Oregon "In the News"
E-clips: A quick summary of UO in the daily news
E-clips provide a snapshot of media coverage of the University of Oregon. Each day’s edition (Monday-Friday) is compiled by the Media Relations office 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.)
(See our News Archives for items prior to Feb. 16, 2009)
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- Top stories for November 20, 2009: The Register-Guard reports on the 'Duck's bad rap,' a student video in support of UO's football Ducks; KVAL also looks at the "I Love My Ducks" video; Congressman Wu speaks out about Eugene police's Taser use on a UO Chinese student; when umbrellas are needed, a professor calls on UO sports, writes Register-Guard columnist Bob Welch; and KEZI reports on concerns raised over the UO's riverfront development proposals
- Top stories for November 19, 2009: Frohnmayer urges major overhaul of higher education funding and operations, reports the Register-Guard and Oregon Public Broadcasting; Register-Guard editorial looks at status at UO now that LCC also is wooing international students; the UO's Richard Suttmeier is quoted by Voice of America coverage on US and Chinese progress on climate change; the UO's Bob Doppelt is quoted in The Oregonian's story on how rising water prompts Portland cruise boat to seek higher bridge clearance; and Paul Swangard of the UO is quoted by Bloomberg in its coverage of Michelle Wie's first pro golf victory
- Top stories for November 18, 2009: UO economist Joe Stone is quoted in a Wall Street Journal story on exports and international efforts to put recession in past; UO law and journalism professor Kyu Ho Youm is cited by the Bend Bulletin's coverage of a Deschutes rape trial; impact of UO's student population figures into areas economic fortunes, reports the Register-Guard; UO consumer psychologist Lynn Kahle answers questions from Marketplace Online about retailers, cash and credit, with holiday shopping in mind; Examiner Online reports on recent researchi involving myotonic dystrophy led by the UO's Andy Berglund; and a study involving the UO is cited by Official Wire in its story 'College Enrollment And Persistence Among Disadvantaged Improves With Financial Aid'
- Top stories for November 17, 2009: Preparing for and staying in college if focus of Portland event, reports The Oregonian; UO physicist writes letter to Register-Guard about the recent taser use on a Chinese student; the Coos Bay World quotes the UO's Tim Duy about an increase in home sales; Duy is also quoted in The Oregonian's story about how the state's unemployed are giving up looking for work; interest in solar-thermal energy is picking up steam, reports the Daily Journal of Commerce with comment from the UO's Frank Vignola; and a delegation of UO reps attend a dedication of a new research lab in Israel along with UO donor Lorry Lokey, reports the Jerusalem Post
- Top stories for November 14-16, 2009: The Daily Emerald reports on a visit by U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio's visit to the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History; the student-run Daily Emerald also looks at financial woes confronting the UO and asks what can be done; Entertainment and Showbiz! is the latest media outlet to cover Nature's story on the discovery by UO researchers of the possibly oldest human artifact found in the New World at Oregon's Paisley caves; The Oregonian reports on a series of UO classes that are looking at the city of Gresham's growth; and the Oregon Commentator notes a holiday food drive under way by UO students
- Top stories for November 13, 2009: UO role in study of brokers and their favorite funds is noted in a Wall Street Journal story; on campus, expansion of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History is covered in a feature by the Register-Guard; UO biologists speak out in a Nature story on how researchers view the good gained by the worms they study; U.S. News and World Report and Florida's Palm Beach Post run a HealthDay story on the myotonic dystrophy research findings of the UO's Andy Berglund; a blogger for a student-run paper in California writes about admission standards at the UO; and Bend's ABC affiliate KOHD reports an update on construction of the new UO arena
- Top stories for November 12, 2009: Science Daily picks up a UO news release on research by Andy Berglund's lab on myotonic dystrophy; UO professors and students from the School of Architecture and Allied Arts are part of a training program in Gresham, reports the Beaverton Valley Times; UO economist Mark Thoma is quoted in a Las Vegas Sun story about a Nevada Republican saying people should have personal choice of having health care or buying an iPod; UO student government votes to oppose UO plans for additional development on the river front, reports the Daily Emerald; and KEZI reports on yesterday's Veterans Day activities on campus
