A Sampling of Clips for
April
3, 2002
UCSD
faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the
University Communications
Office
Citing
danger, UC recalls its students from Israel
San
Diego Union Tribune, April
3 – The University of California recalled its students from
Israel yesterday, including seven from UCSD,
declaring the country to dangerous for American college
students.
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Hazy
conclusions
San
Diego Union Tribune, Apr.
3 – Scientists research the effects of an enormous cloud above
the Indian Ocean dubbed the Asian Brown Haze discovered during a
$25 million Indian Ocean Experiment co-headed by Scripps
Institution of Oceanography climatologist Veerabhadran
Ramanathan.
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News
briefs from Southern California
Associated
Press, Apr.
2 – UCSD
researchers created a wireless connection that allows bus riders
to use their portable computers to access the Internet. (Quotes UCSD
assistant vice chancellor for Administrative Computing and
Telecommunications Elazar
Harel).
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The
fifth taste
Boston
Globe, science
briefs, Apr. 2 – UCSD
researchers found we have a fifth taste receptor called umami, a
taste for amino acids that helps us identify food that contains
protein.
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Silicon
goes POW!
Discover.com,
Apr.
issue – UCSD
chemist Michael Sailor
created computer chips using silicon crystals that blow up on
command.
http://www.discover.com/apr_02/breakpow.html
Let
there be light
Discover.com,
Apr.
issue – UCSD
astrophysicist Michael Norman
and colleagues created a supercomputer simulation that indicates
stars started forming 100 million years after the Big Bang.
http://www.discover.com/apr_02/breaklight.html
Post-tensioned
frames tested
San
Diego Daily Transcript, local
scene, Apr.
3 – UCSD
researchers at the Jacobs School of Engineering have created a new
class of weld-free, steel-framed structures that can absorb strong
earthquake motions with little or no damage.
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UCSD
professor among 3 finalists for post of state poet laureate
San
Diego Daily Transcript, Mar.
31 – UCSD
professor Quincy Troupe
is a finalist to become California’s first official poet
laureate.
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UCSD
ends MSN program
San
Diego Daily Transcript, Mar.
28 – UCSD’s
master’s degree program in nurse midwifery and family nurse
practitioner will be eliminated. (Quotes program director Sheila
Pickwell).
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