeared in:
Copley
News Service,
April
12
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Studies
show surprising rapidity of development of human brains vs.
chimpanzee brains
National
Public Radio, All
Things Considered, April 12 – UCSD
research fellow Pascal Gagneux
discussed research findings on the differences between the brain
development of humans and chimpanzees.
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Similar
article appeared in:
United
Press International, April
11
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=10042002-083455-3013r
ABCNEWS.Com,
April
11
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/chimphuman020411.html
Close
house races go the way of rotary phones
Los
Angeles Times, April
15, Pg.13 – The House of Representatives members face little
competition during elections. Throughout the 1990s, almost
three-fourths of the 435 House seats never changed hands between
the parties. (Quotes UCSD
political scientist Gary
Jacobson).
House
of Representatives
What
the titanic teaches
United
Press International, Commentary,
April 12 – UCSD
literature professor Stephen
Cox remembers the Titanic Story on the 90th
anniversary of the sinking.
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Greenpeace
critical of Sempra plans for Mexico
Copley
News Service, April
15 – Greenpeace is issuing a report today that claims Sempra
Energy Corp. is carrying out a mega-development plan that will
change the border region into a vast “dirty energy export
zone.” (Quotes Mark Spalding, director of the
environmental law and civil society program at UCSD’s
Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies).
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Where
are they now? UCSD still hopes for architecture
San
Diego Union Tribune, April
15 – Feature on Adle Naude Santos, founding dean of UCSD’s
short-lived architecture school.
(Quotes
UCSD associate vice chancellor Mary Walshok).
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Library
to host sleepover with reading, puppets and crafts
San
Diego Union Tribune,
April 13, Pg. NI-4 – Nancy Saint John, a communications
specialist at UCSD, is helping to entertain children at a
library sleepover.
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There’s
a political reason for costly sewage ruling
San
Diego Union Tribune,
Opinion, April 14, Pg. G-3 – Opinion article bemoaning
the California Coastal Commission’s decision regarding the Point
Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant Waiver. (Mentions Scripps
Institution of Oceanography).
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Free
UCSD forum will focus on age-related ills
San
Diego Union Tribune,
April 14 – UCSD’s Sam and Rose Stein Institute for
Research on Aging’s annual spring open house will showcase the
results of UCSD research on age-related disorders, ranging
from memory loss to cancer.
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