April 2008

UO E-clips, April 1, 2008

News stories for April 1, 2008: Statistics can predict Oscar winners, according to a report in the New Scientist, which cites work by the UO's Iain Pardoe, a professor of decision sciences in the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business; the Oregon Daily Emerald reports that the UO ranks high on the Peace Corps' 2008 volunteer list; the student-operated Daily Emerald also feature an update on UO course known, informally anyway, as "Slanguage arts," a linquistics class that back in 1999 established a Slang Dictionary; Oregon universities offer 'gender-inclusive' dorm rooms, reports the Citizen Link of Colorado; and Science Daily (and numerous other on-line science Web portals) are using a UO news release about Jim Hutchison's call in the journal ACS Nano to use green chemistry in nanotechnology to help promote environmental safety

UO E-clips, April 2

Top stories for April 2, 2008: Holy Cow, students say, Save the Cow, referring to the lease non-renewal of a popular vegan food outlet in the student union, reports KVAL-TV; Phishing tactics lead to UO warning & action, reports the Daily Emerald; the UO's Carl Falsgraf writes in a Register-Guard guest commentary that a Chinese immersion school makes a lot of sense; and, up in Portland, KPTV-Channel 12, reports on the UO's new downtown presence

UO E-clips, April 3

Top stories for April 3, 2008: The UO's Paul Swangard, Warsaw Sports Marketing Center, is quoted by the Washington Post in a story on the National Hockey League playoffs; there were sparks flying, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald, during a debate of U.S. Senate candidates at the UO law school … and the Register-Guard story says the candidates had a lot to agree on; in an editorial, the Register-Guard says that it's never too late to apologize, or to forgive, in a story about the upcoming UO ceremony to give honorary degrees to 19 Japanese whose educations were cut short by internment during WWII; hazmat team sent to the UO (early Tuesday), reports KVAL.com, the Portland Mercury reports on changes in Old Town, including the UO's journalism program's filling a big need

UO E-clips, April 4

Top stories for April 4, 2008: New evidence of earliest North Americans comes out of the UO, a story reported by media outlets worldwide (E-Clips today provides a sampling from the AP, Oregonian, NY Times, Register-Guard and Portland's KGW-TV); Japanese-American students to receive honorary degrees at UO, reports the Register-Guard; the UO athletic department to build new academic center, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald; new federal rules are putting LTD plans for shuttle service to the Olympic Trials at risk, reports Register-Guard; the UO Index of Economic Indicators rises in February but we're still in a "slow-motion slowdown," says the UO's Tim Duy in the Register-Guard (also coverage in the Portland Business Journal)

UO E-clips, April 5-7

Top stories for April 5-7, 2008: 20 Japanese Americans expelled from the UO during World War II were honored Sunday, with those attending receiving honorary degrees, report The Oregonian, KEZI and Register-Guard; UO student group celebrates Indian culture, according to the Daily Emerald; the UO's Bob Doppelt continues his series of guest commentaries in the Register Guard on the environment, writing about how carbon credits will affect the economy; these shoes were made for running (10,000 years ago), reports the Register-Guard in a story about the upcoming footwear exhibition at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History; speaking of shoes, footwear maker Phil Knight, according to The Oregonian and Register-Guard, has spelled out multi-layered demands for new UO academic center for athletes; KOIN-TV Portland reports on the UO celebrating the new campus opening in the city

UO E-clips, April 8

News stories for April 8, 2008: The Informative Post Web site covers a UO news release about Jim Hutchison’s concerns about nanotechnology, asking “How safe is it”; Iowa’s Des Moines Register mentions work by the UO’s Gordon Lafer in story about how to slow rising state prison costs by revamping sentences; the Vancouver Sun reruns The Oregonian’s coverage of Sunday’s ceremony at the UO, giving honorary degrees to Japanese Americans ousted during WWII; the publication Occupational Hazards reports on the work of UO’s Bob Bussel, who reviewed 100 years of labor in Oregon; and the Oregon governor, at Autzen Stadium, declares April 7th Bobby Doerr Day

UO E-clips, April 9

Top stories for April 9, 2008: Franklin Boulevard developments to help create new gateway to the UO campus, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald; and The Oregonian, in an article dubbed 'Adam and Eve were webfoots,' expands on the recently published archaeological discovery by the UO's Dennis Jenkins

UO E-clips, April 10

Top stories for April 10, 2008: The Chronicle of Higher Education publishes its touching coverage of the UO ceremony awarding honorary degrees to Japanese Americans who were expelled in 1942; NetworkWorld.com reports, with comments from the UO's Joe St. Sauver, that "botnets" are running wild (another technology site, Information Week, covered the same story); the Register-Guard reports on "green talk and the bottom line" and how UO law students see green as a coming trend; and KOIN-TV Portland reports on the two new Guggenheim Fellows chosen from the UO

UO E-clips, April 11

Top stories for April 11, 2008: At a Society for American Archaeology meeting, the journal Science reports, the UO's Madonna Moss is among scientists whose new findings question the overall impact of salmon among early Native Americans; the UO's Joe St. Sauver is quoted again, today in stories by CIO India and the San Francisco Chronicle, about collaborative security initiatives; the Associated Press reports on efforts by Oregon institutions to use text messaging in emergencies; the ol' baseball squeeze play is striking out available parking spaces at Autzen as plans move forward for the new baseball park, reports the Register-Guard; and tiny technology, make that nano, could yield big benefits, says the Baker City Herald, which quotes the UO's Jim Hutchison

UO E-clips, April 12-14

Top stories for April 12-14, 2008: Delays, costs would hamper Eugene hospital plan for the UO's Riverfront Research Park area, reports the Register-Guard; a Register-Guard editorial tackles the parking-space reduction at Autzen Stadium because of the baseball park, following news stories on the topic; also sports-related, the Desert News (Utah) quotes Dennis Howard of the UO's Warsaw Sports Marketing Center about how names of college venues rarely change; the UO's Bob Doppelt continues his climate-change commentaries in the Register-Guard, writing that climate change spells coal phaseout; autism is the topic of a Register-Guard editorial, which mentions potential UO partnership roles; The Akron Beacon Journal quotes the UO's Gordon Lafer in a story about higher education in Ohio, noting that a degree can't always open door to middle class; and the Register-Guard writes about the UO discovery by Dennis Jenkins (oldest human DNA in the Americas) in an editorial about the first Oregon Trail

UO E-clips, April 15

News stories for April 15, 2008: Eugene's City Council still interested in UO's Riverfront Research Park as hospital site, reports the Register-Guard and KEZI, Channel 9); the UO's Eric Pederson is quoted in an Arkansas Democrat-Gazette story titled 'Urban slang stays up-to-date thanks to online dictionaries'; the Register-Guard (similar coverage in The Oregonian and Portland Business Journal) report on the UO and BYU teams being named new venture co-champions; and the UO's Ray Weldon is quoted in the Whittier Daily News about Monday's USGS announcement projecting with virtual certainty a major California earthquake within 30 years

UO E-clips, April 16

Top stories for April 16, 2008: UO athletics reshuffling its staff lineup, reports the Register-Guard; Eugene City Council member Solomon speaks out against locating hospital at UO's research park, according to the Register-Guard; favored companies for design and building UO arena are new to the game, reports The Oregonian; getting by economically is stretching the limits of Oregonians, reports the Oregonian, which quotes the UO's Tim Duy; and the Register-Guard cites the UO's Marcus Widenor in its coverage of an arbitrator's ruling that a county worker's off-duty offense is insufficient reason for dismissal

UO E-clips, April 17-18

Top stories for April 17 & 18, 2008: Lorry Lokey's recent $74.5 million gift to the UO is mentioned in a Forbes.com story titled 'Higher ed for sale: Buyer beware' that focuses on baby boomers' potential for charity; UO President Dave Frohnmayer denounces 'gutter bigotry' at recent Pacifica Forum talks, reports the Register-Guard; MitoSciences turns UO research into business, a business story by the Register-Guard; UO unwilling to negotiate with city for research park, Register-Guard reported Thursday; in a program similar to the UO's PathwayOregon, OSU may offer 1,500 students new tuition grant, reports the Corvallis Gazette-Times; a neighborhood group will ask its membership to weigh in on UO arena plan next week, reports the Register-Guard; and the UO's Philip Scher tells Eugene Weekly that he was floored to learn his "long-shot" hopes for a Guggenheim Fellowship turned into reality

UO E-clips, April 19-21

Top stories for April 19-21, 2008: It's time to say so long to the old Williams' Bakery, the Register-Guard reports; the UO's Eric Selker, according to New Scientist, has hailed the Salk Institute's 'cookbook' for the 'epigenomics' advance by researchers at the Salk Institute; there's no site in sight for that new hospital, the Register-Guard says in an editorial referring to how the wanted UO research park site looks unlikely; in the Oregonian, a writer says UO donor and alum Phil Knight of Nike is the lord of all he surveys; the Oregonian also reports that Olympic Trials in Eugene will cap a resurgence for track; wear your boots when you visit UO the next few years, says The Oregonian, in a story about a boom in campus construction; the UO's Susan Rozelle is quoted by the Corvallis Gazette-Times in a story about getting a conviction for murder without the body as proof

UO E-clips, April 22

Top stories for April 22, 2008: Rising food prices draw the attention of the Register-Guard, which quotes the UO's Tim Duy on economic factors involved; demolition begins on Williams Bakery to make way for the arena, reports the Associated Press

UO E-clips, April 23

Top stories for April 23, 2008: Fairmount neighbors vote to oppose current arena plan, reports the Register-Guard; demolition of the old Williams Bakery to make way for the UO arena means less parking for students, KVAL reports; Willamette Week, in an editorial, say UO President Dave Frohnmayer now chooses to hide records from public view; in another item, Willamette Week quotes the UO's Tom Bivins, journalism, in an article about BlueOregon; and Oregon's primary is a month away and broadcast political ads are coming, reports KBZY, quoting the UO's David Kornada on their effectiveness

UO E-clips, April 24

Top stories for April 24, 2008: The UO's Paul Swangard is quoted in a sports column in The Oregonian about hockey's finding an audience; and the Daily Emerald features an EMU event, held Thursday night, remembering the life and death of a young Portland man killed in Nicaragua in 1987

UO E-Clips, April 25-28

Top stories for April 25-28, 2008: the UO's Bob Doppelt was back in the Register-Guard today with another opinion piece in his series about climate change; $18 million parking lot, underground, on tap near new arena, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald and The Oregonian; the UO's Paul Swangard is quoted in a Register-Guard story 'Slocum’s legacy lives on in sports medicine'; hook up with Amtrak, by bus, via UO, reports the R-G; the LTD expects a waiver allowing it to provide Eugene '08 bus service, the R-G reports; and KVAL reports that tailgaters at Autzen are losing ground

UO E-clips, April 29-30

Top stories for April 29-30, 2008: Frohnmayer to retire, bow out, move on, etc., say the headlines of coverage of Tuesday's announcement by the UO president by the Associated Press, Oregonian, Register-Guard, Daily Emerald and multiple other media outlets; Holy Cow won't moo-ve on, says the Register-Guard; UO panel to offer ideas for reuse of Mac Court, reports the Register-Guard and the Portland Business Journal; with federal tax money returns to Americans, the government recommends a spending spree, according to the Register-Guard with comment from the UO's Tim Duy