A Sampling of Clips for
July 03, 2003
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UC
May Seek 30% Fee Hike
Los Angeles Times, July 3—The
University of California might need to boost student fees by
as much as 30% for the coming school year and curtail future
enrollment growth because of likely state budget cuts, UC President
Richard C. Atkinson said Wednesday. UC San Diego
Chancellor Robert Dynes, said after his appointment
last month that he would consider capping enrollment if it becomes
clear that the university's growth is beginning to erode its
quality.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc3jul03,1,4146988.story
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in:
San
Diego Union-Tribune, July 3
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20030703-9999_1n3uc.html
Local scientists
unveil brain-imaging technique
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 2—
A team of scientists headed by UC San Diego
physicists, developed a new technique for slicing and imaging
brain tissue using ultra-fast lasers. David Kleinfeld,
the UCSD physics professor who headed the study,
said the technique "solves a big problem" and may
change the way "a lot of science is done today."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20030702-0929-brain.html
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article appeared in:
City News Service, July 2
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Rewarding
the Unqualified
FrontPageMagazine.com, July 3—As
a result of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on affirmative
action, schools will now discard any openly race-based point
systems they may have formerly employed, while simultaneously
continuing their longstanding practice of using totally subjective
criteria to manipulate the racial composition of their student
bodies as they wish. (Comments by CEO researchers from the UC
San Diego.) http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8716
Cancer Researchers
Describe New Class Of Angiogenesis Proteins
Science Daily, July 1—Researchers
at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer
Center, and colleagues from throughout the state, describe a
new class of proteins that not only promotes therapeutic angiogenesis
in an entirely new way, but also avoids vascular permeability
– a troubling side effect seen with other agents now being
tested. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/07/030701222333.htm
Dream boat
San Diego Union-Tribune, July 3—
It took four years, but with an architect and a small navy of
creative workers, Carolyne Myhre, coordinator
of a prenatal genetics screening program at UCSD,
transformed a tiny apartment over a garage into a shipshape
home.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/splsect/news_mz1x3boat.html
