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UO's Frank discusses Obama's rhetoric on NPR: Rhetoric professor David Frank, of the Robert D. Clark Honors College, was featured Feb. 20 on National Public Radio's Talk of the Nation discussing the oratory and aura surrounding Barack Obama. Frank combined with Mark Lawrence McPhail of Miami University on a 2005 project that marked the first scholarly investigation of Obama's rhetoric. The duo's work was featured Feb. 14 in Slate Magazine.

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The University of Oregon on Sunday, April 6, honored Japanese Americans who had been students at the UO when World War II broke out. The students -- including Alice Kawasaki Sumida, shown above with UO President Dave Frohnmayer (photo by Dave Martinez, Oregon Daily Emerald) -- were expelled under a federal order and their education cut short. Frohnmayer told the group that "we are proud to claim you as alumni." Read the coverage:

Magazine looks at UO fans: In this case, we're talking about the Lokey Labs exhaust system

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Writer Charlie Gans, reporting in the March issue of College Planning & Management magazine, says the choice of a laboratory workstation exhaust system for science facilities, as well as its placement, represent a critical step in ensuring the ultimate success of the facility. He then goes on to detail the system placed in the UO's Lokey Labs in a story slugged: Keeping Things Quiet at the University of Oregon.

HPC Wire talks to Allen Malony about 'The POINT of Performance,' (new NSF grant): The National Science Foundation has funded a project to integrate, harden and deploy an open, portable, robust performance tools framework for productive performance engineering of petascale applications on the NSF TeraGrid systems. The multi-institutional POINT project, is headed by the UO's Allen Malony, professor of computer and information science. Read the story.

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For early Northwest inhabitants, it really wasn't all about eating salmon: "A stream of new studies," including work by the UO's Madonna Moss (pictured) and presented at an American archaeology meeting, is raising serious questions about long-held assumptions such as early Native Americans expanding their culture as a result of leisure time created by surpluses of dried and smoked salmon. In a "News Focus" in the April 11 journal Science, science writer Health Pringle reports on the new developments.

Archaeologist Jenkins reels in the media with ancient DNA discovery in Oregon cave

Research by archaeologist Dennis Jenkins (UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History) in the online edition of Science on April 3 drew stories by newspapers, radio outlets and television stations. The news was international within 15 minutes of a media embargo. Jenkins found human "droppings" in Oregon's Paisley Caves, and leading experts on human DNA determined the, er, poop came from people living 14,300 years ago. Below is a listing, with links, of just some of the coverage: