A Sampling of Clips for
May 09, 2003
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Forbes, May 26 – Steven
Dowdy, an associate professor of cellular and molecular
medicine at the University of California, San Diego,
is one of thousands of pioneering researchers drawn to the biotech
mecca of San Diego. Thanks to a fruitful partnership of academia
and private enterprise, a vibrant biotech industry keeps on
replicating itself. An astonishing number of ideas and scientists,
as well as most of San Diego's 499 biotech and medical device
companies, have roots in UCSD or places like
Scripps Research Institute and Salk. "There's a spirit
you just don't find on the East Coast," says Edward
Holmes, vice chancellor for health sciences at UCSD.
http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2003/0526/122.html
Bioengineering
by the numbers
La Jolla Light, May 8 – High-tech
startups have taken a beating in recent years. Locally, and
more recently, the biotech sector has taken a downturn. But
the 10-month-old La Jolla Bioengineering Institute, a non-profit,
financed almost entirely by public funds from the National Institutes
of Health, is bucking the trend, already jumping at the opportunity
to sublet more office and lab space, and actively recruiting
senior scientists. "The reality is, we're growing, and
other biotech companies are closing, or certainly not growing
nowadays," said John A. Frangos, president,
CEO, scientific director and also an adjunct professor of bioengineering
at the University of California, San Diego.
(Quotes Marcos Intaglietta, professor of bioengineering
at UCSD).
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/05/08/n030508bioengineering.html
Budget plans
could decide future of 'Super Loop'
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9 –
A "Super Loop" of shuttle buses could be zipping commuters
through congestion in north University City by 2007 if the proposal
survives a transit budget crunch. Planners told the Metropolitan
Transit Development Board yesterday it would cost an estimated
$16.8 million to plan, engineer and construct the project and
buy a fleet of vehicles that would use special lanes and technology
gimmicks to scoot through rush-hour traffic on Nobel Drive,
Gilman Drive and other streets in the University City/University
of California, San Diego corridor. (Quotes Milton J.
Phegley, campus community planner for UCSD).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030509-9999_1m9commute.html
Science
foundation to honor Atkinson
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 9 –
Richard C. Atkinson, president of the University of California
system and former chancellor of University of California,
San Diego, is being honored by the National Science
Foundation for his scientific achievement and statesmanship.
Previous winners include UCSD founder Roger
Revelle.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20030509-9999_6m9briefs.html
Keeping
the faiths
San Diego Union-Tribune, May 8 –
Randy Singh Goomer, an assistant researcher
in molecular biology at University of California, San
Diego's School of Medicine, talks about his devotion
to Sikhism.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/currents/news_mz1c8faiths.html
Music Society's Aleskie
sets goal of exporting music
La Jolla
Light, May 8 – La Jolla Light Entertainment
Editor Lance Vargas recently sat down with new La Jolla Music
Society President May Lou Aleskie, who is settling into her
position with a forward-thinking attitude and a desire to expand
the group's musical repertoire. Among the subjects discussed
were the future of the organization, their goal of exporting
rather than importing music, dropping "chamber" from
their formal name and this year's installment of the group's
crown jewel, Summerfest. (Mentions University of California,
San Diego dance program).
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/05/08/a030508aleskie.html
