A Sampling of Clips for
February 1st, 2007
* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office
The Long Consensus on Climate Change
The Washington Post, Opinion, Feb. 1 -- With the release of the new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change tomorrow, the fourth since the organization's founding in 1988, many will be looking for what's new. How have estimates of sea-level rise changed? How soon will we achieve a doubling of carbon dioxide levels? (Written by Naomi Oreskes, professor of science history at UCSD) More
A Warning on the Decline, and Possible Fall, of U.S.
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 31 -- Chalmers Johnson, the distinguished scholar of East Asia, completes what he conceives as a trilogy with "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic." Now 76 and an emeritus professor at UCSD, Johnson believed in the Cold War against the Soviet Union and helped to wage it — intellectually, as a formidable scholar of China and Japan, and more practically as an influential consultant to the CIA's Office of National Estimates. More
UC's Diversity Threatened, Educator Says
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 1 -- Ethnic diversity at public colleges, particularly elite schools, is at risk, former University of California President Richard Atkinson told an audience at UCSD last night. More
Eating Disorders a Guy Thing Too, Study Finds
Los Angeles Times, Feb. 1 -- Contrary to the long-held belief that anorexia and bulimia are female afflictions, the first national survey on eating disorders has found that one-quarter of adults with the conditions are men. (Quotes Dr. Walter H. Kaye, director of the eating disorders program at UCSD, who was not involved in the research) More
Navajo Officials Have High Hopes for Wireless Grid
San Jose Mercury News, Jan. 31 -- The Navajo Technical College in Crownpoint is working with staff at UCSD’s San Diego Supercomputer Center to develop a wireless grid on the reservation. More
Berkeley-led Team Wins $500 Million Bio-fuels Institute
Oakland Tribune, Jan. 31 -- International energy giant BP LLC is expected Thursday morning to announce selection of a Bay Area team for a half-billion dollar institute devoted to cutting-edge research on biological fuels. The Berkeley-led team beat back competing bids from several universities, including UCSD. More
A Virtual Map to the Root of Diabetes and Other Metabolic Disease
Scientific American, Jan. 31 -- Sure, it is just on a computer but a new reconstruction of human metabolic activity, created by researchers at UCSD could revolutionize the study of how the body breaks down food into energy and assembles hormones and proteins to power biological processes crucial to daily life. More
MIT Develops Nanoparticles to Fight Cancer
UPI, Jan. 31 -- U.S. scientists have created nanoparticles that mimic blood platelets to carry out internal medical missions, such as cancer imaging and drug delivery. Sangeeta Bhatia and collaborators Michael Sailor of UCSD and Erkki Ruoslahti of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research will receive a five-year, $4.3 million grant National Cancer Institute grant to investigate promising nanoparticle solutions with the potential to help identify tumors and deliver chemotherapy locally. More
Exhibit Shows Artists' Views of the World
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 1 -- Photography enthusiast Lev Tsimring says he sees things better through a viewfinder. Tsimring spent the first 30 years of his life in Russia, where he was born. He moved to San Diego in 1992 to do research at UCSD. More
Bus Route Now Free for UCSD Students and Employees
North County Times, Feb. 1 -- Starting today, UCSD students, faculty and staff can ride Route 101 coastal buses for free. More