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UO E-clips, Dec. 27

Top stories for December 27, 2007: The UO's Garrett Epps is prominently quoted in a Washington Post story titled 'Wisdom from the founding rationalists'; and there is continuing coverage, today by the Associated Press, on the arrest and indictment of a violinist (and UO grad student) wire and mail fraud charges

Wisdom from the founding rationalists (Washington Post): A bracing text for this Christmas week is the famous correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Their letters are a reminder that the Founders were men of the Enlightenment -- supreme rationalists who would have found the religiosity of much of our modern political life quite abhorrent. … Many of the Founders liked to speak of the "God of Nature," notes Garrett Epps, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Oregon.

Violinist arrested after allegedly bilking instrument dealers (Associated Press): A violinist accused of bilking instrument collectors was arrested after performing Beethoven's Symphony Number 5 in a Eugene concert hall. Joseph Tang is charged in U.S. District Court in San Francisco with two counts of wire fraud and eight counts of mail fraud. The arrest was made last month, but only recently made public. The 28-year-old suspect was enrolled as a graduate student at the University of Oregon. Authorities say he sold merchandise without paying the owner, lied about receiving instruments shipped to him, and sold different instruments than promised.

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 number of honorees to 36, including three who later won the Nobel Prize.

3 UO faculty are finalists for Oregon Book Awards

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From left to right, UO professors Lauren Kessler (journalism), Steven Bender (law) and Ehud Havazelet (creative writing) are finalists for the 2008 Oregon Book Awards. Winners will be announced on Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Portland Art Museum.

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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

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)

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)

UO spinoff MitoSciences collects 2008 Emerald Award for Innovation

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The biotechnology company MitoSciences Inc., a technological spinoff founded in 2003 by University of Oregon scientists Roderick Capaldi and Michael Marusich, captured the Eugene Chamber of Commerce's 2008 Emerald Award for Innovation on Sept. 24. The company was among four winners of Emerald Awards.

For full details of the chamber's fifth-annual event, read the story in the Register-Guard.

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