FINE Magazine- Although the matcha craze has taken over Los Angeles and New York, Holy Matcha marks the first of its kind in San Diego. Explains owner and founder Geraldine Ridaura, “The main reason I wanted to bring matcha to San Diego is because there was a void in the market. Being a graduate from USD, I wanted to apply what I learned from business school to real life. It feels humbling to open the first matcha café in San Diego.” (Full Story)

Active Rain- You'll see better results when you use a real estate agent and it won't cost you more - new study shows. “Overall it is clear that FSBOs have a low probability of selling, and if they do they will likely net the same or less after closing issues, plus they are more likely to screw up on disclosures which may lead to lawsuits after the fact, when buyers discover material facts not disclosed,” added Norman Miller, who produced the study with Sklarz and is a real estate professor at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

10 WISTV- Gerald L. McMahon, Firm Chairman & Litigation Department Head, Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek, has joined The Expert Network, an invitation-only service for distinguished professionals. McMahon has been chosen as a Distinguished Lawyer based on peer reviews and ratings, dozens of recognitions, and accomplishments achieved throughout his career. McMahon received his Juris Doctor Degree at the University of San Diego School of Law. (Full Story)

Detroit Legal News- Venar Ayar is the principal and founding tax attorney of Ayar Law Group in Southfield, and focuses his practice on IRS and Michigan tax resolution for businesses and individuals. He earned his J.D., cum laude, at the University of San Diego School of Law, then earned a Master of Law in Taxation, also at USD.  (Full Story)

SD Metro- The Princeton Review names the University of San Diego the nation’s Most Beautiful Campus in the 2018 edition of “The Best 382 Colleges.” The 26th annual survey of 137,000 students across the country also recognizes USD as one of 24 colleges or universities on their Green Honor Roll. (Full Story)

NBC Sports- The Colts signed free agent receiver Brian Riley, the team announced Wednesday. Riley participated in the Colts’ rookie minicamp on a tryout basis in May. Riley played in 42 games at the University of San Diego, making 83 receptions for 1,579 yards and 13 touchdowns.  (Full Story)

U-T San Diego- While levels of violence in Mexico have risen to their highest point in recent memory, Mexico’s leaders are starting to sabotage the country’s newly revamped criminal justice system. David Shirk, director of University of San Diego's Justice in Mexico's project, commented on this issue. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego- Alan Gin, economist with the University of San Diego, said the study’s findings jibe with a trend that has been worrying the region’s leaders. “I don’t think we are going to get a big improvement” on affordability, he said. “Even though we have incomes going up, the problem we have here is that we have lack of construction. Yes, we have people that want to get in homes. But a lack of supply is driving up prices.” (Full Story)

U-T San Diego- A community garden in the back area of an apartment complex in El Cajon is taking root. As it does, residents there are learning to take an active role in putting an emphasis on their health...thanks to a program run through the nonprofit San Diego Housing Corporation and a group of nursing students from the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

Fox News- Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego and an independent member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, is also disappointed in Google’s action. "It's particularly troubling to see this coming from the company that we rely on to bring us information.  Can a company this intolerant of differing opinions be trusted to do that job?" (Full Story)

The Business Journal- A Sinaloa cartel leader and his son have been indicted on drug smuggling charges in the United States in what U.S. authorities called a blow to one of Mexico’s most powerful drug rings. David Shirk, an associate political science professor at University of San Diego, said it was highly unusual for a cartel operative to turn himself in to U.S. authorities and that it may be another sign that the Sinaloa cartel is “under siege.” (Full Story)

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education- Gail F. Baker has begun her new job as provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of San Diego in California. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego- The faces were familiar at the meetings that San Diego County Supervisor Ron Roberts held with San Diego Kind Corp., the company that has since become a pillar in the county’s new $25 million affordable housing development program. “There seems to have been a lack of transparency,” said Carl Luna, a political science professor and the director for the Institute for Civil Civic Engagement at the University of San Diego. “It smacks of an insiders sort of deal.” (Full Story)

U-T San Diego- The four made up an immigration and border issues panel hosted by The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Community Advisory Board on Wednesday, drawing more than 200 people to the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

American Banker- Frank Partnoy, a professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego who once worked as a derivatives structurer at Morgan Stanley, argues for a back-to-basics approach he says should have been adopted in the wake of the crisis. (Full Story)

Telemundo- The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will step aside environmental, natural resource and land management laws to speed up construction of the San Diego border wall, federal officials said. (Full Story)

Public- Ace Hardware Corporation, the largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative in the world, announced changes to the company's Board of Directors today following its 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. University of San Diego graduate, Mark Schulein, serves the Ace Hardware Board of Directors on the Audit and Retail Supply Chain Committees. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego- A week after proposing to use large industrial tents to get hundreds of homeless people temporarily off the streets, San Diego Padres Managing Partner Peter Seidler said he’s preparing to release names of a broad coalition of people behind the idea. (Full Story)

The Siasat Daily- Yale professor Michael Nitabach — in collaboration with scientists from Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Southeast University in China, and University of San Diego — investigated neuronal activity involved in courtship and sleep and found that sleep-deprived males showed little interest in courtship while a lack of shut-eye had no effect on the mating behavior of females. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal- A local index of leading economic indicators for San Diego County rose more in June than it has since April 2015. That increase in the index, developed by economist Alan Gin and published monthly by the University of San Diego Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, following two months of tepid gains. (Full Story)

International Business Times- Many species, including humans, have been caught without any choice when it comes to select sex or sleep and researchers at University of San Diego have found out how fruit fly decides. (Full Story)

ABC 9- "It is an extraordinary honor for me to serve an organization that I have been involved with since the beginning of my higher education career," said University of San Diego President Harris. "My board colleagues and I look forward to working with CASE President and CEO Sue Cunningham to provide our 17,000+ members, and more than 81,000 advancement professionals with the support they need to advance education and transform lives and society." (Full Story)

San Diego U-T- "Local governments can increase housing production by zoning more land for high-density residential development. One big limitation in terms of the housing market is that we are running out of developable land," said University of San Diego economist, Alan Gin. (Full Story)

Nutra Ingredients USA- University of San Diego professor Kevin Curran's research boosts interest in black elderberry's immune benefits. (Full Story)

Realty News Report- A new study commissioned by the National Apartment Association and the National Multifamily Housing Council has created a numerical classification that ranks 50 metropolitan areas nationwide on the basis of the ease – or lack of it – for building necessary new multifamily residences. Dr. Norm Miller, one of the report’s authors and a professor of real estate at the University of San Diego, said if he were planning to build apartments, he would likely do so in Texas. (Full Story)

Pasadena Now- Parsons is pleased to announce that 11 college students have been awarded Ralph M. Parsons Scholarships for the 2017–2018 school year. A University of San Diego student is one of the recipients. (Full Story)

NBC San Diego- San Diego is one of the very few cities in America that can claim it’s the home of two championship-caliber college football programs. Both San Diego State and the University of San Diego were chosen to win titles in 2017. (Full Story)

Newswise- The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) announces the selection of 12 institutional partners for its Transformations Project funded by the National Science Foundation. Mitch Malachowski, professor of chemistry at the University of San Diego, is the lead principal investigator for the project. (Full Story)

OIA News- Paul Sewald, who played baseball at University of San Diego for four years, pitched two perfect innings to help the Mets defeat the Padres. (Full Story)

KUSI- USD golf coach Chris Riley talks Spieth's British Open Win. (Full Interview)

Telemundo- The violence in Mexico is escalating as there are 11,000 deaths by organized crime already this year. (Full Story)

Noroeste- A complaint of justice for every journalist murdered in Mexico was presented yesterday by Griselda Triana, widow of journalist Javier Valdez, who was murdered two months ago in Culiacán.  (Full Story)

The Mercury News-“We have 11 million in the U.S. who don’t have (legal) status, and an immigration system that’s fundamentally broken and has been for a very long time,” Everard Meade, director of USD's Trans-Border Institute, said. “And no progress on fixing it in a generation. That’s what it boils down to.” (Full Story)

CBS News- Adan Lara Vega, who was discovered inside a tractor-trailer smuggling people from Mexico into the US, speaks out about his experience. David Shirk, political science and international relations professor at University of San Diego, comments on the border conditions and dangers of border crossing. (Full Interview)

MSU News Service- A daylong summit next month will bring together representatives from education, business, after-school providers, government and the larger community to discuss how Montana can build a strong science, technology, engineering and math ecosystem across Big Sky country. The summit is made possible by a planning grant from STEM Next, a national initiative housed at the University of San Diego designed to prepare more young people for careers in STEM fields, as well as numerous local and state sponsors. (Full Story)

Darrell Issa Congressman- “Human trafficking isn’t a Democrat or Republican issue, it’s a moral issue,” said Congressman Darrell Issa, “and we must do everything in our power to bring this despicable crime to an end. Here in Southern California, we’ve seen first-hand the heartbreaking impact of human trafficking. Sadly, San Diego remains one of the nation’s worst cities for child sex trafficking..." (Full Story)

NY Times- As more harassment allegations come to light, employment lawyers say nondisparagement agreements have helped enable a culture of secrecy. In particular, the tech start-up world has been roiled by accounts of workplace sexual harassment, and nondisparagement clauses have played a significant role in keeping those accusations secret. University of San Diego School of Law professor, Orly Lobel, commented on this issue. (Full Story)

Metro MBA- Each year, 1,000 emerging African business men and women come to the United States to participate in the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. They visit for a month as part of the flagship Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI). The one thousand students are spread out among 38 colleges and universities across the nation, including the University of San Diego, which welcomed 25 participants. (Full Story)

TVN- University of San Diego School of Business clinical professor of finance, Annalisa Barrett, commented on California lawmakers' response to the scarcity of women CEOs, especially within public companies in Pacific Northwestern US. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego-San Diego business leaders on Thursday said they have raised money to fund two large tent shelters to get homeless people temporarily off the streets, but the next step will be up to elected officials. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego- Would the proposed changes to property tax rules have an inflationary effect on home prices in California? Alan Gin, professor at University of San Diego, says, "Yes. It would allow people to sell their homes more easily to move up in the market, which would increase the demand for upper end homes and increase prices there. But it would also increase the supply of lower end homes, which would help mitigate price increases in that submarket and allow more people to get into starter homes." (Full Story)

ABC 10-Local business leaders want to erect two giant industrial tents to house some of San Diego’s exploding homeless population.  They said they have the money to pay for the tents.  They need a place to put them. (Full Story)

Times Union- Corporate Directors Forum is recognizing six San Diego directors for their extraordinary contributions to corporate governance at its 27th annual Director of the Year Awards. Ron Fowler of University of San Diego is among those being recognized. (Full Story)

Bay Area News Group- Orly Lobel, a law professor at the University of San Diego, comments on a software company's lawsuit against its rivals that could give more freedom to California companies hiring employees from competitors in other states.  (Full Story)

Meade County Times-Tribune- USD Alumnus, Major Chris Mercado, named 2017 Army Times Soldier of the Year for his dedication to one day bring the number of veteran suicides to zero. This three time Bronze Star Medal and Meritorious Service Medal recipient established Objective Zero Foundation to anonymously connect active-duty service members, veterans, and families with support through an app. (Full Story)

KPBS- A plan to pay for large tents to house San Diego's burgeoning homeless population is scheduled to be announced Thursday at University of San Diego by Padres managing partner Peter Seidler and restaurateur Dan Shea. (Full Story)

Public- Assistant City Attorney Michael J. Mais, who received his Juris Doctor from Univeristy of San Diego, was named 2017 Ronald M. George Public Lawyer of the Year by the California State Bar. (Full Story)

Healthline-Katie Ferraro, a registered dietitian and assistant clinical professor at the University of San Diego, speaks about a tribal diet that could eliminate heart disease. (Full Story)

KPBS- David Shirk, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, explains how criminal organizations are improving tunnels used to smuggle drugs and people under the border fence in response to increased border security. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego- Will the U.S. suffer economically from the recent trade deal between Japan and European Union? University of San Diego professor, Alan Gin, says, "Yes. The agreement reduces barriers between Japan and the European Union, which will make products from those areas less expensive to each other and make U.S. products less competitive." (Full Story)

KUSI- USD's Ron Bee and two fellows from the Fred J. Hansen Foundation-sponsored Hansen Summer Institute on Leadership and International Cooperation appeared on KUSI. 2017 marks the 10th year of the Hansen Summer Institute on Leadership and International Cooperation which has focused on training future political leaders and social entrepreneurs to tackle the world's most difficult problems. (Full Story)

VOSD- There’s good news and bad news for children seeking refuge in the United States, California politicians on both sides of the aisle wade into border issues and more in our weekly roundup of news from the border. (Full Story)

Washington Post -- ... “Consumers should become resigned to the idea that we are increasingly being targeted for our individual consumption,” says David Pyke, a professor of operations in the University of San Diego School of Business. (Full Story)

Southern Cross- In some families, Huntington’s disease (HD) can be traced back through generations, said Dr. Kenneth P. Serbin, a history professor at the University of San Diego. But for others, like his own family, the diagnosis comes as a complete surprise. (Full Story)

San Diego Metropolitan -- Tammy Dwyer, a faculty member in chemistry and biochemistry at the University of San Diego since 1994 and current department chair, has been named to the 2017 class of American Chemical Society Fellows. (Full Story)

10 News -- Local students are taking advantage of free cyber security camp at USD this week. Many jobs in cyber security currently go unfilled and can pay upwards of $80,000 a year. (Full Story) 

Huffington Post --  ... In the midst of the sweat and stress of that moment, it occurred to me: This is who God is; this is what God does. God is Creator, delighting in the grandeur and goodness of all creation. God is the depth and ground of all our movements, the “One in whom we live and move and have our being.” (Michael Lovette-Colyer, PhD, is Director of University Ministry at USD) (Full Story) 

Telemundo-TBI Director Ev Meade spoke to Telemundo about the murder of his friend and colleague, Javier Valdez last month.  He spoke in particular of the challenges of translating the author's unique style into English and communicating the complex multi-party drug war that he covered to an American audience. (Full Story)

Telemundo 20 -- Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering Dean Chell Roberts and Mathematics Professor Linda Hoffoss shared memories of two USD graduates chosen for NASA's astronaut program. (Full Story)

Times of San Diego- Transborder Institute Director, Ev Meade, wrote an op-ed on the one month anniversary of the murder of his friend, Mexican journalist, Javier Valdez Cardenas.

One month ago my friend Javier Valdez Cárdenas was dragged from his car and executed in broad daylight in Culiacán, Sinaloa. Colleagues from across the globe are marking the anniversary by reflecting on Javier’s work and reporting on threats to the freedom of expression in Mexico, where more than 100 journalists have been murdered since 2000. (Full Story)

UT- USD student Georgina Susana Escobedo and USD Professor Necla Tschirgi wrote an op-ed for the UT that explores populism and its influence on upcoming elections in Mexico. (Full Story)

Fox 5 San Diego -- NASA announced its latest class of astronaut candidates Wednesday, including three with ties to San Diego.  Navy Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Dominick earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of San Diego. Dr. Jonny Kim earned a degree in mathematics at University of San Diego. (Full Story)  

Southern California Patch -- A University of San Diego-led initiative to provide students with research opportunities beyond apprenticeships and internships was awarded a $589,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. (Full Story) 

KPBS -- "Laura Rivard teaches biology at the University of San Diego. She has an interest in direct-to-consumer tests, and she said I am not the only person to get conflicting results." (Full Story)

U-T -- Kenneth Serbin has lived in the shadow of Huntington's disease since Dec. 26, 1995. On that post-Christmas day, Serbin learned his mother, Carol, had been diagnosed with the incurable, fatal genetic condition. (Full Story)

The Hechinger Report -- Recent research states that the best time to enjoy STEM, is after the school day ends, via after-school programs. “Part of that is giving kids a safe space where they can try an experiment, without the pressures of school," said USD's own STEM Next director, Ron Ottinger." (Full Story)

ABC 7 -- "Everard Meade, the director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego who collaborated closely with Valdez, said the reporter specialized in recounting the human side of the violence that surrounded him. Beyond merely the production and distribution of drugs, Valdez was interested in where power resided and how it was used." (Full Story)

ZAWYA -- USD MBA Alum, "Shaima Bint Mutlaq Al-Usaimi is the first Saudi woman to be named Executive Director of Awareness and Water Conservation Management." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "Fern Murphy and Pat Whalen are vital volunteers with the USO San Diego. Murphy, who lives in Fletcher Hills, is active in the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge youth education group and the University of San Diego auxiliary." (Full Story)

Entrepreneur -- "Negative emotions and habits are contagious, but so are positive ones. Researchers from Harvard University and the University of San Diego found that each positive or “happy” friend in person's network increases by 9 percent that individual's own chances of being happy." (Full Story)

NBC San Diego -- Ev Meade, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego (USD) said homicides have increased steadily in Tijuana since 2015. Many of those homicides are the work of international drug cartels, said Meade. But he also noted that smaller, fragmented crime groups and gangs are doing the killing, as they fight for control of the domestic drug trade, in and around Tijuana. (Full Story)

Premium Times -- USD is one of many universities to accept the 2017 Mandela Washington Fellows to their campus this summer, for a six-week intensive program within the Joan B. Kroc School for Peace & Justice. (Full Story)

Computer World -- In hopes to better understand and define "leadership," Joseph Rost, professor emeritus of leadership studies in SOLES at USD, examined 450 books, documenting over 200 different ways to define "leadership." (Full Story)

EIN Presswire -- The Reshoring Institute, created and curated by graduate student interns from the University of San Diego School of Business, and the School of Engineering, announces a new partnership with Return One Million Jobs (ROMJ). (Full Story)

UT- Kenneth Serbin has lived in the shadow of Huntington’s disease since Dec. 26, 1995. On that post-Christmas day, Serbin learned his mother, Carol, had been diagnosed with the incurable, fatal genetic condition.

Serbin, a history professor at the University of San Diego, became active in the local chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America. In 2005, at the suggestion of a college friend, Serbin started Huntington’s disease blog under the pseudonym Gene Veritas, derived from Latin to signify that the truth is in the genes. Serbin revealed in 2012 that he also has the mutation and will develop Huntington’s. (Full Story)

Fox 19 -- USD School of Law graduate Damien M. Schiff nominated by President Trump to U.S. Court of Federal Claims. (Full Story)

Santa Cruz Sentinel -- "Olivia Gonzalez, a senior at the University of San Diego, will get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Tuesday to be president of the campus for a day.

As she fills in for President James T. Harris, Gonzalez will tweet from his account @USDPres." (Full Story)

The Yucatan Times -- "It’s also part of an uptick in lawlessness across Mexico, which saw a 20 percent jump in violent crimes last year, according to a study released March 30 by the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

NYT-Americans, we are told, believe in competition. But a shockingly large number of workers — 30 million, according to a report from the Treasury Department — are shackled by what are called “noncompetes,” which are agreements forbidding employees to leave their job to work for a competitor or to start their own competing business. And the number is growing fast. (Full Story)

San Diego Reader -- "Bay Park residents raised that big red balloon high in the sky between Morena Boulevard and the I-5 Saturday to demonstrate how tall the new developments along the Morena corridor could be."

With an expected 1,700 rental apartments, along with a park for residents,  "It's a great opportunity to provide more housing and we want to make it a village, and the University of San Diego supports this plan." (Full Story)

The Washington Post -- "With Guzmán in the United States, other drug bosses know that “this time he wasn't going to have an ability to continue to control the Sinaloa cartel from behind bars and he was effectively being removed from the game,” said David Shirk, a professor at the University of San Diego and an expert on drug war violence." (Full Story)

ABC News -- University of San Diego lecturer Ron Bee said that's all rhetoric, "They don't have the capability to reach us...We don't think they have a missile that can reach us. We don't think they have a nuclear bomb they can marry to that missile. Until both of those things happen, that's when the red line will occur." (Full Story)

Pacific Daily News -- "Jamal Agnew was selected by the Detroit Lions in Saturday's NFL draft, making him the second grandson of Guam to reach the NFL this year. Anew, a University of San Diego cornerback, was drafted by the Lions in the fifth round, according to the team's website." (Full Story)

The Guardian- It took hours to arrange my first conversation with Paratapa. He agreed to an interview for my research on contemporary slaveholders, but he wasn’t free until late evening. When he finally greeted me on his sprawling estate, I learned why. He balances the demands of his large farm in India with the presidency of a local agricultural bank that makes loans to farmers like him. (Full Story)

ABC News -- "Margaret Dalton, Associate Dean of the University of San Diego Law School. Dalton, who specializes in special education and disability law, said there is no excuse for any school not providing adequate transportation to students who need special accommodations." (Full Story)

Vox -- “Usually a new president in this period is doing lots of noncontroversial things,” says Casey Dominguez, a professor at the University of San Diego who’s studied the presidential honeymoon. “They’re moving their family to the White House. They’re appointing somebody qualified to an important job. So the public is hearing fairly neutral things about the administration." (Full Story)

Officer -- "Unlike traditional criminal justice programs, USD’s program emphasizes leadership development, ethics, tangible skill building and the immediate application of these skills to solving some of today’s most urgent law enforcement challenges." (Full Story)

Buffalo Business First -- "In a study from CBRE and the University of San Diego Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, 21 percent of business owners reported that increasing their facility’s efficiency led to higher employee morale and reduced turnover." (Full Story)

Haaretz -- "...Walsh also told Rozell how to get in touch with George Gross, who went on to teach English literature at the University of San Diego. From Gross, Rozell received photographs documenting the liberation. One of them was the image of the woman with the child..." (Full Story)

IB Times -- "A 2016 Congressional Budget Office analysis said closing the loophole at the federal level could produce an additional $19.9 billion in tax revenue between 2017 and 2026.

But tax expert and University of San Diego law professor Vic Fleischer, who started the debate over carried interest in a 2006 academic paper before he began advising the Senate Finance Committee last year, has estimated closing the carried interest loophole would generate $180 billion over the next decade." (Full Story)

CKGSB Knowledge -- “I don’t see any end to it at all until we’re probably at a third less space per person than we are today,” says Norman G. Miller, Ernest W. Hahn Chair and Professor of Real Estate Finance at the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "Iris Engstrand, the region’s preeminent history who is retiring from the University of San Diego next month, said even she found things she didn’t know about, such as Leucadia’s streets named after Greek and Roman gods by the English spiritualists who settled the North County coastal community." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "Alan Gin, economist at the University of San Diego, said San Diego County’s seasonally adjusted rate is 4 percent.

“The labor market is tight right now,” he said. “There has been talk about the impact of minimum wage, but a lot of restaurants I go to have signs up that say help wanted.” (Full Story)

Seattle Times -- "The author and University of San Diego faculty member [Austin Chio-Fitzpatrick] will speak about his new book, “What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do,” at 3 p.m. April 22 at Elliott Bay Book Co." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- USD also closely works with Circadence Corp., a company in Kearny Mesa that specializes in the “gamification” of cybersecurity training. Students are exposed to high-resolution videos and graphics that give them a sense of what a real “hack attack” is like. They also use the immersive software to learn how to spot and prevent digital assaults. The company is led by Ashton Mozano, who also teaches cybersecurity at USD. (Full Story)

San Diego Business Journal -- "Del Mar resident Scott MacDonald has donated to endow a scholarship program at the University of San Diego...recipients will participate in the Community Awareness and Social Action (CASA) leadership program and volunteer 280 hours of community service each year." (Full Story)

KPBS -- "Lukensmeyer will be in San Diego Tuesday and Wednesday for the sixth annual "Conference on Restoring Civility to Civic Dialogue," organized by the University of San Diego's Institute for Civil Civic Engagement. She has worked with more than a dozen state legislatures running workshops on how to govern while still respecting your political opponents." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "Creating a dialogue is the first step toward solving problems. Half of a dialogue is listening and trying to understand different points of view. In a nation increasingly divided, San Diego can take a different path by discussing important issues without yelling at each other, reaching knee jerk reactions or stereotyping," stated Jan Goldsmith, adjunt professor of law at USD, and a new member of U-T Community Advisory Board." (Full Story)

NBC San Diego -- NBC 7 and the Make a Wish Foundation teamed up with the University of San Diego Torero baseball team to make a cancer's patients dream on thr ballfield come true. (Full Story)

San Diego Metro -- "A team of Master’s in Real Estate students from the University of San Diego School of Business and the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate has successfully defended its title in the 2017 ARGUS University Challenge.

“Throughout the six weeks working on the report, we expanded our market research abilities and ARGUS modeling knowledge. These fine-tuned skills, accompanied by a positive group experience, will prove to be invaluable throughout our careers,” states team member Karamarie White. (Full Story)

The Columbus Dispatch -- Alex Green, 17, did his work-study during his first two years at Mount Carmel West and East hospitals and the past two years working at COSI doing science demonstrations for visitors. The University of San Diego, his first choice for school, has awarded him a $50,000 scholarship. After that, the plan is medical school and a residency in general surgery. (Full Story)

U-T -- “No bill like it has been enacted in the country, and it’s about time,” Robert Fellmeth, executive director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law, said at a Wednesday news conference to draw attention to AB1495. The law school and the institute sponsored the bill. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- “No bill like it has been enacted in the country, and it’s about time,” Robert Fellmeth, executive director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law, said at a Wednesday news conference to draw attention to AB1495. The law school and the institute sponsored the bill." (Full Story)

CBS -- "Tuesday the University of San Diego held a mass head-shaving to raise funds for childhood cancer research. Ten brave souls, men and women, got a buzz cut with a goal of raising $10,000 dollars." (Full Video)

Insight Crime -- "The report, titled "Drug Violence in Mexico: Data and Analysis Through 2016," is the latest in a series of annual publications from the Justice in Mexico Project, which operates out of the University of San Diego's department of political science and international relations.

The authors -- professors Kimberly Heinle, Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira, and David A. Shirk -- note early in the report that 2016 brought a substantial increase in the number of overall murders and murders related to organized crime." (Full Story)

The Virginian-Pilot -- USD Professor, David Shirk "evaluates NAFTA at it's 20th anniversary, an important milestone for the U.S., Mexican, and Canadian regional partnership." (Full Video)

U-T San Diego -- "Linda Vista is one of San Diego’s great melting pots, providing affordable housing for each new wave of immigrants...The University of San Diego is also based here." (Full Story)

KPBS- About 20 years ago, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick got involved with an advocacy group working to curb human trafficking. One of his first assignments in rural India was to pose as a brothel customer demanding increasingly younger girls before leaving in a huff. The video he secretly taped was shared with local police who conducted raids to rescue the victims and arrest the perpetrators. (Full Story)

News Tribune -- "The idea that we should commemorate on canvas the veterans of World War I was really part of a larger cultural discourse of that period," said Derrick Cartwright, associate professor of art history and director of galleries for the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "We represent two of San Diego's major educaitonal institutions...We serve diverse educational communities with diverse educational missions. We are bound together by the common mission of building and nurturing the inclusivity, effectiveness and prosperity of our local and national community." (Full Story)

(James T. Harris III is president of USD, Constance M. Carroll is chancellor of SD Community College Distrcit)

Nevada Business -- “I am looking forward to taking the NCJFCJ to the next level. We have so much potential to grow the organization and improve the lives of our most vulnerable children and families through leadership, judicial education and research.”

Menicucci holds her Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice from the University of Nevada, Reno and a Certificate in Paralegal Studies from the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

California Healthline -- "The FDA has given 23andMe the right to sell members of the public genetic tests that estimate a person’s risk for 10 health conditions, including Parkinson’s and late-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The decision drew concern from Laura Rivard, a genetics professor at the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

KPBS -- "The annual analysis of drug-related violence in Mexico, by researchers at the Justice in Mexico program at the University of San Diego, examines trends in violence and organized crime in Mexico using both official and non-government sources." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "Now that a November ballot could possibly have two weighty issues facing voters, that could work against both of them, said Carl Luna, a professor of political science at San Diego Mesa College and director of the University of San Diego/San Diego Community College District Institute for Civil Civic Engagement." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "Yeung, an associate professor in the University of San Diego’s music department, founded the umbrella organization in 2010. In January 2016 the group’s Coterie Celli performed as part of the Ed Brown Center’s Sunday entertainment series." (Full Story)

Forbes -- "When he was eight, his parents moved the family to California in 1996. They continued visiting Palestine every couple of years until 2000, when the second Intifada broke out. In 2010, Abualzolof earned a B.A. in finance from the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

Market Exclusive -- "Prior to his tenure at Insight Health Corp., Mr. Drazba was employed by Arthur Andersen & Co. Mr. Drazba is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in California and received a B.A. degree in accounting from the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

Crux -- "Jesuit schools are also leading the way here, holding conferences and enacting environmental-friendly policies. But perhaps no other school has taken Laudato Si’ more seriously the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

The Independent -- Madison Moe has been hired as educational programming coordinator of the Literacy Council of Grand Island.

South China Morning Post -- "But Mexico’s homicide rate for the year spiked to 21.3 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, a steep rise from 17.5 in 2015 that rivals record numbers earlier in the decade, according to a report released on Friday by the Justice in Mexico Project at the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

USA Today- Last year’s capture of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán led to a surge in homicides in Mexico as cartel leaders fought to fill the vacuum created by his arrest.

The apprehension of Guzmán in January 2016 was hailed by Mexican and U.S. officials as a watershed moment in the war on drugs. But Mexico's homicide rate for the year spiked to 21.3 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, a steep rise from 17.5 in 2015 that rivals record numbers earlier in the decade, according to a report released Friday by the Justice in Mexico Project at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

WTSP -- "It's kind of two steps forward, one step back," said David Shirk, director of the Justice in Mexico Project and co-author of the report. "We took out a very powerful and important drug trafficker." (Full Story)

USA Today -- "But Mexico's homicide rate for the year spiked to 21.3 murders per 100,000 inhabitants, a steep rise from 17.5 in 2015 that rivals record numbers earlier in the decade, according to a report released friday by the Justice in Mexico Project at the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "An annual report on violence in Mexico issued Thursday by the University of San Diego’s Justice in Mexico program shows 2016 was the third most deadly year in Tijuana in the past decade." (Full Story)

The Globe and Mail -- As companies struggle to fuel innovation, they typically reach for methods to improve idea generation or fret over their inability to implement the ideas they have. But there’s a bigger problem we face, according to University of San Diego professor Jennifer Mueller, a social psychologist who has focused on creativity. Our ability to recognize and to embrace creative solutions is dysfunctional. (Full Story)

Tribune Review -- "Widely reported in January, the voter ID study by professors from the University of San Diego and Bucknell University failed to consider pre-existing factors “that explain the differences between states with and without voter ID laws,” and it used the wrong data, according to the Washington Examiner's David Freddoso." (Full Story)

Press Telegram -- "Long Beach Community College District trustees voted Tuesday afternoon to offer Long Beach City College’s top position to Reagan Romali, currently the leader of City Colleges of Chicago – Harry S Truman.

She also earned a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, a Master’s in Business Administration from University of San Diego and a PhD in education from Walden University." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "The W.M. Keck Foundation has awarded the University of San Diego’s Humanities Center a $250,000 grant to support a new humanities research fellowship for undergraduates, the development of new collaborations between the humanities and other academic areas of inquiry at USD." (Full Story)

DVIDS -- “This is a significant milestone in Naval Information Warfare history and I am humbled and honored to be a part of it and the first to lead this command,” said Watkins, a Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps graduate from the University of San Diego. Watkins went on to say, “a key objective of the NIWDC is to provide hard hitting Fleet relevant Information Warfighting effects as soon as possible; the demand signal is strong and we are ready to deliver.” (Full Story)

JDSUPRA -- "In contrast, Ted M. Sichelman of the University of San Diego School of Law filed an amici curiae brief as counsel of record on behalf of 22 law, economics, and business professors that appeared to be a response to the previous 61 professors.  This brief focused almost exclusively on the reasons why the aims of patent law are better served under the current interpretation of the statute as provided by the Federal Circuit." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "In his last year at University of San Diego, Olivas came up with the idea for “Untitled Space,” which found him converting an old bread truck into a mobile collaborative space for local artists. “It’s hard to get your foot into galleries, so I created my own institution and invited my friends to deliver art to the community,” he says. Olivas was awarded a Creative Catalyst grant from the San Diego Foundation to bring the truck to the New Children’s Museum in 2015." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "One of the first gifts the couple made was a scholarship to the University of San Diego. “Donald and I were impressed by then-President Author Hughes’ speech about the importance of a ‘values based’ education,” Shiley said. “We climbed on board the USD train that night.” (Full Story)

Tijuanotas -- "I would definitely say its uncertain as to what are going to be the next steps when it comes to security cooperation with Mexico,” said David Shirk, a professor at University of San Diego. Programs in crime prevention need a sustained approach, he said." (Full Story)

Moorpark Acorn -- "Cal Lutheran University will present the International Center for Academic Integrity Southern California Regional Consortium spring conference, “From the Ground Up: Building an Integrity Culture,” from noon to 7 p.m. Thurs., April 20 and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Fri., April 21 on the Thousand Oaks campus.

The other speakers are University of San Diego students along with representatives from Sheridan College in Canada, Utah-based online college Western Governors University and Cal State Northridge." (Full Story)

aeon- I liked Aanan as soon as I met him. My field notes read: ‘What a nice guy, you can just see from his face.’ Open-faced and conversational, he was enthusiastic about the explosive growth in his quarry operations and excited to show me around. Together, we toured the open mines where his workers carve into the earth, producing boulders that are broken down into gravel by smaller labourers, often women and children. Together with his workers, Aanan laughed at my efforts to repeat the process for myself, the sledge held high over my head before arcing down, momentarily disappearing into shards and dust. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- “I would definitely say its uncertain as to what are going to be the next steps when it comes to security cooperation with Mexico,” said David Shirk, a professor at University of San Diego. Programs in crime prevention need a sustained approach, he said." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "Last week, the newly launched Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy at the University of San Diego hosted a debate on immigration featuring two highly regarded scholars — George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan and Christopher Wellman, a philosopher at Washington University in St. Louis.

The topic of the debate was the fundamental moral question underlying many of today’s policy debates: Is immigration a human right?" (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- “I would definitely say its uncertain as to what are going to be the next steps when it comes to security cooperation with Mexico,” said David Shirk, a professor at University of San Diego. Programs in crime prevention need a sustained approach, he said." (Full Story)

The Public Slate -- "Parsons is no stranger to overcoming difficulties and tackling challenges in his career. Like his character, Cooper, Parsons was born and raised in Texas. He began studying theater at the University of Houston and went on to earn his Master’s degree at the University of San Diego in 2001. He, then, moved to New York to seek fame and fortune in acting." (Full Story)

Quartz India -- "Choi-Fitzpatrick is now an assistant professor at the Kroc School of Peace studies at the University of San Diego. His recent book, What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do, takes an innovative approach to analyzing and understanding the often-complicated reality of modern-day slavery and exploitation." (Full Story)

The Register -- "Technology companies often require that employees, as a condition of their employment, sign away the intellectual property rights to any work created while employed, even on personal time. Such contracts may even give companies ownership rights to work created during a limited period after employees leave the company.

In a 2014 paper, "The New Cognitive Property: Human Capital Law and the Reach of Intellectual Property," University of San Diego School of Law professor Orly Lobel recounts several examples of conflicts arising from such contracts." (Full Story)

Yahoo! Finance -- “We found that few companies are tapping into the potential benefits of having directors with a wide variety of ages serving on boards,” said Annalisa Barrett, report author, chief executive officer and founder of Board Governance Research, and clinical professor at the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

Springfireld News-Leader --  "The question we must consider is: Would Einstein still seek asylum in the United States today, or would he be scared away by the current rhetoric and proposed policies? Based on what I hear from aspiring Einsteins, the answer would be “scared away.” (Full Story)

(James T. Harris is President of the Unviersity of San Diego)

USA Today -- "Intellectuals helped the U.S. win the war and ushered in a new era of renewed vigor in physics and the biological sciences. Our open-door policy to intellectuals also helped establish American universities as global academic juggernauts and the envy of the world." (Full Story)

(James T. Harris is president of the University of San Diego)

Voice of San Diego -- "The bill allows victims and public prosecutors to sue both “Johns” and pimps – the customers and the providers of trafficking victims – in civil court for up to $10,000 per unlawful act.

It’s sponsored by the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law. (Full Story)

Forbes -- "But, as Victor Fleischer of the University of San Diego Law School has vividly pointed out, the real scandal has been huge payments to private equity fund managers. In a 2015 New York Times article, he claims Yale paid investment managers directly or indirectly $480 million (!!) in fees in 2014 – vastly more than $170 million the school gave in tuition assistance or fellowships." (Full Story)

Civil Eats -- “This commitment doesn’t transform the nutritional quality of donuts or ice cream, but it is a commendable step in the right direction,” Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), said in a statement. CSPI and the University of San Diego School of Law’s Children’s Advocacy Institute are co-sponsors of the California legislation." (Full Story)

Soccer Nation -- "Youth, ages 12 to 25, are invited to get a free heart screening on Sunday, April 9 at University of San Diego’s Hahn School of Nursing and Health Science between 9 am and 3 pm." (Full Story)

El Colombiano -- "Dos hechos se lo confirman a David Shirk, experto en asuntos de México y director de la maestría en Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de San Diego, en California.

El primero tuvo lugar en la frontera, entre San Diego y la ciudad mexicana de Tijuana, “donde el temor se parece más a la desesperación." (Full Story)

Educación Al Día -- "Dos hechos se lo confirman a David Shirk, experto en asuntos de México y director de la maestría en Ciencias Políticas y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de San Diego, en California.

El primero tuvo lugar en la frontera, entre San Diego y la ciudad mexicana de Tijuana, “donde el temor se parece más a la desesperació." (Full Story)

CW6 -- "According to a recent study by the University of San Diego, the demand for commercial sex adds up to 810-million dollars a year in San Diego alone." (Full Story)

The Daily Signal -- "...That earlier study, conducted by professors from the University of San Diego and Bucknell University, often is cited by liberal opponents of voter ID laws." (Full Story)

Mountain Town News -- "At the Alliance Center, Scott Anders outlined the history and results of California’s various laws, rulings and gubernatorial executive orders beginning with the 2005 adoption of Assembly Bill 32, called the Global Warming Solutions Act. Anders, who directs the Energy Policy Initiatives Center at the University of San Diego School of Law, suggested that the law’s title reveals not only California’s ambitions but also suggests the state’s perceived self-importance." (Full Story)

The Academic Minute -- Leaders say they welcome innovation and new ideas, but do they in practice? Jennifer Mueller, associate professor of management at the University of San Diego, explains why many organizations actually reject creativity. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "University of San Diego history professor and California scholar, Iris Engstrand, whom he joined on tours in Spain, said: “He was able to convert from journalism to historian and maintain his writing style while still getting the facts.” (Full Story)

The Huffington Post -- "The reason I stay positive is simply because it makes the world a better place. No good comes out of being negative, and I believe that being positive and making the right choice can inspire others to do the same." (Full Story)

(Buddhism and Religion in American pop culture scholar, Joel Gruber, currently teaches at the University of San Diego)

Times of Malta -- “There are several examples in the US of programmes where property owners are lining up to voluntarily put their buildings into conservation schemes, primarily due to tax advantages,” Andrew Narwold, a professor of economics at the University of San Diego, told Times of Malta." (Full Story)

Politico -- "His official resume makes no mention of his forays into politics, but does boast three private-school degrees—including both a Master's of Public Administration and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard—followed by teaching gigs at the University of California at San Diego and the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

San Diego Reader -- Upon graduating from the University of San Diego, the Texas native immediately enrolled in her first distilling course and spent nine months traveling the country, shadowing distillers and, she says, "really immersing myself in the craft." Upon return, she began looking for work in the nascent craft-spirits industry. (Full Story) 

The Recorder -- “The effect of this low bar-passage rate is to put our students and our law schools at a competitive disadvantage,” Stephen Ferruolo, dean of the University of San Diego Law School, said last month. “The low bar-passage rate is also I believe adversely impacting the quality of the California bar and the preparedness of California lawyers.” (Full Story)

SD Voice -- "California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) recently honored Jacqueline Jackson, a longtime advocate for the blind on the Assembly floor as the 80th Assembly District’s Woman of the Year.

Jackson graduated from San Diego State University before receiving her Master’s Degree in Leadership with an emphasis in Non-Profit Business Management from the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

GlobeSt.com -- Development and infrastructure changes abound in this market, which is seeing progress in all geographical areas and taking advantage of many global trends, CBRE’s John Frager tells attendees at BMC’s 21st Annual Real Estate Conference here last week. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- On Saturday, San Diego entrepreneur Geraldine Ridaura, 28, a USD grad, will open Holy Matcha, which is believed to be San Diego’s first matcha cafe. (Full Story)

PatentlyO -- "The University of Missouri School of Law on Friday, March 10, 2017: Implementing and Interpreting the Defend Trade Secrets Act.  Sponsored by our Center for Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship (CIPE) and the Business, Entrepreneurshisp & Tax Law Review (BETR)," including Orly Lobel, Professor at Univerisity of San Diego School of Law. (Full Story)

FBI -- "One seminar held at the University of San Diego included a panel of speakers who educated university students, staff, and the public about the difference between Islam and violent extremists." (Full Story)

Vanguardia -- "...para David Shirk, investigador de la Universidad de San Diego, la administración Trump no tiene idea de lo que busca, lo que genera mucha incertidumbre a las empresas.

“Si yo fuera empresario estaría muy preocupado porque ni siquiera ellos saben dónde empezar a renegociar, no tienen la menor idea y están básicamente inventando cosas”, dijo." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- “I think, actually, that would be really good use as far as the land,” University of San Diego economist Alan Gin said.

Gin said that SDSU West, if it evolved as a “research hub” and grew San Diego’s knowledge base in other ways, would “boost the local economy and bring in a lot of outside money.” (Full Story)

Voice of San Diego -- "Eventually, the commission partnered with the Economic Development Department, which had also been talking about starting a nonprofit incubator, and the two launced the Nonprofit Academy in partnership with the University of San Diego’s Institute for Nonprofit Education and Research." (Full Story)

The Huffington Post -- "The goal is not to equivocate between bonded labor and impoverished slaveholders, but instead to emphasize that slavery is relational, emancipation is complex, and the goal of ending slavery in our lifetime will require strategies that address the reality of the situation rather than the way it may appear in our imagination." (Full Story)

(Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is a professor of Political Sociology at the University of San Diego) 

DU Newsroom -- "A political sociologist at the University of San Diego’s Kroc School of Peace Studies, Choi-Fitzpatrick can list numerous titles chronicling the experiences of victims. “But the perpetrator’s story is not ever told,” he says. “We really have to better understand who these people are. What is really going to make a difference here is not another book about the victims.” (Full Story)

News Wise -- "To improve the health outcomes of military veterans, Weglicki is connecting with powerhouse teams of researchers from the University of Colorado Denver, University of San Diego, University of Texas San Antonio, Pennsylvania State University, University of Rochester, and the Ohio State University as well as committed veteran leaders in each state." (Full Story)

Diario Hisapaniola -- “(Esta declaración) señala que no solamente (Trump) está tomando una postura de negociación, nos indica que esta postura, esta suavidad, refleja el amplio consenso que existe en Estados Unidos, por lo menos entre las empresas, de que sí hay grandes beneficios para los dos países (con el TLCAN)”, dijo David Shirk, de la Universidad de San Diego, en declaraciones que recoge el diario mexicano El Financiero." (Full Story)

NYT-President Trump’s postelection agreement to pay $25 million appeared to settle the fraud claims arising from his defunct for-profit education venture, Trump University. But a former student is now asking to opt out of the settlement, a move that, if permitted, could put the deal in jeopardy. (Full Story)

Yahoo! Finance -- "A former elementary school teacher, Martín also served as Vice President for Hispanic Initiatives at Sallie Mae in California. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Education and a Master's degree in Educational Leadership from the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

E-Veracruz -- "...nos indica que esta postura, esta suavidad, refleja el amplio consenso que existe en EU, por lo menos entre las empresas, de que sí hay grandes beneficios para los dos países (con el TLCAN)”, dijo David Shirk, de la Universidad de San Diego." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- Here’s one wall President Trump wants to dismantle: Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation between Church and State.” ... Setting boundaries between church and state can be difficult, said Mary Doak, associate professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

DVIDS -- "He went on to continue his education and now holds two degrees, a Bachelor of Science in Business from San Diego State University and a Master of Business Administration from University of San Diego. His dedication and hard work paid off when he was commissioned into the Navy’s medical service corps in 1996." (Full Story)

Business Insider -- "You saw, literally, cops and soldiers patrolling ... in various neighborhoods in Juarez," and other places, David Shirk, a professor at San Diego University who runs the school's Justice in Mexico program." (Full Story)

PR Newswire -- Presented by the University of San Diego School of Business in partnership with Procopio, USD-PIBS is the premier educational and networking event for Latin American executives, investors and advisors interested in learning how to do business in the United States. (Full Story)

Accuracy in Academia -- "The next head of OCR should be someone who understands that those changes were both ill-advised and illegal and work to eliminate them. A number of Americans (this writer included) have advocated that the job be offered to Gail Heriot, a professor of law at the University of San Diego." (Full Story)

LA Times -- "Research from the University of San Diego has shown that half of U.S. gun dealers benefit financially from the U.S.-Mexico illegal gun trade, to the tune of $127.2 million in 2012." (Full Story)

El Latino San Diego -- "Mientras la estudiante de Southwestern College, Nada Dibbs, resaltó la importancia de que se conserve el Título IX de la Ley de Educación, el doctor Thomas Herrington, vicepresidente de University of San Diego, aludió a un comentario específico sobre lo tardado de investigación de estos casos por parte del Departamento de Educación, “muchas veces los resultados se dan a conocer cuando los estudiantes se han graduado”, ejemplificó, y se pronunció porque se refuerce la ley." (Full Story)

OE Digital -- Montana Congressman, Ryan Zinke, who received a master’s in global leadership from the University of San Diego, newly appointed to lead the Department of the Interior (DIO).

U-T San Diego -- "San Diego could receive just $10,000 for the Qualcomm Stadium property, according to terms of the ballot initiative for the proposed $1 billion SoccerPlan development.

Norm Miller, a real estate professor at the University of San Diego, said the city should be pricing the property at its highest, best and most productive use, reduced by some of the constraints, such as the stadium demolition cost." (Full Story) 

The College Fix -- Law professors sent an open letter regarding the political leanings of faculty to the Association of American Law Schools stating, "… both scholarship and teaching suffer when law schools are echo chambers in which only one side of current debates is given a voice." 

The signatories include University of San Diego’s Gail Heriot (a potential Trump administration pick) included as a signatory." (Full Story) 

Education Dive -- "More than 60 civil rights groups signed a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, urging her to choose someone with a record of experience with civil rights issues to head the Ed Department's Office for Civil Rights.

Gail Heriot, a professor of law at the University of San Diego, is one person reportedly in the running for the job, and she has spoken out against the Office for Civil Rights’ guidance on transgender bathroom policies and on-campus sexual assault prevention and response." (Full Story) 

Entravision -- “Necesitamos a México si queremos realmente disminuir el flujo de drogas a Estados Unidos, ahorita estamos en medio de una crisis de consumo de drogas sobre todo de heroína”, comentó David Shirk, director del programa de Justicia en México de USD." (Full Story)

EIN News -- "The Reshoring Institute, a 501c3 non-profit organization, offers free, downloadable research from its website, created and curated by graduate student interns from the University of San Diego School of Business, and the School of Engineering." (Full Story)

San Diego Magazine --  “Inventory has stayed low and moved lower for lower-priced homes. “We price out non-homeowners mostly because we don’t approve density or lower-priced housing, says Professor Norm Miller, Hahn Chair of Real Estate Finance at the University of San Diego School of Business, who’s also affiliated with the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate." (Full Story)  

Seaside Courier -- "The Encinitas-based Leichtag Foundation on Feb. 22 announced the appointment of Jessica Kort as its philanthropy manage. Kort received an MBA from the University of San Diego." (Full Story) 

Broadway World -- Monica Perfetto, graduate of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at the University of San Diego, is the Resident Stage Manager of BALLAST, a "highly poetic exploration of the walking and dream lives of two trans and cisgender couples..." (Full Story)  

Aljazeera --  Drones are being used to shed positive light on the status of Syria, as opposed to other countries who are claiming footage shows absolute destruction of cities such as Aleppo. These "citizen journalists" lost 20 drones in the process, as most assumed them to be a part of the regime. 

"The cat and mouse game of emancipatory uses and state control of new technologies plays on. Both men continue their efforts from the northwestern Syrian countryside; only this time without a drone." (Full Story)

(Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is a professor at the Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego) 

Duke Chronicle -- USD Associate Professor of Philosophy, Matt Zwolinski, comments on the Universal Basic Income (UBI), "a substitute for the status quo welfare state with a check and a signature at the bank," arguing "it would also be good from the perspective of welfare beneficiaries... [signing] up for all the various welfare benefits to which one is entitled is tremendously costly in terms of time, effort and skill at bureaucratic navigation.” (Full Story) 

ABC -- "STEM learning opportunities are like charging stations, electrifying youth. STEM Next is incubated and housed at University of San Diego." (Full Story)

Greenfield Reporter -- "The district’s three school counselors also will travel to a seminar at the University of San Diego to learn how to use data in school counseling, Hott said, and take trips to three Indiana schools considered model programs for social/emotional counseling." (Full Story) 

U-T San Diego -- “What they need to fight is a 40-year narrative that government is the enemy of the people rather than the representative of the people, and then they have to convince congressmen and elected officials that votes that they need to get are now at stake,” stated Carl Luna, director of the University of San Diego's Institute for Civil Civic Engagement. (Full Story)  

Globe News Wire -- LoCorr Funds, an investment solutions company, announced that Wayne Wagner, will transition to lead distribution efforts for the IBD channel in Southern California. 

Wagner, who earned his Masters of Business Administration from the University of San Diego, "brings 25 years of sales & sales leadership experience through positions held at Ameriprise Financial, Principal Financial Group, and Alliance Capital." (Full Story) 

Knowledge@Wharton --  "Jennifer Mueller, a former Wharton professor now at the University of San Diego, has a new book, Creative Change: Why We Resist It … How We Can Embrace It.

She says a shift in mindset can make room for new ideas to flourish. Mueller talked with Knowledge@Wharton about why it’s important for companies to embrace failure along with success, and why “if you believe that pattern recognition is how you find innovation, you’re already lost.” (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- A panel of six experts recently peered into the future at the 33^rd   annual San Diego County Economic Roundtable, sponsored by the County of San Diego, San Diego Workforce Partnership, the University of San Diego School of Business and The San Diego Union-Tribune. (Full Story) 

Times of San Diego -- Assemblyman Brain Maienschein, R-San Diego, Friday introduced a bill that would allow child prostitution victims to sue those who pay them and their pimps. 

Maienschein described the bill — sponsored by the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law — as the first of its kind in the nation. (Full Story)   

Weave News -- "...Visual media has the unique capacity to generate empathy across social and cultural divides, [and] is an expression of one of our preferred methods of bringing people together to build a more peaceful and just society... " stated Everard Meade, director of the Trans-Border Institute at Border Film Week 2017. (Full Story)

Alley Watch -- "During my senior year of college, we won the largest pitch competition at the University of San Diego. Over 60 applicants were chosen, and only four made it to the finals with a total of $50,000 allocated to the finalists. We impressed the judges so much that we ended up taking $40,000 of the $50,000 available. After attending USD, we were admitted to arguably one of the most exclusive co-working spaces in the Silicon Valley: Founders Den. After that, we became part of 500 Startups in Mountain View, one of the most prestigious accelerator programs in the world. To top it off, we landed the largest deal in the history of our industry." (Full Story)

McClatchy DC -- "It's extremely frustrating to see decisions being made essentially off the cuff without consideration - not for Mexico, but for our own national security interests."

“At a minimum, Trump’s team seems tone deaf, because they haven’t had adequate experience engaging Mexico to understand the nature of the relationship,” said David Shirk of the University of San Diego’s Justice in Mexico initiative. (Full Story)

KUSI -- Yesterday at a conference held in the Warren Hospitality Room, USD President Jamies Harris and San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy announced an initiative to strenghten catholic education in San Diego communities. (Full Story) 

U-T San Diego -- The University of San Diego has announced a plan to enroll at least 35 students from local Catholic high schools each year. "Our vision is to set the standard for an engaged, contemporary Catholic university where innovative Changemakers confront humanity’s urgent challenges," said USD President James Harris. (Full Story)

NBC -- This past Saturday, San Diego sports fans attended the "Celebrate San Diego Rally" hosted by the Padres, where they celebrated the teams that still call San Diego home, including the San Diego Gulls, USD Toreros, UCSD Tritons, and SDSU Aztecs. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "...We are pleased to support the University of San Diego as it announces the launch of its Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy. 

This new center will focus on an important area of study: How political and economic institutions help promote freedom and social justice — or put more simply, how a free society can improve people’s lives." (Full Story)

SD Metro Magazine -- The University of San Diego's collaborative effort between the College of Arts and Sciences and School of Business will facilitate the development of a new undergraduate curriculum by means of the Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy.

James T. Harris, III, USD president, comments, “Centers like this will help us fulfill our strategic vision of educating students who are dedicated changemakers, actively engaged in their education and caring for our common home.” (Full Story)

Times of San Diego -- The University of San Diego announced Thursday the creation of the Center for Ethics, Economics, and Public Policy, which will offer teaching on the impact of social norms, markets, and public policies on human freedom, well-being and justice. (Full Story)

MarketWatch -- The University of San Diego announced today the creation of the Center for Ethics, Economics and Public Policy (CEEPP). The center, established with $1.8 million in gifts from seven donors, advances rigorous, interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship on the impact of social norms, markets, and public policies on human freedom, well-being, and justice. (Full Story)

San Diego Metropolitan -- A new University of San Diego exhibition features nearly 60 colorful, avant-garde prints from the world-renowned British Museum. An opening lecture and reception takes place this Thursday, Feb. 9, at 5:15 p.m. in USD’s Mother Rosalie Hill Hall, followed by reception in the Hoehn Galleries in Founders Hall. It’s free, no RSVP required. (Full Story)     

San Diego Business Journal -- Broad gains across an array of local and national factors in December pushed the University of San Diego Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate’s Index of Leading Economic Indicators to its highest level since August 2006. (Full Story)

NBC San Diego -- The San Diego Padres will bring together teams from the San Diego Gulls, San Diego Sockers, SDSU, UCSM, UCSD, and USD for the "Celebrate San Diego Rally" on February 11th at Petco Park. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- We hire presidents to advance the interests of their employers, we the people. President Donald Trump has created a situation in which even people of good faith might ask, “Exactly whom, sir, do you work for?” (Carl Luna is Director of the University of San Diego/San Diego Community College Institute for Civil Civic Engagement) (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- A three-year study by the University of San Diego and Point Loma Nazarene University released in 2015 found that 8,830 to 11,773 victims — mostly underage girls — are trafficked in San Diego County each year. (Full Story)

San Diego Magazine- The University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute addresses crime, immigration, violence, and other issues, but research isn’t relegated to the classroom: The 11th annual Border Film Week returns to the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies February 7–10, with free film screenings and panel discussions focusing on those same issues in a more engaging way.

Film, especially documentary film, has the power to create awareness about social issues that other mediums don’t, says Everard Meade, the institute’s director. “Border Film Week isn’t just an event or a festival—it’s an expression of one of our preferred methods of bringing people together to build a more peaceful and just society.” (Full Story)

CAL Matters -- "The proposal is “likely to lead down a very bad road,” said David Shirk, a border expert at the Washington D.C. Woodrow Wilson Center, a nonpartisan policy research organization." (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- Everard Meade, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, spoke about the need for a reform of the visa system, as opposed to the "immediate construction" of a U.S-Mexico border wall.

“Regional growth happened despite the border build-up, not as a result of it,” he said, “and the human cost of the border fence is totally unjustified...walls do nothing to stop a significant source of illegal immigration — people who arrive in the U.S. legally but then overstay their visas." (Full Story)

Think Progress- President Donald Trump’s failure to commit to international human rights and his lack of a coherent foreign policy could have serious repercussions over the next four years. International observers fear that autocrats are already taking a cue from the new president’s apparent disregard for human rights?—?and they’re using it as cover to crack down in their own countries. (Full Story)

Voice of America --  "Ev Meade, director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, says many are under the false impression that the border is “open,” due to the lack of a physical wall along 2,000 kilometers of land.

In addition to aerial technology, Meade says the treacherous mountain ranges along the Sonoran Desert with Arizona already serve as deadly natural barriers.

“It’s a searing desert with mountain ranges that aren’t precisely parallel, meaning that it is very difficult to know where you are.” (Full Story)

Fox News -- "I don't know of any precedent for protesters taking over ports of entry in either direction," said David Shirk, associate professor of political science and international relations at the University of San Diego. "It obviously underscores the public sentiment in Mexico today, which is extremely anti-government." (Full Story)

Vocativ- For decades, the presidency has been on a trajectory toward unparalleled power. Presidents of both parties have been willing to disregard the law, especially in emergencies. In turn, Congresses led by both parties have acquiesced to power grabs and routinely written new laws that empower the president to make existential decisions in the name of the American people but without their explicit consent. (Full Story)

Contacto Magazine -- "De acuerdo con datos de la Oficina estadounidense de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza, aproximadamente siete mil inmigrantes han muerto de deshidratación y por las altas temperaturas mientras intentaban cruzar hacia Estados Unidos, en las últimas dos décadas. Por su parte, Ev Meade, director del Instituto Transfronterizo de la Universidad de San Diego calcula que los fallecidos podrían ser más de 10 mil." (Full Story)

Veracruzanos -- El doctor Everard Meade, director del Trans-Border Institute de la Universidad de San Diego, ha alegado que los recursos invertidos en el muro tendrían un efecto muchísmo más positivo para la economía estadunidense si se invirtieran en mejorar la calidad de las carreteras y puertos de entrade en la frontera con México, que en la actualidad parecen gallineros. (Full Story)

CW 6 -- USD economist Alan Gin estimates the loss of the San Diego Chargers will affect nearly 1600 jobs locally. (Full Story)

San Diego Metropolitan -- Mary Long has been appointed managing director of the Supply Chain Management Institute (SCMI) in the University of San Diego School of Business. Formerly vice president of logistics and network planning with Domino’s Pizza, Long succeeds Joel Sutherland. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- ... Ashton Mozano, who teaches cybersecurity at the University of San Diego, said Wednesday: “ Are many medical devices currently in the market vulnerable to existing cyber threats?  Probably yes. (Full Story)

KPBS- Police in the Mexican state of Sonora fought a pitched three-hour battle to free a border rail crossing at Nogales that had been blocked by people protesting a gasoline price increase.

 The Sonora state government said late Sunday that two police officers were injured and two protesters were arrested in the confrontation. (Full Story)

PR News Channel -- The International Nurses Association is pleased to welcome Victoria Lynne Morrison, MSN-FNP to their prestigious organization with her upcoming publication in the Worldwide Leaders in Healthcare. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Nursing Practice at the University of San Diego with a projected graduation in 2017. (Full Story)

La Presna San Diego -- "De acuerdo con David Shirk de la iniciativa Justice in Mexico de la Universidad de San Diego, los líderes al sur de la frontera tienen que dejar en el pasado la guerra al narcotráfico para enfocarse en mejorar la economía." (Full Story)

The New York Times- My name is Ricardo. My parents brought me to the United States from Jalisco, Mexico, at the age of four. I have been living in the U.S. for twenty-six years. I am an American, and I consider this country to be my home.

I know how challenging life can be when you are living in the shadows as an undocumented immigrant. Prior to DACA, getting a job was nearly impossible, and Dreamers were under the constant threat of deportation. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- Donald Trump's presidential election victory did not appear to have a negative effect on the San Diego economy in November, said a monthly study from the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

NPR -- A guaranteed income like the one recently adopted in Finland is a more efficient tool for fighting poverty than traditional social programs, said Associate Professor of Philosophy Matt Zwolinski. (Full Story)

San Diego Magazine -- In the same way we might look at a piece of art from several angles, Kroc School of Peace Studies Dean Patricia Márquez wants us to look at social issues from more than one angle and come up with new solutions. (Full Story)

KPBS- A dusty human skull, a spine attached to leg bones clothed in pants, and an arm bone pose a mystery: do these belong to Marco Antonio Garcia, a 20-year-old missing Mexican migrant? (Full Story)

WalletHub- How can parents prepapre their children for managing finances in college (student loans, credit cards, etc.)? 

Managing finances is one of the most important components of preparing a young adult for college. Parents must give their children practice before they enter college. (Full Story)

CT Post- Recent months have seen the Mexican government of Enrique Peña Nieto grappling with Donald Trump, who has besmirched Mexican immigrants in the US and promised a variety of retaliatory measures against the US's southern neighbor. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- As the dust settles and the outcome of the most bruising campaign and momentous election sinks in, questions abound about the implications of Donald J. Trump's election for multilateralism and the international system in general. Necla Tschirgi, PhD, is professor of practice at the Kroc School of Peace Studies. Yishak Kassa Tefferi is a graduate student at the school. (Full Story)   

Wichita State News -- Sandra Bibb became the dean of the College of Health Professions at Wichita State in August 2014. Up until 2004 she served as an active duty nurse in the U.S. Navy for more than three decades. ... She also returned to school and got her doctoral degree at the University of San Diego. (Full Story)

U-T San Diego -- "University of San Diego President James Harris III also sent a letter to his campus community saying he was assembling a task force to review options for protecting students and employees, including a possible declaration that the private Catholic university is a “sanctuary campus.” (Full Story)

El Economista -- "El investigador principal del proyecto Justice in Mexico de la Universidad de San Diego, David Shirk, expuso que la propuesta del presidente Peña Nieto es un reconocimiento a la necesidad de un proceso más neutral de selección, que se deslinde de una imposición para asegurar que el Procurador se convierta en el nuevo Fiscal." (Full Story)

Entravision -- Ante el incremento de delitos de odio la policia establece nuevas tactics para evitar mas ... Ev Meade is Director of the Trans-Border Institute. (Full Story)

The Chronicle of Higher Education --  "A well-designed core curriculum could be an equalizer, providing acculturation to the university and all it has to offer..." (Full Story)

El Universal -- "El costo no es sólo por contruir un muro, es todo un sistema de personal, tecnología, mantenimiento, que tiene que operar a lo largo de los años," explica David Shirk, profesor de Relacions Internacaionles y Ciencia Política, y ex director del Trans-Border Institute de San Diego, centro académico especializado en el estudio de la frontera entre México y Estados Unidos y sus comunidades." (Full Story)

ZETA -- "El profesor David A. Shirk, de la Universidad de San Diego, apunta que esta variedad de productos puede ser una de las razones para que los flujos de trasiego de droga varíen de Norte a Sur.

“No sabemos si va a haber mercados especiales para productos californianos en México, por la calidad y por la creatividad de los productos que ya existen o que van a existir, es posible que los flujos empiecen a revertirse”, comenta en entrevista." (Full Story)

CW 6 -- Concerns about President-elect Donald Trump's business ties are "unprecedented," said USD School of Business Professor Richard E. Custin. (Full Story) 

Telemundo 10 --  Professor of peace studies featured in news story regarding border issues - Dr. Everard Meade is the Director of the Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego's Kroc School of Peace Studies.  (Full Story)

América Economia -- "Sin embargo, los autores del reporte, Nancy G. Cortés, Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira y David A. Shirk, advierten que la reducción de la delincuencia es un fenómeno de causas comunes, vinculado con patrones sociales y económicos subyacentes." (Full Story)