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UO E-clips, Nov. 15

Top stories for November 15, 2007: Hiker finds guide book believed to belong to missing professor, KGW.com reports; a news release picked up by Market Wire announces that UO spinoff Language Learning Solutions is now Avant Assessment; Art museum and course evaluations debated, reports the student Daily Emerald; Kilkenny says Ducks not likely to play ball at Civic Stadium, according to the Register-Guard

Hiker finds guide book believed to belong to missing professor (KGW.com): Searchers looking for a missing University of Oregon professor got their first clue when a hiker found part of a guide book believed to belong to Daming Xu, authorities said Thursday. An independent hiker working in cooperation with the Lane County Sheriff's Office located part of the book down a creek drainage Wednesday, about seven miles from where Xu was last seen by a couple hiking Olallie Mountain in the Three Sisters Wilderness. A seven person team of volunteers from Eugene Mountain Rescue entered the drainage Wednesday but were unable to find additional clues, according to Sheriff Russel Burger. A focused search in the drainage area continued Thursday. Due to the remoteness and ruggedness of the area, only trained searchers were being used.

Language Learning Solutions rebrands as Avant Assessment (MarketWire): Language Learning Solutions today unveiled a new corporate name, Avant Assessment, and brand identity. The move is part of a broader strategy to position itself for growth in the burgeoning language assessment field. Avant designs, develops, delivers, scores and reports Web-based language assessments for the diverse needs of education, business and government. The announcement was made at the 2007 ACTFL Annual Convention and World Languages Expo in San Antonio, Texas, where the company is exhibiting at booth No. 455. … Avant Assessment (www.avantassessment.com) was founded in 2001 in Eugene, Ore., as Language Learning Solutions. The company is the recognized leader in the Web-based language assessment field. Avant designs, develops, delivers, scores and reports four-skills, Web-based language assessments to meet the diverse needs of education, business and government. The company has an academic research partnership with the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS), a National Foreign Language Resource Center, at the University of Oregon and also works closely with other partners to deliver a suite of online assessment tools for diverse fields.

Art museum and course evaluations debated (Daily Emerald): The University Senate voiced its discontent with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art's new reporting structure at its meeting Wednesday. The Senate unanimously passed a motion urging University President Dave Frohnmayer to restore the reporting relationship to the Provost's Office once a new executive director is hired for the museum. Sherwin Simmons, head of the art history department, presented the motion and made a case for its passage. "There's never really been a satisfactory explanation" for Frohnmayer placing the museum under University Advancement, Simmons said. "It seems to me that the change in reporting relationship has suggested to everyone that there's something different about our museum. And that I think has created an issue in our present search that is somewhat awkward to explain."

Kilkenny says Ducks not likely to play ball at Civic Stadium (Register-Guard): The University of Oregon, which needs a ballpark for its reborn baseball program, made it clear Wednesday that it is not likely to ride to the rescue of Civic Stadium, the longtime home of the Eugene Emeralds. In a letter to local government officials, UO director of athletics Pat Kilkenny stated that the university will not purchase land for a new ballpark, that it intends to own any facility in which the Ducks play, and that it hopes to have a facility in place for the 2009 season. All those factors weigh heavily against Civic Stadium -- which is owned by the school district and leased to the Emeralds, and which would require extensive renovation -- as a long-term solution for the Ducks. Instead, unless other alternatives become available, Oregon is presenting itself as prepared to build its new stadium on property it owns near Autzen Stadium, perhaps on or near a portion of the stadium’s east parking lot, and intending to move forward early next year.

UO physicist Dave Soper to share a top 2009 APS prize

UO physics professor Dave Soper is a 2009 winner of the J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Physics. He will share the prize with John Collins (Penn State) and Keith Ellis (Fermilab) when presented formally in May during the American Physical Society's annual meeting in Denver. Soper was cited for his "work in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, including applications to problems pivotal to the interpretation of high-energy particle collisions." Quantum chromodynamics is a theory of strong nuclear interactions among quarks -- fundamental constituents of matter.

The prize honors J.J. Sakarai, a Japanese-American particle physicist who authored leading textbooks on quantum mechanics and the principles of elementary particles during a career at the University of Chicago and UCLA. This year's winners bring the total number of honorees to 36, including three who later won the Nobel Prize.

3 UO faculty are finalists for Oregon Book Awards

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From left to right, UO professors Lauren Kessler (journalism), Steven Bender (law) and Ehud Havazelet (creative writing) are finalists for the 2008 Oregon Book Awards. Winners will be announced on Sunday, Nov. 9, at the Portland Art Museum.

Media Links

Campus Magazines:

Oregon Quarterly

Cascade (CAS)

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)

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.

 
Investors worried, tuned into news reports, UO psychologists tell Wall Street Journal writer

Paul Slovic mug shot    Two with University of Oregon ties named to new FDA risk advisory panel

Since 2001, investors’ comfort zone with their stocks has nose-dived from little worry about negative returns to growing worry about their stocks going nowhere for maybe a decade, reports UO psychologist Paul Slovic in an interview with Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig about today’s economy. In same article, UO psychologist Ellen Peters notes that American investors are spending a lot of time following, especially on TV news, the economic turmoil. Zweig’s column, however, carries the message that those who have some cash and can conquer their stock-phobia may be a good position, likening their potential investments to a venture in emerging markets. (Read story – may require paid subscription)

Sense of entitlement? Not in faces at military base, writes UO's Tom Bivins

Tom Bivins UO journalism professor Tom Bivins, sipping coffee and watching youthful faces at San Antonio's Fort Sam Houston, says the often-discussed "sense of entitlement" thought to exist in today's college-aged students was absent among like-aged faces wearing U.S. Army uniforms. His comments appear in a commentary in The Oregonian. (Read it)

UO spinoff MitoSciences collects 2008 Emerald Award for Innovation

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The biotechnology company MitoSciences Inc., a technological spinoff founded in 2003 by University of Oregon scientists Roderick Capaldi and Michael Marusich, captured the Eugene Chamber of Commerce's 2008 Emerald Award for Innovation on Sept. 24. The company was among four winners of Emerald Awards.

For full details of the chamber's fifth-annual event, read the story in the Register-Guard.

UO ranks high in two national college guides

Princeton Review logoThe University of Oregon is one of 11 colleges that received a Green Rating of 99 (the highest score) in The Princeton Review’s “Green Honor Roll.” The news received national attention from the CBS Early Show, ABC World News with Charles Gibson, and other national and local media.

Fiske Guide 2009 The UO is also included in the 2009 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges as a Best Buy school. From the guide: "UO may be the best deal in public higher education on the West Coast."

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