Thursday, January 28, 1999
News Briefs
UC Irvine Business School cracks top 50
The UC Irvine Graduate School of Management was named 28th among
the top 50 business schools in North America and Europe in the Jan.
25 edition of the Financial Times of London.
UC Irvine was 22nd among the 31 U.S. business schools on the
Financial Times list, which evaluated full-time MBA programs.
Harvard was ranked first; Stanford (3rd), UCLA (10th), and UC
Berkeley (14th) were the only other California business schools
listed.
The Financial Times studied and surveyed the administration and
alumni of 31 U.S. business schools, eight in the United Kingdom,
three each from Canada and France, two each from Spain and the
Netherlands, and one from Switzerland.
"This is a splendid accomplishment that builds upon the
successes of so many, for many years," said David H. Blake, dean of
the Graduate School of Management. "It also is an affirmation that
GSM is moving aggressively in the right direction, and that we can
and do compete successfully on the world stage."
UC Irvine also was ranked among the top 50 U.S. business schools
by Business Week and U.S. News & World Report. While still
relatively young and small for a business school, GSM has risen
rapidly in business school rankings as its reputation for
innovation and student-centered learning has become more widely
known.
Campuses form tissue bank for AIDS research
As part of a national effort to speed progress in the scientific
understanding and treatment of neurological damage from AIDS,
researchers at the University of California, San Diego, in
collaboration with scientists at the University of Southern
California and UCLA, are establishing a tissue bank of brain and
other neurological tissue from AIDS patients following death.
Patients in the advanced stages of the disease who want to
participate will undergo neurological and neuropsychological
testing and assessment every six months, and will be asked to
consent to an autopsy if they die during the study.
The California Neuro-AIDS Tissue Network (CNTN), made possible
through a 5-year, $5 million grant from the National Institute of
Mental Health, is the first effort to link important clinical
information with tissue samples for research.
"A great deal can be learned by studying these tissues,
particularly when they are coupled with specific, detailed clinical
information gathered prior to death," said CNTN director Igor
Grant, M.D., professor of psychiatry at the UCSD School of
Medicine.
"We hope, through this new resource, to make more rapid progress
in our understanding," Grant said, adding the new research may help
answer critical questions.
Superconductors to be produced by lab
As partners in a project that could improve the way electrical
energy is delivered in America, scientists at the Department of
Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory will provide special
electrical characterization of components used in the first high
temperature superconducting transformer installed in a U.S.
electric utility network.
Los Alamos is teaming up with ABB and Electricite de France,
American Superconductor Corporation and Air Products and Chemicals,
Inc. to support the development, manufacture, installation and
field testing of the HTS transformers.
According to Dean Peterson, leader for the Superconductivity
Technology Center, Los Alamos will characterize certain wires and
coils of various sizes used in the transformers in order to measure
their conducting properties .
Compiled from Daily Bruin staff reports
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