A Sampling of Clips for 
May 03 - 05, 2003

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UCSD suspends Beijing exchange program over SARS risks
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 2 – Seventeen University of California, San Diego students who were planning to study in Beijing this summer won't be going after all. University of California officials today announced the continued suspension of the program due to the risk of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. Six UCSD students were among 44 UC students advised to leave China when the study abroad program was suspended earlier this month due to fears over the spread of SARS.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20030502-1559-ucsdsars.html

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SanDiegoChannel.com, May 2

Mind-set
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 4 – After extensive research, neuroscientists now know that our behavior – which is influenced in part by the buildings in which we work, learn and worship – affects the structural organization of the brain. The brain continues to be shaped by our actions, emotions and perceptions. After a year of planning and discussion among professionals in both fields, a unique research venture called the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture will be launched Friday during the American Institute of Architects national meeting at the San Diego Convention Center. (Quotes Eduardo Macagno, the founding dean of University of California, San Diego's Division of Biological Sciences and Larry Squire, a neuroscientist at UCSD and the San Diego VA Medical Center).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/homes/news_mz1h4mind.html

UC considers adopting Monterey language school
Oakland Tribune, May 2 – Officials at University of California and the Monterey Institute of International Studies announced this week that they're cautiously discussing a union. Tentative plans call for the Monterey school to become a unit of UC Santa Cruz -- much as the Scripps Institution of Oceanography is a part of University of California, San Diego. While crucial details on the merger -- including tuition and admissions requirements -- have yet to be worked out, officials say the melding of the schools makes academic sense.
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82%257E1865%257E1364921,00.html

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California Aggie Online, May 5
http://www.californiaaggie.com/_articles/6507.taf

War coverage had different look in Mexico
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 4 – Mexican and U.S. media companies often displayed opposing perspectives on the coverage of the war in Iraq. Such differences were especially obvious during the first three weeks of the conflict when CNN and others aired images of troops racing toward Baghdad while Mexico's TV giant Televisa broadcast pictures of the tragedies being experienced by Iraqi citizens. "The most striking thing is how the Mexican media covered the civilian casualties and how graphically it did it," said Daniel Hallin, a communications professor at University of California, San Diego. "The U.S. media instead focused on Americans and how we were doing in the effort to liberate Iraq."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20030504-9999_1a4border.html

Five Questions
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 5 – Fred Cutler, the director of University of California, San Diego Connect and founder of DigitalStyle Corp., a Web software startup acquired by Netscape Communications, was interviewed on technology and business.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/business/news_mz1b5fiveque.html

Tour of the city finds look of N.Y., development hot spot and a cat
San Diego Union-Tribune, Neil Morgan, May 4 – Computer prodigy Michael Dell comes to University of California, San Diego to give a lecture on May 20 and Bill Gates on May 27. Dell will lecture in the IRPS auditorium at 4 p.m. under auspices of his old friend Bob Sullivan, dean of the new UCSD School of Management. Gates will take questions for a half-hour after a lunchtime talk at UCSD's Price Center. His host is Larry Smarr, director of UCSD’s Cal-(IT)2, the futuristic California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. (Mentions UCSD’s Ed Gillenwaters, senior director of external relations and Sid Karin, professor of computer science engineering). Also, Jeffrey Davidow was announced Friday as the incoming president of the Institute of the Americas, an independent think tank at UCSD. Davidow will be arriving at UCSD to take his post in mid-June.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/morgan/20030504-9999_1m4morgan.html

I Feel, Therefore I Am
New York Times, Apr. 19 – Dr. Antonio Damasio, the head of neurology at the University of Iowa Medical Center, says that Spinoza anticipated one of brain science's most important recent discoveries: the critical role of the emotions in ensuring our survival and allowing us to think. Feeling, it turns out, is not the enemy of reason, but an indispensable accomplice. In his masterwork, "The Ethics," published after his death in 1677, Spinoza argued that the body and mind are not two separate entities but one continuous substance. (Quotes Patricia Churchland, a neurophilosopher at the University of California, San Diego).
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Student loans come back to haunt single mom
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 4 – Sharon Cummins, a research psychologist at the University of California, San Diego, talks about her struggles with her overwhelming debt which includes a $145,000 student loan while being a single mom. Cummins volunteered for a San Diego Union-Tribune Money Makeover, sponsored by the newspaper and by the San Diego chapter of the Financial Planners Association.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20030504-9999_1b4makeover.html

Scripps Professor Revisits the Miller Experiment and the Origin of Life
Innovations Report, May 1 – In the fall of 1952, Stanley Miller, now a chemistry professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, began simulating primitive earthly conditions in an experiment that produced the basic building blocks of life. When he published the results in Science on May 15 the following year, he kick-started research on the origin of life and transformed modern thinking on a dormant area of science. Jeffrey Bada, a professor of marine chemistry at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and an expert on origin of life processes, and Antonio Lazcano, a visiting scholar at UCSD, revisits the famous "Miller experiment" in a report published in the May 2 issue of Science. http://www.innovationsreport.de/html/berichte/biowissenschaften_chemie/bericht-18144.html?typ=2

A Source of Drugs From the Ocean
WILX, MI, May 1 – An ocean scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography has found a new source of drugs since more and more bacteria are becoming resistant to everyday drugs. Microscopic organisms from the deep sea in ocean mud are the same types of microorganisms that have provided antibiotics for the pharmaceutical industry for the last 60 years.
http://www.wilx.com/news/headlines/314591.html

Democrats to attempt to tarnish Bush's postwar glow
Copley News Service, May 2 – With the nation's unemployment lines lengthening, the Democratic Party staged a curtain - raising debate here last Saturday night in the hopes of removing some of the luster from President Bush's Reagansque performance last Thursday night aboard a San Diego-bound aircraft carrier. (Quotes Gary Jacobson, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego).
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The Time I Did a Student a 'Favor' -- Then Undid It
Los Angeles Times, COMMENTARY, May 4 – Sue Clark, a counselor in the Irvine Unified School District, discusses University of California system’s race-based admissions policy. (Mentions University of California, San Diego).
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