A Sampling of Clips for
October 03, 2002
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Kenan-Flagler
dean to leave
Business Journal (Raleigh/Durham),
Oct. 2 – Robert S. Sullivan, dean of
the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been appointed founding dean of
UCSD’s new Graduate Management School.
Pending the approval of the University of California Board of
Regents, his appointment will become effective Jan. 1, 2003.
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2002/09/30/daily38.html
Study:
Smokers who use help line quit at higher rate
Associated Press, Oct. 3 – A
study led by UCSD associate adjunct professor
of Family and Preventive medicine Shu Hong Zhu
found that smokers who called a tobacco telephone counseling
line in California had three times the success rate as those
who tried to quit on there own. Smokers who were contacted by
a counselor and persuaded to accept help quit twice as often
as those who relied on self-help.
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Stubborn
killer is deciphered as scientists map malaria DNA
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 3, Pg. 1 –
Researchers have deciphered the complete genetic makeup of the
malaria parasite and the mosquito that transmits it, according
to an international coalition. Scientists hop to find better
ways to treat a disease that has resisted every attempt by modern
medicine to eliminate it. Research papers are being published
today in the journal Nature. (Quotes UCSD chemistry
and biochemistry professor Russell Doolittle).
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Related
article appeared in:
The Guardian (London), Oct. 3
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Quakes reveal
‘core within a core’
BBC, Oct. 2 – Scientists probing
the secrets of the Earth’s inner core say there is evidence
of another, smaller, core hidden within it. Harvard University
researchers found that a wave precisely targeted through the
Earth’s inner core behaved differently depending on which
part of the core it traveled through. The research was published
in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Quotes
Scripps Institution of Oceanography professor
Guy Masters).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/2290551.stm
UCSD staff,
students rally, protest school labor policy
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 3 –
About 150 UCSD employees and students rallied
and marched to UCSD Chancellor Robert
Dynes’ office Wednesday to protest what they
describe as the university’s unfair labor practices. (Quotes
Fred Lonidier, UCSD visual
arts professor and president of the University Council-American
Federation of Teachers Local 2034).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/thu/metro/news_1m3rally.html
Article also appeared in:
Copley
News Service, Oct. 3
‘Resistant’
dolphins cause worry
Wired News, Oct. 1 – In tests
on trained dolphins that live in the ocean, Navy researchers
have found seaborne bacteria that are immune to Cipro, the antibiotic
used to treat anthrax and other infections. (Quotes Scripps
Institution of Oceanography professor of marine biology
Farooq Azam).
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,55456,00.html
Dead zones
may not be so dead after all
Christian Science Monitor, Oct. 3,
Pg.12 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography
marine biologist Lisa Levin and colleagues
found thriving colonies of tiny worms and bacteria in oxygen-depleted
water at the peak of a volcano located 200 miles west of Acapulco,
Mexico. Oxygen-depleted zones affect more than 400,000 square
miles of ocean floor on time scales spanning thousands of years.
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Rain this
winter? Maybe yes, maybe no
San Diego Union Tribune, Weather Watch,
Oct. 2 – According to the National Climate Prediction
Center (CPC) in Maryland, sea-surface temperatures in the central
equatorial Pacific have stayed about 1 degree Celsius above
normal; low level easterly winds in the area have weakened;
and above average precipitation has been recorded over the tropical
Pacific. All three factors “reflect the presence of El
Nino conditions,” the CPC declared in its September diagnostic
discussion. (Quotes Dan Cayan, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography’s director of the
Climate Research Division).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c2weather.html
