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Top Stories: Jan. 28, 2010Milk for Haiti; Intel's Young Scholars; SCU Student on Jeopardy; New Bayfront Property Availableby Danny Wool on Jan 28, 2010Hospital Fined for Code Violations The Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose was fined $50,000 by the California Department of Health for violations of the Department's code. It was one of thirteen hospitals, including two other Bay Area hospitals, to receive the penalty. It has ten days to appeal the decision or outline a program to avoid similar violations in the future. The fine results from an incident in April, in which a patient died after spending seven hours in the hospital's emergency waiting room. A nurse attending to the patient misread his blood results and failed to note that he was suffering from anemia. In an official response, the hospital noted the measures it would take to avoid such cases in the future. A physician and nurse now make regular rounds in the ER lobby to assess patients. The hospital noted that just last year it treated 128,000 patients in its emergency department alone, and that waiting times have been reduced over the past nine months. Read More at ABC 7. Read More at the SFGate. Milk for Haiti Some San Jose residents are sending more than just money to earthquake relief in San Jose. They're sending milk too—breast milk to be precise. The San Jose Mother's Milk Bank has sent some 500 oz. to feed babies born prematurely. The milk will be distributed to infants on the U.S.S. Comfort, a hospital ship docked in Port-au-Prince's ravaged harbor. Another shipment of milk is expected to go out over the next two weeks. The San Jose Mother's Milk Bank is the only bank of its kind in the Western United States, serving needy infants along the West Coast. Read More at NBC Bay Area. Local Students Take Top Honors in Intel's Science Talent Search It may have all the glitz and glamour of American Idol, but participants in Intel's Science Talent Search are likely to have a longer lasting impact on people around the world than even (gasp!) David Archuleta. Ten have gone on to win MacArthur grants, and seven have been awarded Nobel Prizes. Of this year's top forty finalists, three come from San Jose, and one comes from Palo Alto. Even more impressive, two finalists come from a single school, Lynnbrook High. According to Intel officials, this is the first time ever that two of the top forty came from the same school. The finalists will compete for $630,000 in prize money, including the top prize of $100,000. And the finalists are: Namrata Anand from the Harker School, for "A Spectral Analysis of the Chemical Enrichment History of Red Giants in the Andromeda Galaxy Field (M31) vs. Its Dwarf Spheroidal (dSph) Satellites." Raman Venkat Nelakanti from Lynbrook High, for "Inducing Anaerobic Conditions Using Sulfur Deprivation for Hydrogen Production in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii." David Chienyun Liu, also from Lynbrook, for "Semantic Image Retrieval and Interactive Exploration of Large Image Collections." Lynnelle Lin Ye of Palo Alto Senior High School, for "Chomp on Graphs and Subsets." It's a far cry from making a working model of a volcano. The winners of the Science talent search will be announced in Washington, D.C. in March. Read More at ABC 7. Read More at the Society for Science and the Public. Santa Clara University Student Competes on Jeopardy While some Santa Clara County high school seniors are competing for Science Talent awards and Nobel Prizes (see above), James Hill III, a Santa Clara University freshman, is competing on Jeopardy's College Championship. He is the youngest of fifteen college students from across the United States to compete in this year's special college event. Hill, who is studying journalism, says that his areas of expertise are American History, Literature, Sports, and Pop Culture. He attributes his love of knowledge to his parents, who read the newspaper to him from an early age. Given the current state of the local newspaper industry, it could be a benefit that is soon to disappear from the local landscape. Hill will make his grand debut on Jeopardy in the first week of February. Read More at Santa Clara Weekly. 2,200 Acres of Bayfront Property to Be Opened for New Uses There's an enormous buffer zone surrounding the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant today, but after the $1.5 billion overhaul of the plant, that land could be set aside for new uses. The question is what? Among the suggestions are parklands and wildlife sanctuaries, commercial zones, a high tech industrial park, or even a wildlife museum. It will likely be some combination of the above. The one remaining problem is how to pay for the plant's overhaul. Urgent repairs estimated at $250 are already being paid for, and the city and environmental groups are now considering hiking sewer rates to pay for the rest. Sewer rates are now $31 per month for homeowners, and the question is whether they will agree to these fees being raised in order to repair the plant and free up the land. Public meetings on the issue are scheduled for this spring. Read More at The Mercury News. by Danny Wool on Jan 28, 2010 |
 Santa Clara Valley Medical Center has been fined $50,000. |
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