UO E-clips, June 12

Chancellor selected for UNCG (Greensboro News-Record): Linda Brady, senior vice president and provost at the University of Oregon, was confirmed today as UNCG's chancellor by the UNC Board of Governors. Brady previously served five years as dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at N.C. State. Brady, 60, will begin her new duties Aug. 1. She succeeds Pat Sullivan, who announced in December that she would retire this summer after 13 years in the post. Brady spoke in Chapel Hill before heading to Greensboro, where an afternoon news conference and reception was scheduled at UNCG."I am fortunate to be following in the footsteps of a tremendous leader," Brady said, referring to Sullivan.

UO provost to depart (Oregonian): Linda Brady, the No. 2 leader at the University of Oregon, is leaving this summer to become chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. James Bean, dean of the university's Lundquist College of Business since 2004, was immediately tapped by President Dave Frohnmayer to serve as interim provost for the next two years, UO officials said. Brady, who served two years as UO's provost and senior vice president, was chosen Thursday to become the top leader at UNC-Greensboro. She came to Oregon in 2006 from the University of North Carolina system, where she served as a dean at North Carolina State. She will take over at UNC-Greensboro on August 1. Bean, an engineer who helped lead the University of Michigan's engineering school before making the switch to UO's business school, will take over as interim provost on July 1, said university spokesman Phil Weiler.

Tim Donaghy's claims of NBA fixing are met with doubts -- Los Angeles Times (Paul Swangard, managing director of the University of Oregon's Warsaw Sports Marketing Center, predicted that with the exception of conspiracy theorists, the controversy swirling around Donaghy will have "little impact" on the NBA's future growth. "For the mainstream fan, the integrity of the game is probably less important than the entertainment value," Swangard said. "It's a issue that they are aware of, but don't care about. Similar to the steroids controversy in baseball.")

Smith takes page out of UO's book (The Oregonian): Typeface used by the senator's campaign mimics that of Ducks athletic uniforms: Matt Dyste, Oregon's director of brand management, seemed neither flattered nor flummoxed by the campaign's choice. He noted the similarity in Smith's lettering to Oregon's typeface but said it "probably isn't" an issue for the university. Michael M. Ratoza, intellectual property lawyer for Bullivant Houser Bailey and an adjunct law professor at UO, agreed, saying, "Fonts and typefaces in this country have never been copyrightable."

As food crisis looms, key research remains underfunded (Wired News): Despite worldwide food shortages and falling farm production in the United States, little attention has been paid to a critical piece of the agricultural production web: Fertilizer. ... More money could lead to a world-changing breakthrough. (MIT's Richard) Schrock and David Tyler, of the University of Oregon, have been closing in, slowly but steadily, on new ways to get the air's nitrogen to react and transform into the ammonia that powers the global food system.

Bach Festival asks Swede for new take on 'Messiah' (Register-Guard): Prominent Swedish composer Sven-David Sandström has written a new "Messiah" that will have its world premiere during the 2009 Oregon Bach Festival. Sandström's setting of the text from George Frideric Handel's famous oratorio was commissioned jointly by the Eugene festival and Helmuth Rilling's International Bachakademie in Stutt¬gart. It will mark the 250th anniversary of Handel's death.

UO is losing a great president (Register-Guard, letter to the editor): With sadness and joy, I view the announcement of Dave Frohnmayer's retirement as president of the University of Oregon. ... It is impossible to have complete agreement with differing philosophies, especially in a position as responsible as Dave Frohnmayer's. It is my feeling we are losing the finest president the university has ever had. Many longtime professionals with the university have told me so.