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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

Few women use Ph.D.s to enter academia (Tuscaloosa News): Although the number of women earning doctorates in the fields of science and engineering has steadily increased over the past three decades, they're still receiving most of that instruction from men. In 2003, the last year for which complete figures were available, more than half of science and engineering bachelor's degrees, as well as 43 percent of Ph.D.s, went to women. However, female tenured professors make up only 18 percent of science and engineering departments. … University of Oregon professor Geraldine Richmond started COACh, a federally funded mentoring group for chemistry professors, to provide women the support they need to stay in academia.

California wildfires reach Oregon, Oregon State (Register-Guard): The wildfires raging in Southern California have threatened the homes of athletes, coaches and administrators at the University of Oregon and Oregon State, without known damage to their property thus far. On Tuesday, instead of enjoying their wedding anniversary, Oregon director of athletics Pat Kilkenny and his wife, Stephanie, were making emergency travel arrangements to fly to Southern California, so that they could remove personal items from their home in Del Mar as the fire drew closer. However, Kilkenny said that friends in San Diego told him that roads to his home had been blocked anyway, and by Tuesday night, still in Eugene, he learned that the danger to their home had apparently subsided.

UO set to break ground on new educational facility (Register-Guard): The University of Oregon breaks ground today on a 21st century building designed to create a training ground for 21st century teachers. The $48 million project will replace or renovate a patchwork of aging buildings and old trailers that house most of the UO’s College of Education. The centerpiece is the new HEDCO Education Building, a 65,000-square-foot structure at the southwest corner of campus on Alder Street. Named after the foundation that made the $10 million lead gift, the tree-story building will provide modern classroom and laboratory space, a teaching studio, faculty research center, updated technology and features to allow both professors and students to work closely. It is expected to open in summer 2009.

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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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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