A Sampling of Clips for 
November 16 - 18, 2002

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Highway cameras that can direct traffic
Business Week, Nov. 18, Pg. 77 – UCSD scientists are developing clusters of networked smart cameras to improve transportation authorities’ response to tie-ups and other changing road conditions. Unlike the stand-alone cameras used today, the cameras in the experimental UCSD system share information over high-speed links. (Quotes Mohan Trivedi, director of the UCSD Computer Vision & Robotic Research Laboratory).
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Supercomputer to utilize optical fibers
New York Times, Nov. 18, Pg. 5 – Cal-(IT)2 plans to announce on Monday that it will use an optical router designed by a Texas company as the heart of a campus-wide supercomputer that will be woven together with optical fibers. The new style of supercomputing is called an “optiputer” and it will be housed at UCSD. (Quotes Cal-(IT)2 director Larry Smarr).
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The menopausal marketplace
U.S. News & World Report, Nov. 18, Pg. 42 – A major meeting of researchers and physicians at the National Institutes of Health details the recent results of “The Study”, part of the massive Women’s Health Initiative. Hormone replacement therapy does not provide cardiovascular protection. Younger women had more risks and fewer benefits than the average women in The Study. (Quotes Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, family preventive medicine professor at UCSD).
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/021118/health/18hrt.htm

Women's drug shown to reduce stroke risk
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 18 -- At a conference in Chicago, UCSD's Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, presented results of a study that showed Eli Lilly's post-menopausal drug, Evista, cut the risk of stroke by two-thirds in women at high risk for heart disease.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/news/news_1n18stroke.html

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AFX European Focus, Nov. 18
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University of California applicants face new test: truthfulness
San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 18 – Starting next year, the University of California system will begin spot checking students’ claims about their accomplishments and personal circumstances, an attempt to discourage them from embellishing or lying on their application as competition for admission increases. UCSD took part in a pilot verification study this year fact-checked claims about family income as well as honors, achievements and community service. (Quotes Barbara Sawrey, a chemistry professor at UCSD who heads the faculty’s Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, BOARS).
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/living/education/4490822.htm

Related articles appeared in:
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 18
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/news/news_1n18campus.html

San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 15
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/opinion/news_1e15lets1.html

Construction is under way on Moores cancer center at UCSD
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 18 – UCSD has started building the $104 million Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center that will bring together scientists and clinicians in the search for treatments and cures. The Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center will consist of a five-story tower devoted to research and a three-story structure for patient care and administration. UCSD Chancellor Robert Dynes, who spoke at the center’s recent groundbreaking ceremony, predicted it would become “a world-class facility, where patients would receive the very best care they could possibly get anywhere in the country.”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20021118-9999_1m18uccancer.html

Older adults with psychoses target of UCSD grant project
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 17 --The UCSD School of Medicine and the county mental health department received a five-year $7.5 million federal grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. The project, led by UCSD professor of psychiatry and neurosciences Dilip Jeste, will focus on San Diego County's older people with schizophrenia and how to best meet their needs.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/metro/news_1m17therapy.html

Seeing red or green in bay? It's dye
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 17 – A team of Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists led by John Largier is using red or green dye to track water circulation patterns in Mission Bay.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/metro/news_1m17dyetest.html

Tracking greenhouse gases
North County Times, Nov. 17 – UCSD is among the twenty-three members of The California Climate Action Registry. The California Climate Action Registry is a voluntary program that has its members chart their output of substances that are believed to contribute to global warming. (Quotes Scripps Institution of Oceanography director Charles Kennel).
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20021117/60331.html

Babbling not mere baby talk
Toronto Star, Nov. 17, Pg. 14 – Scientists believe that if they can figure out how babies learn to talk, they can better understand how language came to exist and gain insight into the way people have been able to distinguish themselves from apes. (Quotes Elizabeth Bates, director of the Center for Research in Language at UCSD).
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‘Gatekeeper’ a ‘brutal success,’ activists say
North County Times, Nov. 15 – The federal border-enforcement strategy known as Operation Gatekeeper has been a “brutal success,” and should be stopped, local activists told members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. (Quotes Wayne Cornelius, director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at UCSD).
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20021115/45923.html

Despite personnel loss, Tritons on the rebound
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 15 -- Conversation with Greg Lanthier, UCSD men's basketball head coach and his outlook for the Tritons' third season in the Division II California Collegiate Athletic Association.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/sports/news_1s15areacol.html

Summa cum laude: UC system owes much to Richard Atkinson
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 15 -- Editorial about Richard Atkinson’s impact on UCSD and the UC system.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/opinion/news_1ed15bottom.html

SDSU program is conduit for academia, industry
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov. 18 -- San Diego State's Technology Transfer Office is profiled. Stuart Gordon, director of tech transfer at SDSU, says the program is still in the early years and doesn't purport to compete with the innovation coming out of UCSD.
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Top o' the Mark
San Diego Union Tribune, Nov. 17 -- Art critic Robert Pincus names the UCSD Stuart Collection the "Way No. 1" thing to do in the "Mixing up joys of art, outdoors" category of critics' favorite things to do over the holidays in San Diego. No. 2 is Balboa Park's museums and No. 3 is La Jolla's Museum of Contemporary Art.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_mz1a17critpi.html