A Sampling of Clips for
November 05, 2004
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UCSD Receives
$30 Million Donation
ABC Channel 10, San Diego, Nov. 4-The
University of California, San Diego announced
Thursday that it received a $30 million gift from The Skaggs
Institute for Research to support the university's fledgling
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The donation,
one of the largest in UCSD history, will be
paid out over the next five years to help support research efforts
and to recruit pharmaceutical scientists and pharmacy practitioners.
(Quote by UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne
Fox.)
http://www.10news.com/news/3891151/detail.html
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County Times, Nov. 4
Skaggs gives UCSD $30 Million; Kavli
Brain Institute Feted
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 5-Praising
San Diego as a world powerhouse in brain science, the namesake
of a new UCSD institute called on the region's
brightest minds yesterday to solve the mind's biggest mysteries.
The remarks of Fred Kavli came during an inauguration ceremony
for The Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at the University
of California, San Diego.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20041105-9999-7m5kavli.html
Inflammation
and Cancer: The Link Grows Stronger
Science Magazine, Nov. 4-Research
into a long-suspected association between chronic inflammation
and cancer reveals how the immune system may be abetting tumors.
(Refers to research by Michael Karin, a professor
of pharmacology at the University of California, San
Diego.)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5698/966
No-Making Enzyme No More:
Cell, PNAS Papers Retracted
Science Magazine, Nov. 4-May 2003
was an up-and-down month for Daniel Klessig, who after resigning
as president of the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant
Research for health reasons, published a paper in Cell that
promised to be a major advance. (Quote by plant biologist Nigel
Crawford of the University of California, San
Diego.)
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5698/960a
Healing
Tone, but President is a Man on a Mission South
China Morning Post, Nov. 5-Uniting
a nation divided and healing the scars of an intensely fought
presidential campaign was the theme of the post-election addresses.
(Quote by Gary Jacobson, a political scientist
at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/11_04_healing.asp
Misunderstood
Concepts
Chronicle of Higher Education, Opinion,
Nov. 5-If I had a discipline (and most of my readers will tell
you I lack both a discipline and discipline itself), I imagine
that its most misunderstood concepts would be rigor and identity.
(Letter written by Judith Halberstam, a professor
of literature at the University of California, San Diego.)
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Study: Depression, Suicide
on Rise for College Students
ABC Channel 10, San Diego, Nov. 3-A
study of college students found that depression and suicides
have tripled in a recent 16-year period. (Quote by Tiffany
O'Meara M.D., a psychologist at the UCSD
Psychological and Counseling Services.)
http://www.10news.com/health/3887788/detail.html
A Growing
Northrop Presence
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 5-If
the mid-1990s represented the dark days of San Diego's defense
industry, then a new era has dawned. (Refers to work by John
B. Kosmatka, an engineering professor at the University
of California San Diego, who has been laying the groundwork
to establish a center for unmanned systems at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20041105-9999-1b5northrop.html
Walk for
a Cure
ABC Channel 10, San Diego, Nov. 4-You
can help researchers in their pursuit to find a cure for melanoma.
This Saturday, join 10News anchor Carol Lebeau at UCSD's
Melanoma 5K Walk For A Cure.
http://www.10news.com/health/3890681/detail.html
John E.
Schanberger; Doctor was Devoted to Care of Abused Kids
San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 2-If
parenthood counts for anything in pediatrics, Dr. John E. Schanberger's
credentials were hard to beat. Schanberger, who retired from
UCSD in 1996 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's
disease, died Friday at UCSD Medical Center.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/obituaries/20041102-9999-1m2schanberg.html
