A Sampling of Clips for
October 02, 2002
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Physics meets biology:
Bridging the culture gap
Nature, Sept. 19 – Article details
how physicists and biologists are bridging the culture gap.
Jose Onuchic co-directs UCSD’s
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP), which was
given $5.5 million over five years by the US National Science
Foundation to seed collaborations between biologists and physicists.
Herbert Levine, UCSD physicist
and co-director of the CTBP, is collaborating with biologists
at Cornell University to model the way in which cells detect
and migrate towards chemical signals.
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v419/n6904/full/419244a_fs.html
Migrant
deaths increase in illegal crossings via desert
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 2, Pg. 22
– An eight-year crackdown on illegal migration in urban
areas along the U.S.-Mexican border such as San Diego and El
Paso has been a success, according to Border Patrol officials.
Immigrant apprehensions – estimated this year at 950,000
– are down about 20% from a year earlier. But, migrant
advocates say the policy amounts to a death sentence, funneling
thousands of migrants away from the relative safety of cities
and into the harsh deserts of Arizona. (Quotes Olivia
Ruiz, a visiting researcher at UCSD’s
Center for U.S. Mexican Studies).
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Dusting
for weapons
The Engineer, Sept. 27 – A UCSD
research team led by chemistry and biochemistry professor Michael
Sailor, developed tiny porous silicon chips that can
detect substances that a terrorist might dissolve in drinking
water or spray into the atmosphere. Weapons inspectors will
be able to covertly detect Saddam Hussein’s chemical and
biological warfare experiments using microscopic machines. The
devices can be left by inspection teams or sprinkled onto target
sites from the air and then checked remotely using lasers.
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Implications
of Robert Torricelli’s decision to drop out of the New
Jersey Senate race
NPR, Talk of the Nation, Oct. 1 –
UCSD political science professor Samuel
Popkin discussed the implications of Robert Torricelli’s
decision to drop out of the New Jersey senate race and how political
maneuvering is affecting the way Americans feel about voting.
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UCSD professor
given genius award
North County Times, Oct. 1 –
UCSD music professor George Lewis
was awarded a $500,000 MacArthur Fellowship on Monday. The so-called
“genius grant” comes with a no strings attached
grant of $500,000 given over five years.
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20021001/60805.html
Burn victims
get care in the U.S.
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 2 –
Two of three children who were severely burned in Tijuana are
being treated at the UCSD Medical Center. UCSD’s
Medical Center operates the only burn center in the binational
region. Tijuana does not have a burn center. (Quotes Mary
Middleton, UCSD’s director of
patient care services).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/metro/news_1m2burn.html
Peso’s
drop puts Mexican president’s policies under scrutiny
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 2 –
The loss in value of Mexico’s peso hasn’t had a
major effect in the interior or at the border. But it has had
a big impact on assessments of President Vicente Fox’s
fiscal and economic policies. (Quotes International Relations
and Pacific Studies professor Gordon Hanson
and Van Whiting Jr., senior fellow and director
of UCSD’s Virtual Collaboration Project).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/business/news_1b2peso.html
