A Sampling of Clips for
December 20th, 2006
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Sustainability Gains Status on Campuses
CBS News, Dec. 20 -- Somewhere in the curriculum, most colleges and universities include Henry David Thoreau. Now, many of them are trying to emulate him. Yes, sweeping the academic world is Walden Pond 101: the art of living in a sustainable manner. For example, UCSD has identified campus rooftops where it can install 500 kilowatts of solar panels, which equals the power needed for 325 homes. More
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His Folk Art Still Flows
San Diego Union-Tribune, Dec. 20 -- Tomorrow, Sam Hinton is leaving San Diego, his home for the past six decades, and moving to an assisted-living facility in Berkeley. His daughter, Leanne, a linguistics professor at UC Berkeley, will be six blocks away. After the war, Hinton was hired to run the aquarium at Scripps, a job he held for almost 20 years, and was director of Relations With Schools at UCSD, retiring in 1980. More
Futurist David Brin on the Age of the Amateur
KPBS, Dec. 19 -- For the rest of this century, new technology will continue to change our lives. Our limited resources on earth will present its own set of challenges. In spite of all that, or perhaps because of it, David Brin is optimistic about the future. David is a graduate of UCSD who’s a renowned author of science fiction novels. He is a futurist, and he’s a consultant on the use of new technologies. More
New Method Used to ID Microinversions
UPI, Dec. 19 -- Biologists at UCSD and Brown University say they are using a new method of identifying "microinversions" -- very short strings of inverted nucleotides -- to study the process of evolution. More
Even More Super Computing
The Engineer Online, Dec. 19 -- The San Diego Supercomputer Centre at UCSD has announced that its IBM eServer BlueGene supercomputer has been tripled in size, giving a peak performance of 17.2 Teraflops. More