Media coverage of top UCI stories: Oct. 30, 2007
MEDICAL CENTER COVERAGE:
1. Los Angeles Times, Oct. 30, 2007
UCI Medical Center has fired 13 nurses
UCI MENTIONED: UCI Medical Center has fired 13 nurses in the
last three months and is investigating a union activist who sought information about one of the dismissals,
according to the nurses union.
Second
Paragraph: Eight of the nurses have more than 20 years of
experience each, and four of those have spent their two decades at UCI, union officials said. Hospital
officials would not comment on why the nurses were let go.
2. The Orange County Register, Oct. 29, 2007
Nurses union upset at UCI
UCI MENTIONED: Officials from the state California Nurses
Association visited UCI Medical Center Monday where they said the hospital has unfairly fired 13 nurses in
recent months.
Second Paragraph: UCI nurse Lilliam
Triana said the hospital put her under investigation for questioning the recent firing of a colleague who
pointed out a problem with medication on her floor.
GENERAL UC IRVINE COVERAGE:
3. CNN, Oct. 29, 2007
Pediatricians urge early autism screening
UCI MENTIONED: Dr. Pauline Filipek, a child neurologist at the
University of California-Irvine, said she hears much too often that even when parents push pediatricians,
the doctors miss the signs of autism. “I hear this from parents all the time, that the pediatrician said,
‘Don’t worry,’ or ‘You’re imagining things’ or ‘Let’s
wait,’ ” Filipek said. “When I give lectures to pediatricians, I tell them, ‘Get these
phrases out of your lexicon. Get them out of your vocabulary.’ ”
First
Paragraph: From the time her daughter was very young, Briana
Vartanian knew something was wrong. Lola didn’t smile. She didn’t laugh. When she and
Lola took walks in the park, Vartanian noticed how the other babies loved to be held by their mothers. Lola
hated being touched and even more being held.
4. Cosmos (Sydney, Australia), Oct. 30, 2007
Gravity ball
UCI MENTIONED:
“GRACE is giving us a first-ever look at how water storage on the continents is changing,”
adds James Famiglietti a hydrologist at the University of California in Irvine.
First
Paragraph: On a Grace Satilite map, the Earth looks like a warty
ball, with red bumps and deep blue holes highlighting fluctuations in the planet’s gravity. The red
spots represent places where the Earth’s gravity is unusually strong. The blue ones are where
it’s weak. Not that the force of gravity itself varies.
5. The Providence Journal (R.I.), Oct. 30, 2007
By the light of a Chinese moon? (op-
ed)
UCI MENTIONED: [About the author:] Peter Navarro, an
occasional contributor, is a business professor at the University of California at Irvine and author of The
Coming China Wars.
First Paragraph: China last week
launched its first lunar satellite probe as a prelude to its own eventual walk on the moon and establishment
of a lunar colony.
6. Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, Texas), Oct. 29, 2007
Prison didn’t alter peace
advocate (editorial)
UCI MENTIONED: If anybody has a right to have developed a
bitter attitude toward the Iranian regime, and perhaps even to have decided that there’s just no
talking to those people, it would be Ali Shakeri of Irvine, Calif.
Second
Paragraph: Shakeri is the Iranian-American businessman who was
snatched out of the Tehran airport more than four months ago and was imprisoned by the Iranian regime.
He was in prison for 140 days, 114 of that in solitary confinement, with “no newspapers, no TV, no
human contact, nothing,” he said.
7. The Orange County Register, Oct. 29, 2007
New chief named at Santa Ana federal
prosecutors’ office
UCI MENTIONED: Among other cases, Gross worked on litigation
related to the UCI fertility scandal and handled civil lawsuits against entities accused of defrauding the
government.
First Paragraph: A new chief has been
appointed to oversee the Santa Ana U.S. Attorney’s Office after the resignation of the former
director, Wayne Gross.
8. Daily Pilot, Oct. 28, 2007
Researcher to discuss body’s reaction to HIV
(brief)
UCI MENTIONED: In their search for an HIV vaccine, researchers
have turned to math. Microsoft researcher David Heckerman will speak at UC Irvine today about
mathematical analysis tools that can help identify how strong the body responds in fighting HIV and where
in our bodies HIV attacks successfully.
Second
Paragraph: Heckerman’s technical and biological background
has played an important role in computational biology, data mining, intelligent systems and causal
discovery. The lecture is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday in the university’s California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology auditorium.
9. Nanowerk, Oct. 29, 2007
And you thought the iPod nano was small - here comes
nanotechnology radio
UCI MENTIONED: Peter Burke and Chris Rutherglen at the
University of California, Irvine developed a CNT demodulator (a device that converts the radio frequency
signal from the carrier into baseband signals such as video, audio, or data for further processing or
amplification) that is capable of translating AM (amplitude modulation) radio waves into sound. In a
laboratory demonstration, the researchers incorporated the detector into a complete radio system and
used it to successfully transmit classical music wirelessly from an iPod to a speaker several feet away from
the music player.
First Paragraph: We have written
plenty of Spotlights so far on carbon nanotubes and nanoelectronics. For instance, carbon nanotube
(CNT) transistors have the potential to outperform state-of-the-art silicon devices. Researchers around
the world have been working for years on advances at the device level, things like switches and wires and
optimizing individual CNT transistors.
