Cancer researcher Amy Ross named USC trustee
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Los Angeles, California - A scientist with a distinguished career in cancer diagnostics, Amy Ross Ph.D. ’86 was elected to the USC Board of Trustees.
Crop adjustments may lessen climate change's economic effects
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Stanford, California - If countries and farmers make adjustments in what crops they grow and where, then the effects of climate change on the global economy may not be as severe as feared, a Stanford economist says.
Got Your Number: Cyber-attacks Make Us Rethink the Idea of Social Security Numbers
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Berkeley, California - Nearly every 12 hours, on average in 2014, there was an institutional data breach somewhere in the United States—a record 783 cases reported last year, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center. And the dire consequence is that these attacks give criminals access to what security experts call “the keys to the kingdom”: our Social Security numbers.
CBP Discovers Invasive Beetles in Chickpea Shipment
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San Francisco, California - U.S. Customs and Border Protection agriculture specialists working at the Oakland seaport discovered evidence of a Khapra Beetle infestation while examining a shipment of chickpeas from India.
High hopes as Large Hadron Collider pumps protons to ever higher energy
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Berkeley, California - Physicists from UC Berkeley and around the world hope for new and fundamental discoveries as the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, officially restarted operations today at a much greater energy than ever before.
Governor Brown Issues Executive Order to Further Expedite Oil Spill Recovery Efforts in Santa Barbara County
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Sacramento, California - As federal, state, and local agencies continue working to minimize and mitigate the effects of last month's Santa Barbara County oil spill, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued an executive order to further expedite recovery efforts and help ensure the natural environment is restored, beaches are reopened and economic impacts are minimized.
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