A Sampling of Clips for
October 10, 2003
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New Yorkers
Snare Nobels
Daily News (New York), Oct. 9- NYU
economist Robert Engle and Rockefeller University's
Roderick MacKinnon won Nobel Prizes yesterday for economics
and chemistry. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced
that Engle, 60, and Britain's Clive
Granger, 69, who is with the University of
California at San Diego, won for their research into
investment risk.
http://www.nydailynews.com/10-09-2003/news/story/124998p-112124c.html
Briton Wins
Nobel Economics Prize
The Daily Telegraph (London), Oct.
9-Britain received its third Nobel prize in as many days yesterday
when Professor Clive Granger became the laureate
for economic sciences. Prof Granger, 69, is
a former student and lecturer at Nottingham University and now
works at the University of California at San Diego.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fmoney%2F2003%2F10%
2F09%2Fcnnobel09.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=107220
Mass. Native
Wins Nobel for Chemistry
Boston Herald, Oct. 9- Dr. Roderick
MacKinnon, 47, a professor at Rockefeller University in New
York, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry yesterday. Meanwhile,
the Nobel Prize in economics went to Robert F. Engle
of New York University and Clive W.J. Granger
of the University of California, San Diego,
for developing statistical tools that have improved economic
forecasting.
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UCSD Receives
$14.3 Million from the National Science Foundation
San Diego Metropolitan, Sept. 18-Researchers
at UCSD will receive more than $14.3 million
from the National Science Foundation for 10 new projects in
the information-technology arena. Twenty-one faculty members
and researchers will investigate topics ranging from how to
make cryptography easier to use, to the development of better
computer simulations of cell physiology.
http://dbr.sandiegometro.com/2003Sep18.lasso
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articles appeared in:
The T Sector, Sept. 19
http://www.thetsector.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=5741
Economic Times, India
Times, Oct. 2
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow?msid=212900
UC Berkeley Defends its Admission Process
Oakland Tribune, Oct. 7- Officials
from University of California, Berkeley, defended their admissions
processes Monday after a confidential document hit the media
that questions whether "marginally academically qualified"
students were admitted to the campus last year over better students.
Barbara Sawrey, chairwoman of UC's Board of
Admissions and vice chair of the UCSD chemistry
and biochemistry department, defended the UC admissions policy
at the Sept. 18 regents meeting, stating that the policy has
not diminished the number of high-achieving students who are
admitted to UC.
http://www.oaklandtribune.com/Stories/0,1413,82~1865~1682095,00.html#
Financially,
the Recall Was Business as Usual
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 10- The 77-day
California recall, involving Gov. Gray Davis and three major
candidates to replace him, cost roughly the same as the last
general election, a seven-month marathon involving two candidates.
Gov.-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger led the pack this time by bringing
in $21.9 million. Davis raised nearly $17 million. (Quote by
Gary Jacobson, a political science professor
at UC San Diego.)
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-money10oct10,1,3968933.story
Strikers
Could Face Shopper Apathy
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 10-If
70,000 Southern California grocery workers ultimately strike
the major supermarket chains, they might find a big slice of
consumers apathetic to their cause. Retail analysts and labor
experts say a large part of the public in the region will get
riled by a walkout only if it crimps their weekly shopping routine.
(Quote by Gary Fields, an assistant professor
of communication at UCSD.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/business/news_1b10grocery.html
3.6 Earthquake
Rattles Region; Largest Since '87
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 8- A
magnitude 3.6 earthquake - the strongest one to originate near
the San Diego metropolitan area in 16 years - jolted the region
early yesterday and was felt as far away as Orange County. (Quote
by Duncan Agnew, professor of geophysics at
UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography.)
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_1m8quake.html
This Watchdog
Trains Keen Eye on Agencies
La Jolla Light, Oct. 9-The La Jolla
Light keeps a close eye on developments in the La Jolla including
those of UCSD. They are proud of the fact that
they get criticized for both defending the side of the community
developers and the side of the community members who don't want
La Jolla to change.
http://www.lajollalight.com/2003/10/09/o031009this_watchdog.html
