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September 23, 2005
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UCSD's New
School of Management Opens
Channel 10 News, Sept. 22-Sixty MBA
candidates will start classes Thursday at UCSD's
new Rady School of Management, which will focus on the region's
thriving biotech and telecommunications industries. (Quote by
Robert Sullivan, dean of the Rady School at
UCSD.) More
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KFMB,
Sept. 22
Genius Grants
Awarded
KPCC, Sept. 20-Q & A with Emily
Thompson, an associate professor of history at UCSD,
who was one of five Californians chosen for this year's MacArthur
Foundation "genius grants.'' More
Affirmative
Action for Income Inequities
Baltimore Sun, Editorial, Sept. 23-It
should be a national scandal that students from privileged families
are 25 times more likely than their less-advantaged peers to
attend the nation's top colleges and universities. Of 50 of
the nation's leading research universities, Princeton ranks
dead last in the proportion of students eligible for Pell grants
(a federal grant for students from low-income families), with
Harvard and Yale not far behind. UCSD, UCLA,
and UC Berkeley - all of which give preference to students from
economically disadvantaged backgrounds - ranked first, second
and third. More
As Rita
Looms, Experts Say Kids Need Assurance
San Antonio Express, Sept. 22-With
a major hurricane predicted to slam the Texas coast -- even
as powerful images of devastating Hurricane Katrina and its
suffering evacuees continue -- some children's fears may be
rising, and they are looking to adults for calm assurance. (Quote
by Ellen Heyneman, clinical professor of psychiatry
and pediatrics at UCSD.) More
Lab Bidders
Set Up Shop in LA
LA Monitor, Sept. 22-The two finalists
bidding to run Los Alamos National Laboratory are opening offices
on the Hill to oversee the transition to new management next
year. Three board members, including UCSD Chancellor
Marye Anne Fox, were named at the UC regents
meeting for the UC-Bechtel limited liability corporation, known
as Los Alamos National Security, LLC. More
Study Clarifies Insulin's
Role in Blocking Release
of Energy in Patients with Type II Diabetes
News-Medical.Net, Sept. 22-Chronically
high levels of insulin, as is found in many people with obesity
and Type II diabetes, may block specific hormones that trigger
energy release into the body, according to researchers at the
UCSD School of Medicine. More
