A Sampling of Clips for
August 14 to 15, 2002
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Young and
Bipolar
Time Magazine, Cover
story,
Aug. 11 – In a cover story article about bipolar disease,
UCSD professor of psychiatry John Kelsoe discussed
the genetic basis of the disease and the hunt for genes that contribute.
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101020819/story.html
How
now brown cloud?
San Francisco Examiner, Aug. 14 – Scripps
Institution of Oceanography professors V. Ramanathan
and Paul Crutzen are among the scientists that contributed
to a study on the “Asian Brown Cloud,” a two-mile-thick
blanket of pollution over South Asia.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/headlines/default.jsp?story=n.asianhaze.0814w
Article
also appeared in:
San Diego Daily Transcript, Aug. 12
Related
article appeared in:
Rediff.com, Aug. 13
http://www.rediff.com/news/2002/aug/13bash.htm
Bioengineering
hall at UCSD dedicated
San Diego Daily Transcript, Aug. 13 – UCSD
officials dedicated the $37 million Powell-Focht Bioengineering
Hall, the first completed of three new buildings that will almost
double the size of the Jacobs School of Engineering complex. (Quotes
Troy Anderson, public information representative for EBU
1 and Sue Chien, bioengineering department chair. Frieder
Seible, UCSD professor of structural engineering was
one of the scheduled speakers for the ceremony).
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No link available online.
'Physician
in chief’ named
San Diego Daily Transcript, Aug. 13 – Thomas
McAfee will begin his term as UCSD Health Sciences’
first Physician in Chief on Aug. 19. The position was created
to provide administrative-level oversight for the physicians of
UCSD Medical Center and UCSD Medical Group.
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Deep-ocean
life where oxygen is scarce
American Scientist, Sep.-Oct. issue – Scripps
Institution of Oceanography Marine Life Research Group professor
Lisa A. Levin writes about the reduced oxygen levels in
parts of the world’s oceans, one predicted consequence of
global warming.
http://americanscientist.org/articles/02articles/LLevin.html
