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UO E-clips, Dec. 5
News stories for December 5, 2008: Portland Business Journal pulse poll shows 72 percent of responders say no to UO’s propose changes to “Made in Oregon” sign in Portland; Oregon Public Broadcasting radio and ScienceDaily cover new findings by the UO’s Bruce Bowerman on a critical component of cell division; Chip Kelly’s future with the football Ducks will see rising numbers under coaching deal, the Register-Guard reports; KGW Portland reports via the AP on the long and continuing economic decline in Oregon, quoting from the UO’s monthly economic index; and Eugene Weekly reports some UO faculty members are upset over a new conflict-of-interest policy
PBJ poll: No to U of O (Portland Business Journal): Almost two-third of the responders to last week's Business Pulse question do not want the University of Oregon to change the White Stage sign. We asked if the university should change the "Made in Oregon" sign to say "University of Oregon." Seventy-two percent said "no," 16 percent said "yes" and 10 percent didn't care.
UO Scientists Discover How Cells Divide (Oregon Public Broadcasting): Biologists at the University of Oregon have discovered how it is that one cell manages to divide into two. Kristian Foden-Vencil reports. (Audio available here)
New Insight On Wonder Of Cell Division (ScienceDaily): Biologists have discovered a mechanism that is critical to cytokinesis -- nature's completion of mitosis, where a cell divides into two identical daughter cells. ... The findings -- detailed in the Dec. 5 issue of the journal Science -- come from basic research using Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm) embryos. The discovery provides more basic insight than immediate biomedical application, but the implications could lead to a fine-tuning of anti-cancer drug therapies or to isolating new targets for drugs to stop cancerous cell division, said Bruce Bowerman, professor of biology in the University of Oregon's Institute for Molecular Biology.
Kelly's numbers keep getting better (Register-Guard): Chip Kelly will receive a minimum of $7 million over five years once he takes over for UO head football coach Mike Bellotti, though it remains to be seen how much he'll make until then. On Tuesday, the UO athletic department announced a plan to have Bellotti replace athletic director Pat Kilkenny at an undetermined future date, with Kelly taking over as head coach. The Ducks and Kelly have agreed to the framework of a contract for when Kelly becomes head coach but not on an update to his existing deal.
Study finds widespread economic weakness across Oregon (Associated Press appearing on KGW News Channel 8, Portland): The monthly economic index from the University of Oregon is full of bad news for October. Five of the seven leading indicators in the index pointed to widespread weakness with declines from the previous month, suggesting the recession got deeper statewide. But the interest rate spread improved while the remaining indicator, Oregon building permits, remained unchanged despite the decline in the housing market. The interest spread -- the difference between short- and long-term interest rates -- rose as the Federal Reserve cut its target for rates on overnight loans. Typically, a rising spread signals improving economic conditions. But the decline of other indicators suggests that Oregon will remain stuck in the recession for at least three to six months.
UO Squelches Faculty? (Eugene Weekly): Does a new UO policy threaten to harm academic freedom? Faculty were taken by surprise on Monday, the start of the last week of classes, when they received an email from Human Resources informing them of new requirements for Conflict of Interest and Conflict of Commitment (COI-C) issues. Some faculty members object to the policy itself, which monitors their activities outside of the UO, and others disagree with the way the policy was implemented, circumventing faculty governance, they say.