A Sampling of Clips for
June 19, 2002
UCSD
faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the
University Communications
Office
Cracking
the cancer code
U.S.
News & World Report, June
24, Cover Story – UCSD researchers
have embarked upon a search for the unique genetic and molecular
programs operating inside prostate cancer cells.
They hope to figure out which programs make some cancers
aggressive and which ones tell others to remain dormant.
(Quotes UCSD assistant
professor of surgery Carol
Salem).
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/020624/health/24cancer.htm#Anchor
Cool
Companies -- Roadtripping in search of the technological future
Fortune,
June
24, Cool Companies – UCSD was
among the universities visited on Eryn Brown’s month-long road
trip visiting colleges around the nation.
Brown’s objective was to learn something about the future
by checking out the new breed of college student.
http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=208279
Hahn’s
pothole strategy
Los
Angeles Times, June
19, Pg. 1 – Profile on Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn.
(Quotes UCSD political
scientist Steve Erie).
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La
Jolla institute looks within for new president, scientific
director
San
Diego Daily Transcript, June
19 – UCSD adjunct
biology professor Mitchell
Kronenberg will
replace Howard Grey as scientific director of the La Jolla
Institute for Allergy and Immunology in January, and as president
the following September.
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PPH
board faces push for Nurses Now program
North
County Times, June
19 – Palomar Pomerado Health board is reconsidering joining
Nurses Now, a program with San Diego State University where
hospitals agree to fund teaching positions in exchange for paid
and credited work from nursing students. Nurses Now has agreements
with eight hospitals and health-care systems including UCSD
Medical Center.
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020618/51548.html
Dancer
Ann Miller was on tap for SummerQuest AIDS benefit
San
Diego Union Tribune, Burl
Stiff column, June 18 – Burl Stiff reports on the 5th annual
SummerQuest event which raised money for the UCSD
Anti-Viral Research Center and the Asia/Pacific Islander Community
AIDS project. The event netted $60,000.
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Firms
keeping their heads well above water with undersea technology
applications
San
Diego Daily Transcript, June
19 -- Ocean Innovations, a manufacturing representative
specializing in sales to the oceanographic community,
earns sales mostly from underwater cables and
connectors. Their clients include
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the Monterey Bay
Aquarium and Naval facilities.
More see attached file…Undersea
technology
SDSU taps biotech world for business school dean
San
Diego Union Tribune, June
19 -- SDSU named GAIL NAUGHTON
dean of the College of Business Administration. The 46-yr. old
scientist's appointment is the latest example of the increasingly
fertile relationship between San Diego's academic institutions and
the high-tech business sector, which helped transform the region's
economy. (Mentions UCSD).
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San
Diego’s formula for biotech success
San Diego Union Tribune,
June 19 -- Opinion piece by IVOR
ROYSTON. The
basis for San Diego’s biotech industry is the world-class
research institutions we have here.
(Mentions UCSD CONNECT).
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