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April 22, 2003
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The New
M.B.A.
Chronicle of Higher Education, Apr.
25 – Business schools are redesigning their curriculums,
forging closer ties with businesses, and giving students more
freedom to customize their degrees. M.B.A. programs are trying
not only to give their students an edge in a brutal job market,
but also to distinguish themselves from their competitors. Robert
S. Sullivan, dean of the University of California,
San Diego’s new School of Management, said that
the program, which will enroll its first M.B.A. students in
the fall of 2004 at UCSD, will recruit young
technology- and science-savvy students, and will offer joint
degrees with programs in medicine, engineering, and international
relations. Unlike traditional two-year M.B.A. programs, UCSD's
will allow a student to complete the degree in as little as
one year.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i33/33a01201.htm
Options
for Protecting Bones After Menopause
New York Times, Apr. 22 – Last
summer, a large federal study reported there is no question
that supplemental estrogen protects bones, largely preventing
the rapid loss of bone that occurs in the first three to five
years after menopause. In a study of 140,584 women to be presented
this month, Dr. Elizabeth Barrett-Connor of
the University of California, San Diego, found
that protection against hip fracture was rapidly lost once a
woman stopped taking estrogen. For postmenopausal women who
do not take hormones, a bone density test and an assessment
of risk helps to identify those who need continued therapy with
another agent to prevent or treat osteoporosis.
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5 Birth-Defect Cases Tell
a Centuries-Old Tale
New York Times, Apr. 22 – Five
New Mexico children share a genetic disorder that might have
first occurred here about 400 years ago, when Spanish settlers
first arrived. A New Mexico doctor has told the children's parents
that a founder effect is at work here, referring to a genetic
disorder that developed from a relatively isolated or stable
population, in this case Hispanic New Mexicans in the state's
Rio Grande Valley who descended from the first Spanish settlers.
Because the disorder was not detected sooner, the families say
they also wonder if environmental factors may have somehow affected
their children. According to Dr. Kenneth Jones,
a professor of pediatrics at the University of California,
San Diego, "Environmental factors don't get passed
through families," he said. "A gene can get carried
down from the grandmother's grandmother's mother without anybody
expressing it."
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University
of California Attacking Academic Freedom
Frontpagemag.com, Apr. 21 –
The UC's official statements on academic freedom ensures that
students will not be subjected to the unabashed political leanings
of their instructors, no matter the climate. But in this time
of war, former UCSD Chancellor Richard Atkinson,
now the UC president, and UC Berkeley law professor Robert Post
are attempting to relinquish professorial oversight from the
UC Academic Freedom statements, perhaps to lessen the degree
to which professors are responsible for their impartiality.
The Atkinson/Post changes to UC Academic Freedom statements
no doubt reduce accountability of professors in classroom debate
and their own course-expressed personal opinions.
http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7397
News Briefs
La Jolla Light, Apr. 10 – University
of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
announced that Francine Berman, a professor of computer science
and engineering and director of the UCSD’s
San Diego Supercomputer Center, has been appointed first holder
of the Endowed Chair in High Performance Computing. "Fran
Berman is a pioneer in grid computing and a leader
in the international effort to build a comprehensive information
infrastructure to support 21st century research in science and
engineering," said Jacobs School Dean Frieder Seible.
"We are pleased to be able to honor Fran
with this endowed chair appointment, and recognize her for her
worldwide leadership in science and technology."
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/04/10/n030410news_briefs.html
Parents
of toddler with brain tumor want homeopathy, not surgery
Associated Press, Apr. 21 –
A county prosecutor in Michigan who has asked a court to order
brain surgery for a 2-year-old girl with a cancerous brain tumor
says he only wants what's best for the child but the lawyer
representing the child’s parents argue that this kind
of decision should be made by her parents, not the government.
The child’s parents decided not to allow doctors to remove
the tumor and would like to take her to a Montreal homeopath
for regular herbal and nutritional treatments instead. Lawrence
Schneiderman, a doctor of internal medicine and a medical ethicist
who teaches at the University of California, San Diego,
agree that the final decision regarding treatment should rest
with the girl's parents and physicians.
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