A Sampling of Clips for
April 13, 2004
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N.C. Chancellor Named to
Same Post at UCSD
Los Angeles Times, April 13-Regents
of the University of California on Monday approved the appointment
of North Carolina State University Chancellor Marye
Anne Fox, 56, as the new leader of UC San Diego,
effective in August. UC President Robert C. Dynes,
who was chancellor of UC San Diego until he
took his current job last fall, praised Fox,
a chemist, as a gifted academic and dynamic campus leader.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sbriefs13.1apr13,1,5168173.story?coll=la-headlines-california
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articles appeared in:
NBC News, April 12
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/education/2995553/detail.html
San Francisco Chronicle,
April 13
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/13/BAGH8641J81.DTL
Contra Costa Times,
April 13
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8419576.htm
Tri-Valley Herald,
April 13
http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10671~2080479,00.html#
San Jose Mercury News,
April 12
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/
california/northern_california/8415770.htm
Monterey Herald-Tribune,
April 13
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/
politics/8415770.htm
Sarasota Herald-Tribune,
April 12
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040412/APN/404121011
City News Service,
April 12
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
April 13
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040413-9999-1m13ucsd.html
San Diego Daily Transcript,
April 12
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Teen Obesity, Lack of Exercise
United Press International, April
13-A California study finds the lack of physical activity is
the most significant risk factor contributing to obesity in
11- to 15-year-olds. In the study, published in the Archives
of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, researchers at the University
of California San Diego School of Medicine and San
Diego State University find the proportion of overweight adolescents
has increased significantly in recent years.
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A Cherished
R2-D2 Statue is Replaced
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 13-The
robotics team at UCSD's Preuss School, after
winning an "engineering inspiration" award in regional
competition, heads tomorrow to the national championships in
Atlanta, with a 3-foot-by-2-foot-by-5-foot aluminum-jointed
creation called M3, (short for Midnight Mechanics, third year).
The charter school serves low-income, first-generation college-bound
students. Robot club members fine-tuned M3 through consultation
with engineers from SpaWars and the S.D. Supercomputer
Center.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/bell/20040413-9999-1m13bell.html
A Study That Barks
Los
Angeles Times, Opinion, April 13-A Los Angeles
Times reader expresses his concerns over the recent article
"Yes, You Might Really Look Like a Dog, Study Says,"
April 4. "With the state being in the financial crisis
that it is, how in the world can UC San Diego
afford to fund a study that concludes people often keep dogs
that resemble themselves?" said Alan McCall of Garden Grove.
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