A Sampling of Clips for
January 31st, 2007
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Navajo Officials Have High Hopes for Wireless Grid
KVOA, Jan. 31 -- Navajo officials have a vision that one day students on the vast reservation can do school work on laptops during bus rides home and that making a phone call won't mean walking miles to the nearest chapter house. The Navajo Technical College in Crownpoint is working with staff at UC San Diego's Supercomputer Center to develop a wireless grid on the reservation. More
Ultra-thin Digital Camera Developed
UPI, Jan. 31 -- U.S. engineers say they have built a powerful, yet ultra-thin, digital camera by folding the telephoto lens. UC San Diego researchers say the technology might yield lightweight, ultra-thin, high-resolution miniature cameras for unmanned surveillance aircraft, cell phones and infrared night vision applications. More
Human Metabolism Through a Computational Approach
MedGadget.com, Jan. 31 -- Bernhard Palsson and his team of bioengineering researchers at UC San Diego have spent over a year looking through 50 years of research and text to compile the most comprehensive list of metabolic pathways to date. From that data, they've created a 'virtual model' that may allow scientists to study how medications may affect the body. More
UCSD's Orlitsky Appointed as First Holder of Qualcomm Endowed Chair
San Diego Daily Transcript, Jan. 30 -- UC San Diego announced that Alon Orlitsky has been appointed the first holder of the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Information Theory and its Applications. The chair in UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering is one of five pledged by Qualcomm through its initial $15 million corporate commitment to the UCSD division of Calit2. More
Woman to Woman
Tucson Citizen, Jan. 30 -- In the 1600s, America's new settlers founded two universities: Harvard University and the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Although Harvard is private and WM is public - and both are now purely secular - both have histories rich in the Christian faith of their founders. Like many universities, Harvard has since gone so far in the opposite direction that it is often hostile to people of faith. Unfortunately, the new WM president, Gene Nichol, appears to have decided to drag that state school in the same direction. (Article quotes John Evans, associate professor of sociology at UC San Diego). More
Researchers Create New Method for
Uncovering Natural Products from Mystery 'Orphan Genes'
Innovations Report, Jan. 29 -- Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have devised a new method for identifying the mysterious products of orphan gene clusters. "In this new age of genomics, microorganisms have even more capacity to make exotic natural product molecules than we ever realized," said William Gerwick, a professor in Scripps' Center for Marine Biotechnology and Biomedicine and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UC San Diego. More