A Sampling of Clips for 
October 05 - 07, 2002

* UCSD faculty and staff may obtain a copy of an article by e-mailing the University Communications Office

The phones light up, not the callers
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 7, Pg. 1 – A UCSD study led by Shu-Hong Zhu, Family and Preventive medicine professor, reported that phone counseling services known as quitlines are as good as the nicotine patch in helping people quit smoking. Research showed those who used a quitline program had a significantly higher probability of long-term success than did those who failed to utilize such a program.
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Sullivan moves to California
Financial Times (London), Oct. 7, Pg. 11 – Robert Sullivan, dean of The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is to become founding dean of UCSD’s Graduate Management School.
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Troupe addresses diplomats
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 5, Pg. 1 – Quincy Troupe, UCSD literature professor and California poet laureate, gave his first official reading at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel, facing a crowd of diplomats and cultural officials from 39 countries.
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Researchers find new cause for clogged arteries
San Diego Business Journal, Health Care, Sept. 16-22 – UCSD research findings suggest that a protein normally regarded as the immune system’s first-line defense against invading pathogens binds to oxidized bad cholesterol, causing inflammation and cholesterol accumulation. The findings were published Sept. 9 in an online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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CCAT announces homeland defense grants for R&D
San Diego Business Journal, Sept. 16-22 – The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology, a joint project of local universities and industry funded by the Department of Defense, announced grant winners. Recipients include UCSD’s Department of Bioengineering under direction of Lanping Amy Sung, UCSD’s Department of Mechanical and aerospace Engineering under the direction of Juan Lasheras and Nathan Delson and UCSD’s Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering under the direction of Sergei Krasheninnikov to research diffraction optics technology for high-power lasers.
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UCSD School to prepare pharmacists for new future
San Diego Business Journal, Sept. 16-22 – Article details UCSD’s new School of Pharmacy.
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San Dieguito lagoon channel is completed
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 5, Pg. 3 – Fish and other aquatic life threatened by stagnant water in San Dieguito Lagoon were rescued yesterday when contractors working for the city of Del Mar finished excavation of a channel linking the wetland to the ocean. Scripps Institution of Oceanography is studying the plume of lagoon water to learn how quickly it is diluted in the surf zone.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/metro/news_1mc5lagoon.html

Similar article appeared in:
North County Times, Oct. 5
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20021005/55155.html

Connect, XETV team up for tech coverage
San Diego Business Journal, Sept. 16-22 – UCSD Connect is collaborating with WETV, the local Fox affiliate, to improve new coverage of technology issues. XETV will cover technology and life sciences on Tuesdays during its 10 p.m. newscasts. The San Diego Telecom Council and UCSD-TV are producing a half-hour show called “Telecom Today.”
* No link available online.

UCSD thinks Temecula rocks!
North County Times, Oct. 6 – UCSD’s Stuart Collection directors are looking for several enormous boulders, which may be used for an art project for the collection on the UCSD campus. (Quotes Jane Zwerneman, administrative assistant for the Stuart Collection).
http://www.nctimes.net/news/2002/20021006/72955.html

Proper posture can help put you back in alignment
Copley News Service, Oct. 7 – According to posture experts, it is never too late to improve posture. Even people with mild osteoporosis and a rounded back can make dramatic improvements with practice and a series of posture exercises. (Quotes UCSD orthopedic surgeon Christopher Kauffman).
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Local firm helps UCSD team build submarine
San Diego Business Journal, Sept. 16-22 – Mechanical engineering students from UCSD partnered with West Coast Aquarium Industries to participate in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Human-Powered Submarine Contest.
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Bertram receives the 2003 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Award
San Diego Business Journal, Sept. 16-22 – UCSD’s electrical & computer engineering professor H. Neal Bertram has won the 2003 IEEE Reynolds B. Johnson Information Storage Award.
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Smokestacks & geraniums
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 6, Pg. 1 – The annual convention of the state chapter of the American Planning Association is hosted by the city of San Diego. The ”City of Villages” plan is scrutinized. (Quotes UCSD urban studies professor Keith Pezzoli).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/homes/news_mz1h6smokes.html

Torrey Pines aces U.S. Open bid; South course to host gem of pro golf in 2008
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 5, PG. 1 – The U.S. Golf Association accepted an invitation from the Torrey Pines South Course to stage the 2008 U.S. Open. Torrey Pines will be the second municipal golf layout to host a U.S. Open. UCSD, one of the entities involved at the golf course, owns a portion of the glider port parking area adjacent to the South’s 12th hole.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/news/news_1n5open.html

Finding ways to express the music inside with flowing grace, movement
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 6 – Profile of UCSD dance student Erica Nordine. (Quotes UCSD dance professor Jean Isaacs).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/arts/news_m1a6dancer.html

Maritime musings
San Diego Union Tribune, Diane Bell column, Oct. 5, Pg. 1 – Friends of Scripps Institution of Oceanography gathered last week at the Coronado Boathouse restaurant to celebrate its 99th birthday.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sat/metro/news_7m5bell.html

Scripps Institute fall short
San Diego Daily Transcript, Oct. 7 – Scripps Institution of Oceanography will be impacted by the state budget crisis. Scripps deputy director Tom Collins says the latest reduction of more than $1 million in funding brings the total lost in the last three years to more than $4.2 million.
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Let’s call this ‘packaged patriotism’
San Diego Union Tribune, Richard Louv, Oct. 6 – In this opinion piece, Richard Louv attempts to define true patriotism versus the “packaged patriotism” that surfaced since last year. (Quotes UCSD communications professor Michael Schudson).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/opinion/news_1e6louv.html

The elitist
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 6 – Stephen Cox, UCSD literature professor, reviews Jonathan Frazen’s latest book, How to be alone.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/sun/books/news_mz1v6alone.html

Morris Friedkin; UCSD prof with a passion for teaching
San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 7 – Morris Enton Friedkin, whose two decades at UCSD included two years as provost of Revelle College, died Sept. 19 of a heart attack. (Quotes Eduardo R. Macagno, dean of UCSD’s Division of Biological Sciences).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/mon/metro/news_1m7friedkin.html