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Universities, agencies collaborate on Atlas of Yellowstone project
First of its kind atlas to capture 200 years of exploration and research
'No time to lose' to start thinking sustainability
UO's Doppelt pens forward-looking book as a roadmap to alter thinking to meet worldwide climate challenge
UO boasts two Champions of Sustainability in Community Award-winning programs
Connections between university and community organizations are honored
Hutchison awarded endowed chair to focus on green nanoscience research
Newly created chair is funded by the 2007 Lorry I. Lokey gift
Take proactive approach to nano, UO's Hutchison tells congressional caucus
As an invited speaker to the Congressional Nanotechnology Caucus, UO chemistry professor Jim Hutchison urged policymakers and their staffs to pursue a proactive approach to developing design rules so that nanomaterials, for any use, are safe for both the environment and the public.
Lecture series examines reconstruction following catastrophe or war
 
Changing face of wildfire detailed by Gavin
Predicting and preventing wildfire involves a detailed analysis of the complex relationships among climate, vegetation and land, says geography professor Dan Gavin, who recently was the lead author of a review on the subject.
School of Law offers new Statement of Completion in Sustainable Business Law
 
Conflict and Dispute Resolution program director to talk about climate change
 
University of Oregon law students challenge others to reduce carbon footprint
 
Think green, UO's Hutchison says, to reduce nanotech hazards
In an invited paper in the international journal ACS Nano, UO prof points to greener nanoscience as a key to safety
First steps in Eugene lead to big reductions of greenhouse gas emissions
Carbon footprints decline by two tons per person in first year's use of UO's Climate Master program
Microbes, by latitudes and altitudes, shed new light on life's diversity
Oregon biologist Jessica Green is working in the new frontier of ecological and evolutionary research
Professor Alison Kwok named recipient of 2008 Women in Solar Energy Award
The American Solar Energy Society honored Kwok at SOLAR 2008 conference
Climate Change will be the talk around UO campus as part of national teach-in
University to host local area Climate Summit, 13 public lectures and evening keynotes
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UO physicist Dave Soper to share a top 2009 APS prize

UO physics professor Dave Soper is a 2009 winner of the J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Physics. He will share the prize with John Collins (Penn State) and Keith Ellis (Fermilab) when presented formally in May during the American Physical Society's annual meeting in Denver. Soper was cited for his "work in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, including applications to problems pivotal to the interpretation of high-energy particle collisions." Quantum chromodynamics is a theory of strong nuclear interactions among quarks -- fundamental constituents of matter.

The prize honors J.J. Sakarai, a Japanese-American particle physicist who authored leading textbooks on quantum mechanics and the principles of elementary particles during a career at the University of Chicago and UCLA. This year's winners bring the total numbers of honorees to 36, including three who later won the Nobel Prize.

UO's Hutchison is part of ACS's touting of global sustainability via chemistry

Face shot of Jim HutchisonCheck out Jim Hutchison's participation in an American Chemical Society production of its "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions" Podcast, in which the society says: "Faced with concerns about dwindling petroleum supplies and environmental pollution, we must begin to consume in a new and more sustainable way." (Listen in)

Also, still available is a report featuring Hutchison by ScienCentral: Some are calling it a revolution in manufacturing technology. But, will nanotechnology be a "green" industry? It’s a question that some scientists are saying needs to be answered now, before nanotech goes big-time. (Check it out)

NPR interviews UO's Frey and hand-transplant recipient about renewed hand-brain connection

Scott Frey-faceNational Public Radio’s science correspondent Richard Knox reported on new research by the UO’s Scott Frey, who has found that a hand-transplant recipient’s brain is re-mapping its connection – to a donor’s hand the recipient received 35 years after losing his in an industrial accident. Knox talked to the patient, and Frey. (Read and Listen)

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

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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)

 

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