A Sampling of Clips for
April 23, 2004
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When to
End Life Support Not Set in Stone
Forbes, April 22-Age and the extent
of organ damage used to be the two most important criteria in
determining who in an intensive care unit would be kept on life
support and who would not. But a new Canadian study says decisions
to take critically ill patients off life support now have less
to do with these conventional measures and more often reflect
a doctor's subjective opinion about the patient's chances of
surviving. (Quote by Lawrence Schneiderman
M.D., an expert in medical ethics at the University
of California at San Diego.)
http://www.forbes.com/health/feeds/hscout/2003/09/17/hscout515136.html
Enter the
Matrix
The Scientist, April 26-Appreciation
in biology can come slowly. Researchers once deemed as junk
the parts of genes not represented in proteins; likewise, neuroglia
were thought to be mere bystanders to neurons. So it is with
the extracellular matrix (ECM), the "scaffolding"
and "glue" that fill the spaces among cells. New ways
of excavating the ECM reveal that it is much more. (Quote by
Shu Chien, director of the Whitaker Institute
of Biomedical Engineering at the University of California,
San Diego.)
http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2004/apr/research1_040426.html
Critics
question University of California executive salaries
KESQ, April 22-The University of California
is being criticized for giving its top executives pay rises
while cutting student enrollment and raising student fees. An
incoming chancellor at UC San Diego will be
paid $350,000 a year, $70,000 more than her predecessor. A spokesman
for the University of California says the university has to
offer those salaries to stay competitive with offers from other
universities.
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=1808660&nav=9qrxMWmL
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articles appeared in:
Herald Tribune, April 22
http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
/20040422/APN/404221017
San Jose Mercury News,
April 22
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_
news/8495126.htm?ERIGHTS=-1330237347899652697mercurynews
San Diego Union-Tribune,
April 22
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20040422-1307-ca-ucsalaries.html
UC Gets
Ophthalmology Grant
North County Times, April 23-The University
of California, San Diego's Shiley Eye Center received
$2 million to establish a distinguished chair in ophthalmology.
Tatiana A. Lansche provided the endowment to honor the work
and memory of her late husband, Richard K. Lansche M.D., a respected
San Diego-area ophthalmologist, said Stuart Brown
M.D., chairman of the Shiley Eye Center.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/04/23/special_
reports/science_technology/22_49_454_22_04.txt
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article appeared in:
City News Service, April 22
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Smart Like a Fox
La Jolla
Village News, April 15-The University of California
Board of Regents has selected the first woman chancellor to
lead students, staff and faculty of the University of
California at San Diego into the 21st century. "Her
academic credentials are astounding," UC President Robert
C. Dynes said during an April 12 press conference announcing
the appointment of Marye Anne Fox. "It's
my view that everything she has done to this day has led her
to UCSD."
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/eclips/pdf/fox_villagenews.pdf
Separated at Birth?
Chronicle of Higher Education, April
16-We all suspect that dog owners look like their pets -- how
could 101 Dalmatians be wrong? Now, a study shows that that
assumption may be spot on. Nicholas J.S. Christenfeld,
a professor of psychology at the University of California
at San Diego, sent two undergraduate assistants to
local parks to take photos of 45 dog owners and their pets.
Back on the campus, 28 other undergraduate students then had
to pick which of two dog photos matched a given owner. In most
cases, the judges matched the owners of purebred dogs with their
pooches, but had no such luck matching owners of mutts. Mr.
Christenfeld's results will appear in the May
2004 issue of the journal Psychological Science.
http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i32/32a01002.htm
Kerry's `Band of Brothers'
Join His Fight for the White House
Bloomberg, April 23-Many war veterans
view getting John F. Kerry elected as the next president as
their last mission. Kerry, a four-term senator from Massachusetts,
has gotten more than 12,000 of the nation's 26 million military
veterans to volunteer for his campaign, but in a George Washington
University Battleground Poll conducted March 28-31, more than
60 percent of 200 veterans surveyed said President Bush should
be re-elected. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political
science professor at the University of California, San
Diego.)
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=
aJxZ3X4sOEAw&refer=us#
Good Morning
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 23-A
fixture for many years on the UCSD campus,
the San Diego International Film Festival might have ended after
founding director Ruth Baily died last summer. But it's back,
for a weekend that new fest head Martin Wollesen
calls "a temporary transition" to a longer event next
year. Ten features and about 20 shorts will be shown, today
through Sunday at the Price Center Theater on the La Jolla campus.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040423-9999-1c23friday1.html
