A Sampling of Clips for
September 23, 2004
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Rock Bugs
Resist Polar Extremes
BBC News, Sept. 23-Charles Cockell
of the British Antarctic Survey, based in Cambridge, traveled
to both ends of the globe to see how many microbes make their
home at the poles. He and his colleague Dale Stokes,
of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
in La Jolla, California, found that light-loving cyanobacteria
flourish underneath the rocks.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3679352.stm
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articles appeared in:
Nature, Sept. 22
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040920/pf/040920-9_pf.html
MSNBC News,
Sept. 22
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6072541/
United Press International,
Sept. 22
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/09_23_buried.asp
Independent Online,
Sept. 22
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=143&art_
id=qw1095863761699B252
Innovations Report,
Sept. 22
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/report-33899.html
Physicist Schuller at UCSD Honored
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 23-A
UCSD physicist and pioneer in nanotechnology
is one of seven scientists nationwide to receive the Department
of Energy's highest honor, the E.O. Lawrence Award, the federal
agency announced yesterday. Ivan K. Schuller,
a materials scientist who has worked at the University
of California, San Diego since 1987, is noted for creating
the field of "metallic superlattices."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/education/20040923-9999-1m23ivan.html
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articles appeared in:
Contra Costa Times, Sept. 23
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City News,
Sept. 23
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/09_22_physics.asp
North County Times,
Sept. 23
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2004/09/23/special_
reports/science_technology/14_48_289_22_04.txt
US Researchers Study Real Viruses to
Thwart Virtual
Reuters, Sept. 22-U.S. university
researchers, including UCSD computer scientist
Stefan Savage, will soon begin a $13 million
study of the spread of Internet viruses using methods pioneered
in tracking the outbreak of human epidemics. The goal is to
create a computer network so robust that it can fend off the
Internet attacks as they happen, much as the body's immune system
reacts to infection.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22191135.htm
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articles appeared in:
Economic Times, Sept. 23
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/860516.cms
New Zealand Herald,
Sept. 23
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storyprint.cfm?storyID=3594063
Copley News,
Sept. 23
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/enews/articles/2004/09_23_study.asp
State Prison Doctors' Abilities to Be
Tested
San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 23-More
than 300 doctors working in California's correctional system
face competency tests, and some will likely be sent through
remedial training under an agreement reached this month after
a panel of medical experts excoriated the quality of prison
health care. Corrections officials are negotiating with a medical
program at UC San Diego that specializes in
physician assessments.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/09/23/BAGLG8T9FF1.DTL
City Hall
Facing a Deficit of Pension-Fund Reports
San Diego Union-Tribune, Diane Bell Column,
Sept. 23-As UCSD's new chancellor, Marye Anne Fox,
rode around campus in a cart Saturday visiting undergraduate
colleges on move-in day, she espied a woman crying in her SUV.
Fox instructed her driver to stop. As she suspected,
the woman was teary-eyed because she was dropping off her daughter.
Having raised five boys, Fox was quick to empathize
and reassure the anxious mom that her daughter was in good hands.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/bell/20040923-9999-7m23bell1.html
Spare Parts
for Life
Lexington Herald, Kentucky, Sept.
23-As people's aging bodies wear out, go bad or break down,
scientists and engineers are collaborating to create treatments
and replacement parts for failing organs. For example, Sangeeta
Bhatia, a biomedical engineer at UCSD,
marries biology and computer technology to create spare liver
cells for patients with diseased or injured livers. (Quote by
Shu Chien, the chairman of the bioengineering
department at the University of California, San Diego.)
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/living/science/9736165.htm
