A Sampling of Clips for
December 15th, 2006
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Scientists Racing to Catch Gene-dopers
USA Today, Dec. 15 -- Scientists are racing to develop a test to catch athletes who may attempt to boost performance by manipulating their genes. "The approach to detect gene doping is coming," said Dr. Theodore Friedmann, a gene therapy expert at UCSD. "No one should think that they will be able to hide the evidence of a genetic change." More
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Searching for the Stars Among Fund Managers
Reuters, Dec. 15 -- Just about everything you've been told about mutual fund investing in recent years goes something like this: Fund managers can't consistently pick stocks that beat the indexes. Even when they do, it's a fluke, and it's not good enough to compensate for their fees. But new research says that it isn't luck, it's skill. "We find that a sizable minority of managers pick stocks well enough to more than cover their costs," said researchers, including Robert Kosowski of Imperial College in London, Allan Timmerman of UCSD and Russ Wermers and Hal White of the University of Maryland. More
NIH Names New Postdoc Award Winners
Science Careers, Dec. 15 -- "I literally feel like I'm growing up in this very short year of writing and winning this proposal," says Toni Jones, one of 58 biomedical investigators chosen to receive the new Pathways to Independence award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. Jones is a fourth-year neuroscience postdoc at UCSD. More
This Much Is Sure: It Would Be Tough to Do Worse
Star-Telegram, Fort Worth, TX, Dec. 15 -- One has to wonder: Do the 535 members of Congress have a clue as to how inept, lazy, greedy, unethical, fiscally irresponsible and childishly partisan they look to most Americans who live outside the Beltway? (Mentions research by UCSD political scientist Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal of New York University) More
Tri-focused
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 15 -- Nate White is 29 now, a UCSD graduate student pursuing a doctorate in cognitive science. Triathlon has replaced tennis as his athletic identity, and despite White's usual casual demeanor, the competitive streak still surfaces in sport. More