A Sampling of Clips for 
March 9-11, 2002  
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Scientists see future of brain mapping in UCSD-led network
San Diego Union Tribune, Mar. 10 – UCSD heads a national initiative to research Alzheimer’s and other brain disorders.  A $20 million grant from the NIH is funding the effort to create the Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN). BIRN will eventually use the TeraGrid network led by the Supercomputer Center. (Quotes UCSD neurobiologist Mark Ellisman and UCSD neuroscientist Maryann Martone). 
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Sep. 11 fuels UCSD nerve-gas detection project
San Diego Union Tribune, Mar. 11 – UCSD chemist Michael Sailor and team are developing a  portable laser device that could lead to a new generation of portable nerve-gas detectors.
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Smog’s impact on global economy gets new look
San Diego Union Tribune, Mar. 10 – UCSD researchers are studying the effects of atmospheric aerosols and finding the pollution may have a long-term impact on climate. (Quotes UCSD scientists Mark Thiemens, Kimberly Prather, and SIO’s Veerabhadran Rananathan).
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The sealab explorers
San Diego Union Tribune, Mar. 11 – The annual reunion of participants in the 1960s Navy Sealab research project will meet this week.  The deep-sea explorers included Scripps Institute of Oceanography scientist and students.  
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Surprise findings about a warming ocean
San Diego Union Tribune, Mar. 10 – Article features research by Scripps Institution of Oceanography researcher Sarah T. Gille on the  rising temperatures in the Southern Ocean. 
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Researchers learning the buzzwords of bespeak
Copley News Service, Mar. 11 – UCSD researcher James C. Nieh is cracking some of the codes of stingless bees’ communication, reviving an area of scientific inquiry regarding the insects use of complex language and dance sound.
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Is there a connection between faith and wellness?
San Diego Union Tribune, Mar. 8 – The journal Annals of Behavioral Medicine dedicates a special issue to consider whether a connection between faith and wellness exists. (Quotes UCSD researcher and journal editor Paul Mills, and mentions UCSD Medical School chair and journal editor-in chief Robert Kaplan).
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Manufacturing recovering, but CEOs have doubts
Copley News Service, Mar. 11 -- If two separate industry surveys are to be believed, manufacturing made an amazing recovery in January and February.  Economists say that manufacturing’s awakening is the final piece of the puzzle that will end the recession. (Quotes UCSD economist Ross Starr).
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New AIDS drug still a distant glimmer
Los Angeles Times, Mar. 11 – With current therapies bedeviled by serious side effects and growing viral resistance, hopes are fading for a quick breakthrough in the development of effective anti-AIDS drugs. (Mentions a study led by UCSD researcher Dr. Samuel Bozette).
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-000017860mar11.story

A farce to be reckoned with
San Diego Union Tribune, Mar. 10 – With an array of broad humor, TV’s Comedy Central is laughing all the way up the ranks. (Quotes UCSD professor Chandra Mukerji).
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College papers struggle with ethics and freebies
Copley News Service, Mar. 11 – Arts feature discusses Hollywood trend - hiring college and university editors as movie consultants to reach college-age audiences. (Quotes UCSD Guardian editor Charlie Tan).
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Press club honors news makers
San Diego Daily Transcript, Mar. 8 – The San Diego Press Club honored the region’s top news makers of 2001 at the annual Headliners banquet Thursday.  The headliners include:  UCSD researchers Mark Tuszynski and J. Allen McCutchan, and UCSD’s Cal-(IT) 2 director Larry Smarr.
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Optometry board can’t see eye to eye
Los Angeles Times, Mar. 11 – A professional mediator will chair the feuding state Board of Optometry’s next meeting—if its members stop bickering over the date, time and format of the meeting. (Quotes UCSD administrative director Julianne D’Angelo Fellmeth).
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000017951mar11.story

Space shutterbugs orbiting camera relies upon students’ calculations
Boston Globe, Mar. 10 –NASA’s EarthKAM project is teaching middle school students to collect digital images using the camera aboard the space station.  A UCSD computer passes along the students request to NASA.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/069/learning/Space_shutterbugs+.shtml