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Various news items from around campus that might be worth chewing on -- or, at least, knowing about
On the road to Paisley, Oregon, to see the caves of the human coprolites
Work of Dennis Jenkins draws a visit from the Jim Lehrer NewsHour and a visit to the archaeological site
Of culture and tool use: tap into your left parietal cortex
Functional MRI is showing that a person's pantomiming or performing a task involving tools draws from the brain's left hemisphere, and that becomes a problem when a brain injury is involved, says the UO's Scott Frey in a new report
A federal budget, yes, but compromises hurt UO & national physics
Despite agreement by the White House and the Democrat-controlled Congress that science funding is important, the new 2008 federal budget, approved with compromise and rather quietly in December, ended up gutting, at least temporarily, the nation's physics programs. UO's physics department, as a result, was hit hard.
Some grants behind the research dollars
The numbers sometimes are so big they cannot be grasped, such as $85.3 million in grants, contract and other award to the UO in Fiscal 2007. Here's a look at some individual research grants, from the National Science Foundation, to show how the parts fit into an annual report's big picture.
Science communications full of challenges these days
In his first science blog, Barlow looks at the challenges of communicating science news to the public in a world where media outlets, primarily newspaper coverage, is dwindling.