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2007 News Portlets

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Don't Know Geography
 
Make a list, challenge yourself, students told
 
Student Successes
 
Start-ups, one a UO spinoff, competing for seed money
 
1960s UO student, now doctor, featured in WSJ
 
International Linear Collider gets first research director
 
Business Week profiles UO marketing instructor
 
Floragenex comes up short
 
Tang, Posner coverage spreads to New Scientist
 
Frohnmayer to state board: Fund us or set us free
 
3 UO faculty are finalists for Oregon Book Awards 2007
 
Green chemisty making big splash on U.S. campuses
 
Spiritual, environmental mark music of UO's Robert Kyr
 
Daming Xu: Search scaled back, put into 'passive' mode
 
Female teens get the quilted scoop on science careers
 
In Search of the World's Most Ancient Mariners
 
Female science and engineering profs still face bias
 
Daming Xu: No more clues, search is terminated
 
Higher Ed board OKs first step of arena financing plan
 
Nanotech's big promise, with UO & ONAMI highlighted
 
Evolution: The Sharp End of Altruism (Science Perspective)
 
Choosing toys: Kids explore with ears, eyes and hands
 
UO prof on team that advances 'attotechnology'
 
Extinction by comet?
 
More praise for Helphand's book 'Defiant Gardens'
 
Learning from failure in downtown Eugene
 
Pakistan in turmoil, a view from a returning UO prof
 
New UO plan will give some students a financial boost
 
Book by Epps scores 2007 Oregon Book Award
 
Tell me the future, and 2 from UO offer their views
 
Research team, including UO prof, finds that donor funds for orphans often misdirected
 
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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)

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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!)

 


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