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E-clips, Sept. 29-Oct. 1
Plans for environmentally friendly lighting at Hayward Field for the 2008 Olympic Trials are included in a story in Sustainable Industries Magazine that looks at athletic facilities going green; the latest poetry by the UO's Dorianne Laux is the topic of a story in Salem Monthly.
E-clips, Oct. 2
Top stories for October 2, 2007: Some fans caught up in football ticket scam get money back, reports the Register-Guard; company cleans up on green auto fleets, reports the Daily Journal of Commerce, which interviewed UO chemistry professor Jim Hutchison.
E-clips, Oct. 3
Top stories for October 3, 2007: Sputnik, 50 years ago, inspired memories of scientists in the Northwest -- among them John Toner and Harlan Lefevre, UO physicists, as reported by Oregonian science writer Richard Hill; the Daily Emerald features the University of Oregon Investment Group, a program that teaches students about investments and lets them pocket earnings that exceed a targeted amount; the Indianapolis Star reports that Indiana University's football program enters a Big 10 game Saturday that could springboard the Hoosiers into a post-season bowl, and the UO's Paul Swangard of Warsaw Sports Marketing agrees with IU's athletic director that reducing ticket prices based on the fans' measure of worth is not a good idea; the law should protect reporters’ sources, says UO professor Kyu Ho Kim in a Register-Guard guest commentary.
E-clips, Oct. 4
Top stories for October 4, 2007: UO builds new lab on a mountaintop, but underground, reports KVAL, Channel 13, in a report on the almost completed Integrative Science Complex; USA Today includes comment from the UO's Tom Hicks, who directs the law school's conflict and dispute resolution program, in its coverage of the "bad manners" of the Ashland, Ore., City Council; the Register-Guard reports on the works of six rising Northwest artists that are going on display tomorrow (Friday) at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; and, you can't say that, but the Daily Emerald did, in print, and the student paper's editorial board defends its right, in today's R-G, to use an expletive word in a headline above an opinion piece defending the First Amendment right of Colorado State University's student newspaper to print profanity.
E-clips, Oct. 5
Top stories for October 5, 2007: The Oregonian reports on the first donors to the statewide University Venture Development Fund, which will benefit the UO and other research institutions in the state; and the Daily Emerald features recently approved changes in Pell grants/financial aid
E-clips, Oct. 6-8
Top stories for Oct. 6-8, 2007: The UO is out of options regarding funding, President Dave Frohnmayer said Friday, with coverage from the Register-Guard and Associated Press; Salem's Statesman Journal features the archaeological work of John S. Craig, who recently worked with the UO's Julie Schablitsky and Thomas Connolly at the boyhood home of American naval hero John Paul Jones in Scotland; An archaeological dig at a highway construction project in Oregon has unearthed signs of native life as far back as 1,500 years ago, according to an Associated Press report.
E-clips, Oct. 9
Top stories for October 9, 2007: Meditation of body-mind boosts performance, reduces stress, a story based on a UO news release, appears in multiple media locations, including Reuters, MSNBC and the London Telegraph); The Oregonian reports on UO plans to borrow total price of the new arena; bicycle theft hitting hard on campus, reports the Daily Emerald; and the Register-Guard responds by way of editorial to President Frohnmayer's statements to the state Board of Higher Education.
UO E-clips, Oct. 10
Top stories for October 10, 2007: Knowledgeable cops would benefit campus, says the Daily Emerald in an editorial today, which also notes a low ratio of campus police to students; online program helps eliminate plagiarism by students, and the Daily Emerald tells students to think twice before buying essays on the Web or cutting and pasting; and the Associated Press story about green chemistry’s growing presence on college campuses, with prominent reference to the UO, continues to appear internationally.
UO E-Clips, Oct. 11
Top Stories for October 12, 2007: The U.S. Marine Corps will begin training next year in modernistic running suits tested at the University of Oregon (UPI story based on UO release); the Daily Times of Pakistan ran a localized version of a UO release on meditation's stress-hormone lowering research; KVAL (local Channel 13) reports on the annual fall street fair on the UO campus.
UO E-clips, Oct. 12
Top stories for October 12, 2007: Register-Guard urges the UO to "proceed with caution" in today's lead editorial, which discusses UO's approach for financing a new basketball arena; UO today unveils two building projects (an overview by the R-G); and the Web site Associated Content and Salem-News.com report that a team of researchers, including UO biologist Michelle Wood, director of the Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will find new ways to monitor and respond to blooms of algae off the coast under a NOAA grant.
UO E-clips, Oct. 13-15
Top stories for October 13-15, 2007: Frohnmayer right about state funding to a point, reports the Oregon Daily Emerald; the UO student newspaper also features the new Mills International Center under a headline of "Come in, sit down, meet the world here;" The Conde Nast Portfolio had a story, "Giving Makes You Rich," referring to recent economic studies on the benefits of charity, including a UO study by Ulrich Mayer, psychology, and Bill Harbaugh, economics; recycling efforts increased at University of Oregon sports events -- an Associated Press story; and UO biologist Nathan Tublitz is quoted by the Indianapolis Star in a Sunday story on how Purdue and Indiana University athletes tend to gravitate to certain majors, many of them with the stigma of easy going.
UO E-clips, Oct. 16
Top stories for October 16, 2007: Lokey gift a record for UO academics (coverage by The Oregonian, Portland Business Journal, Associated Press, Daily Emerald and Register Guard); Eugene city officials talk about Ducks baseball, Civic Stadium and how the two might live together, according to the Register Guard; Inside Higher Ed and several newspapers report on "Assessing the Faculty Role in Sports Oversight," referring to a survey of more than 2,000 faculty at 23 universities … with comment from UO biologist Nathan Tublitz; the Daily Emerald covers recent UO research in a story headed "The dark side of friendship"; and the R-G covers the state's latest economic index, which is produced by UO economist Tim Duy
UO E-clips, Oct. 17
Top stories for October 17, 2007: The student-run Oregon Daily Emerald covers the UO celebration of Lorry Lokey's $74.5 million gift, picturing Lokey with the UO Duck; the Daily Emerald also reports on student efforts to preserve McArthur Court; The Oregonian reports that Bach is beating a path to Portland -- for opening night of the 2008 Bach Festival that is
UO E-clips, Oct. 18
News stories for Oct. 18, 2007: New UO Securities Analysis Center announced with initial donations from six alumni, reports the Portland Business Journal; Another new program -- product design, which launches next year -- is covered in a story in the Register-Guard; and the Daily Emerald reports that plans for the new arena on the UO campus may prove a headache for residents living nearby
UO E-clips, Oct. 19
Top story for Oct. 19, 2007: UO archaeologist Jon Erlandson says in Science Magazine that the current rise in sea levels from global warming threatens the study of ancient coastal societies.
UO eclips, Oct. 20-22
Top news stories for Oct. 20 to Oct. 22, 2007: In the "The gift of giving," The Register-Guard takes an inside look at Lorry Lokey, whose recent $74.5 million gift to the UO continues to makes headlines. And in "Female scientists give teenagers a formula for success," the Register Guard reports on a UO initiative to encourage young women to go into the sciences.
UO E-clips, Oct. 23
Top stories for October 23, 2007: UO students rally on behalf of Jena High School in Louisiana, where national reaction involving possible injustice and racial discrimination cloud the case against six black students accused of beating a white teen, as reported by the Daily Emerald; A UO sophomore is featured by the Register-Guard in a story about his online social networking, and whether such efforts are as effective as traditional techniques; and the cultures of giving, athletics vs. education, including the UO, are the focus of the Chronicle of Higher Education
UO E-clips, Oct. 24
Top stories for October 24, 2007: No Fulbright Scholars from the University of Oregon in 2007-08, and that breaks with years of UO representation, the student-run Daily Emerald reports; the UO’s environmental chamber was center stage last summer, when the U.S. Marines tested proposed physical training suits, says the Daily Emerald
UO E-clips, Oct. 25
Top stories for October 25, 2007: "When the smoke clears" is the headline of a Forbes.com story on the southern California wildfires, a story that features comment from UO economist Ed Whitelaw; and Ron Mitchell, UO political scientist, is among five scientists who met last weekend at Marylhurst University's Climate Change Forum, the subject of a story in the Lake Oswego Review
UO E-clips, Oct. 26
Top stories for October 26, 2007: Few women use Ph.D.s to enter academia is the headline in the Tuscaloosa News, on yet another study that quotes the UO's Geraldine Richmond about women in sciences on the nation's campuses; UO's athletic director Pat Kilkenny and wife Stephanie, in the midst of enjoying the Ducks' sport successes, the Register-Guard reports, were preparing to head to Southern California to look after their property near the Del Mar wildfire, but friends reported the danger was decreasing; and the R-G reports on UO's groundbreaking on new educational facility
UO E-clips, Oct. 27-29
Top news stories for October 27-29, 2007: EPD must increase its campus presence, the Oregon Daily Emerald says in an editorial about the Eugene Police Department's new digital cameras that will be installed in 30 squad cars; the campus paper also reports on Friday's visit of Peter Ueberroth, head of the U.S. Olympic Committee; three killed in a British Columbia plane crash, including 37-year-old David Wood who had just been at the UO to take his final exam from the Board of Architecture, reports the Associated Press; the Daily Journal of Commerce covered the startup work on the UO's $48 million HEDCO building; and Science Daily and other Web sites are using the UO news release on paleontologist Samantha Hopkins' talk at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver
UO E-clips, Oct. 30
Top stories for October 30, 2007: University fee policy set for revamp, but not everyone’s on board, including UO President Dave Frohnmayer, who opposes widespread changes, reports both the Higher Education News and Associated Press; "Step It Up 2007," an event in which global warming is the issue prompting a march before Saturday's football game against Arizona State, is highlighted by the Daily Emerald; NBA Commissioner David Stern in best frame of mind since scandals, reports USA Today with comment from the UO's Paul Swangard; and "Tiny’s big promise" is the headline for the Portland Tribune's feature story today on nanotechnology in the state, a story that features the UO's Jim Hutchison
UO E-clips, Oct. 31
Top stories for October 31, 2007: Mineral ages documented by UO researchers show Blue Mountain rocks related to Klamath, Sierra Nevadas, report Science Daily and UPI; UO seeks state bonds to back arena proposal, the Register-Guard reports in its advance coverage of Friday state board of higher education meeting; UO gets graded on going green, the Daily Emerald says in reporting that the university is in the top 25 of public and private universities in a College Sustainability Report Card 2008; and "Extinction by comet" is the headline of The Oregonian's coverage of a Clovis-age theory being promoted by two UO researchers, who are among a large team of investigators
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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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.

 
NPR interviews UO's Frey and hand-transplant recipient about renewed hand-brain connection

Scott Frey-faceNational Public Radio’s science correspondent Richard Knox reported on new research by the UO’s Scott Frey, who has found that a hand-transplant recipient’s brain is re-mapping its connection – to a donor’s hand the recipient received 35 years after losing his in an industrial accident. Knox talked to the patient, and Frey. (Read and Listen)

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.

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