UD in the News, June 8, 2004

Jim Corbett, assistant professor of marine policy, will be featured June 10 on an EarthWatch radio series public service announcement concerning the need of the shipping industry to balance fuel efficiency and smokestack exhaust. "By designing very, very large engines that can operate at very high temperatures and very high pressures, they became very efficient at releasing the energy in fuel. Those same high temperatures and pressures also help form high levels of oxides of nitrogen, also help form high levels of particulate matter, and the fact that these engines can run on fuel that has very, very high sulfur content makes the sulfur emissions typically high," Corbett said. The College of Marine Studies and the UD Sea Grant Program have partnered with the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Program on the announcement.

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in a June 6 piece in The New York Times concerning the high-priced departure of Viacom’s president and chief operating officer. Elson said, "Typically, if they fire you without cause, you get something; but not if you walk away from the job,” adding, “$30 million is a big number for any company.”

Harry Shipman, Annie Jump Cannon Professor of Astronomy, was quoted in a June 6 News Journal story about the transit of Venus across the sun that occurred at sunrise Tuesday, June 8. “It1s a link to history,” Shipman said.

Norman Wagner, professor of chemical engineering, was featured in a June 6 News Journal story on the liquid body armor he has developed.

The UD Disaster Research Center’s 40th anniversary conference was highlighted in the May issue of Unscheduled Events, a publication of the International Research Committee on Disasters of the International Sociological Association. The center’s post-Sept. 11 report that every injured or disabled person interviewed had been helped to safety by a colleague was noted in a June 5 Toronto Star story concerning scientists’ reaction to the movie “The Day After Tomorrow.” “Now, if only people cared enough about one another to curb those wasteful activities that trigger climate change,” The Star’s Peter Calamai wrote.

P. Michael Peterson, associate professor of health and exercise sciences, is noted in a June 4 United Press International story on a workplace stress study by Lluminari, a company in the Delaware Technology Park. Results show that differences in the way men and women are managed can put both genders at risk for cardiovascular problems, depression and a higher susceptibility to infectious diseases.

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