A Sampling of Clips for
September 24 - 25, 2002
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MacArthur
Foundation awards 24 fellows $500,000 each
Associated Press, Sept. 24 –
UCSD music professor George Lewis
is a recipient of this prestigious award.
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Similar
articles appeared in:
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 25
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20020924-1003-geniusgrants.html
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 25
More see attached file…LA MacArthur Award
San Francisco
Chronicle, Sept. 25
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/09/25/MN115582.DTL
UCSD researchers
win project grants
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 25
– Twelve researchers at UCSD's Jacobs
School of Engineering have won more than $1.8 million in state-funded
UC Discovery Grants for four new research projects to be carried
out through the Center for Wireless Communications and Cal-(IT)2.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/business/news_1b25briefs.html
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articles appeared in:
San Diego Metropolitan, Sept. 25
http://dbr.sandiegometro.com/2002Sep25.lasso
T Sector, Sept. 24
http://www.thetsector.com/showStory.cfm?ts_story_id=4074
Scripps
nears 100 years of sea research
San Diego Union-Tribune, Sept. 25
– Scripps Institution of Oceanography centennial
program director reviews highlights of SIO's
history as it prepares for its 100-year anniversary.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/wed/currents/news_1c25oceans.html
Space Camp
Falls From Orbit and Into Foreclosure
Los Angeles Times, Sept. 25 –
Financial problems and post-September 11 paranoia led to the
foreclosure of the U.S. Space Camp, Florida. The article analyzes
why the public’s fascination with space travel is dwindling.
(Quotes UCSD physicist, Sally Ride).
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State has
smallpox plan ready
Contra Costa Times, Sept. 24 –
The state’s ability to vaccinate large populations in
case of a bio-terrorism attack comes as a double-edged sword
as people with weakened immune systems could die from the vaccine.
(Quotes UCSD’s Samuel Bozzette).
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/living/health/4139091.htm
How child
abuse and neglect damage the brain
Boston Globe, Sept. 24 – Neurobiological
findings show that physical, sexual and psychological abuse
affect key structures of the brain. Studies by UCSD’s
Murray Stein and Yale’s Douglas Bremner
found that the left hippocampus, which affects memories and
emotions, is smaller in abuse victims.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/267/science/How_ch
ild_abuse_and_neglect_damage_the_brain+.shtml
The absent
professors
U.S. News & World Report, Sept.
23 – According to American Enterprise magazine, the number
of college professors who are registered Democrats or that belong
to other “left” parties is steadily increasing.
UCSD is no exception to this rule as ninety-nine
out of one hundred five professors polled were registered liberals.
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