A Sampling of Clips for 
January 11, 2006

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UCSD Makes Top 100 Public Colleges List Channel 10 News, Jan. 10-Kiplinger's Personal Finance has come out with its Top 100 list of the best values in public universities. It's a new quarter at UCSD and students can be proud of the fact that their university is near the top of the list of best public colleges when it comes to value. (Quote by Mae Brown, assistant Vice Chancellor of UCSD Admissions and Enrollment Services.) More

Stem Cell Cloning Gets Fresh Start
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 11-California scientists are planning to jump into the field of cloning human embryonic stem cells now that a South Korean scientist who claimed to have mastered the technique has been exposed as a fake. In San Diego, stem cell researchers at UCSD and the private Burnham Institute are discussing how together they could research the process that until recently was believed to have been mastered by a team at Seoul National University. (Quote by Larry Goldstein, a stem cell researcher at UCSD.) More

Cymer Gives $175K to Fund Scholarships
San Diego Daily Transcript, Jan. 10-Though celebrating the company's own 20th anniversary, Cymer Inc. gave a gift to someone else last weekend, awarding $175,000 to the Jacobs School of Engineering Scholars Program at UCSD. The gift will fund a scholarship and fellowship to an undergraduate and graduate recipient. More

Cunningham Lawyers
Blast Secret Taping Report
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 11-In pleading guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion in November, Randy "Duke" Cunningham pledged to do "undercover work or tape record conversations" if instructed to do so by a federal agent. (Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political science professor at UCSD.) More