A Sampling of Clips for 
March 14, 2003

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The Task Force
Washington Post, Mar. 14 – Members of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board include Sally Ride, physicist, former astronaut and first American woman in space; teacher at the University of California at San Diego; served on presidential commission investigating the Challenger accident. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23281-2003Mar13.html

We’re higher in higher-education ranks
San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar.14 – Among the nation's 10 largest cities, San Diego is among the Big Four in the percentage of population 25 years and older holding bachelor's degrees. San Diego's climb has come with the growth of the University of California, San Diego. Roger Revelle, the founder of UCSD and a scientist who headed the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is credited for the success.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/morgan/20030314-9999_1m14morgan.html

The Fragile Male
San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar.12 – In the 50 years since DNA was shown to be a spiral staircase of interlocking chemicals that determine what we're made of, manhood has been tumbling down it. The Y chromosome, which derails 4-week-old embryos from their default female status onto the rocky path of maleness, has been shown to accumulate mutations that affect men’s health. (Quotes Christopher Wills, a professor of evolutionary biology of the University of California, San Diego).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_mz1c12y.html

Y chromosomes could help trace history
San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar. 12 – There's some buzz among genetics researchers about an upcoming paper in the journal Nature that will publish the first sequencing of the Y chromosome, a development expected to advance not just the science of men but also the history of mankind. (Quotes Christopher Wills, a professor of evolutionary biology of the University of California, San Diego).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c12yside.html

Raising the bar
La Jolla Light, Feb. 13 – All eyes are on Robert Sullivan as the dean of University of California, San Diego’s new business school pushes to get it named in the same breath as Stanford, UCLA, and Berkeley. Sullivan has outlined a new approach to management education for the new UCSD business school. First, integrate the new school with other degree programs in order to create a nationally ranked institution almost immediately. Second, put young, highly motivated, technical candidates through an accelerated program. (Quotes Marsha Chandler, senior vice chancellor of Academic Affairs at UCSD and Peter Cowhey, dean of the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD).
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The high-speed network aims to link five national supercomputing centers
Information Week, Mar. 3 – Researchers have begun sending the first test data across a high-speed grid-computing network, funded by the National Science Foundation, that aims to link five national supercomputing centers including UCSD's San Diego Supercomputer Center.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/IWK20030303S0011

'Super Loop' proposed between UCSD, UTC
La Jolla Light, Mar. 6 – San Diego transportation planners last week endorsed a plan to use a new, speedier bus service to create a "Super Loop" of 10 to 13 stations linking UCSD and University Town Center. It's designed to cut commute times and relieve traffic congestion in the University City-UCSD area.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/03/06/n030306super_loop.html

Market misery universal
Copley News Service, Mar. 13 – From the new trading halls of Shanghai and Beijing to the established bourses of Tokyo, Frankfurt, Paris and London, the world's stock markets are enduring what is arguably the worst period of simultaneous prolonged anguish since the Great Depression. One reason for the downturn is investors' fear about impending war with Iraq. (Quotes Takeo Hoshi, a University of California, San Diego economist specializing in Japan).
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