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April 17, 2003

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College leaders see security rules hampering research
Washington Times, Apr. 16 – Presidents and chancellors of the nation's 62 largest research universities cautioned against excessive security procedures in the war on terrorism that could hurt the country's ability to attract the best minds from around the world for U.S. science, engineering and medical research programs. They said half of all researchers in federally funded university programs come from foreign countries. Robert C. Dynes, chancellor of the University of California, San Diego said 4,500 colleges and universities and 1,400 student-exchange programs have been required to enter the names of all foreign students, their countries of origin, visa information and academic majors onto a centralized federal database called the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS).
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030416-69031406.htm

Wi-Fi could let Iraq skip steps to leap into broadband
USA Today, Apr. 17 – When Iraq is rebuilt, an emerging wireless Internet technology may let it avoid the broadband woes that have plagued the USA for years. Wi-Fi sends Web pages and phone calls via radio waves so by using this new technology, parts of Iraq could skip the build-out of traditional phone and cable networks altogether. While contracts to rebuild Iraq's telecom networks are still being discussed, Wi-Fi has already been proved in remote places such as Native American reservations with programs sponsored by the University of California, San Diego and Hewlett-Packard.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/world/iraq/2003-04-16-wifi_x.htm

Freeway Bridge Tab Cut Again
Los Angeles Times, Apr. 17 – Orange County officials say the cost of fixing the San Diego- Costa Mesa carpool span -- originally pegged at $8 million -- will now be as low as $1.5 million. The 60-foot-high connector is part of a $125-million effort to improve the interchange, one of the nation's 10 busiest. Rick Grebner, a senior project manager for Orange County Transportation Authority, credited some of the cost savings to Freider Seible, a bridge expert and dean of University of California, San Diego's engineering department. Seible was hired by OCTA to evaluate the structure and recommend repairs.
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A Champion of Discarded Artists
Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr. 18 – Bram Dijkstra, a professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego, discusses his view on American Expressionism. Dijkstra has written several well-received books about the connections among American art, literature, and society.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i32/32a02001.htm

UC sees highest freshman enrollment, but getting in is harder
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 17 –The University of California admitted its highest number of freshmen ever this year, however, getting into the most popular campuses also became tougher. UCLA and UC Berkeley turned away three out of four applicants, and the University of California, San Diego rejected six out of ten applicants. The number of admitted foreign students dropped 54 percent to 151, largely because of fewer applications, said Mae Brown, interim assistant vice chancellor for enrollment management at UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/news/news_1n17uc.html

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University of California, San Diego to Get $110-Million
Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr. 18 – The University of California, San Diego received a $110-million pledge for its engineering school last month, then formally announced a seven-year campaign to raise $1-billion. The pledge is from Irwin M. Jacobs, a former engineering professor at the university, and his wife, Joan. Mr. Jacobs is chief executive officer and chairman of Qualcomm Inc., which specializes in digital and wireless technology.
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Supercomputer Cell Modeling Aims for Disease-Free Future
NewsFactor Network, Apr. 17 – Virtual human cells -- computer-generated digital models -- may make testing the effectiveness of a new drug or charting the course of a perplexing disease as simple as typing on a keyboard. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have mapped essential cellular structures with supercomputer simulations. The modeling provides ultra-fine atomic, molecular and cellular details that promise better understanding of how microtubules transport drugs to cellular binding sites. "We've achieved a new landmark in the scale of cellular structures that we can model from a molecular perspective," UCSD chemistry professor and lead investigator J. Andrew McCammon said.
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21294.html

More high flying
San Diego Union-Tribune, DIANE BELL, Apr. 17 – First woman astronaut Sally Ride, who teaches at University of California, San Diego, is getting the first Anne Morrow Lindbergh Award.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/bell/20030417-9999_7m17bell.html

C-CAT accepting funding applications
San Diego Daily Transcript, Apr. 15 – Since launching 21 months ago, the San Diego-based Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technologies has funneled more than $7.5 million to 45 technology companies, university researchers and government labs. C-CAT said Tuesday it would accept applications for more funding. C-CAT operates as a partnership between San Diego State University and the University California, San Diego, with support from Orincon Corp. International and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center, San Diego. (Quotes Fred Cutler, the chief executive of UCSD Connect and a C-CAT board member).
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Return to the 'Lost City of Atlantis'
BBC News (UK), Apr. 17 – Scientists are returning to one of the most remarkable places on our planet, the so-called Lost City of Atlantis. An expedition from the University of Washington is to use the submersible Alvin to take the first samples from the formation of 18-storey-high hydrothermal vents in the mid-Atlantic. The so-called Lost City of Atlantis was discovered by accident in December 2000 by an automated sea-bed explorer that stumbled across it near the end of a University of Washington, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and US National Science Foundation expedition to survey the mid-Atlantic.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2955743.stm

StorageTek Punches Up T9940B
Byteandswitch.com (NY), Apr. 17 – StorageTek's T9940B is staking its claim as the high-capacity tape drive of choice for performance computing environments and networks. Now, with new features and attachment to smaller libraries, customers, partners and analysts agree; the StorageTek T9940B is the hardest working tape drive in the industry. " UCSD’s San Diego Supercomputer Center sees an explosive growth of data collections in academic research and moving to StorageTek T9940B tape drive technology allows us to meet these emerging needs," said Phil Andrews, director of High End Computing, SDSC.
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=31445

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