A Sampling of Clips for 
June 29, 2006

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Seismic Shaking Could
Make Oil Extraction Easier
Scientific American, June 29 — Earthquakes, which can damage property and make life difficult above ground, appear to ease fluid flow through the rock under ground. The enhanced permeability could be artificially induced with seismic wave generators to help extract oil from natural reservoirs. "Permeability governs how fluid flows through rocks, whether it's water or oil, so this has practical implications for oil extraction," says Emily Brodsky of the University of California, Santa Cruz. Brodsky, along with Jean Elkhoury of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Duncan Agnew of UCSD report their findings today in Nature. More

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People in the News
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 29 -- Katie Couric, wearing her new CBS News hat, will be the keynote speaker at a luncheon July 14 at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center in La Jolla. Citing the loss of her husband to colon cancer and her sister to pancreatic cancer, Couric says she made a commitment to increase awareness and to help raise research dollars for scientists working on cancer treatments. The ticket price? $150 . . . More

S.D. Supercomputer Center
Teams with National Archives
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 29 -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center will play a key role in preserving data produced by federally funded scientific research. Officials from the center and the National Archives and Records Administration signed a memorandum of understanding during a ceremony Tuesday at the National Archives Building in College Park, Md. The collaboration marks the first time the federal agency has joined with an academic institution to preserve digital data. More

Office Hazard: Cellphone Rings
That Turn Co-Workers Savage
Harford Courant, June 28 -- According to a survey by Randstad USA, a staffing and workforce management firm, 30 percent of employees say the ringing of their co-workers' cellphones is their greatest annoyance of the workday. (Quotes UCSD Professor Diana Deutsch, also mentions her work with Trevor Henthorn, in UCSD’s psychology department) More

Forum on Green Building Practices
Renewable Energy Access, June 29 -- UCSD’s Environment & Sustainability Initiative will host an open forum to discuss the latest research on green building practices in conjunction with the 2006 Sustainable Facilities Summit. The summit attendees who have been invited to the Aug. 15 UCSD forum include real estate and facilities decision makers from a wide variety of public and private sectors entities, including healthcare, government, education, and retail, commercial and industrial sectors. More