A Sampling of Clips for 
April 29 - 30, 2003

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New programs hit the ground running
International Herald Tribune, Mar. 24 – The University of California, San Diego has taken on an ambitious plan that calls for the enrollment of its first executive MBA class in the fall of 2004. UCSD’s full- and part-time MBA programs will focus on technology, with strong ties to its already well-regarded medical, engineering and international relations schools, including the possibility of joint degrees. UCSD will target younger students from diverse cultural backgrounds. To steer the program, it has hired Robert S. Sullivan, an expert in entrepreneurship, knowledge management and venture financing to serve as dean.
http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=90803

Science academy elects San Diegans
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 30 – Two researchers in San Diego were among 72 American and 18 foreign scientists elected yesterday to the National Academy of Sciences. They are Dr. Dennis A. Carson, professor of medicine and director of The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging at the University of California, San Diego and Fred H. Gage, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute of Biological Sciences in La Jolla.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_2m30briefs.html

Scientists Making New Drugs From Deep Sea Microorganisms
Wavy-TV, VA, Apr. 30 – William Fenical, an ocean scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography has found a potential new source of drugs -- microscopic organisms from the deep sea. "These microorganisms exist in very high quantities in deep ocean muds and they're exactly the same types of microorganisms that have provided antibiotics for the pharmaceutical industry for the last 60 years," says Fenical.
http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=1255367

UCSD prof wins Guggenheim award
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 29 – Lisa Lowe, a professor of literature at University of California, San Diego, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor bestowed on 184 artists, scholars, and scientists. Lowe teaches comparative literature and has been on UCSD’s faculty since 1986.
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Mexico's poor rely on nonprofit lender to bail them out
Houston Chronicle, Apr. 29 – Even though Mexico's economy has grown tremendously in the past decade, the poor and middle class still turn to pawnshops for cash because many people live off day-to-day earnings, with no savings or credit cards to draw on. "It's another survival strategy for a country with a large number of people at or below poverty level," said Erik Lee, assistant director at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
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Doctors, Distributors Debate Vitamin Issue
SanDiegoChannel.com, Apr. 29 – A report in the New York Times states a growing number of medical experts are concerned that Americans are overdoing vitamins. Dr. Bill Norcross of University of California, San Diego Medical Center said that some might not be so good for you. "I think it's been known for a long time that Americans take more supplements than they need to," Norcross said. He also said there are studies showing too much vitamin A can lead to bone loss and that Beta Carotene can accelerate the rate of lung cancer in smokers.
http://www.thesandiegochannel.com/health/2167685/detail.html

Border traffic
San Diego Union-Tribune, Apr. 27 – Paul Cellucci, the U.S. ambassador to Canada, recently announced that the Bush administration has agreed to exempt Canadian citizens from a new border security system that will require visitors to register upon entering or exiting the United States. (Mentions the San Diego Dialogue, a University of California, San Diego group that fosters cross-border cooperation).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_mz1e27botto.html

Military war casualties falling
Canberra Times (Australia), OPINION, Apr. 30 – 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 war casualties. Williams teaches a Spring Quarter Masters program in terrorism at UCSD.
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