Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs

Family jewels (2)

In November, UCSD announced that 56-year-old Judith L. Swain had been named the first director of the College of Integrated Life Sciences (COILS) at a reported starting salary of $275,000. According to a university news release, the new college features "an innovative multidisciplinary program designed to facilitate the translation of biomedical research into new drugs and technologies." Loosely translated, that means molecular cardiologist Swain, who has an identical twin, Julie -- also a physician and college prof -- is in charge of helping university researchers collect big bucks by licensing their patents to drug companies. Critics are concerned that all that emphasis on making money may hurt pure research efforts and tempt the university to go easy on violators of scientific ethics, but UCSD says not to worry. "All the research and discovery happening in the labs at UCSD doesn't do any good if it can't get out to the public," Ed Holmes, the university's health sciences vice chancellor and dean of medicine, told the Union-Tribune when COILS was first unveiled back in September 2003. "It isn't enough to just cure cancer in the mouse anymore. We want to move the science into the clinic and cure it in humans."

Sponsored
Sponsored

Swain, a 1974 UCSD med-school grad, is a former professor and chair of the department of medicine at Stanford and is expected to use her connections to land lucrative grants from the state's $3 billion taxpayer-financed stem-cell research operation. The stem-cell ballot measure passed by voters in November has already triggered a gold rush of researchers heading for UCSD and other California campuses. But Swain's arrival here, which went unheralded in the Union-Tribune, has already prompted some in-house grumbling at UCSD. Though the university release didn't say so in its announcement, it turns out Swain has been married for 25 years to vice chancellor Holmes, who arrived at UCSD in the summer of 2000. (At that time, a UCSD press release about Holmes noted his marriage to Swain.) When he first came aboard, Holmes was given a base salary of $300,000, along with another $135,000 as a member of the school's "health science compensation plan" for a total of $450,000. He was also provided with a $75,000 relocation allowance and made eligible for "additional non-base building incentive pay of up to 20 percent of annual base salary to be awarded annually based on meeting performance objectives." And shortly after his wife took her new post, Holmes was named to the "Independent Citizens Oversight Committee" that will oversee how the state's stem-cell research money will be spent.

Overtime pay A recent public records act request to the City of San Diego by the Performance Institute's Carl DeMaio has unearthed a wealth of information on what city workers are really getting paid versus what the city budget says they are supposed to make. Ex-city manager Mike Uberuaga topped the list at $225,734, followed close behind by an unidentified fire captain who made $111,189 plus another $81,288 in overtime for a total of $192,478. Though the city salary schedule lists outgoing mayoral honcho John Kern as making $169,225, the records, dated June 9 of last year, have him in third place, picking up a whopping $191,592. An unidentified fire battalion chief combined $121,000 in salary with $66,234 in overtime to place fourth with a total of $187,252. Fifth came another soon-to-leave worker, the ever-loyal deputy city manager Bruce Herring, at $183,269. Ex-city attorney Casey Gwinn was next with $180,365 ... Watch for DeMaio to sponsor a series of ballot measures in the coming months designed to force the city council into cleaning up its financial act. They could appear on an October special-election ballot that may also feature those reapportionment and budget-reform measures being pushed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Chamber of commerce political operatives are also said to be mulling their own ballot options, and recall talk is in the wind, no matter who ultimately winds up as mayor ... San Diego has shown up on a long Brookings Institution list of cities with convention centers that "have been effectively insulated from the vagaries of city politics and much public input."

The latest copy of the Reader

Please enjoy this clickable Reader flipbook. Linked text and ads are flash-highlighted in blue for your convenience. To enhance your viewing, please open full screen mode by clicking the icon on the far right of the black flipbook toolbar.

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Why did Harrah's VP commit suicide last summer?

Did the fight the Rincon casino had with San Diego County over Covid play a part?
Next Article

Jazz guitarist Alex Ciavarelli pays tribute to pianist Oscar Peterson

“I had to extract the elements that spoke to me and realize them on my instrument”

In November, UCSD announced that 56-year-old Judith L. Swain had been named the first director of the College of Integrated Life Sciences (COILS) at a reported starting salary of $275,000. According to a university news release, the new college features "an innovative multidisciplinary program designed to facilitate the translation of biomedical research into new drugs and technologies." Loosely translated, that means molecular cardiologist Swain, who has an identical twin, Julie -- also a physician and college prof -- is in charge of helping university researchers collect big bucks by licensing their patents to drug companies. Critics are concerned that all that emphasis on making money may hurt pure research efforts and tempt the university to go easy on violators of scientific ethics, but UCSD says not to worry. "All the research and discovery happening in the labs at UCSD doesn't do any good if it can't get out to the public," Ed Holmes, the university's health sciences vice chancellor and dean of medicine, told the Union-Tribune when COILS was first unveiled back in September 2003. "It isn't enough to just cure cancer in the mouse anymore. We want to move the science into the clinic and cure it in humans."

Sponsored
Sponsored

Swain, a 1974 UCSD med-school grad, is a former professor and chair of the department of medicine at Stanford and is expected to use her connections to land lucrative grants from the state's $3 billion taxpayer-financed stem-cell research operation. The stem-cell ballot measure passed by voters in November has already triggered a gold rush of researchers heading for UCSD and other California campuses. But Swain's arrival here, which went unheralded in the Union-Tribune, has already prompted some in-house grumbling at UCSD. Though the university release didn't say so in its announcement, it turns out Swain has been married for 25 years to vice chancellor Holmes, who arrived at UCSD in the summer of 2000. (At that time, a UCSD press release about Holmes noted his marriage to Swain.) When he first came aboard, Holmes was given a base salary of $300,000, along with another $135,000 as a member of the school's "health science compensation plan" for a total of $450,000. He was also provided with a $75,000 relocation allowance and made eligible for "additional non-base building incentive pay of up to 20 percent of annual base salary to be awarded annually based on meeting performance objectives." And shortly after his wife took her new post, Holmes was named to the "Independent Citizens Oversight Committee" that will oversee how the state's stem-cell research money will be spent.

Overtime pay A recent public records act request to the City of San Diego by the Performance Institute's Carl DeMaio has unearthed a wealth of information on what city workers are really getting paid versus what the city budget says they are supposed to make. Ex-city manager Mike Uberuaga topped the list at $225,734, followed close behind by an unidentified fire captain who made $111,189 plus another $81,288 in overtime for a total of $192,478. Though the city salary schedule lists outgoing mayoral honcho John Kern as making $169,225, the records, dated June 9 of last year, have him in third place, picking up a whopping $191,592. An unidentified fire battalion chief combined $121,000 in salary with $66,234 in overtime to place fourth with a total of $187,252. Fifth came another soon-to-leave worker, the ever-loyal deputy city manager Bruce Herring, at $183,269. Ex-city attorney Casey Gwinn was next with $180,365 ... Watch for DeMaio to sponsor a series of ballot measures in the coming months designed to force the city council into cleaning up its financial act. They could appear on an October special-election ballot that may also feature those reapportionment and budget-reform measures being pushed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Chamber of commerce political operatives are also said to be mulling their own ballot options, and recall talk is in the wind, no matter who ultimately winds up as mayor ... San Diego has shown up on a long Brookings Institution list of cities with convention centers that "have been effectively insulated from the vagaries of city politics and much public input."

Comments
Sponsored

The latest copy of the Reader

Please enjoy this clickable Reader flipbook. Linked text and ads are flash-highlighted in blue for your convenience. To enhance your viewing, please open full screen mode by clicking the icon on the far right of the black flipbook toolbar.

Here's something you might be interested in.
Submit a free classified
or view all
Previous article

Gonzo Report: Goose may have indie vibes, but they’re still a jam band

Fans turn out in force for show at SDSU
Next Article

At 4pm, this Farmer's Table restaurant in Chula Vista becomes Acqua e Farina

Brunch restaurant by day, Roman style trattoria by night
Comments
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed Big Screen — Movie commentary Blurt — Music's inside track Booze News — San Diego spirits Classical Music — Immortal beauty Classifieds — Free and easy Cover Stories — Front-page features Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts Feast! — Food & drink reviews Feature Stories — Local news & stories Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore From the Archives — Spotlight on the past Golden Dreams — Talk of the town The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it Letters — Our inbox Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news News Ticker — News & politics Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated Poetry — The old and the new Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers Reading — The hunt for intellectuals Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds SD on the QT — Almost factual news Sheep and Goats — Places of worship Special Issues — The best of Street Style — San Diego streets have style Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves Theater — On stage in San Diego this week Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads Your Week — Daily event picks
4S Ranch Allied Gardens Alpine Baja Balboa Park Bankers Hill Barrio Logan Bay Ho Bay Park Black Mountain Ranch Blossom Valley Bonita Bonsall Borrego Springs Boulevard Campo Cardiff-by-the-Sea Carlsbad Carmel Mountain Carmel Valley Chollas View Chula Vista City College City Heights Clairemont College Area Coronado CSU San Marcos Cuyamaca College Del Cerro Del Mar Descanso Downtown San Diego Eastlake East Village El Cajon Emerald Hills Encanto Encinitas Escondido Fallbrook Fletcher Hills Golden Hill Grant Hill Grantville Grossmont College Guatay Harbor Island Hillcrest Imperial Beach Imperial Valley Jacumba Jamacha-Lomita Jamul Julian Kearny Mesa Kensington La Jolla Lakeside La Mesa Lemon Grove Leucadia Liberty Station Lincoln Acres Lincoln Park Linda Vista Little Italy Logan Heights Mesa College Midway District MiraCosta College Miramar Miramar College Mira Mesa Mission Beach Mission Hills Mission Valley Mountain View Mount Hope Mount Laguna National City Nestor Normal Heights North Park Oak Park Ocean Beach Oceanside Old Town Otay Mesa Pacific Beach Pala Palomar College Palomar Mountain Paradise Hills Pauma Valley Pine Valley Point Loma Point Loma Nazarene Potrero Poway Rainbow Ramona Rancho Bernardo Rancho Penasquitos Rancho San Diego Rancho Santa Fe Rolando San Carlos San Marcos San Onofre Santa Ysabel Santee San Ysidro Scripps Ranch SDSU Serra Mesa Shelltown Shelter Island Sherman Heights Skyline Solana Beach Sorrento Valley Southcrest South Park Southwestern College Spring Valley Stockton Talmadge Temecula Tierrasanta Tijuana UCSD University City University Heights USD Valencia Park Valley Center Vista Warner Springs
Close

Anchor ads are not supported on this page.

This Week’s Reader This Week’s Reader