A Sampling of Clips for
June 11, 2002
UCSD
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San
Diegan in line for California poet laureate
Copley
News Service, June
11 – Feature on UCSD literature
professor Quincy Troupe,
who is expected to be named California’s first official poet
laureate today.
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UC
nurses sign pact to avert strike
San
Diego Business Journal, June
3-9 Issue – UCSD
and other University of California facilities have averted a
one-day strike by reaching an agreement with nurses over work and
wage issues that is expected to be ratified this week.
(Quotes UCSD director
of health sciences Leslie Franz
and UCSD Medical
Center director Sumiyo Kastelic).
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Walter
Cronkite captivates Scripps audience
La
Jolla Light, June
5 – Walter Cronkite received the Nierenberg Prize for Science in
the Public Interest Award at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.
http://www.lajollanews.com/News/2002/June/Seniors1826.shtml
The
List: Largest Employers
San
Diego Business Journal,
June
3-9 Issue, Pg.17 – UCSD
ranks third on the list of largest employers.
Employers are ranked by total number of employees as of
April 1, 2002.
(There information is available in the San
Diego Business Journal as a chart and is not available
on-line).
Beautiful
minds are reuniting for a seafaring tale
San
Diego Union Tribune, Diane
Bell Column, June 11 – Actors Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly
were given biology lessons at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography by marine biologist Richard
Rosenblatt. Bettany
was prepping for his role in an upcoming film in which he will
play the ship’s naturalist and surgeon.
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UCSD’s
Rapp wins $10K prize
La
Jolla Light, June
5 – UCSD Computer
Science and Engineering graduate student John Rapp took the top
prize at the Spring 2002 UCSD
Programming Contest.
http://www.lajollanews.com/News/2002/June/News1813.shtml
Study:
Biotech industry relies on brains, bucks and entrepreneurs
San
Diego Daily Transcript, June
11 – San Diego, considered the third largest biotech center in
the nation, has the basics covered, according to a 40-page
Brookings Institution study to be released Tuesday in Washington,
D.C.
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Art
dealer who helped transform Soho
Los
Angeles Times, Obituaries,
June 11—Holly Solomon, an actress who became a flamboyant art
collector and gallery owner and, in the process, was instrumental
in transforming New York’s Soho into the international epicenter
of new art in the 1970s, has died.
(Quotes UCSD visual
arts professor Kim MacConnel).
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