A Sampling of Clips for
April 28, 2006
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Light on Their Feet
The Economist, April 27 -- Business-school deans are on the move. In the 1980s and 1990s it was not uncommon for them to stay in the same job for a decade or two. Now the average tenure is three to five years, says Bill Funk, a headhunter at Korn Ferry who searches for many of them. “We marvel at the turnover,” he adds, not without a little glee. (Mentions Robert Sullivan, dean of the Rady School of Management at UCSD.) More
Chomsky Challenge: Bird Said
to Grasp Key Aspect of Human Language
MSNBC, 26 April -- Noam Chomsky has endured many attempts to disprove his widely respected theories of language, but never have any of them come from a 3-ounce bird. The European starling, a tiny virtuoso, has the ability to learn and recognize a feature of grammar that has long been thought to be unique to human languages, UCSD researchers report in a new study. Chomsky isn't buying it, however. More
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College Students Warned About Mumps
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 28 -- When tens of thousands of local college students open their e-mail over the next few days, they are likely to see an advisory about a disease thought to have largely disappeared before they were born. The United States is in the midst of the biggest mumps outbreak in 17 years – about 1,700 confirmed or probable cases – and doctors charged with looking after the health of thousands of college students in San Diego County are ramping up efforts to prevent the disease from sweeping through their campuses as it has in the Midwest. (Quotes Dr. Brian J. Murray, director of Student Health and Wellness at UCSD.) More
Three UC San Diego Researchers
Elected to National Academy of Sciences
North County Times, April 28 -- Three UCSD researchers were elected to the National Academy of Sciences, which advises the federal government in matters of science and technology, University of California officials announced Thursday. The lifetime appointments were made during the NAS's 143rd annual meeting this week in Washington, D.C. More
Zable: ‘Why Would I Retire?’
San Diego Union-Tribune, April 28 -- The day Walter J. Zable hit retirement age, Jimmy Carter had yet to complete his presidency. The head of Cubic Corp. has outlasted the Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations. And he's well on his way to remaining chairman, president and chief executive through George W. Bush's two terms. Zable, who is 90, works five days a week at a job he has held since he founded the San Diego company in 1951. And he has no plans to slow down. (Quotes Richard Atkinson, a former UCSD chancellor who retired as president of the University of California three years ago.) More
