USD in the News

San Diego Union Tribune -- In their first three-way meeting since Barack Obama was elected president, economic officials from the United States, Mexico and Canada met Wednesday at the University of San Diego to discuss strategies for working together to emerge from the economic downturn and to create a more competitive trinational economy. (Full Story)

San Diego Union Tribune -- For AMSOLAR of Solana Beach, the solar market isn’t about putting panels on every roof, but about putting them on roofs with students inside.

The company recently signed a deal with the University of San Diego to install systems on nine campus buildings, including the Jenny Craig Pavilion, to produce 1.23 megawatts of power. (Full Story)

KPBS --  The effect of health care reform on our economy was the subject of a panel discussion today at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

Anti-Defamation League -- On Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 over 60 educators, administrators and curriculum directors and community members participated in the San Diego office of the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Holocaust Education Conference entitled The Practice of “Never Again” at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, University of San Diego. (Full Story)

David Shirk is an associate professor at University of San Diego and Director of USD's Trans-Border Institute.

NPR News -- Mexican and U.S. leaders have vowed to track down the gunmen who killed three people, including two U.S. citizens, with ties to the U.S. Consulate in the border town of Juarez. Mexican authorities say they believe the killings are linked to the country's raging drug war. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal -- Stories of increasing demand and decreasing funds putting the squeeze on San Diego’s nonprofit community have become increasingly common.

A recently released study from the University of San Diego backed up the stories with numbers. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal -- Jodi Waterhouse, director of USD’s Office of Corporate and Professional Education, said the first course, Business Development, launched by the school’s new Institute for Sales and Business Development in January, was so well received in the community that it was offered again this February. (Full Story)

San Diego Union Tribune -- Anita Figuerdo was also a member of the La Jolla Town Council and a founding trustee of the San Diego College for Women, which later became the University of San Diego. Dr. Figueredo died last Friday at her La Jolla home. She was 93. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal -- An audience of about 150 building industry professionals gathered recently at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego to discuss the future of green communities in the San Diego region. (Full Story)

Pat Libby is the director of the University of San Diego’s Institute for Nonprofit Education and Research. Laura Deitrick is director of the Caster Family Center for Nonprofit Research at USD.

San Diego Union Tribune -- Whatever your situation, we want to encourage you to reach deep into your pocket and give generously to nonprofits in our community. (Full Story)

San Diego Union Tribune -- The University of San Diego is launching a series of classes to provide sales training to small and mid-size businesses. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune--Unemployed construction workers aren’t the only ones who have joined the day-labor pool. The county has lost more than 52,000 jobs overall between this October and last, said Alan Gin, a University of San Diego economics professor who tracks the regional economy. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune--Daniel Sheehan remembers exactly when he knew what he would be.

It was in the third grade. He had planned to become a fireman, not too surprising for an 8-year-old boy. Then, one day in class, his teacher announced that scientists had determined no life could exist on Pluto. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune--Milburn Line is executive director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego.

Once again, short-term notions of our military and strategic interests are overriding our human rights and democratic values in Latin America and undermining long-term U.S. leadership in the region. Two reports released a little more than a week ago, underscore the importance of sticking close to these values in our relationship with Colombia. (Full story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “It’s not great, but it’s less bad than it was six months ago,” said Alan Gin, a University of San Diego economist who addressed USD’s annual real estate outlook conference yesterday. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- Two of the three speakers at yesterday's real estate conference at the University of San Diego spent most of their time talking about where the economy and housing markets have been over the last couple of years but did little in the way of forecasting where things are headed. That duty, interestingly, fell to professor Alan Gin. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal-- Retailers want to avoid a repeat of last December when many were compelled to cut prices just ahead of the holidays and continued to offer deep discounts following New Year’s because they misjudged how deeply the economy had affected even employed consumers with money to spend, said Kenneth Bates, marketing professor at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

BusinessWeek--  But do better ventilation, eco-friendly carpeting, and increased natural light bring other bottom-line payoffs? Yes, according to a study by the University of San Diego and commercial real estate broker CB Richard Ellis Group (CBG). (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- An energy think tank at the University of San Diego has come up with a computer model designed to figure out how a variety of choices facing the region will impact electric rates. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Returned from a five-night stay in Anchorage for the Great Alaska Shootout — a tournament that was two-thirds terrific and one-third torture for the Toreros — coach Bill Grier’s team must quickly prepare for tomorrow night’s renewal of the crosstown rivalry with San Diego State at Jenny Craig Pavilion. (Full Story)

North County Times-- The University of San Diego Index of Leading Economic Indicators for San Diego County rose 0.2 percent in October, pushed up by gains in building permits, local consumer confidence and improvement in the national economy. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- Retired Navy Rear Admiral Leendert "Len" Hering will join the University of San Diego as vice president for Business Services and Administration beginning Tuesday. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Though he had been teaching for more than two decades, professor Fred Zacharias insisted on rising at dawn to prepare for his constitutional law class at the University of San Diego School of Law, always seeking new ways to captivate his students and engage them in critical thinking. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Scott Anders is director of the Energy Policy Initiatives Center at the University of San Diego School of Law. Large quantities of wasted energy are lurking in our homes. Whether it is leaky ducts that cool the attic or heat the crawl space, insufficient or improperly installed insulation that makes it difficult to cool that one bedroom no matter how hard the air conditioner is running, or that old refrigerator in the garage that labors to keep the beer cold in summer, the opportunities to reduce energy use in our homes are numerous. (Full Story)

GolfWeek.com-- To add intrigue, the playoff will pit a college coach against his player. The participants are Tim Mickelson, Phil’s brother and the men’s golf coach at the University of San Diego, and Gunner Wiebe, a USD junior and the son of two-time PGA Tour and Champions Tour winner Mark Wiebe.(Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- USD golf coach Tim Mickelson accomplished exactly what he'd hoped Saturday in the amateur qualifying tournament for San Diego's PGA Tour event in January. He shot a 3-under-par 69 on the Torrey Pines South Course to share medalist honors and get into a playoff for the one spot that's been reserved for amateurs for 26 years. (Full Story)

KPBS.org-- A conference called Greening Borders at University of San Diego hopes to look at U.S.-Mexico environmental issues in a new light. Organizers expect more than 100 people to attend. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- The University of San Diego and AMSOLAR Corp. of Solana Beach yesterday announced plans to develop the eighth-largest solar energy facility on a college campus in the United States. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- The Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego will convene conservationists, policymakers, scientists and community leaders for its first binational conference on environmental issues along the U.S.-Mexico border. (Full Story)

CosmosMagazine.com-- Changes in surface waters result in changes far below, said co-author Ron Kauffman, a marine biologist at the University of San Diego, in California, USA. "Some of those changes include a reduced supply of nutrients to surface water communities," he said. That, in turn, leads to reduced productivity and fewer of those organisms sinking to the deep ocean to feed deep sea ecosystems. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- University of San Diego School of Law professor Fred C. Zacharias, a nationally renown scholar in the field of professional responsibility, died of esophageal cancer Sunday. He was 56. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- The University of San Diego’s Evening Master of Business Administration program is ranked 26th in the nation, according to BusinessWeek’s latest list of the top 30 part-time programs. (Full Story)

San Diego Daily Transcript-- Five educators from San Diego and Imperial counties have been selected to join the distinguished class of the University of San Diego’s School of Leadership and Education Sciences’ (SOLES) Remarkable Leaders program. (Full Story)

KPBS Radio -- Rubina Feroze Bhatti is a founding member of the Taangh Wasaib Organization and part of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Women PeaceMakers program. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal -- Sally Brosz Hardin is dean of the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Dieg Magazine-- Alan Gin compiles the University of San Diego’s In­dex of Leading Economic Indicators, a monthly snapshot of the local economy measured through five categories: building permits, initial claims for unemployment, stock prices, consumer confidence and help-wanted advertising. (Full Story)

TheGovMonitor.com-- “It’s remarkable what a little sunshine will do to stodgy agencies that are stuck in the past,” said Julianne D’Angelo Fellmeth, administrative director of the Center for Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- He assumes a starting role with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the same set of assumptions he developed at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Despite the rise since the spring, University of San Diego real estate professor Norm Miller said he believes turmoil will continue to roil the housing waters. (Full Story)

IOMToday.com-- In researching Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do, co-author Dr. Patrick Drinan, a political science professor at the University of San Diego found that long-term trends show only a slight increase in cheating. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune--  A researcher specializing in new energy production technologies has joined the University of San Diego in a professorship funded by a grant of nearly $600,000 from the Clare Boothe Luce Program. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- The University of San Diego on Monday announced the schedule and theme for its 2009-10 Spotlight on Education Speaker Series. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “A nonprofit's reputation is its most valuable asset,” said Pat Libby, director of the Institute for Nonprofit Education and Research at the University of San Diego. “And when that asset is harmed, it takes quite a bit of time for the public to regain confidence in that organization.” (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “That's what good companies should do,” said Alan Gin, an economist at the University of San Diego. “Sure, there's a little bit of risk, but that's what you do when things are difficult. You use that as an opportunity to get established and lock up good real estate rates.” (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Robert Fellmeth, a University of San Diego law professor and director of the Center for Public Interest Law, questioned why the police union would hire Hale because it was bound to raise suspicions. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- California is already seen as a worldwide leader in energy efficiency, in part because of early efforts like the one expanded yesterday, said Scott Anders, who heads an energy think tank at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- Dr. David Shirk, professor of political science and lead researcher for the Justice in Mexico Project at the University of San Diego, said the desertion of 120,000 Mexican soldiers during the presidency of Vicente Fox (2000-2006), or roughly one-third of the armed forces, provided drug cartels with a huge pool of new recruits trained to engage in types of combat that went beyond the sort of violence long practiced by the traditional gun-for-hire, or pistolero. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal-- San Diego’s economy is trending positive, registering a fifth consecutive rise in a monthly economic index compiled by the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- A regional economic index rose for the fifth consecutive month in August, but that doesn't mean the economy has hit bottom yet, said Alan Gin, the University of San Diego economist who compiles the index of indicators. (Full Story)

SanDiego6.com-- The University of San Diego's Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose for the fourth consecutive month in August. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- Local moguls "knew it was a moneymaker, and whoever would control the water could control development," said Iris Engstrand, history professor at the University of San Diego and co-editor of The Journal of San Diego History. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- While the county's current unemployment rate of 10.4 percent is significantly higher than last year's, the Census Bureau numbers still reflect a year in which 10,000 jobs were lost, according to University of San Diego economist Alan Gin. (Full Story)

KVUE.com-- "It's getting down to the community level and the family level and we're seeing the disastrous effects of this violence for everyday people," said David Shirk, University of San Diego Trans-Border Institute. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “The issues become polarized,” says Ronald A. Pachence, a priest and Ph.D theologian who teaches at the University of San Diego and has been advising the production. (Full Story)

North County Times-- Sam Scudellari threw a 26-yard touchdown pass to Patrick Doyle with 41 seconds left to lift the University of San Diego football team to a 17-10 win over Marist on Saturday. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- John C. Cushman III, chairman of Cushman & Wakefield, told an audience at the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate yesterday that the commercial real estate industry faces $5 trillion in mortgage refinancing problems over the next decade. Improved leasing, sales and construction conditions are unlikely until 2011 or 2012, he said. (Full Story)

KPBS.org-- Guest: Patricia Marquez, director of the newly created responsible enterprise initiative at the University of San Diego. And, one of the organizers of the "Increasing Market Share through Social Branding" conference taking place at USD this Friday. (Full Story)

NBCSanDiego.com-- Charles Pope of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego is not surprised by the cost of maintaining the border fence. Pope said he thought that those billions of dollars would be better spent helping Mexico improve its economy. (Full Story) 

TodaysFacilityManager.com-- These are just a few of the features of the University of San Diego’s new Student Life Pavilion. The striking 55,000-square-foot, four-story Spanish Mediterranean facility is designed to “set a new standard” for student dining and student life, said Andre Mallie, director of auxiliary services. (Full Story)

Chronicle of Higher Education-- The University of San Diego, meanwhile, stuck to a more traditional Spanish Mediterranean style for its 55,000-square-foot Student Life Pavilion, but expects the building to achieve LEED gold certification. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Alan Gin, economist at the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego, said the tax credit has been less useful to San Diego buyers because local home prices are much higher than the national average. (Full Story)

NebsMarketingStore.ca-- Research from the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, in partnership with CB Richard Ellis, found that employees who work in LEED-certified, Energy Star-labeled "green buildings" are more productive and healthy. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “To the extent that strategic plan elements are specific enough that they substantially influence money their way, to me that's a problem,” said Robert Fellmeth, a University of San Diego law professor and director of the Center for Public Interest Law. (Full Story)

SDNN.com-- The University of San Diego will pay tribute to the nearly 3,000 people killed during the terrorist attacks with moments of prayer and reflection. (Full Story)

SDNN.com-- Over the last weekend in September, an arts festival will take place at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego (IPJ.) The Festival is entitled Bearing Exquisite Witness. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- USD (2-0) took an early lead and survived an SDSU (0-2) surge in the second half in front of about 500 fans at Montezuma Mesa. (Full Story)

North County Times-- Phil Morelli rushed for 82 yards on 19 carries and quarterback Sebastian Trujillo threw two touchdown passes to help the University of San Diego beat Azusa Pacific 24-12 on Saturday night. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- "The outlook for San Diego's economy remains cautiously optimistic," said professor Alan Gin from the University of San Diego following the release of the index of leading economic indicators for the San Diego County region. (Full Story)

SDNN.com-- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia entertained and engaged a large crowd at the University of San Diego Wednesday night. Scalia spoke on his approach to interpretation of the Constitution which he labeled “originalist.” (Full Story)

MontereyHerald.com-- Fellmeth is the director of the University of San Diego's Center for Public Interest Law, which monitors the Medical Board of California and other regulatory agencies. (Full Story) 

CityTownInfo.com-- "I think students today gravitate toward majors they think will be personally satisfying," said Tom Dalton, director of undergraduate programs at the University of San Diego, "while 25 or 30 years ago, they were more focused on being practical and getting a job that would bring in a steady income and job security." (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- The University of San Diego's Renaissance man running back is also a graduate student studying real estate, a multiplatform entrepreneur, a world-class baseball heckler and, according to his coach, a mayor in the making. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal-- Alan Gin, the University of San Diego economics professor who compiles the Index of Leading Economic Indicators for San Diego County, said the region’s economic recession is projected to hit bottom and begin turning around sometime in the first half of 2010. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- The University of San Diego's Index of Leading Economic Indicators for San Diego County rose 0.1 percent in July to 101.7. It is the fourth consecutive gain. (Full Story)

MyValleyNews.com-- The University of San Diego's Index of Leading Indicators rose slightly in July for the fourth consecutive month, led by a strong gain in local consumer confidence, it was announced today. (Full Story)

San Diego Reader-- The leading indicators of the San Diego economy published by University of San Diego economist Alan Gin, rose slightly in July from June -- to 101.7 from 101.6. (Full Story)

NBCSanDiego.com-- Among other notable contributions, Kroc left a bequest of $200 million to National Public Radio. She also helped fund The Salvation Army Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice on the campus of the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “I think (the) GDP will be positive this quarter, but it's a matter of debate whether that signals the end of the recession,” said Alan Gin, an economist at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Norm Miller, a real estate professor at the University of San Diego, believes Deutsche Bank has exaggerated forecasts of further price declines. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- The University of San Diego was ranked 110th among public and private colleges yesterday by U.S. News & World Report's 2010 listing. (Full Story)

KPBS.org-- The magazine's 2010 list of "Military Friendly Schools" included Cuyamaca College, Grossmont College, MiraCosta College, Palomar Community College District, San Diego City College, San Diego Miramar College, San Diego State University, Southwestern College, UC San Diego and the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

10News.com-- The magazine's 2010 list of "Military Friendly Schools" included Cuyamaca College, Grossmont College, MiraCosta College, Palomar Community College District, San Diego City College, San Diego Miramar College, San Diego State University, Southwestern College, UC San Diego and the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

SanDiego6.com-- The magazine's 2010 list of "Military Friendly Schools" included Cuyamaca College, Grossmont College, MiraCosta College, Palomar Community College District, San Diego City College, San Diego Miramar College, San Diego State University, Southwestern College, UC San Diego and the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

CSMonitor.com-- The Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego analyzed the number of drug-related killings in the first six months of 2009, comparing it with the last six months of 2008, and found a 5 percent drop. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Ron Caragher enters his third season as USD's head football coach with a little more certainty than he did his second. He knows who his quarterback is going to be. He knows he has a cadre of running backs — all with legitimate game experience — plus an outstanding corps of returning defensive players, making the Toreros formidable on both sides of the ball. (Full Story)

RDMag.com-- The more recent work on women in engineering was authored by Susan M. Lord, a professor of engineering, and Michelle Madsen Camacho, an associate professor of sociology, both at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

SanDiego6.com-- University of San Diego economist Alan Gin disagrees. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- The University of San Diego has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to train high school math and science teachers. (Full Story)

Scientific American-- In a survey of undergraduates by University of San Diego psychologists Annette Taylor and Patricia Kowalski, 65 percent endorsed this view. (Full Story)

ScienceDaily.com-- The more recent work on women in engineering was authored by Susan M. Lord, a professor of engineering, and Michelle Madsen Camacho, an associate professor of sociology, both at the University of San Diego; Russell A. Long, director of project assessment in engineering education, and Mara H. Wasburn, an associate professor of organizational leadership, both at Purdue; as well as Ohland and Layton. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal-- Banks here still have a backlog of foreclosure inventory to process because of a state-imposed moratorium, says Norm Miller, director of academic programs at University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate. (Full Story)

Business Courier-- The key will be offering the right product mix at the right price, said Norm Miller, director of real estate academic programs at the University of San Diego’s School of Business Administration. (Full Story)

La Prensa San Diego-- The University of San Diego has been awarded a $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program to help combat the shortage of mathematics and science teachers. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- The University of San Diego was awarded $900,000 from the National Science Foundation to give scholarships to a dozen teaching students who commit to teach math and science for up to six years in needy high schools. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- With local home construction, stock prices and consumer confidence on the rise for the third month in a row, San Diego County's economy seems to be on the road to recovery, according to an index of economic indicators released yesterday by the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal-- The University of San Diego Index of Leading Economic Indicators rose 0.4 percent in June, following prior increases of 0.3 percent in May and 0.2 percent in April, according to the report released July 28. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- An economic bottom would see continued strong home sales, better retail sales and a more stable labor market, wrote Alan Gin, a University of San Diego professor who compiles the index monthly. (Full Story)

MotherJones.com-- Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, administrative director of the Center for Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego, said every "public risk" case should be pursued within five days. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal-- Alan Gin, an economics professor at the University of San Diego, said the most recent jobless report that showed San Diego’s jobless rate of 10.1 percent contained troubling data. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Compare that with the value of building permits for nonmilitary, private commercial structures, excluding schools and warehouses, which last year totaled $339 million countywide, said Alan Gin, an economist at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

ProPublica.org-- Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, administrative director of the Center for Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego, said every "public risk" case should be pursued within five days. (Full Story)

CoStar.com-- Those results are consistent with a study released last year by CoStar Group and the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego that found buildings with LEED certification or the government’s Energy Star label averaged higher occupancy levels, lease rates and sale prices than non-green buildings. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Milburn Line has been named executive director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute of Peace & Justice at the University of San Diego's Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- University of San Diego scholar Emily Edmonds-Poli said July 5 election results show President Felipe Calderón's National Action Party, or PAN, will likely face major difficulties in 2012 elections. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Alan Gin, economist at the University of San Diego, said the local jobless rate could hit 11 percent or 12 percent before it begins to decline next year. (Full Story)

The Sacramento Bee-- Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, administrative director of the Center for Public Interest Law based at the University of San Diego, said the nursing board matter underscores problems with state licensing agencies. (Full Story)

KPBS.org-- David Shirk who directs the University of San Diego's Transborder Institute, says in terms of illegal immigration,fewer people are crossing the border because there aren't jobs in the U.S. (Full Story)

Campus Technology-- To cover its campus, USD invested in 500 user devices that are organized as a cluster. Implementation took about two weeks and found USD's IT team working closely with Avenda to customize the system to the university's needs. (Full Story)

El Paso Inc.-- “For the first time, there is a truly divided government in Mexico,” said David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego and author of “Contemporary Mexican Politics.” (Full Story)

San Diego City Beat-- University of San Diego law professor David McGowan told CityBeat that the 1999 Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act would not forbid Cervantes from owning these names, since the law only prevents this kind of infringement by squatters looking to make a profit. (Full Story) 

San Diego Union-Tribune-- he title of greenest building on the West Coast probably goes to the University of British Columbia's Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, now under construction, said University of San Diego real estate professor Norm Miller. The building will get most of its electricity and lighting from the sun and wind. (Full Story)

Examiner.com-- Quite a catch for the good guys. 9,900 and counting is the number of drug-war-related deaths in Mexico alone since January of 2007, according to the University of San Diego Trans Border Institute. (Full Story)

The Brian Lehrer Show-- Diego Graglia, editor of the Feet in Two Worlds blog, and David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute and asst. professor of political science at the University of San Diego, discuss Sunday's mid-term elections in Mexico and the resurgence of PRI. (Full Story)

The Chronicle of Higher Education-- Paid Benefits: U. of San Diego for the categories of Vacation or Paid Time Off and 403b or 401k. Go to http://chronicle.com/indepth/academicworkplace/ and click on "All Recognition Categories". (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Louis Galuppo, residential real estate director at the University of San Diego business school, said the flattening of the price trend may only be temporary because banks have been holding back in completing foreclosures of distressed properties. (Full Story) 

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Bausch won the 2007 Kyoto Prize for arts and philosophy. She delivered a Kyoto Prize lecture last year featuring demonstrations by dancers at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

North County Times--  Dennis Clausen writes from Escondido and is an American literature professor at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Now marking its fifth anniversary, the center is a joint project of UCSD, San Diego State University and the University of San Diego. The executive committee includes Kalichman; Stuart Henry, director of SDSU's School of Public Affairs; Lawrence Hinman, director of USD's Values Institute; and veteran San Diego reporter and writer Kate Callen. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- The outlook for San Diego County's economy improved in May for a second straight month, according to an index of leading indicators released yesterday by the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

XKSoccer.com-- As the University of San Diego’s women’s coach, Greenwood recruits some of the top talent in the nation. Lucky freshman are plucked from San Diego’s own backyard each year. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- Paula Cordeiro, dean of the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego, said continuing the project would be valuable because fewer studies have taken on the smaller class sizes. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal-- Alan Gin, the University of San Diego economics professor who compiles the index, which was released June 25, said cautious optimism should be exercised regarding the rise, and whether this means the local economy already bottomed out and is rebounding. (Full Story)

Bloomberg.com-- Frank Partnoy, a professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego, and previously master explainer of all things derivative -- in “F.I.A.S.C.O.” (1997) and “Infectious Greed” (2003) -- reclaims Kreuger from the ash heap in “The Match King.” (Full Story)

KPBS.org-- Helene Mandell directs student teaching at the University of San Diego. She says elementary school kids are the most vulnerable. (Full Story)

WashingtonExaminer.com-- "At least in the first two years, it hasn't led to smaller and more manageable (cartels), it's just led to smaller and more violent," said David Shirk, director of the University of San Diego's Trans-Border Institute. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “My concern is you have people who can really tweak a system that never have an intention of studying,” said Ky Snyder, the University of San Diego's executive director of athletics. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- Bob Schoulz is the director of the master's program in Global Leadership at the University of San Diego and a former SEAL for 30 years. (Full Story)

CNN.com-- "It helps if you both come to an agreement as to what your roles are going to be," says Teresa Elston, Ph.D., a family sociologist at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- San Diego’s economy is doing all right compared to the rest of the nation was the consensus reached at the University of San Diego’s first Mid-Year Economic Update. (Full Story)

KPBS.org-- Now, the institute has a partnership with the University of San Diego to provide counseling for some of the more difficult cases. (Full Story)

North County Times-- While new homes often have these conservation features, millions of less-efficient older homes represent untapped energy savings, said Scott Anders, director of the Energy Policy Initiatives Center at the University of San Diego School of Law. (Full Story)

Financial Times-- Stafford Railway specialises in what Frank Partnoy, professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego, calls soft information – “knowing the customer, their relationships, the local area. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Robert Fellmeth, a University of San Diego law professor and director of the Center for Public Interest Law, said public officials should know better than to steer so much money to groups with which they have close relationships. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- University of San Diego housing professor Norm Miller said the Global Insight finding “makes sense” and represents a “useful exercise.” (Full Story)

The Gadsen Times-- “Disclosure to regulators will not be particularly useful,” said Mr. Partnoy, a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law who has written extensively about derivatives regulation. “We’ve been through decades of watching regulators chase innovation and fall progressively further behind.” (Full Story)

The New York Times-- But Frank Partnoy, another longtime critic of the lack of derivatives regulation, said the administration’s plan did not go far enough. “Disclosure to regulators will not be particularly useful,” said Mr. Partnoy, a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law who has written extensively about derivatives regulation. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- The University of San Diego will be holding a program on how nonprofits can best survive during the recent economic downturn. (Full Story)

KPBS.org-- Helen Mendell directs student teaching at the University of San Diego. She says cutting school days can mean students don't learn a new set of spelling and vocabulary words, or a new set of math skills. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- DeFilippo, 21, earned a business administration degree from USD, graduating last Sunday. The Rancho Santa Margarita native is looking for work in Los Angeles, Orange County and New York City. (Full Story) 

North County Times-- Scott Anders, director of the Energy Policy Initiatives Center at the University of San Diego and an expert on green energy, said it is probably unrealistic to expect solar panels atop people's homes to provide 1,000 megawatts or more by 2020. But the preliminary 2020 goal of 210 megawatts is well below what is achievable. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- USD economist Alan Gin, who compiles the index, cautioned against reading too much into the April data, because they could represent a one-month blip. Economists typically need at least three months of data to judge if the economy has reached a turning point. (Full Story)

Cox.net-- After seeing a string of 24 monthly declines, University of San Diego economist Alan Gin says the index for last month rose. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- The teams in the NCAA Men's Division I Golf Championship recorded more than 850 shots over 54 holes, and it was only eight strokes yesterday that kept USD from furthering its improbable run toward a national title. (Full Story)

San Diego Reader-- The index is compiled by economist Alan Gin of the University of San Diego, and has had good predictive value in the past. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal-- Four of six components in the University of San Diego’s Index of Leading Economic Indicators, which was released May 28, showed gains during the month, causing the rise. (Full Story)

Honolulu Advertiser-- University of San Diego freshman Alex Ching, a 2008 Punahou School graduate who was tied for the lead after completing a second round 3-under 68 this morning, shot 5-over 76 in the final round to finish 13th in the NCAA Division I men's golf championships in Toledo, Ohio. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- "More and more people are talking about the state being ungovernable," said Alan Gin, and economist at the University of San Diego. "One of the problems is these initiatives that have locked in all these funding commitments." (Full Story)

SanDiego6.com-- An index used to gauge the health of San Diego County's economy rose slightly last month, breaking a string of 24 monthly declines, a University of San Diego economist reported Thursday. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Mark Riedy, executive director of the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego, called the Case-Shiller data “noise” and “static.” (Full Story)

San Diego Union Tribune-- Boyan Kelchev had never set foot in the United States before he arrived from Bulgaria four years ago to attend the University of San Diego on a scholarship. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- It turned out Ching could be a charmer both on and off the course, and that one chance spotting by Mickelson has been a boon to both the player and USD. (Full Story)

UPI.com-- Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth of the University of San Diego School of Law said that since taxpayers foot the bill for state courts, they are entitled to information about malpractice cases, "especially information regarding the competence of licensed professionals." (Full Story)

North County Times-- Alex Ching of the University of San Diego shot a 1-under-par 70 Tuesday to finish a stroke off the lead after the opening medal-play round at the NCAA Division I men's golf championship at Toledo, Ohio. (Full Story)

KPBS.org-- Guests: Iris Engstrand, professor of history at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “San Diego today could use someone like G. Aubrey Davidson,” said University of San Diego history professor Iris Engstrand. (Full Story)

The Wall Street Journal-- Fundamentally, however, the rules can be reduced to a few underlying principles—only two, in the opinion of John Minan, a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law and author of “The Little Green Book of Golf Law.” (Full Story)

The Wall Street Journal-- Frank Partnoy, a law professor at the University of San Diego, is the author of “The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals” ­(PublicAffairs, 2009). (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “Jasper Johns: Selected Prints,” in the Hoehn Family Galleries at the University of San Diego, was guest curated by John Digesare, registrar for exhibitions at the San Diego Museum of Art and a noted expert on Johns. (Full Story)

The Chronicle of Philanthropy-- At the University of San Diego, applications to enroll this fall in its master's program in nonprofit leadership and management grew by nearly 83 percent compared with last year, according to Pat Libby, director of the university's Institute for Nonprofit Education and Research. (Full Story)

North County Times-- Louis A. Galuppo is the residential real estate director at the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “It's going to be terrible,” said Lonnie Rowell, an expert on school counseling and a professor at the University of San Diego's School of Leadership and Education Sciences. (Full Story)

CARealEstateJournal.com-- Multifamily lending has always been a low-delinquency business for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, so it is unlikely that they will decrease their activity in that area, said Mark Riedy, executive director of theBurnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

North County Times-- The University of San Diego placed fourth at the western regional tournament to advance to the NCAA championships on May 26-30 at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio. Three Toreros finished in the top 30, led by Ian Coffman's 12th place finish at 5-under-par 211. (Full Story)

Star-Telegram.com-- "The real issues of assault weapons and bulk cash do not initiate at the border and cannot be solved there," said David Shirk, director of the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- USD is heading to its first NCAA championships after finishing fourth in the West Regional at Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- The USD men's golf team is poised to reach the NCAA Championships for the first time in school history. The Toreros shot 10-under par in the second round and moved up to third heading into today's final round of the West Regional at Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City. (Full Story)

International Educator-- “When I ask students what attracted them to our program, they always say it is the international focus. They want the experience of interacting with other cultures. They know that in their world of work, they are going to be working with a very diverse population in America,” says SOLES Dean and Professor Paula A. Cordeiro. (Full Story)

SDNN.com-- David Shirk, the head of the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute, demurs. The TBI studies Mexico’s judicial system and its challenges, and Shirk says corruption there is merely the reflection of a weak judicial system. (Full Story)

The New York Times-- Frank Partnoy is a law professor at the University of San Diego and the author of “The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, the Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals.” (Full Story)

San Diego Reader-- Gin, a professor of economics at the University of San Diego, said that for the condo market to rebound, the detached-housing market must first rebound. (Full Story)

La Jolla Light-- Yolanda Walther-Meade is an active philanthropist and community catalyst in the Tijuana and San Diego communities. She has sat on the board of the University of San Diego since 1989. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- A group of students from the University of San Diego recently won the 2009 Argus Software University Challenge. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “There's a lot of talk about what (Federal Reserve Chairman) Ben Bernanke's end game is going to be,” said Ryan Ratcliff, economist at the University of San Diego. “A few years from now, once we get back on our feet, he's going to have to slow the economy down to pay for the record growth in the money supply. There's a way to manage for a soft landing, but it's not easy and the way for doing it wrong is still there.” (Full Story)

SDNN.com-- “We need to revisit whether three-strikes is doing anything good… if it’s fulfilled its promise,” said Professor Laura M.S. Berend, a professor at University of San Diego School of Law. “We’re heading towards being geriatric institutions, and just (covering) medical costs.” (Full Story)

San Diego News Network-- “We’ve painted ourselves into a corner,” said Laura M. S. Berend, a professor at University of San Diego School of Law and former defense attorney. “We’ve had propositions on the ballot for 25 to 30 years that have affected criminal justice pretty dramatically, especially the initiatives on the ballot that have been written for particular cases but not thoroughly thought out as far as consequences.” (Full Story)

OregonLive.com-- Still confused about what brought down OppenheimerFunds' Core Bond fund? University of San Diego law professor Frank Partnoy, who essentially warned of this current financial crisis several years ago, describes derivatives and credit-default swaps on NPR's Fresh Air. (Full Story)

Los Angeles Times-- Alberto Lopez Pulido, director and professor of ethnic studies at the University of San Diego, said that claims of apparitions, particularly of Mary, are not uncommon among Latino and Mexican Catholics. (Full Story)

CBS8.com-- The University of San Diego is celebrating its 60th anniversary and honoring 10 of its outstanding graduates. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- USD economist Alan Gin, who compiles the index, said it is too early to tell whether the recent upturns are short-lived fluctuations or the beginning of an upward trend. (Full Story)

Los Angeles Times-- University of San Diego law professor Shaun Martin, who follows and analyzes Western appeals courts, said he was confident Bybee wouldn't leave the bench of his own accord. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- Gin, an economist at the University of San Diego, has data going back to that year but began publishing the index in 1991. (Full Story)

North County Times-- The Index of Leading Economic Indicators fell 2.2 percent in March to 100.7 after a 2.6 percent fall in February. The index is composed of six types of economic data compiled by Alan Gin, a University of San Diego economist. (Full Story)

DelMarTimes.net-- The public presentation will take place at 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 5, in the school's Great Room In addition, he will interact with Grauer students as part of the IPJ's WorldLink Youth global awareness program. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- The University of San Diego is joining a select number of law schools to offer a legal studies program for graduate students and professionals who want to learn more about the law but don't necessarily need a law degree. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Sean Nicol led the USD baseball team by going 4-for-5 with three doubles, one home run and five RBI, and the Toreros pounded out 12 extra-base hits in a 17-7 win over visiting Portland yesterday afternoon. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- The University of San Diego will honor outstanding alumni from business, the military, public service and other fields Saturday. (Full Story)

Associated Press-- "At least in the first two years, it hasn't led to smaller and more manageable (cartels), it's just led to smaller and more violent," said David Shirk, director of the University of San Diego's Trans-Border Institute. (Full Story)

The Washington Post-- "At least in the first two years, it hasn't led to smaller and more manageable (cartels), it's just led to smaller and more violent," said David Shirk, director of the University of San Diego's Trans-Border Institute. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Host USD pounded out 17 hits en route to a 13-4 win over Portland yesterday afternoon in a West Coast Conference baseball game. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “I just want to get things moving,” said the most decorated wide receiver in USD history. “I don't care where I end up. I just want a chance to play and show what I can do.” (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- Paula Cordeiro, dean of the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego, was lukewarm. "I would not choose that one at this time," Cordeiro said. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- University of San Diego public interest law professor Robert Fellmeth said that the practice would only be acceptable if Fort-Merrill had a much more limited role that involved no independent judgment in deciding when an attorney is needed, such as signing a form to formally request that the agency hire an attorney after an employee filed a lawsuit against them. (Full Story)

PostBulletin.com-- "At least in the first two years, it hasn't led to smaller and more manageable (cartels), it's just led to smaller and more violent," said David Shirk, director of the University of San Diego's Trans-Border Institute. (Full Story)

Financial Planning-- Norm Miller, a professor of real estate at the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, said 77% of foreclosures in California have second mortgages, most of them HELOCs, which often scuttle short sales. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- Richard M. Bartell, president of one of the region's largest independently owned hotel companies, will be honored by the University of San Diego May 2. Bartell, who earned his law degree from USD in 1975, will receive the Author E. Hughes Award for Career Achievement. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- To David McGowan, director of USD's Center for Intellectual Property Law, the cyber-law is sketchy. There's a difference, he said, between a public post, which is akin to a story in a magazine, and an e-mail directed at a victim. (Full Story)

Los Angeles Times-- Shaun Martin, a University of San Diego law professor and veteran appeals court analyst, believes the conservatives appointed by Bush to the 9th Circuit are especially active in calling cases to the Supreme Court's attention that offer an opportunity to undo some of the liberal judicial policymaking of the 1960s. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- The Iowa girl who grew up on a small family farm would later become a staunch advocate of volunteerism and a mentor to many college students in her position as founding director of the Center for Community Service-Learning at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Immigration expert Josh DeWind said yesterday at the University of San Diego that relations between Muslim immigrants and their host countries would continue to be difficult as long as wars against Muslim extremists continue in Pakistan and Afghanistan. (Full Story)

EastCountyMagazine.org-- “Unfortunately, the construction of increased fencing, higher levels of surveillance and patrol along key urban corridors of the border basically pushed many of the undocumented immigrants out to desert and mountain areas and led to much higher levels of death and injury for people crossing the border, moving from double digits to 300, 400 people dying every year coming across the border…that legacy of migrant death is something that I think critics of Bersin would attribute to him and to the effort to beef up border security,” said University of San Diego’s David Shirk, who covered in an Online Newshour interview. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- Lois C. Howland, DrPH, MS, RN, is an associate professor at the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- David Shirk, of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, who has interviewed Bersin on the subject, said Bersin has admitted that the policy lacked foresight in recognizing the risks to migrants. (Full Story)

PIOnline.com-- It was written by Frank Partnoy, George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and director of the Center on Corporate and Securities Law at the University of San Diego School of Law. (Full Story)

The Wall Street Journal-- 'The disease has spread," says University of San Diego law professor Frank Partnoy, in remarks to be delivered today at the Securities and Exchange Commission. He's talking about the sickness in financial markets caused by the federal government's decision to select certain companies to judge credit risk. (Full Story)

The Associated Press-- "It demonstrated you can control the border, but the bad news is you can't just do it 14 miles here or there," said Peter Nunez, who preceded Bersin as the top federal prosecutor in San Diego and now teaches immigration policy at University of San Diego. "It's a long border, 2,000 miles long." (Full Story)

PBS.org-- "I think the message is that they are serious about trying to work with Mexico to address these bi-national problems," David A. Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, told the Los Angeles Times. "They want to have a go-to person that can coordinate on a broad range of complex issues." (Full Story)

North County Times-- "It demonstrated you can control the border, but the bad news is you can't just do it 14 miles here or there," said Peter Nunez, who preceded Bersin as the top federal prosecutor in San Diego and now teaches immigration policy at University of San Diego. "It's a long border, 2,000 miles long." (Full Story)

KUSI.com-- David Davis was in Linda Vista on the campus of USD, where the school is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- The fifth annual University of San Diego School of Law -- Procopio International Tax Institute Conference will be held Friday, May 1 at the school's Joan Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice. The event will focus on U.S.-Mexico cross-border tax issues. (Full Story)

HealthLeadersMedia.com-- "They routinely come across people who have sued doctors for malpractice but who have not filed a complaint with the Medical Board," says Fellmeth, of the Center for Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

Broadway.com-- Fleming won a 2008 Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Featured Performance by a Male in a Musical for his performance in Ain't Misbehavin' at the San Diego Rep. He is Director of the Theatre Arts Program at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

TheGlobeandMail.com-- Authorities south of the border have also tracked a high number of gangs in Washington State with links to Mexican gangs that are in the midst of their own deadly competition over the drug trade. The University of San Diego Trans-Border Institute says 7,337 people have died in drug-related violence in Mexico since January of 2007. (Full Story)

Daily Transcript-- The University of San Diego's Division of Continuing Education will launch a new art certificate program in May. (Full Story)

CNNMoney.com-- CoStar Group's CEO Andrew Florance, Senior Director of Analytics Jay Spivey, and University of San Diego Professor Dr. Norm Miller Document Significant Occupancy, Rent and Sale Price Premiums Found in ENERGY STAR and LEED Properties. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- At WD-40, employees don't make mistakes, they have "learning moments," the concept behind Ridge's side project leadership program and upcoming book that he fleshed out in executive leadership courses at the University of San Diego a few years ago. (Full Story)

Los Angeles Times-- As portrayed by Partnoy, a law professor at the University of San Diego, Kreuger was no Madoff, a low-profile broker who lured investors with the promise of steady, solid returns. (Full Story)

La Opinion-- “Solamente con los números [de audiencia] te puedes dar cuenta que las novelas mexicanas tienen una mejor distribución”, aseguró Kristin C. Moran, profesora de la Universidad de San Diego quien se ha especializado en telenovelas durante una década. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- A second, quite different, exhibition of Johns' art goes on view April 22: “Jasper Johns: Selected Prints, 1963-2008,” in the Robert and Karen Hoehn Family Galleries at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Despite giving up eight runs in the second inning, and 10 runs overall, USD starter Matt Thompson pitched seven innings to grab the win as the Toreros rode an offensive barrage to down host Santa Clara 22-10. (Full Story)

La Opinion-- "El núcleo de la audiencia de las telenovelas son mujeres y los hombres maduros son un gran atractivo para ellas", afirmó Kristin C. Morán, profesora de comunicaciones de la Universidad de San Diego. (Full Story)

OregonLive.com-- University of San Diego junior Chase O'Byrne wanted to see the world rather than read about it, so he signed up for a Semester at Sea and set sail from Nassau last summer. (Full Story)

Los Angeles Times-- "The knee-jerk reaction of policy makers in Washington is often to see that border as a kind of valve that you can clamp shut and stop illicit flows," said David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego. "But the reality is, you're causing the biggest costs to licit traffic flows across the border." (Full Story)

Time.com-- "Wall Street firms make money when people are in pain," says Frank Partnoy, who once traded credit-derivative contracts at Morgan Stanley and is now a law professor at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Magazine-- The local tourism marketing effort does have critics, however. Maria Kniazeva, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of San Diego, says it’s not enough to market San Diego as a best-weather destination. She suggests taking better advantage of the city’s ethnic diversity. (Full Story)

CoStar.com-- The company was honored for its work in communicating the value of ENERGY STAR labeling to commercial property stakeholders through a landmark study sponsored in partnership with the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

PolishNews.com-- The roots and anatomy of the “three trillion dollar swindle” which caused the financial crisis of 2008, is well described by Frank Partnoy in his book “The Inside Story of a Wall Street Trader” (1997). Professor Partnoy holds degrees in mathematics and economics, as well as a law degree from Yale School of Law. Frank Partnoy is now an assistant professor of law at the University of San Diego, where he specializes in financial market regulation. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- Local University of San Diego real estate professor Norm Miller said in a conference call yesterday that the Case-Shiller index, among others, overstates the extent of price drops in the real estate market and that a typical homeowner's price change is probably about 50 to 60 percent of what's shown in the index. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Bob Fellmeth of the Children's Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law said Just in Time addresses the needs of “one of the most at-risk populations we have.” (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- In the district covering San Diego and Imperial counties, Boxer named Candace Carroll, of counsel to Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel, as chairwoman. Also on the committee are Sister Sally Furay, an attorney and higher education consultant; former U.S. Attorney Gregory Vega; former Superior Court Judge Annie Gutierrez; Janice Brown, founder of Brown Law Group; Erika Hiramatsu, a deputy California attorney general in San Diego; and Robert Fellmeth, Price Professor of Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

North County Times-- Logistically, the technology is available to close real estate deals online, meaning buyers could pay for all the fees, secure a mortgage and acquire the deed to the home online, said Norm Miller, a professor at University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate. (Full Story)

MLive.com-- Brown, who is an assistant professor of English at the University of San Diego, said some of the pieces in "Please" are persona poems; he's not necessarily the voice but that of a character used to express a theme or subject. (Full Story)

North County Times-- Thus far this year, more than 1,000 people have been killed in an ongoing conflict that involves the Mexican government, drug cartels and rival factions of drug cartels, according to the Trans-Border Institute, a research center at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Local Perspective. The flier lists several other 'threats' to public safety. Why isn't the main fearsome image a picture of . . . the city as a Daddy Warbucks lender? (Full Story)

NationalPost.com-- He was challenged by David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, who argued there were 7,000 civilian deaths in Iraq last year, compared to only 6,000 in Mexico. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal-- The University of San Diego’s Index of Leading Economic Indicators fell 2.7 percent in February, according to Alan Gin, the university economist who compiles the monthly report. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- The monthly drop was the worst on record since 1977. (Gin, an economist at the University of San Diego, has data going back to that year but began publishing the index in 1991.) (Full Story)

SanDiego6.com-- An index used to gauge the health of the local economy suffered its largest one-month decline ever in February, a University of San Diego professor announced today. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “If we start having southbound bottlenecks, that is going to be even more devastating to binational economies like San Diego and Tijuana,” said David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

PressTelegram.com-- Five Dirtbag pitchers were strafed for 12 runs and 20 hits in the first seven innings as San Diego ran off with a 12-5 win at Cunningham Stadium. (Full Story)

The Daily Nonpareil-- Rauner founded the Center for Community Service Learning at the University of San Diego and served as its director until her retirement in 2002. The program engaged volunteers at USD to address specific community needs by matching the skills and interests of the students with the needs of partner community organizations. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- “My whole thing is to find a way to create more excitement for fans of our sport. I feel like match play is going to do that,” said USD golf coach Tim Mickelson, whose 10th-seeded Toreros beat UC Irvine in the morning's consolation bracket and defeated Louisville in the second round. (Full Story)

Cronica.com--Estados Unidos debe poner un mayor énfasis en lo referente a la venta de armas a México para evitar que la violencia se extienda a sus fronteras, señaló por su parte el director del Instituto Transfronterizo de la Universidad de San Diego, David Shirk. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- At the University of San Diego School of Law, Carl Eging, assistant dean of admissions and financial aid, says applications are up 1 percent over last year, as 4,300 applicants vie for about 1,200 first year seats. (Full Story)

Marketplace-- It could be several weeks before the Senate votes on a bill to tax bonuses. Frank Partnoy teaches law and finance at the University of San Diego. He's says it's unlikely the Senate will pass a bill anywhere near as punitive as the House version. (Full Story)

MercuryNews.com-- Cordileone was born in San Diego. He entered the seminary there in 1975, received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from the University of San Diego in 1978, and went on to study theology in Rome at the Pontifical North American College. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- "He wants to move quickly -- some would say maybe too quickly. But we have too many kids failing to wait. He talks about that all the time," said Paula Cordeiro, dean of the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

San Diego Union-Tribune-- Reed spoke at the University of San Diego while serving on the opening panel of the Community College Leadership Summit. He was joined by California Community College Chancellor Jack Scott and USD President Mary Lyons. (Full Story)

MSNBC Business-- CoStar, which became an ENERGY STAR partner last year, is being honored for its work in communicating the value of ENERGY STAR labeling to commercial property stakeholders through a landmark study sponsored in partnership with the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

VoiceofSanDiego.org-- A traditional college football spring ritual opens Friday at the University of San Diego when head coach Ron Caragher conducts the first spring football workouts. (Full Story)

NurseZone.com-- Until recently, a doctor of philosophy and of nursing science were the only doctoral degrees in nursing, according to Susan Instone, DNSc, APRN, director of DNP and Advanced Practice Nursing Programs and professor at the Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)