A Sampling of Clips for
September 29th, 2006
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Mining the Molecules that Made our Mind
Science, Sept. 29 -- By comparing the human genome with those of other species, researchers are finding many genes potentially related to brain evolution--but no one is sure which ones helped shape the uniquely human brain. (Quotes UCSD researcher Ajit Varki) More
Hawaii Gets Donation and a New Name
Business Week, Sept. 7 -- Hawaii may be one of the smallest states in the union, but that hasn't kept the dean of the University of Hawaii's business school from thinking big. This week, the university announced it had received its largest gift ever—$25 million from real estate investor and Hawaii alumnus Jay Shidler. (Mentions the Rady School of Management at UCSD) More
Blasting A/C in the Arctic
Chicago Tribune, Sept. 29 -- Earlier this year, officials in the Canadian Inuit territory of Nunavik authorized the installation of air conditioners in official buildings for the first time. Artificial cooling was necessary, they decided, because summertime temperatures in some southern Arctic villages have climbed into the 80s in recent years. (Quotes Naomi Oreskes, a professor of the history of science at UCSD) More
Color Their World
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 28 -- Biologists at UCSD say the fate of red and yellow varieties of a common San Diego wildflower may hinge upon what happens to two distinctly different species: hummingbirds and hawkmoths. More
San Diego's Potemkin Villages
Voice of San Diego, Sept. 29 -- This is a transcription of Neil Morgan's remarks at the Helen Edison Lecture Series presentation held at UCSD Sept. 26. More
Brother, Can You Spare a Terabyte?
Enterprise Storage Forum, Sept. 28 -- The San Diego Supercomputer Center is making available more than 400 terabytes of disk space and even more archival tape space for academic and scientific data in search of a good home. More
San Diego Wrestles with
Military Past as It Looks to Future
Voice of San Diego, Sept. 26 -- As San Diego military presence grew throughout the decades, so too did its economic dependence on defense budgets, a position that allowed the armed forces to exercise mounting influence over the city's growth, politics and civic identity. (Quotes UCSD historian Abraham Shragge) More
News Briefs
La Jolla Village News, Sept. 28 -- The North Campus Housing Project, which will accommodate graduate students at UCSD is available for public review. Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and three-term U.S. Senator John Danforth will speak on Wednesday, Oct. 4, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., as part of UCSD’s Revelle Forum at The Neurosciences Institute. Noble Prize winner Amartya Sen will lecture about the “Illusion of Identity” at UCSD’s Institute of the Americas on Thursday, Oct. 5, 5:30 p.m., in the Hojel Auditorium. More