Getbig.com: American Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure
Getbig Female Info Boards => Open Talk for Girl Discussion => Topic started by: BayGBM on May 02, 2009, 09:58:55 AM
-
2 women nominated as University of California chancellors
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, a noted cancer researcher, would head the San Francisco campus. Linda Katehi, a veteran academic administrator, would head the Davis campus.
Two women, one a noted cancer researcher and the other an electrical engineering expert and veteran academic administrator, were nominated Friday to become chancellors at UC San Francisco and UC Davis, respectively.
Currently, only one woman, Marye Anne Fox at UC San Diego, heads any of the system's 10 campuses.
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, 51, who recently headed product development at the biomedical firm Genentech, was named to be the next chancellor at UC San Francisco, which is a medical research school.
Desmond-Hellmann, who earned a medical degree at the University of Nevada, worked on AIDS and cancer-related research in Africa and has taught on hematology-oncology at UC San Francisco. She would replace J. Michael Bishop, who is stepping down after 10 years as chancellor.
Nominated to lead UC Davis was Linda Katehi, 55, who has served as provost of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2006.
Katehi, who earned a doctorate in electrical engineering at UCLA, taught at the University of Michigan and Purdue University, where she was the engineering dean. She would replace Larry Vanderhoef, who will have served 15 years as chancellor.
UC President Mark G. Yudof is scheduled to bring their nominations to the Board of Regents for approval next week for terms that would begin this summer.
Because of concerns about possibly overburdening UC San Diego's security and medical resources during the swine flu outbreak, however, the regents Friday dropped plans to meet over three days next week at that campus and instead will meet Thursday via telephone conference and at several other locations throughout the state.
UC officials said the regents meeting might have interfered with UC San Diego's health and police efforts to help manage the flu alerts. They denied that the regents are trying to avoid student protesters, who are expected to turn out to oppose a 9.3% student fee increase up for a vote Thursday.
-
man i coulda tore this one a new pooper had this been on the general....
lets just leave it at...them 2 had LOTS n LOTS of free time to study! :D
-
man i coulda tore this one a new pooper had this been on the general....
lets just leave it at...them 2 had LOTS n LOTS of free time to study! :D
hahahahahahahahahahaha
Free of social distractions, I suppose.
-
when will they find hot smart chicks? Then attendence would go up at these places
-
hahahahahahahahahahaha
Free of social distractions, I suppose.
Andy hits it out of the ball park at GO!
<encore>
-
Andy hits it out of the ball park at GO!
<encore>
It was all in the flawless set-up.
-
It was all in the flawless set-up.
reacharound!
....i liketh
-
Molecular biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, 60, of the University of California, San Francisco, today was named to receive the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Blackburn shares the award with Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack W. Szostak of Harvard Medical School.
The scientists discovered an enzyme that plays a key role in normal cell function, as well as in cell aging and most cancers. The enzyme is called telomerase and it produces tiny units of DNA that seal off the ends of chromosomes, which contain the body’s genes. These DNA units – named telomeres – protect the integrity of the genes and maintain chromosomal stability and accurate cell division. They also determine the number of times a cell divides—and thus determine the lifespan of cells.
Telomerase is pronounced (tel-AH-mer-AZE). Telomere is pronounced (TEEL-oh-mere).
The scientists’ research sparked a whole field of inquiry into the possibility that telomerase could be reactivated to treat such age-related diseases as blindness, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative diseases, and deactivated to treat cancer, in which it generally is overactive...
-
Molecular biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD, 60, of the University of California, San Francisco, today was named to receive the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Blackburn shares the award with Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack W. Szostak of Harvard Medical School.
The scientists discovered an enzyme that plays a key role in normal cell function, as well as in cell aging and most cancers. The enzyme is called telomerase and it produces tiny units of DNA that seal off the ends of chromosomes, which contain the body’s genes. These DNA units – named telomeres – protect the integrity of the genes and maintain chromosomal stability and accurate cell division. They also determine the number of times a cell divides—and thus determine the lifespan of cells.
Telomerase is pronounced (tel-AH-mer-AZE). Telomere is pronounced (TEEL-oh-mere).
The scientists’ research sparked a whole field of inquiry into the possibility that telomerase could be reactivated to treat such age-related diseases as blindness, cardiovascular disease and neurodegenerative diseases, and deactivated to treat cancer, in which it generally is overactive...
All fine and good, but can she make a decent lasagne?
-
probably not, but she could tell you the molecular chain of the mozzarella cheese you used.
-
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=278380.0;attach=342409;image)
Table for one, please.
-
(http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=278380.0;attach=342409;image)
Table for one, please.
lol ;D
-
lol ;D
I dont really know what to do with my life. I love to argue, and if I could make up my mind and set a goal I would reach it.
She is a brilliant scientist and respected the world over by her peers. You are an internet wannabe still trying to figure out what to do with his life. ::)
-
She is a brilliant scientist and respected the world over by her peers. You are an internet wannabe still trying to figure out what to do with his life. ::)
but he can get date while she eats chinese out of a box
-
but he can get date while she eats chinese out of a box
Somehow I think she is having the last laugh (and not eating chinese out of a box in the foreseeable future). Given a choice, between RPF and Blackburn, most people wouldn't take long to decide whom they would rather trade places with.
-
She is a brilliant scientist and respected the world over by her peers. You are an internet wannabe still trying to figure out what to do with his life. ::)
All I did was lol....
:(
-
RPF all the way!
lol
-
RPF all the way!
lol
I'm a young, good looking, straight male, building my savings like a maniac.
Screw this life, I want to be that girl! :)
-
I'm a young, good looking, straight male, building my savings like a maniac.
Screw this life, I want to be that girl! :)
traitor!
-
traitor!
Just kidding! ;D
-
Confuser!
lol
-
Nobel Laureate in Medicine Wins Acclaim Despite Past Political Skirmishes
For one of today's winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Elizabeth H. Blackburn of the University of California at San Francisco, the news isn't her first exposure to widespread public attention.
Back in 2004, during the Bush administration, Ms. Blackburn was one of two scientists dismissed from the President's Council on Bioethics, after they dissented from the panel by arguing that the federal government should not bar scientists from creating cloned embryos as a source of stem cells for medical research.
Today, along with two other American researchers—Carol W. Greider of the Johns Hopkins University, and Jack W. Szostak of the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital—she won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery, in the 1980s, of how chromosomes are duplicated during cell division and how telomeres—the caps at the ends of chromosome strands—prevent the copying from being degraded.
After her appointment to the President's Council on Bioethics, and her subsequent removal, Ms. Blackburn co-authored articles in PLoS Biology and The New England Journal of Medicine accusing the council of deliberately misrepresenting the nature of research on human aging and stem cells.
Even those who questioned her political stance in 2004, however, say there's no reason to doubt her scientific accomplishment. John H. Evans, an associate professor of sociology at the University of California at San Diego who writes about the relationship between science and society, said Ms. Blackburn's experience with the council merely made her an example of the much wider dispute between the Bush administration and the defenders of "institutional science."
The Bush administration was not repressing science, as Ms. Blackburn suggested in her New England Journal of Medicine article, Mr. Evans said, but merely suggesting that exploration could have limits based on political values. And either way, he said, she no doubt deserves the Nobel.
Last year she was one of the first women to win the $500,000 Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, the largest award in American medicine.
William B. Hurlbut, a bioethicist and physician at the Stanford University School of Medicine who also served on the bioethics council in the Bush administration and supports limits on stem-cell research, said he agreed. "I'm inclined to think she is deserving of this honor based on the merit of her science," Dr. Hurlbut said. —Paul Basken
-
The Bible says two men ought not lay together. But I don't reckon the Good Lord would send anybody like you to Hades.
-
The Bible says two men ought not lay together. But I don't reckon the Good Lord would send anybody like you to Hades.
Mmm hmm.
-
RPF all the way!
lol
x2
-
x2
Thank you very much, same to you two x3!
-
so..any morally casual chicks roaming around tonight?
;) ;D
-
Sharing the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with Dr. Ramakrishnan & Dr. Steitz) is Dr. Ada E. Yonath (right) for her work on how information encoded on strands of DNA is translated by the chemical complexes known as ribosomes into the thousands of proteins that make up living matter. Yonath earned her Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute in 1968. http://www.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/
You go girl! ;D
-
Herta Muller wins Nobel Prize in Literature
An ethnic German born in Romania, writer Herta Müller has won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. The 56 year old, who emigrated to Germany in 1987, has made the trials of living under Ceauşescu's dictatorship a focus of her work.
In its citation, the Nobel committee wrote that Müller, "with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed...."
You go girl! :D
-
Two Americans Share Nobel in Economics
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded on Monday to two Americans for their work in economic governance.
The prize committee cited Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University “for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons” and Oliver E. Williamson of the University of California, Berkeley “for his analysis of economic governance, especially the boundaries of the firm.”
Ms. Ostrom becomes the first woman to win the prize for economics.
Her work demonstrated “how common property can be successfully managed by user associations,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said at a news conference on Monday in Stockholm. And Mr. Williamson has “developed a theory where business firms serve as structures for conflict resolution.”
Ms. Ostrom, who was born in 1933 in Los Angeles, is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Professor at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, Bloomington. She received her Ph.D. in political science in 1965 from the University of California, Los Angeles.
-
These women are beautiful, and intelligent, truly a double threat.
:-X
-
These women are beautiful, and intelligent, truly a double threat.
:-X
I dont really know what to do with my life. I love to argue, and if I could make up my mind and set a goal I would reach it.
You are a Tom in the making. ::)
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=281208.0 :'(
-
You are a Tom in the making. ::)
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=281208.0 :'(
:'(
Why are you so offended by our comments? We're all joking around.
Living a homosexual lifestyle, (probably repressed half your life) you've been programed to stay on the defensive, that's a shame. :'(
-
:'(
Why are you so offended by our comments? We're all joking around.
Living a homosexual lifestyle, (probably repressed half your life) you've been programed to stay on the defensive, that's a shame. :'(
I'm laughing too... at you. :D
-
I'm laughing to... at you. :D
Glad I could bring some sunshine into your life. :)
(no homo)
-
How Oscar Found Ms. Right
KATHRYN BIGELOW’S two-fisted win at the Academy Awards for best director and best film for “The Hurt Locker” didn’t just punch through the American movie industry’s seemingly shatterproof glass ceiling; it has also helped dismantle stereotypes about what types of films women can and should direct. It was historic, exhilarating, especially for women who make movies and women who watch movies, two groups that have been routinely ignored and underserved by an industry in which most films star men and are made for and by men. It’s too early to know if this moment will be transformative — but damn, it feels so good.
No matter if they’re a source of loathing and laughter, the Oscars matter as a cultural flashpoint, perhaps now more than ever. All those Oscar viewers might not be ticket buyers, but when they watched the show this year they would have heard, perhaps even for the first time, the startling, shocking, infuriating or uninteresting news — pick your degree of engagement — that Ms. Bigelow was the first woman in Oscar’s 82 years to win for best directing. Real discussions about sexual politics don’t usually enter the equation during the interminable Oscar “season,” which is why her nomination was almost as important as her double win...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/movies/14dargis.html?hp
-
and she beat out her ex hubby James Cameron
-
and she beat out her ex hubby James Cameron
A few years ago the Academy changed their guidelines for presenters from saying “And the winner is…” to “And the Oscar goes to…”
The idea was that declaring a “winner” suggested that others were “losers.” Once you are nominated for an Oscar you are not a “loser.” I think it was a good change. I didn’t watch the ceremony last year, but this year I did, and I noticed that presenters have gone back to saying “And the winner is…” Bigalow’s Oscar nod is great, but I don’t think she “beat out” the other nominees. Does anyone in his right mind think that Sandra Bullock is a better actress than Meryl Streep? Did Sandra “beat” Meryl? Hell no, but she got an Oscar nod. Yeah!
As an idiom, it is convenient to say someone “won” an Oscar, but they didn’t do it by “beating” anyone else. :)
-
Personlayy there isn't a huge pool of female directors to choose one. It was inevitable that one would win considering our time of "change." As for the way they annouce the recipient, well they won oters lost, plain and simple. Sandra got it probably becuase it will be her only chance to ever get one. Whereas streep has been around the block. I am not taking anything away from Hurt locker it was a very good movie.
-
Will this girl continue to rule??
UC Davis chief launches probe into pepper-spraying of Occupy protesters
Video of the events goes viral on the Web. The chancellor initially didn't criticize police but later said seeing the images 'left me with a very bad feeling.' Some faculty members seek her ouster.
By Paul Pringle and Sam Quinones, Los Angeles Times
As some faculty members called for her ouster, the chancellor of UC Davis launched an inquiry Saturday into the pepper-spraying of apparently peaceful Occupy Davis protesters by campus police.
A video of the Friday incident that went viral on the Web showed a police officer dousing the protesters with a canister of pepper spray as they sat huddled on the ground. The police had been attempting to clear the university's Quad of tents and campers.
Faculty and students reacted with outrage. Nathan Brown, an assistant professor of English, said in an interview that the episode was the latest example of "the systematic use by UC chancellors of police brutality" to suppress protests.
In an open letter, he wrote: "Without any provocation whatsoever, other than the bodies of these students sitting where they were on the ground, with their arms linked, police pepper-sprayed students. Students remained on the ground, now writhing in pain, with their arms linked."
Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi initially did not criticize the police, but she said Saturday that she had since watched the video and reviewed more accounts from the scene.
"It left me with a very bad feeling of what went on," Katehi said in a telephone interview. "There was enough information to show that we need to take a serious look at what happened."
She said she authorized police to remove the tents, but not to use the pepper spray in the manner shown on the video. "Absolutely not," she said.
In a statement announcing the formation of a task force to investigate the matter, Katehi said Friday "was not a day that would make anyone on our campus proud."
"The use of pepper spray as shown on the video is chilling to us all and raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this."
At a news conference Saturday, UC Davis Police Chief Annette Spicuzza said the decision to use pepper spray was made at the scene.
"The students had encircled the officers," she said. "They needed to exit. They were looking to leave but were unable to get out."
Geoffrey Wildanger, a graduate student in art history, said he was sprayed "in my ears and my nose. It hurts a lot. You feel like your whole body is on fire."
He said the police overreacted. "The cops weren't threatened in any way."
Two students were treated at a hospital and released, and several others were arrested, officials said.
The Davis Faculty Assn. issued a letter Saturday demanding that Katehi step down. "The Chancellor's role is to enable open and free inquiry, not to suppress it," the association wrote, calling Katehi's approval of police force to remove the Occupy Davis tents a "gross failure of leadership."
The board of the statewide Council of UC Faculty Associations agreed, saying in a statement Saturday that "police violence" has been employed against protesters at UCLA, UC Berkeley and Cal State Long Beach.
Board member Mark LeVine, a UC Irvine history professor, said the Davis incident left him "shocked, almost speechless. It looked like a fire-extinguisher-size can of mace sprayed into the face of peaceful students."
Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Occupy protesters and police seemed to reach a detente Saturday that allowed at least 100 tents to remain on the streets. To avoid an immediate eviction, protesters agreed to thin their ranks and keep the encampments clean. Police and public works employees did clear out some tents on Market Street and along the Embarcadero.