A Sampling of Clips for
April
6-8, 2002
UCSD
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Office
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Minority admissions top level reached in 1997
Boston
Globe, April
6, Pg. A2 – The University of California system has admitted
more minority students for the fall freshman class than it did in
1997, the last year it instituted a ban on affirmative action in
admissions. UCSD saw
the greatest increase in minority students of any UC campus.
(Quotes UCSD admissions
director Mae Brown).
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Chronicle
for Higher Education, April
8
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Bus
ride on the information superhighway
Los
Angeles Times, April
7, Pg. 8 – Commuters on a campus shuttle can now use their
portable computers to gain high-speed, wireless access to the
Internet thanks to the work of UCSD
researchers. (Quotes UCSD
assistant vice chancellor for Administrative Computing and
Telecommunications Elazar Harel
and Cal – (IT)2 director Ramesh
Rao).
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000024827apr07.story
UCSD
school is fastest growing
San
Diego Union Tribune, Business
Briefing, April 6, Pg. C-2 – UCSD’s
Jacobs School of Engineering is considered the fastest-rising
engineering school in the nation by U.S.
News & World Report.
In 2002, the school ranked No. 14 of the nation’s
engineering schools.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20020406-9999_1b6briefs.html
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UW graduate programs make top 10 in U.S. News rankings
Milwaukee
Journal Sentinel, April
5 –UCSD’s
graduate studies program in physics was ranked 16th in
the nation by U.S. News &
World Report.
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UCSD
schools ranked
San
Diego Metropolitan Magazine,
local scene,
April
issue – In a survey released by U.S.
News & World Report, the rankings of UCSD’s
Jacobs School of Engineering and the UCSD
School of Medicine continued to rise.
http://dbr.sandiegometro.com/
Village
People
San
Diego Union Tribune, April
7, Pg. I-2 –Feature on a class taught by Keith
Pezzoli, head of the UCSD
urban studies and planning program.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/homes/news_mz1h7urbstu.html
Monster
crickets found in south state
Tri-Valley
Herald, April
5 – Scientists have discovered at least a half-dozen new insect
species in Southern California, among them the largest bug ever
found in the region. Robert
Fisher, a UCSD researcher
and zoologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in San Diego, showed
off three of the insects during a briefing at UCSD.
(Also quotes UCSD
biologist David Woodruff).
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Scope-cleaning
procedures debated
USA
Today, April
8, Pg. 8B – A long standing debate about procedures used to
clean medical scopes has been renewed due to the number of cases
of scope-transmitted infections.
A lawsuit has been filed against a clinic by people who
caught an infection after undergoing an endoscopy exam. (Quotes UCSD
professor of medicine James
Harrell).
http://www.usatoday.com/money/health/2002-04-08-scopes.htm
Danger
at the border
San
Francisco Chronicle, April
7, Pg. A1 –A study released in February by the California
Department of Health Services found that rates of HIV infection
among young Latino men in Tijuana and San Diego is on the rise.
(Quotes UCSD
epidemiologist Maria Luisa
Zuniga).
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/04/07/MN79801.DTL
Lifeline
San
Diego Union Tribune, April
8 – Feature on UCSD’s
Poison Control Center. (Quotes director of UCSD’s
Poison Control Center Anthony
Manoguerra).
http://uniontrib.com/news/uniontrib/mon/currents/news_1c8poison.html
Sempra
resumes its giving ways
San
Diego Union Tribune,
Peter
Rowe column, April 7 – Feature on Sempra Energy and its
charitable giving. Discusses
Sempra’s support of UCSD.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/rowe/20020407-9999_mz1c7rowe.html
Is
there a connection between faith and wellness?
Copley
News Service, April
8 –Researchers study the faith factor in the quest to better
understand the human body in a special edition of Annals
of Behavioral Medicine edited by UCSD
researcher Paul
Mills.
(Also quotes UCSD
Department
of Family and Preventive Medicine chair and journal
editor-in-chief Robert
Kaplan).
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‘Mouth
Park’?
Copley
News Service, April
8 – Feature on the television show South Park. (Quotes UCSD
sociology professor Chandra Mukerji).
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