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UD in the News, Nov. 20, 2003
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12 p.m., Nov. 20, 2003--A roundup of recent news items about UD, its faculty, students, staff and alumni.
University of Delaware benefactor Paul R. Jones is featured in the lead story in a special section in the December issue of Southern Living magazine. The story in Mid-Atlantic Living features photographs at his home in Atlanta and on the University of Delaware campus, traces the origins and growth of the Paul R. Jones Collection, notes the collection's new home at UD and notes the major exhibition that will open in October 2004 at newly renovated Mechanical Hall.
The University of Delaware blood drive held Wednesday as part of the second annual Colonial Athletic Association “Have a Heart” blood drive received wide coverage, including on WPVI-TV6 and on WTXF-TV29, and in the Wilmington News Journal. "It is the biggest one-day blood drive ever for the Blood Bank of Delaware and the Eastern Shore and also for the University of Delaware," a Blood Bank representative told the newspaper.
Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, is quoted in a Nov. 19 Associated Press story concerning proposed reforms of the New York Stock Exchange board of directors, which must be approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. "It's the SEC's final call," Elson told the AP. "What they have is an improvement...but the devil is in the details."
ALUMNI
Marty Kromer, a horticultural consultant who earned his master's degree in the Longwood Program at the University of Delaware, is helping the Philadelphia Zoo install plants native to the animals' homelands, according to a story in the Nov. 20 Philadelphia Daily News.
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