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UD in the News, Dec. 2, 2003 To view past UD in the News, click here. 10:53 a.m., Dec. 2, 2003--A roundup of recent news items about UD, its faculty, students, staff and alumni. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, University of Delaware H. Rodney Sharp Professor, is featured in an interview in the Dec. 8 issue of US News and World Report. She discusses the need for child's play as noted in the new book “Einstein Never Used Flash Cards,” which she coauthored with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek of Temple University. "The marketplace knows parents are eager, so it makes products that claim to make your child's brain bigger and smarter. Yet there's not a shred of evidence that any of these products have any effect on kids' heads," Golinkoff told US News. Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, is quoted in a widely circulated Dec. 1 Associated Press story concerning a KPMG survey showing that more companies are reporting cases of fraud. "Where some things might have been considered on the margin earlier, they are now considered more serious," Elson said. "In the late '90s, the attitude was that ends justify means. What was then viewed less malignantly is viewed very differently today." Elson also is quoted in a Dec. 2 Wilmington News Journal story about the legal battle between investor Kirk Kerkorian and ChryslerDaimler in U.S. District Court. He said the case does not have wide ranging implications, telling the newspaper it "is very narrow. It's between [Kerkorian] and the company." A sports column in the Nov. 28 Washington Post noted that UD should be ranked among NCAA Division I-A's football elite: ALUMNI Janet Davidson, a Wales-born historian who completed her studies at the University of Delaware, is curator of the new Smithsonian exhibit “America on the Move,” according to a story Dec. 1 on the Voice of America web site. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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