A Sampling of Clips for 
December 18, 2002

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UC San Diego Business School will get technical
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 18 – Feature on UCSD’s Graduate Management School. (Quotes Robert Sullivan, dean of UCSD’s Graduate Management School and Mary Walshok, Associate Vice Chancellor of University Extension).
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-flan18dec18.story (L.A. Times on-line subscribers only)

California inmate who received heart transplant dies
Associated Press, Dec. 17 – A California prison inmate has died nearly a year after receiving a heart transplant that sparked a nationwide ethical debate about the propriety of organ transplants for convicted criminals. (Quotes Lawrence Schneiderman, family and preventive medicine professor at UCSD).
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Putting a Human Face on 'It'
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 17 -- Technology writers P.J. Huffstutter and Alex Pham report on the creation of the all-digital character Gollum who stars in part two of the "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy. The production team relied on theories developed by Henrik Wann Jensen, an assistant computer science and engineering professor at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering, to create the realistic look of human skin.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gollum17dec17.story (L.A. Times on-line subscribers only)

Gompers, UCSD Partnership Offers Online Tutoring
San Diego Business Journal, Dec. 2-8 Issue -- UCSD’s Student Educational Advancement Division provides an online distance tutoring program to Gompers Secondary School in San Diego. Thirty-one Webcam computers were installed at Gompers, which enables students to see, hear, and to communicate in writing with UCSD undergrad students who acted as tutors. The Webcam program is made possible by a $1.4 million grant from a federally funded college preparatory initiative for low-income students.
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Scientist Explores What Creates ‘Liars, Lovers And Heroes
San Diego Business Journal, Dec. 2-8 Issue -- Terrence J. Sejnowski, UCSD biology professor and director of UCSD’s Institute for Neural Computation, and his former colleague Steven Quartz co-authored a new book titled, “Liars, Lovers and Heroes: What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We Are.”
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Sea Worthy: Walter Munk's contributions to oceanography run long and deep
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 18 – Profile of Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Walter Munk. (Quotes Scripps director Charles Kennel).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c18munk.html

El Nino winds up for precipitation punch to the region
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 18 – William Patzert, research oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, predicts San Diego will get about 18 inches of rain this season, 80 percent above normal. Dan Cayan, director of the Climate Research Division of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said Patzert’s rainfall prediction might be a bit high.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c18weather.html

Cal Western, UCSD agree to share resources
San Diego Daily Transcript, Dec. 18 -- California Western School of Law and UCSD have entered into an agreement to make institution resources available to students and faculty of both campuses.
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