A Sampling of Clips for 
August 26, 2003

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'Smart' Dust Knows where to Go
Reuters, Aug. 25- Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed dust-sized chips of silicon that allow them to rapidly and remotely detect a variety of biological and chemical agents. According to a statement from UCSD, the development is likely to have wider commercial use in research and medical laboratories - in performing rapid biochemical assays, screening chemicals for potential new drugs and testing samples for toxic materials.
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=3333544

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San Jose Business Journal, Aug. 25 http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2003/08/25/daily15.html

Economic Times (India Times), Aug. 26
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=147065

E4engineering.com, Aug. 26
http://www.e4engineering.com/item.asp?id=46340

City News Service, Aug. 25
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Painful Questions From an Ex-Astronaut
New York Times, Aug. 26-Sally Ride, who is on leave as a professor of physics at the University of California at San Diego, is interviewed by Claudia Dreifus at the New York Times, about her time on the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and her new mission, encouraging girls to become scientists.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/science/space/26CONV.html

CD Player Finds New Use as Molecular Detective
Scientific American, Aug. 22-Michael Burkart, an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSD, has helped develop a technique in which commercially available compact discs (CDs), CD players, and CD computer drives are used to monitor biomolecular interactions. This technique could lead to inexpensive molecular screening devices for lab research and for diagnostic testing in homes and doctors' offices. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000D7281-8843-1F42-B0B980A841890000

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Wired Magazine, Aug. 22
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,60138,00.html

Chemical & Engineering News, Aug. 25
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/8134/8134notw6.html

Blind spots shed light
The Australian, Aug. 26- The case of Mike May, who was blinded at age 3 and regained his vision 40 years later, has given scientists from the University of California, San Diego valuable clues to the way in which the human brain learns to handle visual information.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,7068543%255E2703,00.html

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Baltimore Sun, Aug. 25
http://www.sunspot.net/news/bal-te.md.sight25aug25.story

The Houston Chronicle, Aug. 25
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Rising Tuition Costs Put Students in Crunch
National Public Radio, Aug. 22-According to San Diego correspondent Scott Horsley on "All Things Considered," many students returning to college this fall are facing significant tuition hikes. Horsley reports that Jacobs School undergraduate Joe Collins "is adjusting to the higher fees," and "eventually, hopes to trade in his supermarket apron for a job in mechanical engineering." (Interview by Vincent de Anda, Director of UCSD's Financial Aid Office.)
http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ATC&showDate=21-Aug-2003&segNum=7&NPRMediaPref=RM (RealPlayer)
http://www.npr.org/dmg/dmg.php?prgCode=ATC&showDate=21-Aug-2003&segNum=7&NPRMediaPref=WM (Windows Media Player)

SD UCSD Donations
City News Service, Aug. 25-UC San Diego has received $131.1 million in private donations so far this fiscal year, up 31 percent from last year.The school attributes the boost to the March 15 public launch of a $1 billion fund-raising initiative. "The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What's Next" was started privately in July 2000. (Quote by Robert C. Dynes, UCSD Chancellor.)
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Eyes on the White House, Kerry Keeps Focus on Vietnam
The New York Times, Aug. 26-As he criticized the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq, Senator John Kerry assured thousands of fellow V.F.W. members today that should he become commander in chief, he would bring the perspective of someone who's fought on the front lines. (Quote by Gary C. Jacobson, a political science professor at the University of California at San Diego.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/26/politics/campaigns/26KERR.html

Ocean Is on the Line
Newsday, Aug. 26- Waves of new ocean studies, contributed by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and elsewhere, are reporting the depth of overfishing, failures of ocean management, fish-farm contamination, invading species and new diseases, coastal crowding and pollution, dying coral reefs - and what could be done to ease such problems.
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpsaf263429006aug26,0,2092466.story

Supercomputing Center Here Joining Powerful National Grid
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Aug. 26- The National Science Foundation launched TeraGrid two years ago with a $53 million plan to link computers at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois with the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the California Institute of Technology. Computer scientists have now taken the first steps to tie the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's LeMieux computer into the nascent network, establishing a high-speed, fiber-optic link between the computer in Monroeville and the TeraGrid's eastern hub in Chicago.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03238/215158.stm

Making a Case for San Diego's Military Economy
San Diego Business Journal, opinion, Aug. 25-Mayor Dick Murphy's Washington trip spotlights why the nation still needs San Diego's critically important defense resources. As a region, we have bragging rights about unequaled military, academic, and commercial prowess in information technology, and about critical investments that will enable us to maintain that leadership, from CAL-IT (2), to the Supercomputer Center, to Irwin and Joan Jacobs' major gift to the UC San Diego School of Engineering.
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Week In Review
San Diego Business Journal, Aug. 25-UC San Diego ranked seventh among the top 50 public universities in the United States in the annual America's Best Colleges guidebook issued Aug. 22 by U.S. News & World Report.
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