Skip to content Skip to navigation
You are here: Home » Home Portlet Archive » UO's Dennis Jenkins' discovery in Oregon caves attracts a media frenzy

UO's Dennis Jenkins' discovery in Oregon caves attracts a media frenzy UO's Dennis Jenkins' discovery in Oregon caves attracts a media frenzy

Document Actions
Visible Position Show in subfolders
no Column two no

Preview

UO's Dennis Jenkins' discovery in Oregon caves attracts a media frenzy

Jenkins with human caprolite

Research by archaeologist Dennis Jenkins (UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History) in the online edition of Science on April 3 drew stories by newspapers, radio outlets and television stations. The news was international within 15 minutes of a media embargo. Jenkins found human "droppings" in Oregon's Paisley Caves, and leading experts on human DNA determined the, er, poop came from people living 14,300 years ago. Below is a listing, with links, of just some of the coverage:

Integrated Marketing and Strategic Communications

                                                          "O"

What makes the University of Oregon a special and unique place? How do we share this information with the rest of the world?

These are the questions the university’s Integrated Marketing and Strategic Communications Task Force (IMSC) has been charged with answering. Read more about the effort HERE.

UO Snapshot

Learn about Oregon's flagship public institution.

 
Media Relations Contact Info

Phone: (541) 346-3134
Email: uonews@uoregon.edu

Staff Members (Position Details)
Phil Weiler: 541-346-3873; pweiler@uoregon.edu
Julie Brown: 541-346-3185; julbrown@uoregon.edu
Heidi Hiaasen: 541-346-3606, heidih@uoregon.edu
Jim Barlow: 541-346-3481; jebarlow@uoregon.edu
Pauline Austin: 541-346-3129; paustin@uoregon.edu
Shannon Rose: 541-346-3314; roses@uoregon.edu

About the Office

Sense of entitlement? Not in faces at military base, writes UO's Tom Bivins

Tom Bivins UO journalism professor Tom Bivins, sipping coffee and watching youthful faces at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, says the often-discussed "sense of entitlement" thought to exist in today's college-aged students was absent among like-aged faces wearing U.S. Army uniforms. His comments appear in a commentary in The Oregonian. (Read it)

Investors worried, tuned into news reports, UO psychologists tell Wall Street Journal writer

Paul Slovic mug shot    Two with University of Oregon ties named to new FDA risk advisory panel

Since 2001, investors’ comfort zone with their stocks has nose-dived from little worry about negative returns to growing worry about their stocks going nowhere for maybe a decade, reports UO psychologist Paul Slovic in an interview with Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig about today’s economy. In same article, UO psychologist Ellen Peters notes that American investors are spending a lot of time following, especially on TV news, the economic turmoil. Zweig’s column, however, carries the message that those who have some cash and can conquer their stock-phobia may be a good position, likening their potential investments to a venture in emerging markets. (Read story – may require paid subscription)

 

Personal tools