A Sampling of Clips for
January 24th, 2007
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A Scorching Future
Los Angeles Times, Jan. 24 – Imagine a world in which the best sparkling wines come from Surrey in southern England, not Champagne. A world where Monterey Bay is home to California's best Cabernet Sauvignons and Sweden produces world-class Rieslings. It's not science fiction. A growing number of climatologists are warning that by the turn of the next century, such a radically altered wine map could be the new reality. (Quotes Dan Cayan, a climate researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD) More
Lack of Rain No Biggie Yet, Say Scientists
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 24 -- It's still too early to say what the rest of the winter will bring. Yet climate scientists say they can't look at any one year and tell whether the odd weather reflects a signal of global warming. "It's just climate variability all over again,'' said Daniel Cayan, director of the climate research division of UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla. More
San Diegans Urged to Fight Global Warming
KPBS, Jan. 23 -- A local researcher applauds San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders’ goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels. UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography Professor Richard Somerville says city residents can help reverse global warming. More
Owning Up
Columbia Journalism Review, January 2007 -- American democracy is lost unless citizen Davids do battle against the corporate media Goliaths. We have heard this rallying cry before, and we hear it again in Eric Klinenberg’s "Fighting for Air". But Klinenberg, a sociologist at New York University, has humanized and dramatized the argument by writing a book based on extensive original reporting. (Book review written by Michael Schudson, who teaches journalism at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and is Distinguished Professor of Communication at UCSD) More
Alone in San Diego
San Diego CityBEAT, Jan. 24 -- When Eileen Myles first came to UCSD in the fall of 2002 to teach writing, she couldn’t sit still. Gesticulating wildly as she paced back and forth in front of a packed lecture hall, wearing a men’s dress shirt, tie, jeans and boots, it was clear the New York-based author-poet was new to the quiet, tame campus. More
UCSD Faculty, Staff Donate $1 Million to School Initiative
The San Diego Daily Transcript, Jan. 23 -- UCSD faculty and staff have contributed more than $1 million in five months to The Campaign for UCSD, the university's $1 billion fundraising initiative. More
Returned Grant Focus of Suit Against UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 24 -- Sarka Southern felt euphoric after winning a prestigious federal grant to conduct research on HIV. With the help of a mentor at UCSD, Southern was on her way to returning to her life's passion, academia. More
Can the Jury Sort It All Out?
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 24 -- The federal trial in which Qualcomm accuses rival Broadcom of infringing on two of its patents poses a difficult task for the nine jurors who have listened to jargon-filled testimony about graduate-level concepts in video compression. (Quotes Pamela Cosman, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSD, who is not involved in the case) More