Wedding bells for chancellor
UCLA’s most prominent bachelor won’t be a bachelor
for much longer. Chancellor Albert Carnesale will wed Robin Gerber
at a private service Saturday. The newlyweds will live in the
Chancellor’s residence on campus.
Livermore facility breaks ground
A new facility that will assist Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory researchers in conducting analyses of national security
threats from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction took
a major step toward reality today.
With Rep. Ellen Tauscher, University of California Vice
President John McTague, lab director Bruce Tarter and others
wielded shovels and broke ground for the International Security
Research Facility.
The new two-story building, set for the west side of the
laboratory, will consolidate Livermore’s nonproliferation and
intelligence-related operations into a single building. The total
budget for the building is about $25 million.
“International security research is a growing area of the
Laboratory’s nonproliferation mission,” said Wayne
Shotts, associate director for the Nonproliferation, Arms Control
and International Security (NAI) directorate.
Low income tied to Hepatitis C
UCSF researchers have found that low-income women between the
ages of 18 and 29 in San Francisco are infected with hepatitis C
virus at a level almost 2.5 times higher than the HCV infection
rate for the general population in the United States.
“We studied four Northern California counties, and San
Francisco had the highest HCV infection level, 4.3 percent ““
nationally the level is 1.8 percent. Injection drug use is the
strongest risk factor,” said Kimberly Page-Shafer, assistant
professor of medicine at UCSF’s Center for AIDS Prevention
Studies and lead author of the study.
UCSC poet wins state honors
A UC Santa Cruz student earned top honors in two statewide
poetry competitions.
“I’m elated,” said Kristen Holden, a junior
majoring in literature. “Of course it’s what I wanted,
but I wasn’t expecting it to happen.”
“Ten Love Poems Aching from Three Days” won first
place in the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Competition, and
“The Squaring of a Conversation between Loves” earned
second place in the Poet Laureate Contest.
Reports from Daily Bruin wire services.