A Sampling of Clips for
September 20, 2002
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Major cuts ahead for
UC campuses will be ‘painful’
San Diego Union Tribune, Sept. 20 – University
of California campuses are bracing for a 20 percent reduction
in state funding next year that will necessitate major cuts at
UC’s nine campuses. (Mentions UCSD).
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/news/news_1n20uc.html
Budget
cuts threaten Scripps research
La Jolla Light, Sept. 19 – Scripps Institution
of Oceanography’s 100th year of existence could turn
out to be its most fiscally austere. (Quotes Tom Collins,
Scripps, deputy director for administrative affairs).
http://www.lajollanews.com/News/2002/September/News2151.shtml
Well-defined
marine reserves needed to preserve California’s legacy of
bio-diversity
San Diego
Daily Transcript, Sept. 18 – Overwhelming scientific
evidence tells us that the marine life is vanishing because fishermen
have taken faster than the fish can recover. For many species
populations have virtually vanished from the local habitat. They
can be recovered, however, if we do the right thing now. (Written
by Robert Monroe, senior science writer for UCSD’s
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Explorations magazine).
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No link available online.
Chamber, students
unite for election forum
San Diego Union Tribune, Sept. 19 – San Diego
business leaders and student representatives from UCSD
and SDSU are co-sponsoring candidate forums for the November elections.
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Local
firm helps UCSD team build submarine
San Diego Business Journal, Sept. 16 – West
Coast Aquarium Industries sponsored the UCSD mechanical
engineering team at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers’
Human-Powered Submarine Contest. (UCSD came in second).
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CCAT
announces Homeland Defense Grants for R&D
San Diego Business Journal, Sept. 16 – UCSD’s
department of Bioengineering and department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering were recipients of the Center for the Commercialization
of Advanced Technology (CCAT) grants. (Mentions UCSD researchers
Amy Sung, Juan Lasheras, Sergei Krasheninnikov,
and Nathan Delson).
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