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 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
- News stories for November 11, 2009: Enrollment at UO and other state universities jumps up, reports multiple media outlets; MedIndia Health Network covers research on myotonic dystrophy led by the UO's Andy Berglund; NewPost Online runs Nature's coverage of the UO's discovery of a 14,230-year-old artifact at Paisley Caves; a new collaborative study, including work by UO researchers, shows black children are coping well with behavioral risks, reports the Staunton News Leader; and another team study, also including UO input, finds that many people lack skills to make wise health-care decisions, reports PhysOrg.com
- News stories for November 10, 2009: Blount reinstated to UO football team, reports the Register-Guard; Blount 'controls his own destiny,' reports The Oregonian, with comment from UO sports marketer guru Paul Swangard; the UO's Mary Wood's idea of an 'atmospheric trust doctrine' is covered again, this time by SolveClimate.com; KEZI-TV covers the tale of the future use of the toppled tree that crushed a UO administrator's car during a storm earlier this year; the UO's Mary-Kate Mackey is quoted by the Christian Science Monitor about preparing your outdoors for winter; and criminal activity may become citable at the UO, reports KEZI-TV
- News stories for November 7-9, 2009: Provost's 'tree' to be turned into furniture for his office in classroom project, reports KEZI-Channel 9; Blount is back for UO homecoming, report various media; several online media outlets pick up UO science release about work involving myotonic dystrophy by J. Andrew Berglund; state health benefits to employees, including those at the UO, are the focus of a Sunday Register-Guard story; The Oregonian and others report on Oregon veterans taking their 'Telling Project' to Washington, D.C.; the UO's Mary Wood is cited in a Huffington Post series on the environment; UO and other U.S. universities are recruiting Kuwait students, reports the Arab Times; new UO dorm is approved, reports KEZI; work by the UO's Melissa Hart is featured by California's Daily Breeze
- News stories for November 6, 2009: UO political scientist Daniel HoSang is quoted by The Oregonian in story about Oregon Latinos seeking power in numbers; the Portland-based newspaper also cites UO economist Tim Duy in coverage of the home-buyer credit in the state; the UO's Carol Stabile is quoted in the Register-Guard's story on a county commissioner's being questioned over a local festival's name; and the Register-Guard and KMTR start the coverage on the Civil War (UO-OSU) blood drive
- Top stories for November 5, 2009: The Register-Guard features a preview of the upcoming UO theater department's production of 'Big River'; Nature.com reports on what may be the oldest human-made artifact in the New World found this summer by UO researchers at Oregon's Paisley Caves; economy improving but new job creations are not, says a Register-Guard story on Tim Duy's monthly UO economic index; Mexican artist Capelo in town at UO for exhibit and teaching, reports the Register-Guard; KEZI reports on UO students' Project Tomato; and a new Chinese-based training program at San Francisco State University will collaborate with UO program, reports the SF State student newspaper
- Top stories for November 4, 2009: Recession's end in sight, reports the Portland Business Journal based on UO economist Tim Duy's monthly index; the UO's Paul Swangard is quoted by the Arizona Republic in its story on the National Hockey League's purchase of the bankruptcy-bound Phoenix Coyotes; and the Salem News runs the UO story about a record first-quarter jump in research funding
