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March 11, 2004
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UCSD Receives
$7.5M for Brain Research Institute
KFMB News, March 10-The University
of California, San Diego received $7.5 million to establish
an endowment charged with creating an institute for brain and
mind research, officials announced Wednesday. The gift will
be paid to the UC San Diego Foundation from
Fred Kavli and The Kavli Foundation of Oxnard to create The
Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, according to the university.
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory23112.html
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articles appeared in:
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 11
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040311-9999-news_2m11brain.html
City News Service,
March 11
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The UCLA Body Parts Scandal
Los Angeles Times, March 11-With the
suspension of UCLA's willed body program amid scandal, professors
and administrators at other medical schools said Wednesday that
they feared the fallout might spread, potentially affecting
their own ability to educate students and attract donations.
(Quote by Maria Saboia, vice dean for medical
education at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-research11mar11,1,4571497.story
UCI Still
Troubled by Cadaver Scandal
Los Angeles Times, March 11-The unfolding
controversy over UCLA's willed body program recalls a similar
scandal at UC Irvine nearly five years ago that still resonates
with lawsuits and efforts at stronger accountability. UCI has
paid about $375,000 to settle four lawsuits related to its Willed
Body Program, which had been criticized for its lack of oversight.
A trial is scheduled for January to decide the claims of at
least 20 families. Officials from UC San Diego
and UC Davis have visited the UCI program to see what they could
learn from UCI's accomplishments and mistakes.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucibodies11mar11,1,3366593.story
UCSD Comes
Long Way in 10 Years
North County Times, March 11-If you've
channel-surfed past horticulturists discussing how to successfully
cut a limb from a tree or doctors discussing the newest research
in heart health, you may have been flipping past UCSD-TV,
one of the most eclectic channels available to viewers. A nonprofit,
noncommercial broadcast station licensed to the regents of the
University of California, UCSD-TV began just
more than a decade ago and now features public affairs programs,
information on science and health, performance art and some
unusual films on Saturday evenings. (Quote by Lynn Burnstan,
UCSD-TV managing director.)
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/03/10/entertainment/television/3_10_0411_44_33.txt
Salk, UCSD
Look at Stress Hormones
San Diego Daily Transcript, March
10-Stress hormones may be useful in developing congestive heart
failure treatments, according to researchers at The Salk Institute
for Biological Studies and the University of California,
San Diego's School of Medicine. The study, published
in the March 9 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences, reportedly establishes a link between stress hormones
called urocortins and heart disease in mice experiments.
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Hubble Gives
Astronomers New View Into Deep Space
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 10-Scientists
unveiled an extraordinary baby picture of the universe yesterday
in an image snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope that looks
deep into the cosmos, back 13 billion years to just 700 million
years after the Big Bang. (Quote by Arthur Wolfe,
director of University of California, San Diego
Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040310/news_1n10hubble.html
Sitar Player
Came here to be close to mentor Ravi Shankar
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 11-For
some, staying put is normal. For sitarist Kartik Seshadri, it
is unimaginable. For 40 years, the Cardiff resident has been
a traveling musician, performing 40 to 60 concerts each year
across the United States. Seshadri has taught a hands-on course
in the sitar and tabla (a type of Indian drum) at the University
of California San Diego since 1996. In the class, students
learn the critical difference between classical Indian music
and Western music. Now, Seshadri will be performing at the UC
San Diego Mandeville Auditorium on April 24th.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20040311-9999-news_m1m11tfencin.html
Titan Sets
Aside $3 Million for Possible Federal Fines
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 11-In
a filing submitted to federal regulators yesterday, Titan Corp.
acknowledged that investigations of alleged foreign bribes could
lead to government fines against the San Diego defense contractor.
But in a bid to minimize the threat those probes pose to its
merger with Lockheed Martin, Titan has set aside just $3 million,
saying it represented "our estimate of potential liabilities
related to this matter." (Quote by Michael Willoughby,
a professor of accounting at the University of California,
San Diego.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040311-9999-news_1b11titan.html
Post-9/11
Book Sheds Light on the 'Ghost Wars'
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 11-Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll, visited San Diego on Tuesday
on a book-promotion tour that included a speech at the University
of California, San Diego. The book is titled "Ghost
Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden,
from the Soviet Invasion to Sept. 10, 2001." It is based
on more than 200 interviews with American, Afghan, Pakistani
and Saudi intelligence sources.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20040311-9999-news_2m11coll.html
