A Sampling of Clips for May 11, 2010

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Johns Hopkins Builds a B-School from Scratch
BusinessWeek, May 10 – Johns Hopkins received a $50 million gift from banker William Polk Carey, leading to the founding of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School in 2007 and a new lofty mission to become one of the world's leading business schools. That vision will be put to the test this August when the school launches its new Global MBA program, with a curriculum that the school's inaugural dean, Yash Gupta, says seeks to reinvent the modern MBA. (Quotes Robert Sullivan, dean of the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego) More

Fire Pits a Smoldering Issue in San Diego
Los Angeles Times, May 10 -- Standing beside one of those concrete icons of the beach-oriented lifestyle here, Mayor Jerry Sanders announced Monday that the civic scare about the imminent removal of fire pits has been averted — at least for now. (Quotes Steve Erie, a professor of political science at UC San Diego) More

A Trolley Stop at UCSD -- a Good Idea?
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 10 -- Local transportation planners this week will continue their public meetings on plans to extend the San Diego Trolley from Old Town to UC San Diego and University City. A meeting -- the second of five scheduled for this month -- will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at UC San Diego, Price Center East ballroom. More

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Lessons from Market Panics
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 10 -- Five years ago, long before last week’s Wall Street plunge, economist Sylvain Champonnois embarked on a study of how economic crises can have a contagious effect on stock investments throughout the world. Champonnois, an assistant professor of finance at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, said the lessons he’s learned help show how the financial problems in Greece — a country with a population and economic output less than that of Los Angeles — can push the Dow Jones industrial average and other stock indexes into a tailspin and can affect economies worldwide. More

Genetic Tests on Shelves
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 10 -- Consumer interest in genetic testing could receive a major boost this week when kits from Pathway Genomics of San Diego  hit the shelves of Walgreens drugstores nationwide, even as some scientists question the usefulness of the screenings. (Quotes Kelly Frazer, chief of genome information sciences for the department of pediatrics at the UC San Diego School of Medicine) More

Pacific may be Gearing Up for Return of La Niña
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 10 -- Goodbye, El Niño. Hello, La Niña? It’s by no means guaranteed, but conditions in the Pacific Ocean seem to be shifting toward the periodic phenomenon that almost always robs rain from Southern California and the Southwest. (Quotes David Pierce, a climate researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla) More

How to Get a San Diego Job in Health Law
SDNN, May 10 -- When Tim Mackey began studying for a master’s degree in the newly minted Health Law program at UC San Diego Extension, he wanted to better understand the compliance and legal issues in play at the medical device company where he works. More

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