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UO E-clips, Nov. 28

News stories for November 28, 2007: Multiple broadcast and publications, including the Oregonian and Chronicle of Higher Education, reported on the UO's settlement with former UO professor Jean Stockard in a whistle-blowing case; The Oregonian has a story headlined 'Oregon swaps suites for feeling' about how the new basketball arena likely will be McArthur Court-like in its feel and will not have money-making executive suites; 'The end of an (ice) age' is how the Daily Emerald heads its story on the comet-strike theory, which the UO's Doug Kennett and Jon Erlandson helped to propose, on the changing face of North America some 11,000 years ago; the Gazette Times is reporting that the Ducks have beaten Oregon State, but we're talking about the annual blood drive, not Saturday's game

UO settles lawsuit tied to Korean scholars (Oregonian): The University of Oregon will pay $500,000 to settle a suit by a professor who says she was pushed into early retirement for reporting possible financial improprieties in a university program for visiting Korean scholars. Jean Stockard said in a lawsuit filed in Lane County Circuit Court that retaliation made her working conditions intolerable, forcing her to step down as head of the planning, public policy and management department and then retire last year. The university did not admit any wrongdoing or unlawful conduct when it settled the case last week, said Pete Shepherd, deputy state attorney general.

U. of Oregon settles whistle-blower suit over foreign-student program (Chronicle of Higher Education, similar story in Inside Higher Ed): The University of Oregon has settled a lawsuit filed by a former professor who accused administrators and faculty members of retaliating against her after she blew the whistle on a problematic graduate program for foreign students. The university agreed to pay $500,000 to Jean Stockard, formerly the chairwoman of its department of planning, public policy, and management. Ms. Stockard's lawsuit sought a million dollars in damages. According to settlement documents released last week, the university denies any wrongdoing in Ms. Stockard's case.

Oregon swaps suites for feeling (Oregonian): The seating design of the University of Oregon's new basketball arena will not take its final shape for about a month, but one thing is clear: It won't have luxury suites. That plan diverges from nearly all other college arena designs in recent years, and could mean Oregon is giving up a large potential revenue source for the $200 million arena. But project leaders want to recapture the tightly packed, vertical feeling at McArthur Court and believe they can make more money on club and loge seating than they could on suites, said Jim Bartko, an Oregon senior associate athletic director.

The end of an (ice) age (Daily Emerald): For the record, they're not crazy. But they do admit their theory is out there. University researchers Douglas Kennett and Jon Erlandson are part of a group of scientists proposing that a comet or asteroid hit North America about 13,000 years ago - near the end of the last ice age - and contributed to major events in the continent's history, including the die-off of horses, mammoths and other large mammals around the same time. The theory is turning decades of research on its head. The die-off of animals is usually explained by humans over-hunting the animals or an abrupt climate change.

Ducks win the Civil War blood drive (Gazette-Times): Oregon patients who will need blood for a medical emergency or surgery during the holiday season came out the real winners of the sixth annual Civil War Blood Drive. That’s because a record 7,230 volunteers rolled up their sleeves to take part. And the winner of the two-week statewide blood drive, held from Nov. 1 to 17 was ... the University of Oregon Ducks. By a “score” of 3,709 Ducks to 3,521 Beavers, the fans, students, alumni and faculty from the U of O will be presented with the Civil War Blood Drive title trophy Saturday during the 111th football match-up between the Beavers and Ducks. Kickoff is about 1:30 p.m. at Autzen Stadium in Eugene. The annual event is organized by the American Red Cross, OSU and UO alumni associations and the Lane Memorial Blood Bank as part of the events leading up to this much-anticipated annual gridiron showdown between these two long-time rivals. But although most such events are light-hearted, this one has an important purpose. Donated blood cannot be kept “on ice” indefinitely. It has a shelf life of only about 42 days. Because donations drop off dramatically during the holidays -- although demand often rises -- the blood banks have a chronic shortage. The blood donated during the Civil War Blood Drive will help see the state through the holidays.

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.

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Oregon Quarterly

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Register-Guard
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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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