A Sampling of Clips for 
April 20, 2005

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Migrant Workers Being Educated on HIV
ABC News, April 20-Previous studies of the state's migrant population have indicated a fairly high amount of risk behavior but not a lot of HIV, according to George Lemp, director of the University-wide Aids Research Program at the University of California. To keep that from happening, the program is working with state agencies, clinics and the Mexican government to test and educate migrants. (Refers to research conducted by UCSD.) More

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Drug Makers Prepare to Argue Against a Patent
New York Times, April 19-At a ceremony in Tokyo tomorrow, Erkki Ruoslahti, a cell biologist, will receive the prestigious Japan Prize and about $230,000 for a fundamental discovery he made in the 1980's. That same day in Washington, much higher sums could hang in the balance when the Supreme Court hears arguments in a patent lawsuit arising from Ruoslahti's work. (Refers to research conducted by David Cheresh, who has just left the Scripps Research Institute to join UCSD.) More

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Stemming the Slide
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 20-Researchers in several countries are exploring a radical new idea that, just possibly, transplanted cells or stem cells, can come to the rescue of patients with narrowed, blocked arteries and weakened cardiac muscle. (Refers to research conducted by Kenneth Chien at UCSD.) More

UC Admits a Record 50,017
State Freshmen for the Fall, Up 11%
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 20-The University of California has admitted a record number of freshmen for the coming fall, signaling a confidence that the upcoming budget cycle will provide money for additional new students. Officials at UCSD accepted about 630 more students than last year, a 3.7 percent increase. More

Total Steroid Ban Would Aid Baseball
San Jose Mercury News, April 20-When the House of Representatives glared down upon shrinking baseball players last month, most of us saw a bite of Curt Schilling's blather, a bite of Jose Canseco's newfound commitment to truth, and another bite of the self-humiliation of Mark McGwire. (Refers to research by Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, chair of the department of family medicine at UCSD.) More

Look Ahead to the End of This Century and Climate Change Could Dramatically Alter the State's Signature Rockies
Rocky Mountain News, April 20-Physicist-turned-ecologist John Harte says he's glimpsed the future of Colorado's high country under global warming, and it's not a pretty sight. (Refers to research conducted by Naomi Oreskes, a researcher at UCSD.) More

Rady School Adds Endowed Chairs
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 20-UCSD's Rady School of Management has added two new endowed faculty chairs: the Sheryl and Harvey White Chair in Management Leadership and the Atkinson/Epstein Chair in Management Leadership. More

Food Pyramid Gets a Makeover
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 20-The old, stodgy food pyramid is getting in shape. The new toned-up MyPyramid, unveiled yesterday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is smarter, leaner and very computer savvy. (Quote by Cheryl Rock, professor of nutrition at the UCSD School of Medicine.) More