A Sampling of Clips for 
July 21, 2006

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New Autism Study
Shows Discrepancy in Brains
NPR, July 19 -- Men and boys with autism have fewer neurons in a part of the brain involved in memory and emotion, according to a new study by scientists at UCSD and the MIND Institute at UC Davis. The study, which appeared in the Journal of Neuroscience, offers the latest evidence that this area of the brain, called the amygdala, may be one of the keys to understanding autism. More

Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-smoking Campaigns in California, France, and Japan
JAMA, July 19 -- In "Globalizing Tobacco Control," Roddey Reid, a professor of French studies and cultural studies at UCSD, documents and analyzes recent antitobacco efforts in California, France, and Japan. He explores how these efforts have been shaped. More

Drop in Minorities at UC to Be Studied
Los Angeles Times, July 20 -- Alarmed by declining numbers of African American students at UCLA and other campuses, University of California regents on Wednesday decided to study the effect of the state's 10-year-old ban on affirmative action on UC admissions and student enrollment. (Mentions UCSD) More

UC Regents Retroactively Approve
Lucrative Compensation Package
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 21 -- University of California regents retroactively approved yesterday benefits for UC executives whose compensation had been criticized in recent months. But regents also decided to seek repayment in some situations. (Mentions UCSD School of Medicine Dean Edward Holmes, Senior Vice Chancellor Marsha Chandler and Chancellor Marye Anne Fox) More

SD Researchers Searching
The Sea For New Antibiotics
News 8, July 18 -- The use of antibiotics has saved countless lives over the years, but their overuse has led to drug resistant strain infections and have left doctors very few options for treating them. So, now local scientists are going deep in their search for new lifesaving drugs. And if the scientists at UCSD and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography are successful, the sea may someday provide us with new, lifesaving antibiotics. More

Expansion to Double
SDSC’s Supercomputing Capacity
San Diego Business Journal, July 17 -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center, located on the UCSD campus, is doubling its size — expanding by 80,000 square feet. The SDSC is one of the leading academic supercomputer centers in the United States, and serves science and engineering researchers from around the nation. More

Climate Change May Not
Drive Local Wildfires Directly
North County Times, July 15 -- The Earth may be getting warmer, but that doesn't necessarily mean more wildfires for Southern California. That's what several scientists who examine regional wildfires said last week about a recent study led by Tony Westerling while at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, of the influence of a warmer climate on fire activity in the Western United States. More

Caught Downstream:
Warming World Brings Water Trouble
Voice of San Diego, July 17 -- Scientists say the planet's slowly warming temperature is already causing snow packs to melt about a week earlier than in the 1950s. By 2050, they say, those melts will happen three weeks earlier. By 2100, they project it will be a full month. The area has already felt the effects of earlier snowmelt, according to a Scripps Institution of Oceanography research team. More