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UO E-clips, May 9

Top stories for May 9, 2008: State changes arena bonds to taxable, boosting UO’s costs by millions, both the Register-Guard and Oregonian report; 14,000-year-old camp studied in Chile, and UO’s Jon Erlandson’s says the findings by Thomas Dillehay are convincing, reports the San Francisco Chronicle

Bond shift boosts UO’s arena cost by millions (Register-Guard): The University of Oregon’s athletic department will have to come up with an extra $2 million a year to pay off the $200 million in state-backed bonds that will finance its new basketball arena, following a decision to make all of the bonds taxable. The decision by the state treasurer’s office is a turnaround from how the arena project originally was envisioned and described to the Legislature and the state Board of Higher Education. The arena plan had called for most of the project to use tax-exempt bonds, which carry a lower interest rate and therefore cost less to repay.

Annual bill for UO arena rises (The Oregonian): The annual cost of the University of Oregon's planned basketball arena just went up $2 million. But that news actually could be good, according to the state treasurer's office. Officials in the office, along with others working on the project, elected to use taxable rather than non-taxable bonds to finance the $200 million arena. That decision will raise the arena's annual debt service to about $17.2 million, including payments for land and a parking structure. But using taxable instead of non-taxable bonds will allow the university more flexibility in marketing and sponsorship deals, and freer use of the $100 million athletic legacy fund pledged by UO alumnus and Nike co-founder Phil Knight.

14,000-year-old camp studied in Chile (San Francisco Chronicle):  Southward those First Americans must have come -- all the way from Alaska to South America, generation after generation. And at the end of their migration route 14,000 years ago, they built their wood-framed tents of hide, cooked their food, found medicines in seaweeds, and settled only a few miles from the sea where shellfish of all kinds abounded. … Jon Erlandson, an archaeologist at the University of Oregon, specializes in the peopling of America's West Coast and said he finds the Dillehay team's new report highly significant and convincing.

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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)

Allen Maloney, professor of computer and information scienceThe 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.

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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

Dennis Jenkins on site

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:

Media Links

Oregon Quarterly Magazine

Newspapers:
Daily Emerald (UO students)
Register-Guard
Eugene Weekly
The Oregonian

Campus Radio:
a) Eugene's Classical
KWAX (99.1 FM)
b) Student Run
KWVA (88.1 FM)

TV Stations:
KEZI, Channel 9 (ABC)
KVAL, Channel 13 (CBS)
KMTR, Channel 16 (NBC)
KPTV (FOX-12, Portland)
 
Public TV, Radio:
Oregon Public Broadcasting
NPR (LCC, 89.7 FM)
KOPB (1600 AM)

News/Talks Radio:
KUGN (590 AM): UO Sports
KPNW (1120 AM)

 


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