A Sampling of Clips for
May
04 - 06, 2002
UCSD
faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the
University Communications
Office
Technology
trailblazers
San
Diego Union Tribune, May
5, Pg. 1 – Profiles Cal-(IT) 2. Includes discussion of
ActiveCampus, an institute project that tests whether technology
can help students connect with each other and their professors.
Also mentions a new fiber-optic link between San Diego
State University and Scripps
Institution of Oceanography that will connect two
visualization centers that allow researchers to simultaneously
examine real-time date in 3-D. (Quotes Cal-(IT)2 director Larry
Smarr and Bill
Griswold, UCSD
computer science professor and developer of ActiveCampus).
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Institute’s
leader called new kind of entrepeneur
San
Diego Union Tribune, May
5 – Profile on Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr. (Quotes
electrical & computer engineering professor Mohan Trivedi
and mentions UCSD theatre professor Janet Smarr).
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Latino
education conference held for parents
San
Diego Union Tribune, May
4 – The North County Regional Latino Parent Conference provided
several workshops including one on financial aid by Esteban
Marquez
from UCSD’s
Outreach Department.
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Toxic
waste risks serious, study finds
Copley
News Service, May
3 – Kathryn
Kopinak of
UCSD’s
Center for U.S.– Mexican Studies discovered that some of
Tijuana’s biggest hazardous-waste generators are located near
densely populated neighborhoods with high concentrations of
children.
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More
college graduates will have to work harder to find employment
Marketplace
Morning Report, May
3 – More than a million college students will graduate this
spring, and they will face the toughest job market in a decade. Neil
Murray,
UCSD’s
director of the Career Services Center appears on the program.
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UC
nurses’ strike vote is set for next week
San
Diego Union Tribune, May
4 – Nurses in the University of California health system
including UCSD
registered nurse Geraldine
Jenkins
will decide this week whether to go on strike after contract
negotiations over pay raises and working conditions broke down
Thursday.
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Article
also appeared in:
Copley
News Service, May
3
Researchers
ready to move into new Mississippi River facility
Associated
Press, May
3 – The University of Iowa opened doors Friday to the Lucille A.
Carver River Research and Education Facility, a center modeled
after the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.
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Although
chicken pox is nasty, vaccination might not be the answer
New
Scientist, May
4 – As more countries start to vaccinate against chickenpox,
they will unwittingly encourage the spread of shingles. (Quotes UCSD
professor of medicine Michael
Oxman).
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Five
local arts groups share in NEA grant funding
San
Diego Union Tribune,
May
3, Pg. E-3 – UCSD
is among the recipients of National Endowment for the Arts grants
totaling $152,000.
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