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Oregon "In the News"
Up one levelE-clips provide a snapshot of media coverage of the University of Oregon. Each day’s edition (Monday-Friday) is compiled by the Office of Public and Media Relations using a variety of search engines of online news sources or other reports. Our daily edition of E-clips, including full stories, is distributed by email to members of the UO community who subscribe to the service. (See below for how to subscribe to your campus address.)
Below you will find a brief summary of the day's top story or stories chosen from the each day's full E-clips.The summaries do not include the full stories because of the often short life of media URLs and copyright considerations. (Monday's E-clips each week includes stories from the weekend.)
UO E-clips, Aug. 29
Top stories for August 29, 2008: UO economist John Chalmers was part of a study looking at whether financial advisers are really needed by investors, reports Business Canadian; and UPI reports on Greg Nelson's study refuting Hobbit-like little people on Palau
UO E-clips, Aug. 28
Top stories for August 28, 2008: UO law professor Mary Wood is going green through "atmospheric trust litigation," reports UTNE.com, the Seattle Times uses the Associated Press story on UO archaeological findings from the Springfield, Ore., hospital site; Pacific Magazine in Hawaii reports on the Palau research of Greg Nelson, a UO archaeologist who has refuted claims of little people on the island chain; Eugene police are getting ready for UO football, or at least ready to target tail-gate drinkers, reports KEZI-TV; and KVAL remembers the turmoil of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, interviewing retired UO sociologist Steve Deutsch
UO E-clips, Aug. 27
Top stories for August 27, 2008: UO archaeology rules today: 1) Science Daily and Archaeology.org use the UO release on Greg Nelson's study involving a review of skeletons and how they refute earlier reports of hobbit-like dwarfs in Palau, Micronesia; and 2) KVAL-TV, the Register-Guard, Associated Press and KEZI cover Tuesday's news briefing at the UO on findings by UO researchers regarding gravesites found at the Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend campus in Springfield. In other news, the Christian Science Monitor features a guest viewpoint from the UO's Bob Doppelt on the need to overcome "systems blindness" to battle climate change , and the Register-Guard reports on a television deal that locks up UO sports
UO E-clips, Aug. 26
Top stories for August 26, 2008: FinancialPlanning.com notes a study co-authored by the UO's Johan Chalmers in its story on investing approaches, and the Seattle Times quotes the UO's Jeremy Piger in a column about the city's suffering local economy
UO E-clips, Aug. 23-25
Top stories for August 23-25, 2008: UO professor Carl Falsgraf is quoted in a Bend Bulletin story about Sisters' students trying to China's official language; the UO is one of only two institutions in the state that train speech therapist, and there's a shortage, reports Medford's Mail Tribune; Reynolds schools boss, a UO adjunct education professor, is put on leave after board's vote, reports The Oregonian; and AdAge.com and the Wall Street Journal both report that Speedo and Puma run circles around Nike in Olympics advertising, quoting the UO's Paul Swangard
UO E-clips, Aug. 22
Top stories for August 22, 2008: In a news brief, The Oregonian says the "UO takes a bow for sustainability practice' and the New Britain Herald of Connecticut picks up the USA Today story on the economy with a quote from the UO's Mark Thoma
UO E-clips, Aug. 21
Top stories for August 21, 2008: The Daily Journal of Commerce reports on the recent UO groundbreaking for the new baseball park and The Associated Press quotes the UO's Paul Swangard in a story on how Nike sees basketball as a bright spot at the Olympics
UO E-clips, Aug. 20
Top stories for August 20, 2008: UO economist Mark Thoma is quoted in a USA Today story on how government building projects are at record levels in a down economy; Business Week talks to Paul Swangard in its coverage of asking how someone should pick a sport-management program; and near Salem, a new sign honors ancient civilization, reports the Statesman Journal, noting the project involved UO archaeologists
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