A Sampling of Clips for
June 18, 2003
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Pioneer
Ride savors 20 years since flight;
Joins Columbia investigation board
The Washington Times, June 18—Six
days ago Sally Ride, a professor of space science
at the University of California at San Diego,
sat in a conference room in Washington grilling witnesses at
a public hearing and gathering information for the investigation
of the Feb. 1 space shuttle Columbia breakup. It is not how
Ride, the first American woman in space 20
years ago today, expected to spend her time on the eve of the
anniversary of her historic journey to space.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20030617-114831-6778r.htm
2-Year College
Transfers Up at UC
Los Angeles Times, June 18—The
University of California announced Tuesday that it has admitted
a record number of community college transfer students for the
fall term, and has increased the proportion within that group
of underrepresented minority students. University-wide, the
proportion of Latino, African American and American Indian students
within the transfer group rose to 18.5%, but slipped slightly
at UCLA and UC San Diego.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-uc18jun18,1,1021970.story
Fuse forward
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 17—One
day in 2017, an international team of physicists and engineers
will inject hydrogen gas into a massive vacuum chamber and blast
it with microwaves, radio waves and intense beams of high energy
atoms. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
project, or ITER, is on track to select a site for a huge, $5
billion test reactor in Japan, Canada, Spain or France. Under
the new ITER program, General Atomics and UCSD
are expected to continue to play significant roles in research.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_mz1c18fusion.html
Forward
Ventures agrees to early stage funding through UCSD program
The Daily Transcript, June 16—Forward
Ventures, a La Jolla venture capital firm funding life sciences
companies, has completed negotiations to become the first private
entity to fund a technology currently under development in UCSD's
School of Medicine through the Translational Medicine program.
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Nicotine
plays unlikely health role: Ally
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 17—Scientists
at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla have found that
nornicotine, a chemical created when the body metabolizes nicotine,
prevents the formation of fibril plaques abundant in the brains
of people with Alzheimer's disease.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20030617-9999_1m17nicotine.html
Scripps
makes exploring the oceans a fair endeavor
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 18—Through
lightweight headphones, you can overhear the crackling chatter
of snapping shrimp and the purring croak of toadfish –
fresh gossip from an exclusive underwater society. UCSD’s
Scripps Institution of Oceanography has teamed up with this
year’s San Diego County Fair to create the “Ocean
Explorations” exhibit.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_1mi18scripps.html
John Galbraith
The modern patron saint of libraries
San Diego Union-Tribune, June 18—When
former UC San Diego Chancellor John Galbraith
died last week, San Diego lost a patron of libraries whose vision
is badly needed as the community struggles after many years
to commit to a central public library. As a result of Galbraith’s
determination to build a great library, today UCSD
has one of the largest collections in the state and ranks 42nd
among the country’s largest research libraries.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/opinion/news_mz1e18dowell.html
