A Sampling of Clips for
May 25 - 28, 2002
UCSD
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University Communications
Office
The
secrets of autism
Time
Magazine, Science,
May 6 – The number of children diagnosed with
autism and asperger’s in the U.S. is exploding.
UCSD neuroscientists
Karen Pierce and Eric
Courchesne are among the experts whose autism findings
are discussed.
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UC
nurses drop strike
Los
Angeles Times, May
25 – Nurses at the University of California’s five medical
centers, including the UCSD
Medical Center, canceled a planned strike after reaching a
tentative agreement Friday on a new contract.
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article appeared in:
San
Diego Union Tribune, May
25
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Sacramento
Bee, May
25
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/medical/story/2882650p-3704160c.html
Evidence
of earliest life disputed
New
York Times,
May
24 – A conclusion in a 1996 study co-authored by a Scripps
Institution of Oceanography scientist that a
3.85-billion-year-old rock contains evidence of life may be in
error, according to a study that suggests the rock formed at
temperatures too torrid to make life possible.
(Quotes Scripps
Institution of Oceanography marine research division
professor and co-author of the 1996 study Gustaf
Arrhenius).
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Missing
matter glimpsed?
Nature.com,
May
24 -- UCSD astrophysicist
Neal Dalal and team
have snatched a glimpse of what could be cold dark
matter clumped around distant galaxies, lending credence to the
theory that the universe is comprised mostly of cold, dark matter.
http://www.nature.com/nsu/020520/020520-9.html
UCSD
center established to study rheumatology
North
County Times, May
26 – A $3 million grant from the National Institute of Arthritis
and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
has established the Rheumatic Disease Core Center on
the UCSD campus.
(Quotes UCSD professor
of medicine and center director Gregg
Silvermann and UCSD
professor of medicine Gary S.
Firestein).
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020526/60617.html
Local
firm helps herd seahorses for Birch Aquarium
San
Diego Business Journal, May
20-26 – West Coast Aquarium Industries made 15 special tanks for
Birch Aquarium at Scripps
seahorse exhibit, which opened May 11. (Quotes Birch
Aquarium at Scripps
curator Bob Burhans).
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Earth
Angel
San
Diego Business Journal, May
20-26 – Profile of Tech Coast Angels investor Vern Yates. (Quotes
UCSD Connects
director of programs Anette
Asher).
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Couple
put money where their hearts are
San
Diego Union Tribune, May
26 – Profile of Joan and Irwin Jacobs. (Mentions UCSD’s
Irwin and Joan Jacobs School of Engineering).
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City
would emerge fully formed from valley
Los
Angeles Times, May
26 – If voters approve the San Fernando Valley secession Nov. 5,
they would create a major American city fully formed from another
municipality. (Quotes
UCSD political
science professor Steve Erie).
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Simple
Science
Business
Week, Science
& Technology, May 27 – Profile of Stephen
Wolfram.
(Quotes
Cal-(IT)2 director Larry L. Smarr).
More see attached file…Simple Science
College
grads entering school of hard knocks
Copley
News Service, May
27 -- The economic turbulence that is driving unemployment up and
putting all job seekers on edge is no different for college
graduates this spring than it is for older workers with lots of
experience. UCSD saw
the number of college recruiters visiting campus drop by nearly
one-half this year. (Quotes
UCSD director of
career services Neil Murray).
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The
whole world is going digital
Copley
News Service, May
27 -- James Hebert reviews technological innovations that add to
the digitization of our lives, including Tivo, a brand of personal
video recorder, and movies filmed and projected on digital video
such as “Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones.” (Quotes
UCSD communication
professor Susan Leigh Star).
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Emotions
a weapon in battling cancer
North
County Times, May
27 – Feature on former UCSD
doctor and professor Daniel Vicario.
(Quotes UCSD
Cancer Center professor Ken
Herbst).
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20020527/55405.html
Rich
man, poor man
San
Diego Union Tribune,
Books,
May 26 – UCSD
history and economics professor Michael
A. Bernstein reviews the book Wealth
and Democracy authored by Kevin Phillips.
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Ponder
this
San
Diego Union Tribune, Diane
Bell column, May 25 – The “Weakest Link” quiz show called
upon UCSD’s Shiley
Eye Center to check the accuracy of a proposed question on the
pigment tissue between the cornea and lens in the eye. Shiley’s
ophthalmology professor David
Schanzlin revised the question.
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The
importance of Stephen Jay Gould
Newsday,
Health
& Discovery,
May 28 – Stephen Jay Gould, the evolutionary
theorist at Harvard University whose research, lectures and
prolific output of essays helped to reinvigorate the field of
paleontology, has died. (Quotes
UCSD biology professor David
Woodruff).
http://www.newsday.com/news/
