A Sampling of Clips for 
March 17, 2006

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Stem Cells by the Sea
Science, March 17 -- Four institutions in southern California are joining forces to pool resources and position themselves better to get grants from the new California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). The four neighbors on Torrey Pines Mesa--UCSD, the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and the Scripps Research Institute--plan to form an entity called the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine. More

The Navy and a New Airport:
Some Lessons from the Past
San Diego Union-Tribune, Guest Editorial, March 17 -- As the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority works to place a proposition on the November ballot regarding a new airport site in San Diego, the opening salvos of a major skirmish between the city and the Navy have been launched. (Guest editorial by Michael A. Bernstein, professor of history and dean of arts and humanities at UCSD, and Abraham Shragge, a lecturer in history and director of the Dimensions of Culture Program at UCSD.) More

UCSD’s Budding Doctors
Learn Fate in Tense Tradition
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 17 -- For 15,000 students across the United States, including 116 at UCSD, the moment of truth arrived at exactly 9 a.m. PST yesterday. On Match Day 2006, the nation's fourth-year medical students learned where they will work as residents. These men and women will graduate from medical school next month, but all need to complete a residency at a teaching hospital before starting a practice. More

The Students’ Solutions
Voice of San Diego, March 17 -- Whoever said college isn't the real world needed to be at UCSD's Price Center Ballroom Thursday for the sixteenth annual UCSD Urban Studies and Planning Expo, where 61 UCSD seniors showed off just how much about the real "real world" they knew. For those students, college couldn't end until a few concrete lessons were learned. Each was asked to produce a 25-page, original scholarly research article relating to some aspect of urban studies as the culminating project of their undergraduate course of study. More

Research Funding Gap
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 17 -- Seth Cohen is one of a growing number of frustrated scientists who are stuck between an academic rock and a venture capital hard place. For years, scientists like the UCSD cancer researcher could tap into a patchwork of public and private funding to move a fledgling drug discovery from the laboratory bench to the first threshold of commercialization. But harsh Wall Street realities, along with a reshuffling of federal budget priorities, are plucking at that patchwork and threatening to stall, if not sideline, the development of potential new therapies, say some scientists and drug industry observers. More

Border Dialogue
Turns Into Forum on Illegals, Fence
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 16 -- A meeting of civic, business and government leaders from both sides of the border yesterday was intended to foster economic integration of San Diego County and Baja California. But participants in the Forum Fronterizo soon found themselves addressing a very different topic: illegal immigration and the proposal for a new border fence. The Forum Fronterizo, sponsored by the San Diego Dialogue, a public-policy institute at UCSD, drew more than 300 participants. More

Wrongful Convictions
Spur Review of Police Lineups
San Jose Mercury News, March 16 -- Eyewitness testimony is often unreliable and has been a significant cause of wrongful convictions, a series of witnesses Wednesday told a commission charged with examining problems in California's criminal justice system. (Quotes Ebbe Ebbeson, professor of psychology at UCSD.) More

Flagrant Foul?
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 16 -- At first glance, the number would give even the most unflappable CEO pause. The three weeks of college basketball's March Madness will cost American employers $3.8 billion in lost productivity as office workers from Syracuse to San Diego bet in office pools and monitor games and tournament brackets. (Quotes Michelle White, an economist at UCSD.) More

UC Regents Outline
Plans for Improved Oversight
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 17 -- University of California regents outlined efforts yesterday to ramp up their oversight of the 10-campus system and address shortcomings in management and compensation practices, including overhauling the president's office. Regents will consider creating several positions, including a chief operating officer, a chief financial officer and an independent compliance officer to make sure the administration is following policies and practices. (Mentions UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox.) More