A Sampling of Clips for
September 03 - 06, 2005
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America's
Hot Colleges
Newsweek, Sept. 5-For students looking
to attend an American university, a few names have always loomed
large: the eight Ivies, a few small institutions like Amherst
and some celebrated state schools like the University of California,
Berkeley. But increasingly, today's students are widening their
searches and discovering many schools that are just as good--and
often just about as difficult to get into--as the famous ones.
(Rates UCSD as the university "Hottest
for Science" in the nation.) More
The Business School as
a Start-Up
Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept.
9-For more than three decades, Robert S. Sullivan
helped budding entrepreneurs transform inventions into thriving
businesses. Now the former dean of two of America's most prestigious
business schools is putting his experience to the test as founding
dean of UCSD's new Rady School of Management.
More
Star-Studded
Gathering to Greet
Gompers Students on First Day of School
Voice of San Diego, Sept. 6-Today
is the first day of school for students at Gompers and there
to help send these students on their way today will be an all-star
political line-up that is expected to include such heavy hitters
as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, state Education Secretary Alan
Bersin, former state Senators Dede Alpert and Lucy Killea, UCSD
Chancellor Marye Anne Fox and UCSD
provost and professor Cecil Lytle. More
Labor Day Heralds School
Year for Many Students
Daily Breeze, Sept. 6-This year's
America's 25 Hot Schools section spotlights a handful of campuses
that have created a buzz based on a particular attribute. UCSD,
for example, was named the "hottest for science,"
while the University of Notre Dame was named the "hottest
legendary university." More
Time-Saving
Tool
CNN Magazine, Sept. 6-When users update
a file they wish to use on other computers, they must remember
to copy the latest version manually to all the machines. Now,
a student at UCSD has come up with a time-saving
convenience that allows you to save the file on one device and
have it updated automatically on other PCs, laptops, personal
digital assistants or even third-generation cell phones. More
Japanese
Seen Voting
for Koizumi's Low-Risk Reform
Washington Post, Sept. 6-Japanese
voters longing for change but leery of the dangers it might
entail are being offered a low-risk option in Sunday's election:
vote for the conservative party that has ruled the nation for
most of the past 50 years. (Quote by Ellis Krauss,
a political science professor at UCSD.) More
Same article
appeared in:
Boston
Globe, Sept. 6
Local Aid
Fox 6 News, San Diego, Sept. 4-Four
Oceanside firefighter-paramedics, 10 Camp Pendleton Marines
and seven U.S. Coast Guard San Diego pilots, swimmers and mechanics
left Saturday to help in post-Hurricane Katrina rescue and recovery
efforts. Thirty other emergency specialists from fire departments
around the county, as well as a UCSD doctor
and a San Diego-based structural engineer, traveled with the
San Diego team. More
From Silicon
to Carbon Valley
Economic Times, Sept. 6-Prabhakar
Bandaru lives a few hours from Silicon Valley. A few
decades from now, chances are the place will be rechristened
Carbon Valley and the materials engineering professor from UCSD
may have a significant role to play in the renaming. More
Losses Could
Total $100 Billion
San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 4-Estimates
vary, but experts agree that the toll cost of damage from Hurricane
Katrina will be high because the storm destroyed the already
poor region's economic infrastructure. (Quote by Richard
Carson, an economics professor at UCSD.)
More
The Chosen
Few
Boston Herald, Sept. 4-The elite colleges
are more diverse than ever, but the students being admitted
are still overwhelmingly wealthy. The author of a new book argues
it's time that the Ivies welcomed more middle-class and disadvantaged
students-and he shows them how. (Mentions UCSD.)
More
NRIs Make
the Tiniest Transistor
with Carbon Nanotubes
Hindustan Times, Sept. 5-A scientist
at UCSD has created history by making the world's
tiniest transistor entirely from carbon nanotubes. More
Single Molecular
Anchor Holds the Key to
Treating
Many Types of Bacterial Meningitis
News-Medical.net, Sept. 5-A single
molecular anchor that allows bacteria to invade the nervous
system may hold the key to treating many types of bacterial
meningitis, a UCSD School of Medicine study
has found. More
Similar
article appeared in:
Medical
News Today, Sept. 4
National
Guard Unit from Pittsburg
Lends a Hand at New Orleans Airport
Contra Costa Times, Sept. 4-Six days
after Hurricane Katrina swept over New Orleans with the force
of a biblical disaster, the city lay in ruins, its people fleeing
by the tens of thousands. (Quote by Jake Jacoby,
an emergency doctor from the UCSD Medical Center.)
More
Labor: What
is its Future Here?
North County Times, Sept. 5-Today is Labor Day, celebrated
since 1882 as a day to honor the American worker. (Mentions
UCSD.) More
Silvio S.
Varon, 81; Alzheimer's Trailblazer at UCSD
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 5-Silvio
S. Varon's crowning achievement in medical science
- opening the door for potential therapies in Alzheimer's disease
- reflected a much broader passion. Dr. Varon, who retired from
the UCSD faculty in 1994 as an emeritus professor
of biology and medicine, died Aug. 28 at Thornton Hospital in
La Jolla. More
Both Left,
Right Avoid Mistakes of Vietnam Era
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 6-It's
no accident that the bus that carried Cindy Sheehan east from
Texas last week was painted red, white and blue. The patriotic
colors reflected the determination of liberals and conservatives
alike to adopt new tactics in their battle for public opinion
on the war in Iraq. (Quote by Rebecca Klatch,
a professor of sociology at UCSD and the author
of "A Generation Divided: The New Left, The New Right in
the 1960s.") More
'All
Our Problem Now'
Arizona Republic, Sept. 4-Mentally
ill homeless cost the Arizona Valley's cities on many levels,
from ERs to parks to jail. (Refers to research by UCSD.)
More
County Orange
Industry Running Out of Juice
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 4-Slowly,
San Diego County is abandoning its orange industry. Plenty of
San Diego County farmers have quit growing oranges already,
turning off the water or pulling out trees. (Quote by Gary
Bender, a farm adviser with UCSD Cooperative
Extension.) More
