A Sampling of Clips for 
July 20, 2005

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

A 'Madhouse' of Mental Health 'Care'
Los Angeles Times, Book Review, July 20-Review of "A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine". (Book written by Andrew Scull, a sociology professor at UCSD.) More

Business Club to Help
Entrepreneurs Find Capital Sources
Taipei Times, July 20-The semi-official Institute for Information Industry yesterday inaugurated a private business club that will try to connect the nation's entrepreneurs with local and overseas venture capital firms, in an attempt to internationalize Taiwan's high-tech sector. The club models itself on the "UCSD Connect" club. (Quote by Mary Walshok, associate vice chancellor of UCSD Connect.) More

Thinking Outside the Icebox on DNA Storage
The Scientist, July 18-No stranger to forensic labs, dry DNA storage gets an automation makeover. (Quote by Jeffrey Bada, director of NASA Specialized Center in Research and Training in Exobiology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.) More

California Researchers Offer Open-Source
Platform to Speed Wireless Development
PhysOrg.com, July 19-In a bid to speed development of new wireless protocols and networking standards, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UCSD has begun distributing for alpha testing a hardware-and-software platform for wireless research and development. More

How Do You Get from Point A to Point Bee?
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 17-Q & A with Megan Eckles, who is studying how bumblebees discern distance. (Eckles is earning a Ph.D. in animal behavior at UCSD.) More

Who Will Be Left to Govern San Diego?
Christian Science Monitor, July 20-An acting mayor has been convicted in a bribery scandal, the latest setback in a string of woes for San Diego's City Hall. (Quote by Thad Kousser, a political scientist at UCSD.) More

State Agency Wants Nurses Strike Review
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 20-A state administrative agency has asked a judge to review a one-day strike that approximately 9,000 University of California nurses plan to stage tomorrow. (Quote by Mary Middleton, director of patient care services for the UCSD medical centers.) More

Cracking Down on File-Sharing
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 20-The University of California and California State University systems are paving the way for their campuses to offer legal music and movie downloads in an effort to curb illegal file sharing. (Quote by Anthony Wood, director of academic computing services at UCSD.) More