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E-Clips, Sept. 26

Top stories for September 26, 2007: The Daily Emerald reports on the boom of campus construction and renovation since 1997, with 31 new buildings or renovation projects and more on the way; Nike goes native with a new shoe designed specifically for the feet of American Indians, and the UO’s Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center, says the new product reflects how Nike does business; and the Oregonian reports that a UO student team has won the Student Investment Program Program title for 2006-2007, by capturing a 29 percent return.

Building for the future (Daily Emerald): In the 1960s, back when state and federal funding was more than just loose change, the University went on a building binge. It built or renovated 15 campus buildings, including Klamath, Bean and Hamilton halls – the '60s construction accounts for 25 percent of the University's total building square footage. Then it virtually stopped – until 1997. Since then, the University has spent nearly $500 million on 31 new buildings or renovation projects, making the last decade the biggest building burst in University history. And it's just getting started. The University plans to spend millions more on a basketball arena, potentially a new residence hall and alumni center. The new buildings on campus represent more, however, than simply a University makeover - it's the fruit of the administration's epiphany that donors are the key to financial stability. "The University realized the state wasn't going to fund anymore," said Chris Ramey, senior director and architect in University Planning. "So it approached donors and said, 'Can you help?'"

Nike designs shoes for American Indians (Associated Press, Register-Guard, USA Today and multiple other media outlets): Beaverton-based Nike on Tuesday unveiled what it said is the first shoe designed specifically for American Indians, an effort aiming at promoting physical fitness in a population with high obesity rates. … Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center at the University of Oregon, is quoted saying that the product reflects how Nike does business … "It reinforces the core of the Nike brand, which is: If you have a body you are an athlete.”

UO team wins investment program title (The Oregonian): Student investors at the University of Oregon drove a $50,000 stock portfolio to a near 30-percent gain to win the D.A. Davidson & Co. Student Investment Program title for 2006-07. The UO students earned 29.35 percent, or $13,417, on their portfolio. They used real money put up by the brokerage firm and made buy and sell decisions in consultation with a brokerage adviser. Each of the 20 participating schools in seven Western states receives half of its team's earnings above 5 percent. If a school's portfolio loses money, the brokerage absorbs the loss. Brigham Young University was second with a gain of 29.07 percent; and Washington State University was third at 21.86 percent. Portland State University earned 18.66 percent for an increase of $8,525. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 20.02 percent over the same period.

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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