
| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, March 29, 2000 Chuck McFadden (510) 987-9193 charles.mcfadden@ucop.edu UC PRESIDENT ATKINSON STATEMENT ON TRAGEDY IN GULF OF CALIFORNIA University of California President Richard C. Atkinson issued the following statement today (March 29) on the accident that claimed the lives of at least three members of a UC Davis scientific team in the Gulf of California on Monday: "The
researchers who died in this terrible accident dedicated their lives to the risks and
rewards of intellectual discovery, and they have left us a bright legacy of accomplishment
that will make them remembered at the Davis campus and beyond. On behalf of the entire
University of California community, I want to express our deepest sympathy to their
families, colleagues and friends. We mourn with them and share their profound sense of
loss." Link to UC Davis Web site
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