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(University of California - San Diego) The University of California, San Diego Libraries are playing a leadership role in mapping out national standards and best practices for preserving and sharing digital content.

As founding members of the Library of Congress' National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA), the UC San Diego Libraries are collaborating with other partners to preserve and provide access to valuable data, webpages, audio, and other digital content that supports the nation's economic, scientific, and cultural innovation.

(International Rett Syndrome Foundation) A groundbreaking study published Friday in the leading scientific journal, Cell, revealed that a team of investigators had successfully generated nerve cells using skin cells from four individuals with Rett syndrome.

The study, funded in part by IRSF, was led by Dr. Alysson Muotri at the University of California, San Diego -- a leading researcher in the stem cell field.

(University of California - San Diego) A one-day symposium hosted by the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access will be Webcast live to participants who are unable to attend the event, which was quickly oversubscribed when it was announced in early February.

(University of California - San Diego) The Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego today announced that Professor Terry August is the recipient of a 2010 National Science Foundation CAREER award.

The award, which will provide $530,000 in research funding, was granted by the National Science Foundation Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, under the Trustworthy Computing program.

(University of California - San Diego) Researchers hope to increase effectiveness of methods increasingly needed for effective implementation of climate legislation and stabilization of carbon-equivalent trading markets

(University of California - San Diego) The Arab world is not the socioeconomic basket case that conventional wisdom holds, says University of California, San Diego economist James Rauch.

His analysis refutes the unfavorable view painted by the United Nations' Arab Human Development Report from 2002 onward.

(University of California - San Diego) Computer scientists have developed an inexpensive solution for diagnosing networking delays in data center networks as short as tens of millionths of seconds -- delays that can lead to multi-million dollar losses for investment banks running automatic stock trading systems.

University of California, San Diego, and Purdue University computer scientists presented this work on August 20, 2009, at SIGCOMM, the premier networking conference.

(University of California - San Diego) The University of California, San Diego, has received a $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support the 2010 San Diego Science Festival and fund the creation and growth of Science Festivals nationwide.

The grant award follows the highly successful first annual San Diego Science Festival, held March-April 2009.