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UO E-clips, Dec. 28

Top stories for December 28, 2007: “I expected it,” the UO’s Anita Weiss told the Eugene Register-Guard hours after Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto was assassinated; and UO writers to talk about their work at Oregon Legacy 2008 at the Driftwood Public Library

UO Professor: 'I expected it' (Register-Guard): Another attempt on Benazir Bhutto's life did not surprise Anita Weiss, a University of Oregon international studies professor and expert on Pakistan. Weiss, who has written extensively about Pakistan and is frequently quoted in newspapers such as The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, said she had been regularly reading Pakistani newspapers half expecting another attack on the former prime minister who returned to Pakistan in October after several years in exile. Since the Oct. 18 bomb blast that rocked Bhutto's return, there have been threats and other unsuccessful attacks on her. "I expected it. Everybody did," Weiss said. What shocked her was the failure of Bhutto's security force to protect the leader of the Pakistan People's Party. … Beyond the immediate family tragedy, Bhutto's death leaves two critical political voids in a country struggling to maintain its secular political identity. The Jan. 8 election was expected to give the Pakistan People's Party the majority of seats in the National Assembly, and President Pervez Musharraf would have invited Bhutto to form a government, legitimizing his own political position, Weiss said. Still more significant may be the symbolic void Bhutto leaves. Even for those who supported other candidates and parties, she represented the promise that someday the state would care for all people in the country, Weiss said. "Benazir represented the united hopes for Pakistan's future. There is no leader left today who can fill that void," she said. Weiss predicted chaos and confusion in the wake of the assassination with the likely imposition of martial law.

Northwest authors to appear at Driftwood Public Library for Oregon Legacy 2008 (Newport News Times): The Friends of Driftwood Public Library will present the literary series, Oregon Legacy, on four Sunday afternoons in January 2008.The series opens at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 6 with a presentation of reading and commentary on writing by Cai Emmons from Eugene. Her novel, "His Mother's Son," was published in 2003, winning the Ken Kesey Award for the Novel (an Oregon Book Award). Her second novel, "The Stylist," was released in October of 2007. Emmons began her career as a dramatist, writing for the stage, film, and television. ... Lauren Kessler of Eugene is the third author in the 2008 series; she will speak on Jan. 20. She is the author of five works of narrative nonfiction, including "Dancing with Rose," "Clever Girl," "The Happy Bottom Riding Club," "Full Court Press" and the Oregon Book Award winner "Stubborn Twig." "Stubborn Twig" was also chosen as the book for all Oregon to read in honor of the state's 2009 sesquicentennial.

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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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.

UO ranks high in two national college guides

Princeton Review logoThe University of Oregon is one of 11 colleges that received a Green Rating of 99 (the highest score) in The Princeton Review’s “Green Honor Roll.” The news received national attention from the CBS Early Show, ABC World News with Charles Gibson, and other national and local media.

Fiske Guide 2009 The UO is also included in the 2009 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges as a Best Buy school. From the guide: "UO may be the best deal in public higher education on the West Coast."

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