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UCSD Researches Creating Phone App For Border Crossers

03 Dec 2009 08:52:51 PST

Examiner.com San Diego, CA) -- A UC San Diego research team is close to releasing a cell phone application to help illegal immigrants cross the border safely. ... GPS technology for people trying to cross the borderKOLD-TV GPS tool to help border-crossers cause controversyExaminer.com

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Loneliness can be contagious

30 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

Loneliness, like a bad cold, can spread among groups of people, research at the University of Chicago, the University of California-San Diego and Harvard shows. Using longitudinal data from a large-scale study that has been following health conditions for more than 60 years, a team of s...

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Researchers find potential treatment for Huntington's disease

14 Nov 2009 21:00:00 PST

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, UBC and UCSD have found that normal synaptic activity in nerve cells protects the brain from the misfolded proteins associated with Huntington's disease. They also found that the drug Memantine, which is approved to treat Alzh...

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Cultural Analytics @ Society of the Query conference in Amsterdam

06 Nov 2009 13:29:39 PST

Written by Lev Manovich(noreply@blogger.com)
abstract: Can we translate the principles of search engine algorithms and large scale data analysis in general into a new methodology for cultural theory? In my talk I will discuss what such a methodology would look like, and also demonstrate practical examples drawn from Cultural Ana...

Original story at Software Studies .

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new 2 year post-doc position with Software Studies / University of Bergen

12 Oct 2009 22:30:54 PDT

Written by Lev Manovich(noreply@blogger.com)
The post-doc will divide her/his time between Bergen and San Diego and will work closely with me and others in my lab on Cultural Analytics projects. Cultural Analytics is a new methodology for cultural / media research

Original story at Software Studies .

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UCSD takes lead in landmark study of breast cancer

30 Sep 2009 02:00:00 PDT

Researchers at the UCSD Moores Cancer Center in La Jolla and the four other UC campuses with medical schools yesterday launched what could become one of the nation's largest studies on breast cancer.

Original story at San Diego Union Tribune .

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University of California, San Diego news and blogs - December 04, 2009

04 Dec 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit University of California, San Diego news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• New Amgen Scholars Web site Launches to Build a Global Network for Future ... - PR Newswire -- from press release
• Spread It Around -- Loneliness May Be Contagious - Politics Daily -- from blog
• Sports briefs: Swim team, Apple Cup -- from Seattle University Spectator
• IntegraMed® Expands Fertility Provider Network in the Western US with ... -- from Welt Online
• UCSD marks World AIDS Day with art and events -- from SDNN: San Diego News Network
• UC San Diego Scientists Heading To Copenhagen -- from KPBS
• Turning inexpensive cell phones into a sort of electronic smuggler -- from TheRealityCheck.Org
• Paul Dayton renowned oceanographer on Dot Eco Part 1 -- from Google Videos - -site:youtube.com "University of California San Diego" OR UCSD OR "UC San Diego" "Shanghai Jiao Tong University" OR "University of California" OR UC OR "California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology" OR "US News and World Report" OR "Academic Ranking of World Universities" OR Kiplinger OR faculty OR "The Washington Monthly" OR University OR Calit2 OR Tritons OR Aisen OR "Rady School of Management" OR "Scripps Institution of Oceanography" OR engineering OR "undergraduate colleges" OR Grifasi OR "John Muir College" OR Mellon's OR Stadtman OR DRA OR alumni OR undergraduate OR ADCS OR DII OR "UCSD Guardian" OR research OR Diego's OR Sciences OR Biology OR students
• Three UC San Diego Researchers Receive Top National Awards -- from UCSD Medical Center
• UCSD: A Top-Notch Place for LGBT Students -- from San Diego Gay & Lesbian News

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The N^3 Report

06 Jul 2009 02:50:32 PDT

Written by tarazee(noreply@blogger.com)
Researchers: Andrew Wilson | PhD student, Art History, UCSD Andy Rice | PhD student, Communication, UCSD Lara Bullock | PhD student, Art History, UCSD Chris Head | MMFA student, Visual Art, UCSD Tara Zepel | PhD student, Art History, UCSD

Original story at Software Studies .

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Researchers observe single protein dimers wavering between two symmetrically opposed structures

18 Jun 2009 21:00:00 PDT

Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute, the University of California, San Diego, and Ohio State University have used a very sensitive fluorescence technique to find that a bacterial protein thought to exist in one "natural" three-dimensional structure (shape), can actuall...

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How To: UCSD Video Tutorial

19 May 2009 13:25:18 PDT

Written by rss@youtube.com (studinternazionali)
Author: studinternazionali Keywords: Università America UCSD San Diego Added: May 19, 2009

Original story at YouTube .

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NSF: Safer Nano Cancer Detector

04 May 2009 00:33:51 PDT

Written by Michael
Chemistry professor Michael Sailor and a team including National Science Foundation supported researchers at the University of California, San Diego, report developing the first nanoscale "quantum dot" particle that glows brightly enough to allow physicians to examine internal...

Original story at Medgadget.com .

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Princeton Review Gives Thumbs Up to UCSD

08 Jan 2009 19:27:45 PST

Daily Press CA - SAN DIEGO - The Princeton Review ranked UC San Diego among the nation's top 10 "best value" public colleges for 2009, university officials announced ... UC Davis Ranked Among 100 "Best Value Colleges" News10.net all 84 news articles

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Heads-up -- check us out at schools all across the US

04 Nov 2008 22:52:43 PST

Written by steven_sinofsky
Carnegie Mellon University Duke University Stanford University University of California - Berkeley University of California - Davis University of California - Irvine University of California - Los Angeles University of California - San Diego

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SDSC’s new Green campus building

20 Oct 2008 04:07:59 PDT

Written by Jon
The new building is also home to one of the first ‘OptIPortals,’ connected to the NSF TeraGrid via the ‘OptIPuter,’ an optical network device developed by UC San Diego’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2),”says the SDSC, adding:

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America's Biggest Universities Build 78-Terabyte Library, Still Missing Front Door [Digital Libraries]

13 Oct 2008 19:30:00 PDT

Written by Wilson Rothman
University of California Berkeley University of California Davis University of California Irvine University of California Merced University of California Riverside University of California San Diego University of California San Francisco University of California Santa Cruz

Original story at Gizmodo .

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Podcast: Golf in Germany, San Diego's Grand Del Mar Resort, growing golf through the Just One initiative

21 Jul 2008 06:03:11 PDT

Written by TravelGolf.com - Dave Berner
If you’re looking for luxury and great golf, head to the Grand Del Mar Resort in San Diego, says TravelGolf.com’s Chris Baldwin.

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Adaptive Path Selects Former frog/IDEO Exec as its Chief Executive Officer

09 Jul 2008 07:00:00 PDT

Meyer has a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He holds an appointment as a Fellow of the Batten Institute, Darden GSBA, University of Virginia, where he has taught early-stage innovation and product develo...

Original story at News from Adaptive Path .

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"Project Censored" Head Speaks in San Diego

01 Aug 2007 20:07:00 PDT

Written by San Diego
Ever since 1976, an aggressive group of faculty, students and staff from Sonoma State University in Northern California have been part of “Project Censored,” an organization aimed at finding the news stories least likely to be covered in the U.S. mainstream media. Since 1996, the project...

Original story at Global Features .

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Chinese workers make money playing games for Americans

22 Jul 2007 22:24:57 PDT

The thing it reminded me of was a factory," said Ge Jin. "But then you see the computer screens." These are "gold farms," 21st century sweatshops without the perspiration - they are air-conditioned for the computers, not the people. Jin, who has toured dozens of these establishments while p...

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Incontinence surgeries put to test

09 Jul 2007 06:55:41 PDT

If you want the best chance for being completely 'dry,' the sling procedure is best. But women who have higher risk for bladder infections or other complications may elect to undergo the Burch," said Dr. Michael Albo, the report's lead author and co-director of the Women's Pelvic Medicine...

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Opinion: UCSD Students Confront Chancellor

21 Jun 2007 22:37:00 PDT

Written by San Diego
We are acting upon our right to be a scholar and a citizen, and your continued denial and ignorance to our issues is a gross contradiction to the core philosophy of the the Dimensions of Culture Program, Thurgood Marshall College and the University of California San Diego itself.

Original story at Global Features .

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Opinion: Lumumba-Zapata Coalition Teach-In at Thurgood Marshall College, UCSD

05 Jun 2007 15:08:00 PDT

Written by San Diego
Can you imagine. Forty to fifty African American students, forty to fifty Chican@s creating the idea for Lumumba-Zapata College." Listening seems to be a creative talent that the Thurgood Marshall College is very good at. We are demanding action."

Original story at Global Features .

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Digital Straight Jacket Helps Diagnose Mental Disorders

04 Jun 2007 06:36:36 PDT

Written by Josh(jumbehr@gmail.com)
In the old days, straight jackets were only used to restrain psych patients, but thanks to researchers at the University of California, they may now be used to identify unique behavior patterns for more accurate diagnosis. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD),...

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Researchers Develop Device for the Photochemical Splitting of Carbon Dioxide

28 Apr 2007 07:00:00 PDT

Written by Mike Millikin
“A photoelectrochemical approach to splitting carbon dioxide for a manned mission to Mars”; Brian K. Breedlove, Gregory M. Ferrence, John Washington and Clifford P. Kubiak; Materials & Design Volume 22, Issue 7, October 2001, Pages 577-584 doi:10.1016/S0261-3069(01)00018-8 So...

Original story at Green Car Congress .

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Clowns Recruiting at UCSD Art Show!

20 Apr 2007 09:08:00 PDT

Written by San Diego
Take, for example this little comparison between the UCSD Principles of Community and The Koala, a newspaper on campus funded by the school through Associated Students... Take, for example this little comparison between the UCSD Principles of Community and The Koala, a newspaper on camp...

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Podcast: Lecture: Expert on Latin American politics discusses impact of "Pink Tide" on U.S. interests

26 Mar 2007 15:12:00 PDT

Written by news@vanderbilt.edu (Vanderbilt News Service)
The political and economic reasons for the recent resurgence of left-of-center political leaders in Latin America and the consequences for U.S.-Latin American relations were addressed in a March 23 lecture by Peter Smith, a professor of political science at the University of Californ...

Original story at Vanderbilt University News .

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