A Sampling of Clips for
February 28th, 2007
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He Uses Science
in the Pursuit of Art
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 28 – What's the world's greatest art forensics scientist – a man mentioned in best-selling novel “The Da Vinci Code” – doing here? Hoping to make San Diego the international leader in analyzing, understanding and conserving the world's art inventory. Maurizio Seracini will head UCSD’s Center for Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology, which is believed to be the first of its kind. More
Funds: Riding the Bolsa's Rise and Fall
International Herald Tribune, Feb. 28 -- The Bolsa index has fallen for four consecutive sessions from a Feb. 21 record, a drop that accelerated Tuesday as a rout in Chinese equities reduced investors' appetite for emerging market assets worldwide. (Quotes Alex Kane, a professor of finance at UCSD) More
Every Joint Has a Silver Lining
Science Magazine, Feb. 16 -- The normal synovium forms a membrane at the edges of joints and provides lubrication and nutrients for the cartilage. In rheumatoid arthritis, the synovium is the site of inflammation, and it participates in an organized tissue response that damages cartilage and bone. (Written by Gary Firestein, professor of medicine and chief of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at the UCSD School of Medicine) More
Immigrants Commit Fewer
Crimes than Residents, Study Says
NBC San Diego, Feb. 28 -- Immigrants, whether they are illegal or not, commit fewer crimes than people born in the U.S. according to a study done by a University of California, Irvine, sociology professor using data from the 2000 census. The study shows that the incarceration rate of foreign-born men between the ages of 18 and 39 is 0.7 percent, while the rate for native-born men is five times higher. (Quotes Tomas Jimenez, a UCSD sociologist) More
The Limits of Live
Columbia Journalism Review, February 2007 -- Two recent studies, one American and one British, indict TV news for its growing emphasis on live, unscripted reporting. Fast-breaking, popular, with a contemporary air of informality, such reporting is also measurably thinner, more opinionated, and less densely sourced than other news forms. (Co-authored by Michael Schudson, who teaches at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and in the Department of Communication at UCSD) More
Experts Agree Quality Patents Needed,
but Disagree over Best Way to Improve
San Diego Daily Transcript, Feb. 28 -- San Diego stands to benefit from the efforts of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Congress and the courts to improve the quality of patents, according to a recent roundtable hosted by The Daily Transcript. (Quotes William Decker, the assistant director of physical science licensing at UCSD) More
Urey to Test for Life on Mars
Astrobiology Magazine, Feb. 28 -- NASA-funded researchers are refining a tool, known as Urey, that could not only check for the faintest traces of life's molecular building blocks on Mars, but could also determine whether they have been produced by anything alive. "Urey will be able to detect key molecules associated with life at a sensitivity roughly a million times greater than previous instrumentation," said Dr. Jeffrey Bada of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. Bada is the principal investigator for an international team of scientists and engineers working on various components of the device. More