A Sampling of Clips for
September 18, 2003
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Dynes
Voices Opposition to Proposition 54
UCLA Daily Bruin, Sept. 17-UC
San Diego chancellor and president-elect Robert
Dynes announced his opposition to Proposition 54 during
a press conference with student leaders at the UC Board of Regents
meeting. In doing so, he joins a growing list of the initiative's
opponents, which already includes state medical practitioners,
law enforcement officers and education officials.
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?ID=25218
San Diego
Briefs
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 18-
The National Science Foundation will provide more than $14.3
million to scientists at the University of California,
San Diego for 10 research projects in information technology.
Scientists at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering,
San Diego Supercomputer Center and the California Institute
for Telecommunications and Information Technology are leading
the largest projects.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20030918-9999_1b18calbrfs.html
Machine
Shop Will be Retooled
La Jolla Village News, Sept. 17-After
months of discussions with neighbors and other residents opposed
to the Marine Sciences Development Shop, the University
of California, San Diego has decided to withdraw its
request for a California Coastal Commission permit to build
the proposed 10,000-square-foot facility in Seaweed Canyon -
for now. (Quote by Milt Phegley, UCSD
Campus Community Planner.)
http://www.sdnews.com/LJVN%20Folder/lvnc.html
Irvine, Calif., Scientists
Win Grant to Develop Life-Saving Technology
The Orange County Register, Sept.
18-UCI scientists will receive $ 12.5 million to help save lives
in a disaster by developing technology that will allow firefighters,
police and other responders communicate and make decisions more
quickly in the event of a catastrophe. Universities that are
assisting with the project include the University of
California, San Diego, Brigham Young University and
the universities of Illinois, Colorado and Maryland.
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Seeing Colours in Numbers
The Hindu, Sept. 18- For some people
who are otherwise normal, seeing colours in things as mundane
as numbers or even particular tunes is not new. Brand them as
crazy, as they were generally called, but that cannot wish away
the fact that these people do indeed see colours when none exists.
According to V.S. Ramachandran, Director of
Centre for Brain and Cognition at the University of
California at San Diego, the experience of seeing colours
in numbers or tones can be explained medically.
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