A Sampling of Clips for 
September 22, 2005

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UCSD Opens it's New Business School
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 22-After less than three years of planning and aggressive faculty recruiting, UCSD's new business school opens today with its first class of full-time MBA students. More

New Device May Pump Out Heart Problems
Channel 10 News, Sept. 21-Millions of people are living with congestive heart failure -- a condition where the heart doesn't pump as well as it should. Now, researchers at the UCSD Medical Center are testing a new device that may be able to help people where medication has failed. More

Simple Organism Can Produce
10 Trillion Varieties of a Single Protein
News-Medical.Net, Sept. 21-A team led by UCSD biochemists has discovered the mechanism by which a simple organism can produce 10 trillion varieties of a single protein, a finding that provides a new tool to develop novel drugs. More

Targeting a Key Enzyme with Gene Therapy Reversed
Course of Alzheimer's Disease in Mouse Models
Innovations Report, Sept. 22-In mice that had been genetically engineered to develop Alzheimer's disease, scientists are now able to reverse the rodents' memory loss by reducing the amount of an enzyme that is crucial for the development of Alzheimers disease. (Refers to research by UCSD.) More

UCSD Study Could Lead to Improved
Treatment Options for Type II Diabetes
Medical News Today, Sept. 21-Chronically high levels of insulin, as is found in people with Type II diabetes, may block a specific hormone that is a trigger for releasing energy into the body, according to researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine. Their findings, which may point to improved treatment options for the disease, will be published in the September 22 issue of the journal Nature. More

Same article appeared in:
Innovations Report, Sept. 22

Officials: University of
California Faces Bleak Financial Future
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 22- The fiscal forecast for the University of California is bleak, and administrators said some tough decisions are ahead. More

Gas Prices Hit Low-Income County Residents Harder
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 22-For families with financial resources - 401(k)s, frequent-flier accounts, a wallet full of credit cards - paying more for gas is annoying and upsetting, but it isn't going to keep them from paying the mortgage. For lower-income San Diego County residents, the situation is more precarious. (Quote by Michael Noel, an economist at UCSD.) More

Ocean Council Targets State Waters
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 22-There's no entity in state government quite like the Ocean Protection Council. The five-member council will meet tomorrow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to address a wide-ranging agenda: It will review the state's ability to respond to offshore oil spills, adopt guidelines on how it will award grant requests, review the $26.2 million it has gathered from various sources to fund special projects, and begin drafting a "long-term vision." More