A Sampling of Clips for 
July 3, 2006

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Software adds a Dimension to Local, World Classrooms
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 3 -- It's a lively scene where students chat freely with their partner about the game they are playing. There is laughter and a sense of camaraderie. UCSD undergraduates mentor the children, sometimes giving tips on how to solve a problem and move on to the next level in a game. More

Brilliant Maneuver at UCSD Is the Latest for 21-Year-Old
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 3 -- UCSD graduate student Kate Denning has been on an accelerated track ever since she skipped two grades in elementary school.  Denning sealed her fate as a prodigy when, at 13, she declared a major – physics – at her hometown college, Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas, a city of about 20,000. More

Focusing on Sea Floor as Source of Antibiotics
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 2 -- This week, UCSD plans to announce an ambitious effort to fast-track the process of discovering new compounds from the sea floor to turn them into antibiotics. University officials will draw from talent at their Scripps Institution of Oceanography and their schools of pharmacy and medicine. They also will enlist the support of San Diego County's biotech community and venture capitalists. More

Political Action, Policy Test Their Big-Screen Power
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 2 -- “An Inconvenient Truth” is basically the film version of a slide show Gore says he has given at least 1,000 times in scores of cities and countries. In the film, Gore describes how he was introduced to global warming by one of his college professors, Roger Revelle, the renowned scientist and oceanographer who was instrumental in getting the University of California to build a campus in San Diego. More

Real DJs Code Live
Wired.com, July 3 -- A new brand of music maestro is turning programming into performance, eschewing turntables for a compiler and a mind for syntax structure. "Livecoding" practitioners improvise using Perl or homemade programming architectures to build compositions from the ground up, replacing instruments and samples with raw code authoring before a live audience. Livecoder Amy Alexander, an assistant professor in visual arts at UCSD, wrote her own commands in Macromedia Director's Lingo scripting language to create
a custom suite she calls Thingee. More

The New Science of Siblings
Time, July 2 -- "Siblings," says family psychologist Katherine Conger of the University of California, Davis,
"are with us for the whole journey."Within the scientific community, siblings have not been wholly ignored, but research has been limited mostly to discussions of birth order. But all that's changing. (Story quotes Patricia East,
a pediatrics research scientist at UCSD.) More

A Different Profile in 'Courage'
Los Angeles Times, July 3 -- The title character of Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece "Mother Courage and Her Children" may be the toughest role to cast in modern drama. American actors tend to idealize the indomitable merchant matriarch who drags her canteen cart through battlefields, selling enlisted men scrawny chickens and cheap booze to keep her family just above the poverty line. (Story mentions several UCSD MFA acting students.) More