A Sampling of Clips for
October 1, 2003
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Atkinson Reflects on his UC Leadership as
he Retires
The San Francisco Chronicle,
Oct. 1-Outgoing University of California President Richard Atkinson
says he is retiring as UC nears the brink of "disaster."
The nine-campus university is approaching a distinct crossroads,
Atkinson says: Although it is still academically outstanding,
state budget cuts are taking a severe toll. Atkinson will hand
over the reins of one of the world's leading public universities
to UC San Diego Chancellor Robert Dynes
on Thursday.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/10/01/BA241990.DTL
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appeared in:
San Jose Mercury News, Oct. 1
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/6904432.htm
Contra Costa Times, Oct. 1
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/6904337.htm
Cancer Center Chief Chosen
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 1- Immunology
expert Dr. Dennis Carson has been named to
head the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer
Center, replacing Dr. David Tarin, who resigned
Jan. 1. Dr. Edward W. Holmes, vice chancellor
of the University of California San Diego,
said Carson was selected from among 40 candidates
in a national search because of his ability to take promising
anti-tumor compounds from the lab and turn them into drugs to
treat patients.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20031001-9999_7m1cancer.html
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appeared in:
KFMB, Channel 8, Sept. 30
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory18561.html
City News
Service, Sept. 30
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Flow Stopper
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 1-The
blood-brain barrier, or BBB, not only fends off the vast horde
of neurological threats, it keeps out many of the drugs and
medicines that could help when the brain or central nervous
system falls ill. The barrier does fight back. In a recent paper
published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation,
Kelly Doran, an assistant adjunct professor
of pediatrics at UCSD, and Victor Nizet,
an associate professor of pediatrics at UCSD,
report that exposure to GBS prompts specific genes in the blood-brain
barrier to release proteins that mobilize neutrophils or white
blood cells.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c1brain.html
Trolley
Dances are Going Places
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 30-The
Trolley Dances event, which opened over the weekend, features,
first and foremost, a strong roster of choreographers who have
taken to heart the task of creating meaningful site-specific
work, including the work of Yolande Snaith,
head of the dance department at UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20030930-9999_1c30trolley.html
CD Player for
Molecules
Genomics & Proteomics, Oct. 1-Your
CD player can do it. It can read interactions between molecules,
a procedure which could make biomarker testing easier in the
not so distant future. To address the need for less expensive
molecular screening devices, Michael Burkart
and James La Clair at the University
of California San Diego have figured out how to retool
a CD player to measure molecular interactions.
http://www.genpromag.com/scripts/ShowPR.asp?PUBCODE=018&ACCT=1800000100&ISSUE=0310&RELTYPE=GPW&PRODCODE=
00000000&PRODLETT=J
Geriatric Medicine
City News Service, Sept. 30-UC
San Diego, UC Irvine and UCLA, along with the University
of California's two other medical school campuses, will establish
fully funded endowed chairs in geriatric medicine. UC officials
said $12 million in state and private funds is being used to
endow the chairs.
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Physicist Marshall Rosenbluth
Newsday, Oct. 1-Marshall Rosenbluth,
a physicist whose research led to advances in nuclear fusion
technology and who also worked on the hydrogen bomb, died Sunday
of pancreatic cancer. (Quote by Marvin Goldberger,
a physics professor at the University of California,
San Diego.)
http://www.newsday.com/news/obituaries/ny-rosen013475968oct01,0,3403295.story
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appeared in:
Pittsburg Post-Gazette, Oct. 1
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HMOs in California Doing Better in Some Care
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 1-California's
HMOs have gotten better at customer service and at treating
chronic diseases, but they are still sorely behind in terms
of preventing disease in the first place and treating the mentally
ill, according a yearly assessment the state released yesterday.
UCSD Medical Group received the only "poor"
rating, for timely care and service. They rated lowest in terms
of patients being able to get appointments. Leslie Franz,
a UCSD Health Care spokeswoman, blamed the
problem on not having enough clinicians to meet the demand,
especially since UCSD's clinical activity depends
on the ability of faculty doctors to see patients. A recruiting
drive is on to boost their ranks, she said.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/business/news_1b1hmo.html
IBM
Chip Cuts Power Use in Mobile Phones
The Toronto Star, Oct. 1-International
Business Machines Corp., with the biggest U.S. computer-research
budget, said its scientists developed a chip that may allow
mobile phones to run as long as five days without recharging
and to speed functions. (Quote by Peter Asbeck,
a professor of electrical engineering at the University
of California at San Diego.)
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Ranks
of Uninsured Rise for 2nd Straight Year
Copley News Service, Sept. 30-The
number of Americans without health insurance climbed by 2.4
million people last year, according to new census data that
showed fewer people receiving health benefits through their
employers. (Quote by Richard Kronick, a professor
of health care policy at UC San Diego.)
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