A Sampling of Clips for
June 1- 3, 2002
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To
see under the sea
San
Diego Union Tribune, June
2 – Under a federally-funded project, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography researchers and librarians
and San Diego Supercomputer
Center scientists plan to broadcast the rich history of
ocean exploration - as well as the latest discoveries – on the
Internet. The
Melville, a research vessel based at Scripps,
employs multibeam bathymetry to map the sea floor in unprecedented
detail. (Quotes Scripps
marine geophysicist and the project’s chief scientist
Stephen P. Miller,
archivist Deborah Day,
and San Diego Supercomputer
Center scientist John
Helly).
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Institute
launched at UCSD
San
Diego Union Tribune,
June 1, Pg.1 – Gov. Gray Davis helped break ground at UCSD
on Friday for Cal-(IT)2, an institute that he and business
and academic leaders hope will further transform California’s
economic and technological landscape. Also dedicated Friday
was the computer science and engineering building. (Quotes Cal-(IT)2
director Larry Smarr).
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article appeared in:
San
Diego Daily Transcript,
June
3
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Health budget under attack
Los
Angeles Times, June
2, Pg. 8 – A network of health-care outreach workers that helps
1.1 million poor families enroll in state health insurance
programs is itself ailing. UCSD
Community Pediatrics outreach workers have launched a
letter-writing campaign to protest the cuts. (Quotes Elaine
Pizzola, UCSD
program supervisor for the agency’s Health Insurance Access
Through Schools project).
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Redistricting
has council squabbling
Los
Angeles Times, June
2, Pg.1 – As the Los Angeles City Council undertakes the once
–a-decade task of redrawing district boundaries, members are
jockeying for key pieces of the city. (Quotes UCSD
political scientist Steven Erie).
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In
his image
San
Diego Union Tribune, June
2 – Profile on J. Robert Beyster.
(Quotes UCSD Extension
associate vice chancellor Mary
Walshok and dean
of UCSD’s Jacobs
School of Engineering Robert W.
Conn).
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Taking
the bitter with the sweet
Copley
News Service, June
3 – Adding candylike flavoring to kids’ medicines has been a
sweet deal for parents, pharmacists and pediatricians who for
years struggled to get children to take prescribed medication.
(Quotes UCSD
director of toxicology Richard
Clark).
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Banking
on a cure
San
Diego Union Tribune, June
1 – A growing number of parents of newborns are choosing to have
their baby’s umbilical cord blood collected, frozen and stored
for life. (Quotes
director of UCSD Medical
Center’s Transfusion Service Thomas
Lane).
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In
celebrity circles
San
Diego Union Tribune, Diane
Bell column,
June 1 – Walter Cronkite received the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography’s $25,000 Nierenberg
Prize. Cronkite declined having questions in advance for his
Q&A with Scripps director
Charles Kennel at
the Birch Aquarium.
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