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April 23, 2003

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Graduate Programs Provide Lessons in Leadership
San Diego Metropolitan, March – While most MBA programs concentrate on the financial side of business with courses in accounting and financing, many colleges find that leadership and management programs that focus on soft skills like negotiating and team-building are also valuable for running corporations. Colleges across the country are shifting their programs to incorporate these skills. Founding Dean of University of California, San Diego’s, graduate management school Robert Sullivan says the school “recognizes there are skills and attributes of leaders,” and that people skills such as communication, team-building and negotiation are skills that are taught and learned.
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Pentagon funds sleep deprivation studies
Washington Times, Apr. 23 – The recent war in Iraq showed that sleep deprivation doesn't just impair soldiers' performance — it might endanger their lives. Although the fighting is largely over, the Defense Department continues to support studies to identify people who can function with less sleep, how to treat the symptoms of sleep deprivation and how to allow people to get by with no sleep at all. The University of California, San Diego is conducting two of the studies and researchers are attempting to identify the biological differences in people "more resilient to sleep loss," says Sean Drummond, assistant professor of psychiatry at UCSD.
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20030422-083655-9945r.htm

Article also appeared in:
United Press International, Apr. 23

New Brain Imaging Pinpoints Areas Of Brain Most Crucial For Normal Functioning
ScienceDaily, Apr. 23 – A team of researchers led by cognitive scientist Elizabeth Bates, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, has developed a novel new brain imaging technique that produces maps that "light up" the relationship between the severity of a behavioral deficit and the voxels (similar to pixels in computer images) in the brain that contribute the most to that deficit. (Mentions Martin Sereno, researcher involved in the study and an associate professor of the UCSD Cognitive Science Department).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/04/030423083319.htm

Breathing Lessons
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 22 – Patients at the Pulmonary Rehab Program at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest receive breathing assessment, supervised exercise, training in how to breathe and exercise at home properly, psychological support and a plan to keep with the program. Begun by the late Dr. Kenneth Moser, the UCSD program spent decades trying to convince the medical establishment of the benefits – both humane and financial – of the low-cost, noninvasive, undramatic business of teaching pulmonary patients to breathe as best they can. A breakthrough came with a five-year study completed in 2001 involving UCSD and 17 other pulmonary-rehab centers nationally. It found rehab patients showed significant improvement in breathing and movement compared with a control group. (Quotes Trina Limberg, program director and Andrew Ries, medical director of the UCSD program).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20030422-9999_mz1c22breath.html

Article also appeared in:
Copley News Service, Apr. 22

No picnic here
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 23 – David Holway, an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego's biology division has been studying Argentine ants. In California, these ants have displaced more than 50 species of native ants, some ten times their size, to establish a "supercolony" that stretches from San Diego almost to the Oregon border. Holway will give a lecture on the Argentine ant at 7 p.m. Friday at the Fallbrook Public Utility District. It is the second in a series of lectures on environmental science sponsored by the Fallbrook Land Conservancy.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030423-9999_1mi23ants.html

Mosaic started Web rush, Internet boom
News-Gazette (Urbana, Champaign, IL), Apr. 20 – The first version of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications' (NCSA) Mosaic was released 10 years ago this month. The Web browser quickly eclipsed text-centric methods, such as Golpher and Telnet, for tapping Internet resources. (Quotes Larry Smarr, professor and director of CAL-(IT)2 at the University of California, San Diego).
http://www.newsgazette.com/searchng/index.cfm?page=story.cfm&collection=month&search=mosaic&number=13645

Interview: Chien Discusses Smarr's OptIPuter
Grid Today, Apr. 21 – In September of 2002, the OptIPuter project recieved $13.5 million dollars to be awarded over 5 years to push the distributed computing effort forward. Initially the vision of University of California, San Diego Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr, the effort has drawn Grid computing visionaries from across the field, including UCSD's Mark Ellisman and San Diego Supercomputer Center's Phil Papadopolous. http://www.gridtoday.com/03/0421/101321.html

Nutrition mission
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 23 – Nutrition experts and doctors are pointing to school lunches to combat obesity. Locally, many school districts are making efforts to offer more healthful lunches and to encourage kids to be more active. Jeffrey Schwimmer, an assistant professor of pediatrics at University of California, San Diego, who sees young patients at Children's Hospital's Weight and Wellness Clinic, said he makes a habit of asking kids what they ate for lunch. While eating habits are formed in early childhood, researchers have found that middle school is a key period when kids start forming diet and exercise habits that will last into adulthood.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/food/news_mz1f23nutri.html

US freedoms only go so far
Canberra Times (Australia), OPINION, Apr. 23 – Clive Williams, director of terrorism studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Center of the ANU and a visiting professor at the University of California, San Diego discusses freedom in America. Williams teaches a Spring Quarter Masters program in terrorism at UCSD.
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