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Up one levelEntries newer than mid-February 2009 can be found at: http://comm.uoregon.edu/science/sciblog
Look! Good economic news from ONAMI
New, lengthy independent report by SF company finds ONAMI is paying off
Have you seen it? The new issue of Cascade?
The cover story "The Doctor is in" looks at a connection between the UO and local physicians that has helped revive the UO's human physiology department ... but look further and you'll see an awesome new magazine of the College of Arts and Sciences
On science, the candidates say ...
The presidential hopefuls were given a list of questions about their views on science. The answers are in.
Wealth does not dictate concern for environment
University of Oregon sociologist Richard York is co-author on a study with an Oklahoma State colleague on an article in The Sociological Quarterly. The study finds that that citizens of poorer nations are just as concerned about environmental quality as their counterparts in rich nations.
All About Dung ... AND ... Jim Lehrer NewsHour
The UO's Dennis Jenkins appeared on two television networks in one night (the Jim Lehrer NewsHour on PBS and The History Channel) on Monday, June 30, to talk about the human DNA found in ancient human excrement.
History Channel looks at dung -- from the Paisley Caves
History Channel segment on "All About Dung," airing June 30, features UO archaeological work at Oregon's Paisley Caves
Time to pursue a 'low carbon society'?
U.S. National Academy of Sciences and other agencies/organizations call for countries to wean themselves off fossil fuel dependency
UO's Guillemin develops a fruit fly model for studying infectious diseases
New approach shows how a bacterium's toxic protein can manipulate a signaling pathway, providing a new window for researchers studying a variety of bacteria
UO sci/research tidbits
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.