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2008 News Portlets (archive)

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Former Duck athlete walks to benefit first responders
 
More Oregon college students choosing to study Arabic and Chinese
 
Hey, older folks may know something. Students, are you listening? (a chemistry tale)
 
Guillemin study is top News of the Week in journal Science's microbiology coverage
 
'Amphibian Carpet' is a winner for 3 UO architecture grads in Hong Kong competition
 
'A Treasure Made With Math and Marble' (the Parthenon)
 
‘A WAY COOL FILM’
 
UO’s Anita Weiss previews Pakistan elections
 
Nix early primaries in favor of substance, argues UO prof
 
UO's Cashman & sisters to get Middlebury College honors
 
The Scotsman: Crash course helps bridge parenting gap
 
From The Oregonian: Shhh! The scope is on the job
 
Eyes a Window to Hearing Loss? HealthDay reports on work by UO's Bala
 
Washington Times: Parenting class improves children’s IQ
 
Teens with an attitude? Blame their amygdalas
 
UO's Frank discusses Obama's rhetoric on NPR
 
Your brain on poverty, a report covering UO research by Public Radio International
 
Helmet testing in the environmental chamber
 
The Medford Mail Tribune covers The First 'R,' detailing UO research done locally
 
Register-Guard: UO will bestow belated honors to Japanese-American students forced to leave in 1942
 
Archaeologist Jenkins reels in the media with ancient DNA discovery in Oregon cave
 
Magazine looks at UO fans: In this case, we're talking about the Lokey Labs exhaust system
 
HPC Wire talks to Allen Malony about 'The POINT of Performance,' (new NSF grant)
 
For early Northwest inhabitants, it really wasn't all about eating salmon
 
Bureau of Land Management features Jenkins' ancient DNA discovery
 
UO-educated chronicler of Native American literature dies of cancer in California home
 
UO students to get Mexico travel opportunity to get a look at immigration issues
 
2006 Clark Honors grad gets leading role in new 'Breakthrough Generation'
 
Sun Power: Vignola quoted in Oregon Business cover story
 
Turns out great dads make a big difference, reports the R-G
 
By ocean 70,000 years ago? UO's Jon Erlandson featured in Discover magazine
 
Welcome new UO alumni ... 66 years after their expulsion
 
Jim Hutchison featured on ScienCentral piece about green nanotechnology
 
19th Century structure unearthed at Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
 
Why, oh why, do people live in the danger zones?
 
Jenkins' discovery prompts U.S. News to ask: How Did People Reach the Americas?
 
UO's Hutchison is part of ACS's touting of global sustainability via chemistry
 
UO communications professor discusses greenwashing in TIME
 
UO ranks high in two national college guides
 
Investors worried, tuned into news reports, UO psychologists tell Wall Street Journal writer
 
UO grad enjoying her work as an NBC page
 
UO spinoff MitoSciences collects 2008 Emerald Award for Innovation
 
UO's Tim Duy quoted in 'Where should bailout dollars go?' column in Christian Science Monitor
 
Humans 'not doing a very good job,' UO's Doppelt tells Christian Science Monitor
 
3 UO faculty capture 2008 Oregon Book Awards
 
UO physicist Dave Soper to share a top 2009 APS prize
 
UO's student a cappella group, Divisi, featured in new book and U.S. News and World Report
 
Indian Country Today features teacher ed program
 
Deaths in Gaza: Despite media coverage, numbers are hard to relate to, says UO's Paul Slovic on the CBC
 
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)

3 UO faculty capture 2008 Oregon Book Awards

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From left to right, UO professors Lauren Kessler (journalism), Steven Bender (law) and Ehud Havazelet (creative writing) came up winners in their categories Nov. 9 -- capturing 2008 Oregon Book Awards at the Portland Art Museum. (Read The Oregonian's recap)

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 39, including six who later won the Nobel Prize.

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Campus Magazines:

Oregon Quarterly

Cascade (CAS)

Newspapers:
Daily Emerald (UO students)
Register-Guard
Eugene Weekly
The Oregonian

Campus Radio:
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KWAX (99.1 FM)
b) Student Run
KWVA (88.1 FM)

TV Stations:
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KVAL, Channel 13 (CBS)
KMTR, Channel 16 (NBC)
KPTV (FOX-12, Portland)
 
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NPR (LCC, 89.7 FM)
KOPB (1600 AM)

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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.

 
2006 Clark Honors grad gets leading role in new 'Breakthrough Generation'

Jesse Jenkins, Clark Honors College gradBreakthrough Generation, a new national youth organization sponsored by the Breakthrough Institute, has officially launched, and one of its associate directors is Jesse Jenkins, a 2006 graduate of the University of Oregon's Robert D. Clark Honors College. (Official announcement)

Sun Power: Vignola quoted in Oregon Business cover story

Ore Business June 2008 coverIn the cover story "Here Comes the Sun," on "the rise of the solar industry" in the June issue of Oregon Business, UO physics professor is quoted. He says "two thirds of Oregon receives more solar radiation than does Florida, and even soggy Astoria gets more sunlight than Germany, which leads the world in solar installations." (Read the story)

Turns out great dads make a big difference, reports the R-G

Scott Coltrane mugScott Coltrane isn't on the job yet as the new dean of the UO's College of Arts and Sciences, but he drew media attention on Father's Day. Coltrane, a sociologist who studies the role of fathers, was featured for his research that shows that both moms and dads are happier individuals when the dads get involved in the workings of their households. (Read story)

By ocean 70,000 years ago? UO's Jon Erlandson featured in Discover magazine

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Mug-Jon ErlandsonPopular science magazine Discover recently spent time with the University of Oregon's Jon Erlandson. The result, a long feature story about Erlandson's research on ancient Ice-Age mariners. (Read the story)

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)

UO's Hutchison is part of ACS's touting of global sustainability via chemistry

Face shot of Jim HutchisonCheck out Jim Hutchison's participation in an American Chemical Society production of its "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions" Podcast, in which the society says: "Faced with concerns about dwindling petroleum supplies and environmental pollution, we must begin to consume in a new and more sustainable way." (Listen in)

Also, still available is a report featuring Hutchison by ScienCentral: Some 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 nanotech goes big-time. (Check it out)

UO communications professor discusses greenwashing in TIME

Kim SheehanKim Sheehan, UO communications professor, is quoted in a recent TIME magazine article about advertising greenwashing. Sheehan and her colleague, Deborah Morrison, worked with founders of EnviroMedia to develop a greenwashing index to evaluate the environmentally friendly, yet sometimes misleading, claims of advertisers.

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."

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)

UO grad enjoying her work as an NBC page

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 The Oct. 14 New York Times article about the highly competitive NBC internship program for pages features Nancy Meuy Saechao, a UO graduate. She is one of 60-85 pages employed annually from a field of more than 7,000 applicants looking to break into the entertainment industry and follow in the footsteps of former pages including Regis Philbin, Ted Koppel, Michael Eisner and Kate Jackson.

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's Tim Duy quoted in 'Where should bailout dollars go?' column in Christian Science Monitor

CSM reporter Mark Trumbull takes on the potential expansion of government bailouts in a column in the Nov. 17 online edition. Quoted prominently is UO economist Tim Duy, director of the Oregon Economic Forum who also produces the monthly Oregon Economic Indicators. Duy says "you have to think big at this point." (Read story)

Humans 'not doing a very good job,' UO's Doppelt tells Christian Science Monitor

Bob DoppeltBob Doppelt, director of the UO's Climate Leadership Initiative, is quoted prominently in a Nov. 7  Christian Science Monitor story titled 'How to spur action on climate change: Behaviorists weigh in on how to motivate change. A green-themed soap opera, perhaps?" The story calls attention to the upcoming Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference in Sacramento. “Humanity has never experienced a situation in which the entire world is placed at risk because of human activities,” Doppelt says. “Humans are basically in charge of the climate, and we’re not doing a very good job.” (READ the story)

Deaths in Gaza: Despite media coverage, numbers are hard to relate to, says UO's Paul Slovic on the CBC

Paul Slovic mug shotIn a live radio interview Jan. 8, The Current featured UO psychologist Paul Slovic, who appeared via the UO's ISDN studio at Media Services -- at 4:30 a.m. Pacific Time -- but 7:30 Toronto/Eastern Time. Slovic discussed his research on genocide, in which people become numb to numbers of deaths, regardless of where such deaths occur. (Listen to the interview)

Projected Rogue River Basin climate impacts described in six UO videos

Bob Doppelt in 2008 Roger Hamilton in 2008

Bob Doppelt and Roger Hamilton of the UO Climate Leadership Initiative went on video to talk about the recently released report featuring climate-change projections for Oregon's Rogue River Basin. Visit our VIDEO PAGE where -- in six videos -- Doppelt talks separately about planning and policy implications, and Hamilton speaks on overall impacts facing the basin, how agriculture, particularly pinot noir production, may be threatened, what may happen to the region's vegetation, and how salmon may be affected.

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