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UO E-clips, May 1

Top stories for May 1, 2008: UO president understands Oregonians' values, needs, writes Dick Hughes in a column in today's Statesman Journal; The Oregonian says Frohnmayer brought growth to UO athletics; and the UO is seeking permission from the state to build underground parking next to the proposed arena, reports the Register-Guard

UO president understands Oregonians' values, needs (Statesman Journal, column by Dick Hughes): Dave Frohnmayer is an Oregonian. From my perspective, that's why he has been an effective leader of the University of Oregon. He's in tune with deep-rooted Oregon values. Sadly, Frohnmayer is a rare breed among university presidents. The UO says he is the first native Oregonian to serve as president of any large research university in the state.

UO seeks permission for underground parking (Register-Guard): The University of Oregon is seeking state permission to build an $18 million underground parking garage next to its proposed basketball arena on Franklin Boulevard in Eugene. The project is one of four that will come before the state Board of Higher Education at its meeting in Portland today and Friday. The UO also is asking for permission to spend $20 million on a new baseball stadium, an extra $4.7 million on its new education building and an extra $2.1 million on an addition to the music school.

Frohnmayer's athletics legacy: growth (The Oregonian): Ernie Kent's first reaction was selfish. When the Oregon basketball coach answered his phone Sunday morning and heard Dave Frohnmayer break the news that he would be stepping down as university president after the 2008-09 school year, Kent couldn't help but think about how that would affect his program. "But then I stopped myself and told him, 'After everything you've done for us and the University of Oregon, you deserve to retire,' " Kent said.

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Welcome new UO alumni ... 66 years after their expulsion

Honorary degree from UO

The University of Oregon on Sunday, April 6, honored Japanese Americans who had been students at the UO when World War II broke out. The students -- including Alice Kawasaki Sumida, shown above with UO President Dave Frohnmayer (photo by Dave Martinez, Oregon Daily Emerald) -- were expelled under a federal order and their education cut short. Frohnmayer told the group that "we are proud to claim you as alumni." Read the coverage:

Magazine looks at UO fans: In this case, we're talking about the Lokey Labs exhaust system

Lokey Laboratories cutaway view

Writer Charlie Gans, reporting in the March issue of College Planning & Management magazine, says the choice of a laboratory workstation exhaust system for science facilities, as well as its placement, represent a critical step in ensuring the ultimate success of the facility. He then goes on to detail the system placed in the UO's Lokey Labs in a story slugged: Keeping Things Quiet at the University of Oregon.

HPC Wire talks to Allen Malony about 'The POINT of Performance,' (new NSF grant): The National Science Foundation has funded a project to integrate, harden and deploy an open, portable, robust performance tools framework for productive performance engineering of petascale applications on the NSF TeraGrid systems. The multi-institutional POINT project, is headed by the UO's Allen Malony, professor of computer and information science. Read the story.

UO Alumni News

1) Keep up on alumni news with the official e-newsletter of the UO Alumni Association.

2) Alumni in Portland have their own newsletter: See PDX Ducks.

For early Northwest inhabitants, it really wasn't all about eating salmon: "A stream of new studies," including work by the UO's Madonna Moss (pictured) and presented at an American archaeology meeting, is raising serious questions about long-held assumptions such as early Native Americans expanding their culture as a result of leisure time created by surpluses of dried and smoked salmon. In a "News Focus" in the April 11 journal Science, science writer Health Pringle reports on the new developments.

Archaeologist Jenkins reels in the media with ancient DNA discovery in Oregon cave

Research by archaeologist Dennis Jenkins (UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History) in the online edition of Science on April 3 drew stories by newspapers, radio outlets and television stations. The news was international within 15 minutes of a media embargo. Jenkins found human "droppings" in Oregon's Paisley Caves, and leading experts on human DNA determined the, er, poop came from people living 14,300 years ago. Below is a listing, with links, of just some of the coverage: