A Sampling of Clips for
April 20, 2004
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Reengineering
the MBA
Business 2.0, April 2004-Just when
you thought the economy had shaken off the worst of the damage
wrought by bubble-era MBAs, along comes the Rady School of Management
at the University of California at San Diego,
the first business school to open at a top-tier research university
since 1970. Business 2.0 asked founding dean Robert
Sullivan to describe Rady's new curriculum.
http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/print/0,17925,601922,00.html
UCSD's Rady
School Hosts First Financial Forecasting Symposium
San Diego Daily Transcript, April
19-University of California, San Diego's new
business school held its first financial forecasting symposium
last week, bringing together leading world economists to discuss
econometrics: the science of assessing what's ahead for a city,
region or nation. The event included UCSD econometrics
professor Clive Granger, who won the 2003 Nobel
Prize for his work. (Quote by Robert Sullivan,
Founding Dean of UCSD's Rady School of Management.)
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SD University
Gift
City News Service, April 19-Pfizer
Global Research and Development has donated more than $700,000
worth of equipment and support to the University of
California San Diego's Division of Physical Sciences.
The gifts include scientific instrumentation equipment valued
at more than $500,000, and $200,000 to help launch a new academic
program in the chemistry and biochemistry department. (Quote
by Cliff Kubiak, chair of the chemistry and
biochemistry department at UCSD.)
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Hackers
Breach Research Systems, But Data Kept Safe
Computer World, April 19-In recent
weeks, malicious hackers have infiltrated systems at various
U.S. universities that operate scientific research or high-performance
computing centers. But several schools said none of their data
was compromised. Stanford University, the University
of California, San Diego, and the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign confirmed last week that systems on their
campuses had been broken into. But the intruder was quickly
detected and monitored, and as a result the intrusions were
just an "inconvenience,"
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,92352,00.html
NAFTA a
Letdown for Border Region
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 20-After
10 years, the North American Free Trade Agreement has failed
to deliver the cross-border linkages and overall economic growth
that were expected in the San Diego-Baja California region.
(Quote by Richard Feinberg, a professor at
UCSD's Graduate School of International Relations
and Pacific Studies.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/tijuana/20040420-9999-1b20nafta.html
People Loving
Oceans to Death
Anchorage Daily News, April 20-Faced
with declining fish stocks, marine pollution, invasive species
and threats to sea floor habitat, a national commission today
called for a tsunami of change in how the country manages its
oceans. It wants, among other changes, to create a new presidential
adviser on ocean policy and provide more than a billion dollars
in new annual funding for ocean research, monitoring and education.
(Quote by Charles Keeling, director of Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.adn.com/front/story/4985851p-4913934c.html
Laser Optics
Try To Bridge Last Mile
Information Week, April 19-A small
telecom equipment maker is betting on laser-optic technology
it says will give companies the speed and quality of fiber optics
at a fraction of the cost. Omnilux Inc., mostly owned by troubled
tech incubator Idealab, will disclose this week that it has
licensed patents for building "free-space optics"
networks that are more impervious to the effects of bad weather.
The patents, licensed from the University of California,
San Diego, describe a way to transmit data using laser
beams shone from roof-mounted equipment over short distances.
(Quote by Anthony Acampora, a professor of
electrical and computer engineering at UCSD
who invented the technology.)
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