A Sampling of Clips for 
February 27, 2006

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Town vs. Gown:
Questions for Marye Anne Fox
Voice of San Diego, Feb. 25 – UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox says she takes all of her responsibilities as chancellor of one of the world's top research universities very seriously, whether they be touting the school’s prowess in certain fields or working with the private sector to learn more about the business world. A scientist by training, she was one of the voices behind President Bush's recent call for more science and mathematics training in American universities, and she's fiercely proud of UCSD's accomplishments and vision for the future. More

Two Prominent Boards
Announce New Leadership
San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 25 -- La Jolla Playhouse has a new board president – and the Old Globe has a new board chair. New members of the Playhouse board include: David P. Dolgen, co-principal of Dolgen Ventures, a real-estate investment company; LaVonnya Fisher, a bilingual elementary school teacher and “Teacher of the Year” at Central Elementary; Pauline Foster, a volunteer with the United Jewish Federation; philanthropist Charmaine Kaplan; UCSD associate vice-chancellor Mary Walshok; and Dianne York-Goldman, co-owner of La Jolla Spa, MD. More

Activists Working
for Illegals’ ‘Self Deportation’
Macon (Georgia) Telegraph, Feb. 27 -- More than seven years ago, a Mexican family moved across the street from the Marietta home of D.A. King, the man who's come to personify the fight for immigration control in Georgia. While King says he had hoped to become friends with his neighbors and even swap recipes, he soon became annoyed by the rusty cars in his neighbor's driveway, the many people regularly visiting the home, the contractors who came to pick some of them up for work on mornings. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.) More

Scripps Institution of
Oceanography Researcher Wins Munk Award
San Diego Daily Transcript, Feb. 24 -- Peter Worcester, a research oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, has been selected as winner of the Walter Munk Award for Distinguished Research in Oceanography related to sound and the sea. The award is granted jointly by The Oceanography Society, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Office of the Oceanographer of the Navy. More

Oceans Still Hold Vast Secrets
Honolulu Star Bulletin, Feb. 26 -- Scientists who study the ocean described their latest findings in 3,200 papers at meetings in Honolulu last week. Yet, one said, scientists are only scratching the surface of the system. "The ocean is vastly undersampled," said Thomas Rossby, oceanography professor at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. "Each time we put a sampler in the water, it's incredible what we learn." (Quotes Eric Terrill, director of the Coastal Observing Research and Development Center at UCSD’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More