A Sampling of Clips for
June 12, 2002
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Words
of welcome for state poet
Los
Angeles Times, June
12 – Gov. Gray Davis has chosen UCSD
literature professor Quincy
Troupe as California’s first official poet laureate.
Troupe will
receive a $10,000 honorarium to make readings around the state and
raise the profile of poetry, especially among schoolchildren.
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12
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12
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San
Francisco Chronicle, June
12
Troupe
San
Diego Union Tribune,
June 12
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Sacramento
Bee, June
12
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San
Jose Mercury News,
June 12
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/3453774.htm
Copley
News Service,
June 12
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Oakland
Tribune, June
12
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U.S.
to honor top researcher of atmosphere
San
Diego Union Tribune, June
12 – President Bush is to award Scripps
Institution of Oceanography professor of oceanography Charles
David Keeling the National Medal of Science, the
nation’s highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific
research. (Quotes Scripps
director Charles
Kennel, Scripps associate
professor of oceanography Jeff
Severinghaus and Scripps
professor of oceanography Ray
Weiss).
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Copley
News Service, June
12
Pilotless
research aircraft: Flying
free
Nature.com,
June
6 – Veerabhadran Ramananathan,
director of the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, hopes to utilize unmanned
aerial vehicles (UAVs), aircraft that can fly without pilots or
remote control, to carry out the Indian Ocean atmospheric
experiments that he struggles to do now with planes and
satellites.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020603/020603-4.html
Study
links sleep time, longevity seven hours a night may be just about
right
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, June
12, Pg. A-3 – Findings of a UCSD
study led by psychiatry
professor Daniel Kripke will
be presented today at the Associated Professional Sleep
Societies’ annual meeting.
Kripke’s
study found that people who sleep between seven and eight hours a
night live slightly longer than people who sleep less or more.
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Gene
researchers ponder enhancement for athletes
Boston
Globe, June
11 – Gene-therapy researchers paused their annual convention to
discuss the possibility of genetically enhanced super-athletes
during a highly speculative seminar that underscored the renewed
confidence bubbling in this once-troubled field.
(Quotes UCSD pediatrics
professor Theodore Friedmann).
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/
UCSD
offers Young Native summer course
San
Diego Union Tribune, June
5 – UCSD is
accepting applications for the Young Native Scholars Summer
Program, a six-week technology course for high school students,
especially those of Native American heritage.
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