A Sampling of Clips for 
December 27, 2002 - January 02, 2003

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Professors vie with web for class’s attention
New York Times, Jan 2, Pg. 1 – Universities are rushing toward a wireless future, installing networks that let students and the faculty surf the Internet from laptop computers in the classroom or in the library. UCSD, Dartmouth, and The University of Minnesota are among the dozens of colleges going wireless. Many professors say that retaining their students’ attention is a challenge for them because of the technology.
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Deterring dementia prevention is the focus in war on memory disease
USA Today, Dec. 29 – With no cure in sight, scientists increasingly are focusing on measures that might prevent Alzheimer’s and other dementias. A five-year Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory Study, the first dementia-prevention trial, is underway. (Quotes UCSD neuroscientist Michael Grundman).
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2002-12-29-dementia_x.htm

Molecular trigger defects for muscle growth & survival are genetic cause of human heart failure
ScienceDaily, Dec. 27 –A UCSD research team led by Masahiko Hoshijima and Kenneth Chien have determined the molecular machinery that triggers normal cardiac muscle growth and survival, and have linked defects in this complex to an inherited form of human cardiomyopathy, a type of heart failure where an enlarged heart loses its ability to pump blood. The research is published in the journal Cell.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021227070824.htm

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United Press International, Dec. 27
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Can SCHIP stay afloat?
Governing Magazine, Jan. 2003 – The State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a federal-state partnership, boasts of bottom-line success: the uninsurance rate for near-poor children, the focus of SCHIP, had declined from more than 23 percent to less than 18 percent. Even as popular and successful as the program is, advocates are concerned about surviving budget cuts. A research team from UCSD and the Children’s Hospital of San Diego will track 6,000 families for three ears to find out how they fare after enrolling in Health Families, as SCHIP is known in California.
http://www.governing.com/1health.htm

Debate on whether or not to ban human cloning and how far any laws on the subject should go
National Public Radio, All things considered, Dec. 28 – UCSD professor of cell and molecular medicine Larry Goldstein was among the experts that discussed research cloning.
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Making Gollum: You never actually see Andy Serkis, but he’s the magic inside The Two Towers’ pitiful co-star
Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 31, Pg. 4 -- 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.
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Underwater noise likely a whale call
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 27 -- Jay Barlow, associate adjunct professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and his research team from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, have solved the mystery of an underwater noise heard by sonar operators. It is a call produced by minke whales.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/metro/news_2m27whales.html

New maps depict marine reserves
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 27 – Scientists from Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Mexico have mapped the most scientifically sophisticated networks of marine reserves ever, using the Gulf of California as a model for protecting other areas around the globe. The project is detailed in the journal Science this month. The three-year project began in 1999, when Scripps joined researchers from Baja California and the Gulf of California Program of the World Wildlife Fund. (Enric Sala of Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation is quoted).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/metro/news_1m27reserve.html

Students trade holiday break for science camp
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 29 -- UCSD's five-day annual science fair mini-camp that gives research and laboratory experience to students from selected middle and high schools that lack science resources.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/metro/news_1m29fair.html

50 people to watch
San Diego Magazine, Jan. 2003 -- San Diego magazine's annual "50 People to Watch," issue includes the following UCSD faculty: Peter Cowhey, Dean IR/PS, Peter Irons, political science professor and George Lewis, music professor and MacArthur Foundation genius grant recipient.
http://www.sandiego-online.com/issues/january03/featurea0103.shtml

Medical team returns from work in Guam
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 28 -- A 32-member team of San Diego doctors, nurses, paramedics, technicians and pharmacists headed by UCSD emergency physician Jake Jacoby treated 933 people who were victims of a powerful typhoon that swept across Guam this month.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20021229-9999_1m29guam.html

Mexico establishes a migrant council
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 29 -- Northern California social worker, Candido Morales has been chosen to head Mexico's office of migrant affairs and will be supported by a 120-member U.S.-based advisory council for the new Institute for Mexicans Abroad. Gustavo Cano-Hernandez, a visiting fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at UCSD, calls the Institute "historic" in that it is the first time Mexico has formally recognized Mexican immigrants as a political force.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/metro/news_1m29abroad.html

Troupe ends 'Edge' with diversity
San Diego Union Tribune, Jan 2 -- Quincy Troupe will host the final edition of his annual "Artists on the Cutting Edge: Cross Fertilizations" series held under the auspices of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/currents/news_1c2cutting.html

Tackling the common cold
San Diego Union Tribune, Dec. 31, Pg. 1 – Perlan Therapeutics, a start-up San Diego biotechnology company, has taken up the quest for the cure for the common cold. Perlan, which received the “most innovative product” award from UCSD Connect, has hit on an approach that has piqued the cautious interest of some researchers and investors.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/tue/business/news_1b31tech.html

Hearing the call of the wired
Copley News Service, Dec. 30 – From cell phones to wireless computers, mobile devices are destined to change the way we live in ways we can only begin to imagine. (Quotes Larry Larson, director of UCSD’s Center for Wireless Communication and Ramesh Rao of Cal-(IT2).
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Forward ventures senior partner dies
San Diego Daily Transcript, Dec. 30 -- The SDDT covers the tragic death of Forward Ventures senior partner Jeff Sollender. (Quotes UCSD Connect Executive Director Fred Cutler).
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