University of California, San Diego: External Relations: News & Information: UCSD in the News

A Sampling of Clips for
March 21, 2003

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Colorectal Cancer: A Potential Killer That Can Be Beaten
ABC News, Mar. 21 – Through regular screening by a medical professional, the vast majority of deaths caused by colorectal cancer, the second-leading cancer killer in the United States, could be prevented. Because March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, 50 organizations have joined forces to spread the message that screening measures -- plus a healthy lifestyle -- can help stop this killer in its tracks. (Quotes Dr. Michael Bouvet, a surgical oncologist at the Rebecca and John Moores University of California San Diego Cancer Center).
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/Healthology/HS_coloncancer_
screening_030321.html

Bearing the burden
CBS MarketWatch, Mar. 21 – When it comes to the impact on the overall economy, many economists subscribe to a redistribution theory. Rising health-care costs may give employers less incentive to create and fill jobs, but that one sector's losses are another sector's gains. Some analysts dispute those claims, saying that rapid inflation is far outpacing workers' ability to pay for insurance and putting taxpayers at risk of greater financial burdens to cover the uninsured. (Quotes Richard Kronick, a professor of health policy and finance at University of California, San Diego).
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B7A789FFE-986A-40B9-A51C-EDE09485A645%7D&siteid=mktw

UCSD has a billion reasons for signing on this threesome
San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar. 21 – Malin Burnham, a real estate, insurance and banking wizard; Irwin Jacobs, the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Qualcomm; and John Moores , chairman of the San Diego Padres, JMI Services and Neon Systems were chosen to co-chair "The Campaign for UCSD: Imagine What's Next." University of California, San Diego kicked off the public phase of its fund-raising initiative at a dinner in the RIMAC Arena on the UCSD campus Saturday night. (Mentions several UCSD faculty members that attended the event).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/currents/news_1c21stiff.html

Gathering celebrates art, culture
San Diego Union-Tribune, Mar. 21 – While some people protested the war in Iraq yesterday by marching downtown, nearly 2,000 gathered at Copley Symphony Hall to celebrate what many there consider the antithesis of war – arts and culture. University of California, San Diego’s Chancellor Robert Dynes was one of the speakers at the event.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/metro/news_1m21arts.html

Body's Own Antibodies May Drive New Strains Of HIV
ScienceDaily, Mar. 19 – Scientists in California have provided the first detailed look at how human antibodies, proteins critical for the body's defense against invading pathogens, may actually drive human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to mutate and escape detection by the immune system. A team led by Douglas D. Richman, MD, a virologist and physician with the Veterans Affairs (VA) San Diego Healthcare System and a professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, found that patients infected with HIV rapidly develop a strong antibody response against the virus. (Mentions Susan J. Little, MD, a principal investigator in UCSD's Antiviral Research Center and a VA infectious disease specialist).
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/03/030319081506.htm

Health24, Mar. 19
http://www.health24.co.za/news.asp?action=art&SubContentTypeId=44&
ContentID=21489

Space plane runs into criticism
Orlando Sentinel, Mar. 21 – Members of NASA's Advisory Council complained Thursday that the agency's decision to build an orbital space plane rather than a full-fledged replacement for the space shuttle betrayed a lack of vision for the future of the nation's space program. (Quotes Dr. Larry Smarr of the University of California, San Diego and Dr. Charles F. Kennel with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography).
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/custom/space/orlasecssspaceplane21032103 mar21,0,560073.story?coll=orl-news-headlines

Smaller asteroids not so deadly?
News in Science, Mar. 19 – A U.S. planetary scientist has calculated that smaller asteroids hitting the oceans would not cause massive tsunamis. The work found by Dr William Van Dorn from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in California shows that explosions triggered by bombs or bolides (large objects impacting a surface, such as a meteor) created much smaller waves than the deadly tsunami waves, which are normally created by undersea quakes or massive mudslides. It found that most of the energy is dissipated before the waves reached the shoreline.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s808846.htm

FAU gets $10 million research grant
Palm Beach Post, Mar. 19 – The state Board of Education on Tuesday approved a $10 million grant to Florida Atlantic University that school researchers hope will lead to the discovery of new medicines from South Florida's coastal waters. "Our hope is it will become a world-class facility" comparable to Woods Hole in Massachusetts and Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., said FAU vice president for research and graduate studies.
http://www.gopbi.com/auto/epaper/editions/wednesday/south_county_
e387100a3754711800e8.html

On the Rebound
Science News, Mar. 15 – Reversed echoes may fight disease and foster communication, according to researchers. Physicists in Europe and the United States have recently been creating environments in the laboratory and underwater that exhibit reversed echoing. (Quotes William A. Kuperman of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and mentions William S. Hodgkiss of Scripps).
http://www.sciencenews.org/20030315/bob8.asp