A Sampling of Clips for
June 15, 2006
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How Does Professor
Find Success? Listen Carefully
The Los Angeles Times, June 15-- Most of us probably think of the acoustical tile as a humble artifact from Home Depot. But not so Emily Thompson. To the UCSD history professor, it is an icon of modern civilization, belonging on a pedestal along with Cubist art, Einsteinian physics and James Joyce's "Ulysses." Unorthodox views like that have earned Thompson prestigious and lucrative bragging rights in a growing field — the history of sound — that was barely heard of not long ago. After an unusual and sometimes painful early career, Thompson last fall won a $500,000 MacArthur fellowship, one of the so-called genius awards that propel their often previously obscure recipients into a kind of intellectual and financial heaven. More recently, she also received a $25,000 grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to write a book on the switch from silent films to ones with sound. More
Nicholas Schork Moves
on to Biomedical Informatics
Nature, June 14 -- A philosopher at heart, Nicholas Schork was an unlikely future director of a cancer program at UCSD. To make ends meet, the philosophy graduate student tapped into his more lucrative skills as a computer programmer for the University of Michigan's medical school. In doing so, he began a circuitous route towards becoming a geneticist. More
Richard Somerville
Remembers Roger Revelle
KPBS, June 14 -- A new documentary about global warming, featuring Al Gore, highlights the pioneering work of Roger Revelle in climate change research. Distinguished professor Richard Somerville talks about the scientific work of Revelle. Somerville is a distinguished professor of meteorology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. Sommerville specializes in the study of climate change. More
UC Davis Will Target Rural Needs
Sacramento Bee, June 14 -- The UC Davis Medical School has been admitting exactly 93 would-be doctors every year for more than a generation. Now, for the first time since 1971, the university is poised to boost medical enrollment through a program to train doctors who want to live and work in rural communities. The effort is part of an ambitious plan to expand each of the five University of California medical schools and perhaps create a sixth amid predictions of a nationwide doctor shortage. (Mentions UCSD) More
Democrats Get Boos, Cheers at 2008 Audition
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 15 -- Even as President Bush and Republicans celebrated some rare good news from Iraq this week, Democrat's divisions on the war were on display with the front-runner for the 2008 presidential nomination getting booed and some of her challengers fighting to establish themselves as the true champions of the anti-war wing of the party. (Quotes Samuel L. Popkin, a UCSD political scientist) More
San Diego's Stake in the
Debate over Immigration Aired
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 15 -- San Diego's location on the border and its large pool of undocumented workers give it a major stake in the current immigration debate, political, academic and business leaders from both sides of the border said yesterday. (Quotes UCSD economist Gordon H. Hanson and Jeffrey Davidow, a former U.S ambassador to Mexico who now heads the Institute of the Americas at UCSD) More
Hookahs a Health Hazard?
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 15 -- Hookahs, those exotic water-pipe contraptions funneling smoke from fruit-flavored tobacco, molasses and coal into young smokers' lungs, may be far more dangerous than regular cigarettes. That was the message yesterday from anti-tobacco advocates who held a forum in San Diego. They want the region's more than 20 hookah lounges, many of them located near high schools and colleges, to be tightly regulated. (Quotes Dr. David Burns, a professor of family medicine at UCSD) More
