A Sampling of Clips for
February 9th, 2007
* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office
Vitamin D3 May Help Boost Skin's Immune Response, Scientists Say
CBC News, Feb. 8 -- A new U.S. study released on Thursday has found an unexpected role for vitamin D3 — the ability to help protect the skin from infections. Richard Gallo and colleagues from UCSD found that wounding the skin triggers the production of an active form of D3. More
Two Heads
The New Yorker, Feb. 5 – Paul and Patricia Churchland are both professors of philosophy at UCSD. They test ideas on each other; they criticize each other’s work. At this point, they have shaped each other so profoundly, that is impossible, even for them, to say where one ends and the other begins. More
Study Underway To Help Breast Cancer Survivors with Fatigue
KFMB, Feb. 8 -- More than two million women living in the United States have been treated for breast cancer. But even when treatment is over, up to a third say they feel tired. Now a UCSD Medical Center clinical trial hopes to help determine if a complimentary treatment will make a difference. More
UCSD to Put $6 Million Grant Toward Cardiovascular Research
The San Diego Daily Transcript, Feb. 8 -- A $6 million grant from the Fondation Leducq will help researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine direct a global network of scientists in the study of cardiovascular disease, the school reported Thursday. More
Rady School to Offer Undergraduate Courses this Spring
The San Diego Daily Transcript, Feb. 8 – UCSD’s Rady School of Management announced it will offer a new series of undergraduate business courses, beginning this spring. More
Rice Computing Pioneer Ken Kennedy Dead at 61
HPC Wire, Feb. 7 -- Ken Kennedy, the founder of Rice University's nationally ranked computer science program and one of the world's foremost experts on high-performance computing, died February 7 at a Houston hospital after a long battle with cancer. He was 61. (Quotes Francine Berman, director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UCSD) More