News Briefs

Published: Thursday, January 28, 1999

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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