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January 24 - 26, 2004
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Sunshine
and Opportunity
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 25-Ernest
Rady is a man who has spent much of his life shunning the spotlight.
That is until last week, when the San Diego businessman donated
$30 million to the fledgling School of Management at the University
of California, San Diego. In return, UCSD
named the school after the press-shy Rady.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040125-9999_1b25rady.html
Latest
Generosity; Rady Gift Boosts UCSD Management School
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion,
Jan. 24-Next to Joan Kroc's $1.5 billion for the Salvation Army
or her $200 million for National Public Radio, San Diego's latest
philanthropy seems almost ho-hum. But businessman Ernest Rady's
$30 million gift to UCSD is another remarkable
act of generosity that will have major and lasting impact. (Quote
by UC San Diego Dean, Robert Sullivan.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/opinion/news_mz1ed24middl.html
Businessman
Donates $30M To UCSD
NBCSandiego.com, Jan. 23-The University
of California, San Diego announced a $30 million gift
to fund its new school of management. The donation, which is
the second largest in the university's history, came from San
Diego businessman Ernest Rady. Half of the money will be used
to build the school. The rest will be used to fund programs
at the discretion of school officials. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/education/2788350/detail.html
Week in
Review
San Diego Business Journal, Jan. 26-UC
San Diego's recently established School of Management
has received a $30 million gift, the second largest in the university's
history. Ernest Rady and the Rady Family Foundation provided
the donation. In recognition of that support, the university
will name the school the Rady School of Management.
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Nanostructure
May be Key to Regeneration
Baltimore Sun, Jan. 26- A tiny new
scaffold that assembles itself inside the body could point the
way to regeneration of spinal cords and the ability to grow
tissues ranging from bone cartilage to blood vessels. Researchers
have also discovered that the scaffold somehow stops damaged
neurons from making scar tissue, which clogs up the site of
many injuries and obstructs nerve regeneration. Gabriel
Silva, an assistant bioengineering professor at the
University of California, San Diego, is one
of the lead authors of the paper that appeared in Science
magazine.
http://www.sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.scaffold26jan26,0,4828127.story
Local Leaders
Say State Medi-Cal Cuts Will Hit Hard
San Diego Business Journal, Jan. 26-
Some local health care providers say Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's
proposed budget cuts would raise the number of uninsured San
Diegans and is likely to result in even longer waits at already
overcrowded hospital emergency rooms. Richard Liekweg,
chief executive of UCSD Medical Center, which
encompasses the UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest
and Thornton Hospital in La Jolla, said the hospital system
would lose hundreds of thousands of dollars if the governor's
plan is approved.
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'On Detour' Sketches Broad
Truths of Farber's Life
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 25-The
title of "On Detour With Manny Farber,"
a new documentary on the great painter and professor emeritus
at UCSD, is in the spirit of the artist's work.
His pictures take the viewer in many directions, visually and
thematically. The digressive style of the film, which premieres
Tuesday at 9 p.m. on KPBS, mirrors that of his paintings.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_1a25farber.html
Biotech
Havens: Few are Chosen
Copley News Service, Jan. 26-Biotech
industry experts agree that several elements are essential for
a thriving biotechnology sector: medical or biological research
and discoveries that can feed a commercial pipeline, the ability
to commercialize discoveries and continuing private investment.
San Diego has all three. UCSD, the Scripps
Research Institute, the Salk Institute and the Burnham Institute
are but a few of the academic institutions churning out the
scientific discoveries. Mechanisms for licensing these discoveries
are well oiled - more than 50 companies have sprung from UCSD's
science alone.
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Virtual
Pilots
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 25-Helena
Bristow typically spends more than two hours a day
commuting from her home in Vista to her job at UCSD.
So she leapt at the chance when the engineers at work asked
her if she wanted to test a free, personalized traffic information
service. The traffic-report system, now available to the public
at http://traffic.calit2.net,
puts San Diego on the cutting edge of mobile traffic directions,
part of a growing field known as telematics, which involves
technology to help drivers. Engineers at Cal-(IT)2, the University
of California, San Diego-based California Institute
for Telecommunications and Information Technology, say theirs
is the only such system offering customized traffic reports.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/business/news_mz1b26pilots.html
Sleepless
Nights? Could Be Sinus Trouble
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jan.
17-Having trouble getting a good night's sleep? Are you rattling
your spouse out of bed when you snore? If so, those restless
nights may be a sign of a sinus problem. "It's more common
than you think," says Keith Jay Wahl M.D.,
a clinical attending physician at the University of
California, San Diego.
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/slee/516862.html
Parents
Hit with Initial Hesitation While Looking for Child's Middle
Name
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 26-UCSD
scientists Nicholas Christenfeld and David
Phillips did a study five years ago on people's initials,
concluding that folks with positive initials, such as JOY or
GOD, were likely to live longer than RATs or PIGs. To avoid
these unpleasant initials, some soon-to-be mothers are now testing
baby names on the Internet using such sites as americanbaby.com.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/currents/news_1c26slant.html
UC Will
Mull Labs' Plan to Compete
Contra Costa Times, Jan. 26-The University
of California's faculty is marshaling its powerful resources
to influence whether UC should continue running two nuclear
weapons research labs. The system-wide Academic Senate has formed
a high-level committee to study the first-time competition of
Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore labs, including everything
from whether UC should be more active in its lab management
to whether it should be associated with their nuclear weapons
work. (Quote by Henry Abarbanel, a UC
San Diego physics professor who is on the faculty committee.)
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/7792930.htm
Aero Dynamics
San
Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 25-At the dawn of the
age of flight, San Diego was in the forefront of technology
and big thinking. Today, with robots on Mars and giant airports
operating around the globe, San Diego's thinking about its air
transport needs is as small as its pint-sized "international"
airport. The two-year-old San Diego County Regional Airport
Authority is in the midst of studying where a new airport might
go. (Quote by UCSD political scientist professor,
Steve Erie.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/homes/news_mz1h25airpor.html
World Sees
Growing Need for Biomedical Engineers
San Diego Union-Tribune, Jan. 26-Biomedical
engineers do some of the sexiest research in the medical field.
According to Department of Labor statistics, the number of job
openings in the biomedical engineering field is expected to
grow by a whopping 31.4 percent through 2010 and new graduates
earn nearly $50,000 - reflecting an industry hungry for workers.
Locally, the University of California, San Diego
offers a degree program and sponsors a student chapter of the
Biomedical Engineering Society to help meet the needs of those
interested in this industry.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/business/news_mz1b26world.html
To the
Moon, Mars and Beyond
San Diego Union-Tribune, Opinion,
Jan. 25-Today, President Bush is proposing that we return to
the moon, and possibly travel to Mars, using both robotic systems
and humans. A return may offer a new opportunity to advance
scientific understanding and harvest technological applications
for Earth. But if we are to do this sensibly, we have to do
some homework. By far the most important improvement we must
make on our space technology, which has made almost no progress
in the decades after Apollo, is to reduce costs. The good ideas
for cutting costs, and what efforts there have been, seem to
have come almost entirely from small companies and from universities,
including UCSD. (Article written by James
Arnold, professor emeritus at UC San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_mz1e25space.html
GOP Takes
Aim at Boxer
North County Times, Jan. 26-Electrified
by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's victory last fall, Republicans
are pouring their energies into figuring out a way to deny U.S.
Sen. Barbara Boxer a third six-year term. In the March primary,
Republicans will choose someone to carry their banner into battle
against Boxer, a two-term senator from Marin County known widely
for her sharply liberal stands on the issues and aggressive
campaign style. (Quote by UC San Diego political
science professor, Gary Jacobson.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/01/25/news/state/1_24_0420_16_34.txt
State Treasurer
Condemns Outreach Cuts
Daily Californian, Jan. 26-California
State Treasurer Phil Angelides and renowned African American
Studies professor Cornel West denounced deep cuts to outreach
programs Friday at an Oakland high school. The visit to McClymonds
High School was part of Angelides' two-day tour of California's
public universities and high schools. A possible 2006 gubernatorial
contender and one of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's toughest critics,
he has made stops at UC San Diego and UC San
Francisco to lobby for more lenient cuts to higher education.
http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=13870
