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UO E-clips, Jan. 12-14

Top stories for January 12-14, 2008: German-UO collaboration could cut the costs of CT imaging, according to a release on the Medical Physics Web; state analysts approve $200 million in bonds for Oregon arena, reports the Associated Press; Would be thief caught with dance marathon proceeds, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald (clarifications noted); and 5-year-old Isabella Roberts of Springfield hits the dance floor at UO event, the Register-Guard reports

Algorithms could cut CT costs, exposure (Medical Physics Web): A German-US R&D collaboration is to commercialize a CT image reconstruction system that, if the advance billing is to be believed, will yield enhanced image quality but with a lower radiation dose when compared with standard CT systems. Although initial applications are being lined up in industrial materials testing, talks are already under way with medical imaging vendors keen to exploit the technology in a clinical setting. The reconstruction algorithms were developed by scientists at the German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich, and their (unnamed) colleagues in the US at the University of Oregon.

State analysts approve $200 million in bonds for Oregon arena (Associated Press): A University of Oregon request for $200 million in state bonds to finance a new basketball arena has been approved by state financial analysts. The Legislative Fiscal Office, which evaluates money issues for state lawmakers, recommended sending the bond request on to the full Legislature. The report issued Friday found that the UO athletic department should be able to cover all arena costs.

Would-be thief caught with Dance Marathon proceeds (Daily Emerald): While hundreds of students danced for charity late Saturday night, one man snuck away from the dance floor and attempted to fund his own cause. At about 11:30 p.m. Saturday, an EMU employee caught Ronald Leon Humphreys stealing Dance Marathon money from a desk drawer in the Leadership Resource Office. Officers from the Department of Public Safety detained Humphreys and Eugene Police later arrested him. Dance Marathon, a nationwide network of college campuses that raises money for the Children's Miracle Network, organized an event that took place all day Saturday in the EMU Ballroom and included performances by the University's cheerleading squad, the UO Jam Squad and the dance team. [PMR NOTE/CLARIFICATIONS (from the Office of Student Activities) regarding the newspaper's report: • The attempted theft occurred about 11:30 AM Saturday;  • 99% of the Dance Marathon collections had been completed at registration prior to 9:00 AM Saturday, they were locked in a safe and never in jeopardy of theft; • a small sum of funds was collected from late arriving participants, entered into the LRO database and delivered to the ticket office]

Let's dance (Register-Guard): Isabella Roberts took the stage at the University of Oregon on Saturday, dancing her heart out with 450 college students to Kool and the Gang’s immortal 1980s hit, “Celebration.” And if anybody has reason to celebrate, it’s this 5-year-old from Springfield. Roberts was born 14 weeks early and dropped to scarcely a pound in weight. She spent three months in intensive care at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene, attached to so many wires and tubes that she was barely visible. Doctors resuscitated her repeatedly and at least once thought she was going to die.

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Projected Rogue River Basin climate impacts described in six UO videos

Bob Doppelt in 2008 Roger Hamilton in 2008

Bob Doppelt and Roger Hamilton of the UO Climate Leadership Initiative went on video to talk about the recently released report featuring climate-change projections for Oregon's Rogue River Basin. Visit our VIDEO PAGE where -- in six videos -- Doppelt talks separately about planning and policy implications, and Hamilton speaks on overall impacts facing the basin, how agriculture, particularly pinot noir production, may be threatened, what may happen to the region's vegetation, and how salmon may be affected.

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