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Bridging the Hearts & Minds of Youth Conference, Feb. 4-5

Beginning February 4, 2012, the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness will host a national conference for teachers, parents, therapists, and school administrators called Bridging the Hearts & Minds of Youth. The two-day conference is designed to familiarize and train attendees with the ways in which mindfulness is being taught to children and teens in a variety of settings. The goal is to teach mindfulness as a tool to positively impact children’s psychological, physical and social well-being.

UC San Diego Experts Issue Warning About Cold Medications in Pregnancy

Experts in pregnancy and breastfeeding health at the California Teratogen Information Service (CTIS) Pregnancy Health Information Line warn expectant moms about the potential dangers of common cold medicines during pregnancy. CTIS is a California non-profit housed at the University of California, San Diego that educates the public about exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Hints of the Higgs Boson Seen as Trap Set for the Elusive Particle Tightens

Physicists announced today that they may have caught glimpses of the Higgs boson, but the signals they see are not yet robust enough to meet the stringent requirements they have set for announcing an official discovery.

InterDigital and Calit2 Collaborate on Innovation Challenge

InterDigital announced the InterDigital Innovation Challenge, a wireless technology research contest in collaboration with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UC San Diego. To be formally launched in early 2012, the challenge will nurture and accelerate innovation in advanced wireless technologies and shall be open to students and faculty of any university in North America.

Obituary Notice: Renowned Research Physiologist Jeffrey B. Graham

Jeffrey B. Graham, a research physiologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, died of cancer at his home in San Diego Dec. 8. He was 70 years old.

Report: Geoengineering Plans Must Account for Ecosystem Impacts

Margaret Leinen recalls that when Nobel Prize-winning physicist Paul Crutzen wrote a 2006 essay exploring the feasibility of geoengineering, the late Stanford climatologist Stephen Schneider noted that in Crutzen, “the messenger was the message.”