A Sampling of Clips for
September 10 - 12, 2005
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Despite
Uncertain Funding, Agency Issues First Grants
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 10-California's
groundbreaking stem cell agency yesterday announced its first
grants to train a new generation of scientists in a potentially
promising area of research that has been restricted by the federal
government. The Burnham Institute got $2.2 million, the Scripps
Research Institute received $1 million, UCSD
got $3.6 million and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
received $1.4 million, according to the stem cell agency. (Quote
by UCSD Chancellor Marye Anne Fox.)
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San
Diego Daily Transcript, Sept. 10
Stem Cell
Agency Awards $39 Million
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 10-California's
stem cell research agency awarded the first of a planned $3
billion in grants Friday, announcing that a little less than
$39 million would go to UCSD, UCLA, UC Irvine,
Stanford and several other campuses to help set up programs
to train scientists. More
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San
Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 10
Sacramento
Bee, Sept. 10
Local Medical
Team Back Home
from Disaster, Tells of Dire Times
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 10-The
36-member San Diego Disaster Medical Assistance Team managed
by UCSD flew home last night after spending
10 days helping to treat patients brought to Louis Armstrong
airport in New Orleans. (Quote by UCSD D-MAT
commander Dr. Irving "Jake" Jacoby
and Christian Sloane an emergency room physician
at UCSD.) More
NIEHS Launches
Website with Information for Assessing Environmental Hazards
from Hurricane Katrina
Innovations Report, Sept. 10-A new
website with a Global Information System will provide valuable
information for assessing environmental hazards caused by Hurricane
Katrina. Partners working with NIEHS in the development of the
various phases of the GIS include UCSD. More
A Miracle
at Gompers?
Voice of San Diego, Sept. 12-Today,
more than two-thirds of students in the city, state and nation
do not achieve proficiency in the core K-12 curriculum. In inner
city schools, as many of 95 percent of students fail to achieve
proficiency in any subject. Eight years ago, pianist and Professor
Cecil Lytle, then the provost of UCSD's
Thurgood Marshall College was focused on creating a UCSD-sponsored
school in the inner city that reversed this spiral of under-performance
and failure. More
Nuclear
Receptor Proteins Could
Change Anti-Inflammatory Treatments
News-Medical.Net, Sept. 12-Several
nuclear receptor proteins appear to overlap in their ability
to exert anti-inflammatory effects, according to new research
by scientists at the UCSD. More
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article appeared in:
Medical
News Today, Sept. 10
Fighting
Misperceptions
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 11-Community
members estimate that 80,000 to 100,000 Muslims live in San
Diego County, although an exact census figure isn't available.
The faces are diverse: immigrants and converts, newcomers and
old-timers, Arabs, Asians, Africans and Anglos, who all look
at the world through Muslim eyes. Four years ago today, their
world changed. (Quote by Christopher Adam Bishop,
a 22-year-old UCSD student.) More
Girl Power and Bebop Revolution
at the San Diego Women Film Foundation
Voice of San Diego, Sept. 12-The San
Diego Women Film Foundation is hosting a summer film series
to counter the negative images offered by mass media. (Quote
by Summer Film Series host Giovanna Chesler,
producer/film director and assistant professor of communication
at UCSD.) More
