When I drill down on that term, you can see why with posts like: Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Lops A Third Of Company THQ Lays Off 100 Employees, Closes San Diego Office Citrix Cuts 10 Percent; Santa Barbara Hit And it's also interesting to see what geographies are being associated with "Layoffs" more often than others: Layoffs Woodland Hills Layoffs San Diego Layoffs Santa Monica Layoffs Los Angeles I guess this is a sign of the times. The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009

Search engine giant Google announced Tuesday that the firm is funding a number of University research projects, including a group of researchers at UC San Diego, a researcher at UC Santa Barbara, and a researcher in Los Angeles. Among the 12 projects, which include 31 professors at 10 universities, are one on the use of mobile phones as data collection devices for public health an environmental monitoring, which includes Deborah Estrin at UCLA; work on energy efficiency in computing, which includes Fred Chong at UC Santa Barbara; and another grant focused on energy efficiency in

San Diego-based Novatel Wireless , which develops wireless broadband cards and other products, announced this morning that it has added Russell C. Gerns was also a professor at Pepperdine University, and is on the Board of Advisors at UCLA Anderson's Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Gerns to its board of directors. Gerns has served at Scientific Data Systems/Xerox, Computer Machinery Corporation, Cipher Data Products, and Rexon/Legacy Storage Systems.

Some of the school have their own Alumni group, like Marshall School of Business Alumni , also on LinkedIn and Facebook Group and a Facebook Fan Page , which has it's own events calendar and various capters, including Los Angeles , Orange County , and San Diego . There's also the Marshall Alumni System with "Alumni Directory, Discussion Forum, Job Board, and MarshallMail Lifelong Email Forwarding" The SoCal Chapters have Networking Luncheons including 9 in LA County, 5 in Orange County, and 3 in San Diego County. This is a sister list to SoCal Networking Event Organizations and focuses on the Networking events and resources of SoCal Educational Institutions (primarily Colleges & Universities).

The program emulates several extremely successful programs including CONNECT’s Springboard in San Diego, OCTANe’s Launch Pad in Orange County and MIT’s Venture Mentoring Service. Nitro is working closely with the region’s premier research universities, Caltech, UCLA and USC, which represent $1.7 Entretech is launching Nitro a new program designed to “Get more companies funded in Greater Los Angeles.” Nitro will help strengthen the region’s eco-system for successful entrepreneurship by providing startup entrepreneurs with access to powerful mentoring and executive in residence

Some of the school have their own Alumni group, like Marshall School of Business Alumni , also on LinkedIn and Facebook Group and a Facebook Fan Page , which has it's own events calendar and various capters, including Los Angeles , Orange County , and San Diego . There's also the Marshall Alumni System with "Alumni Directory, Discussion Forum, Job Board, and MarshallMail Lifelong Email Forwarding" The SoCal Chapters have Networking Luncheons including 9 in LA County, 5 in Orange County, and 3 in San Diego County. This is a sister list to SoCal Networking Event Organizations and focuses on the Networking events and resources of SoCal Educational Institutions (primarily Colleges & Universities).

Here’s in Southern California, that first-rate sophisticated money includes both a good pool of venture investors (not to mention lots of transitory money from Sand Hill Road); lots of technology universities (Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Harvey Mudd, etc. Howard Anderson, a venture capitalist at Battery Ventures and a professor at MIT, has an interesting post on GigaOM about 5 Reasons To Move Your Startup Out of Silicon Valley . Anderson doesn’t mention Southern California–maybe because we keep beating New England in

Added 12/16/09 by Todd Zebert Name: Bruin Professionals (BP) Sites: www.bruinprofessionals.com Self-description: "The mission of Bruin Professionals (‘BP’) is to assemble a diverse group of UCLA Alumni who are well established in a profession or business and are willing to make a commitment to attend BP meetings. BP will develop Bruin synergy and establish a venue through which Professional Alumni can become actively associated with UCLA and promote new business leads." Weekly updates! Please let me know if know of other items to add, or if you have any feedback on

We sat down with Wong--professor emeritus at UCLA--and Liu to talk about the company's roots from research at UCLA, and how it's trying to get past the poor reputation of products in its segment, the debate over whether radiation from cell phones does or does not affect humans, plus its private equity backing by Bridgewater Capital Partners. Talk Independently, another professor at UCLA, found that a key percentage of radiation from cell phones is absorbed in the head. For this morning's interview, we sat down with Dr. Alfred Wong , Chief Science Officer, and Albert

They also have groups in Austin and San Francisco. Added 11/23/09 by Todd Zebert Name: California Staffing Professionals Sites: [link] , Inland Empire Chapter , Los Angeles Chapter , Orange County Chapter , San Diego Chapter Self-description: "The California Staffing Professionals (CSP) is a non-profit membership organization which provides products and services to its members within the staffing services industry." Added 11/23/09 by Todd Zebert Name: eWomen Network Sites: [link] , twitter.com/eWomenNetwork Weekly updates! Please let me know