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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.

Green monsters (Sustainable Industries Magazine, San Francisco): It’s appropriate that the New York Jets wear green -- or at least it was. When New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced in 2002 a bold plan to transform Midtown Manhattan’s west side near the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center with a new stadium for the National Football League’s New York Jets (also part of the city’s Olympic bid), the proposed design represented what would have been easily the greenest facility of its kind in the world. … This story also takes a look at how TVA Architects of Portland is preparing the Hayward Field at the UO for the 2008 Olympic trials.

Poetry collection offers simple language (Salem Monthly): The poetry in "Facts About the Moon" is the stuff you wish you'd read in high school English class. Everyday language describes relevant content that covers the gamut of familial and physical love, childhood sexual abuse, loss and nature. All the pieces in this fourth collection of poetry by the University of Oregon's Dorianne Laux reflect her life experience. In a recent conversation she said, "It's all autobiographical." Laux is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Program at the UO and a faculty member in Pacific University's MFA in Writing program.

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19th Century structure unearthed at Oregon Institute of Marine Biology

Craig YoungA small probe into the parking lot at UO's Institute of Marine Biology turned up more than expected -- a 19th Century structure that may have been a dock or a boardwalk. KCBY-Channel 11 reported the discovery on Aug. 15, interviewing a contractor and institute director Craig Young, a UO biologist. (Story & Video)

Why, oh why, do people live in the danger zones?

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A writer for the National Science Foundation went "behind the scenes" to ask why anyone would live in terrain vulnerable to natural disasters, such as the California wildfires in 2007. The resulting, colorful story about the choices people make to do so focuses on the research of the UO's Paul Slovic. (Read Story)

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)

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.

 
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."

Jim Hutchison featured on ScienCentral piece about green nanotechnology

Face shot of Jim HutchisonSome are calling it a revolution in manufacturing technology. But, will nanotechnology be a "green" industry? It’s a question that some scientists are saying needs to be answered now, before nano-tech goes big-time. ScienCentral News has produced a video with the UO's Jim Hutchison, who is noted as one who is spinning gold -- gold and copper nanoparticles so small, billions would fit on the head of a pin. (Check it out)

Jenkins' discovery prompts U.S. News to ask: How Did People Reach the Americas?

Dennis Jenkins faceshotA science article posted online July 24 by U.S. News & World Report looks at the early peopling of the Americas, and how new techniques, such as DNA, are shedding new light on the issue. Cited prominently is work by UO archaeologist Dennis Jenkins. (Read story)

PMR Contact Info

Phone: (541) 346-3134
Email: pmr@uoregon.edu


Staff Members (Position Details)
Phil Weiler: 541-346-3873; pweiler@uoregon.edu
Pauline Austin: 541-346-3129; paustin@uoregon.edu
Julie Brown: 541-346-3185; julbrown@uoregon.edu
Jim Barlow: 541-346-3481; jebarlow@uoregon.edu
Zack Barnett: 541-346-3145; zbarnett@uoregon.edu
Shannon Rose: 541-346-3314; roses@uoregon.edu

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Public event, Sept. 12: Cracking Open the Universe, the LHC and future physics

On Sept. 10, the first beam ever will be sent through and around the Large Hadron Collider, a brand new particle accelerator, in Geneva, Switzerland.

University of Oregon physicists have key roles in this international endeavor. Come to campus for a free evening event to learn more about the "first beam" and how the LHC will advance the quest of physics to learn about the fundamental nature of the universe.

Speakers: Jim Brau, Graham Kribs and Eric Torrence … Friday, Sept. 12, 7 p.m., Columbia Hall, Room 150MORE DETAILS.

(Anyone with an interest in science will get a bang out of this event!)

Kyr's piece debuts with new hospital

The University of Oregon Trumpet Ensemble performed a new fanfare by UO music professor Robert Kyr at the RiverBend Hospital earlier this summer. PeaceHealth commissioned the piece for the opening of the RiverBend facility. Click HERE to watch a brief video clip of the performance.

 


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