A Sampling of Clips for October 8^th, 2008

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Three Chemists Win Nobel Prize
The New York Times, Oct. 8  -- One Japanese and two American scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for taking the ability of some jellyfish to glow green and transforming it into a ubiquitous tool of molecular biology to watch the dance of living cells and the proteins within them. Osamu Shimomura, an emeritus professor at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. and Boston University Medical School, Martin Chalfie of Columbia University, and Roger Y. Tsien of UCSD, will share the $1.4 million prize awarded by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. More

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Audi's Clean Desk Fetish
CNN Fortune, Oct. 8 -- When Audi opened its new U.S. headquarters in Herndon, Va. this summer, the German automaker's sleek new office was immaculate - and executive vice president Johan de Nysschen wants to keep it that way. De Nysschen, who hails from South Africa, issued a dictum to the 100 employees who work at the site: At the end of the day, clear your desk of nearly everything. "We want to create a sophisticated atmosphere," he says. "It's conducive towards organization." (Quotes David Kirsh, a professor of cognitive science at UCSD) More

UCSD Extends Global Reach
La Jolla Light, Oct. 7 --  UCSD and the Chinese Ministry of Education have signed a first-of-its-kind agreement to train student affairs officers from universities throughout China. The first 33 Chinese student affairs officers have arrived at UC San Diego Extension, the continuing education arm of the university, to begin 13 weeks of instruction. More

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