A Sampling of Clips for
August 7, 2006
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Fred Kilgour, 92; Developed International Library Network
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 6 -- Librarian and educator Fred Kilgour, who dreamed about taking reference resources out of their traditional brick and mortar housing and making them more accessible, died Monday of a brain hemorrhage at the University of North Carolina Medical Center in Chapel Hill, according to library center spokesman Bob Murphy. He was 92. (Quotes Brian Schottlaender, university librarian at UCSD) More
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As Border Patrol Shifts Resources, Migrants Return to California
San Jose Mercury News, Aug. 6 -- The number of immigrants illegally jumping the California-Mexico border appears to be increasing as enforcement gets tougher in Arizona, Border Patrol arrest statistics suggest. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, a political scientist at UCSD) More
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Gene Variants Found to Raise
Stroke Risk in Younger Women
Forbes, Aug. 4 -- Scientists have homed in on some gene variations that may one day help to identify younger women at a higher risk of stroke. (Quotes Dr. Christy Jackson, associate clinical professor of neurosciences at the UCSD Women's Cardiovascular Health Program) More
Army Staff Sgt. Jason M. Evey, 29, Stockton; Killed by Roadside Bomb
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 6 -- In his youth, Jason M. Evey spent hours in the woods behind his parents' house in Oregon tracking deer, not to kill them, but to discover where they slept. "Jason was one who was very active; he was always finding things, searching for things and doing things," said his father, John Evey, now the assistant director for development at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. "He didn't really stand still." More
Does Vitamin D
Reduce the Risk of Cancer?
Boston Globe, Aug. 7 -- Several recent studies presented at meetings of the American Association for Cancer Research and the American Society of Clinical Oncology suggest that adequate consumption of vitamin D -- which most Americans do not get -- is linked to lower risks of breast cancer. (Mentions a UCSD study) More
Double Trouble: Ohio Seeing
Double on World Twins Parade
People’s Daily Online, Aug. 5 -- This tiny Midwestern US town was seeing double this weekend and researchers of human behavior could not be more pleased. More than 3,500 twins, triplets and quadruplets came to a place named after its twin founders for what event organizers call the largest gathering of twins in the world. (Quotes James Fowler, a UCSD political scientist, whose team of researchers were using twin volunteers to learn more about humans' innate levels of altruism and selfishness) More
Seizing the Initiative for Elections
Denver Post, Aug. 5 -- When political junkies woke up all bleary-eyed and fuzzy-headed on Nov. 3, 2004, the thing they couldn't fathom - even after strong coffee - was what the heck happened in Colorado. (Mentions research by UCSD political scientists Thad Kousser and Mathew McCubbins) More
A Man of
Multiple Musical Personalities
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 6 -- Trevor Henthorn wears enough hats to qualify as a benign version of Hydra, the mythological Greek creature commonly thought to have had at least nine heads. In addition to being the resident computer programmer for the music department at UCSD, where he majored in both music technology and electrical and computer engineering, he is the founder of Pan Handler Production. The 15-year-old San Diego company specializes in the production, editing, mastering and remixing of electro/industrial music. More
Hotel, Wedge Building
Win Architecture Awards
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 6 – Thirteen buildings or planning projects by San Diego firms received design awards from the San Diego chapter of the American Institute of Architects. The firm Public received a citation for its expansion of UCSD’s original student center to create the campus' first permanent Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Resource Center. More
A Pair of Happy
“Idiots” Gear up for La Jolla
San Diego Union-Tribune, Aug. 6 – Inspired by Laurel and Hardy’s achivements, not to mention absurdist theater and surrealistic painting, UCSD alumnus Trey Lyford and Geoff Sobelle, to put together “all wear bowlers,” now in previews at the La Jolla Playhouse. More
The Spinal Cord
The Brain and Body Connector
North County Times, Aug. 5 -- The spinal cord is the all-important switchbox that connects the brain with the body. In July 2004, researchers from UCSD reported that they had regenerated nerve cells in the spinal cords of rats by treating them with a chemical called cyclic AMP. The study was published in the Journal of Neurosciences. More
