UD in the News, Dec.16, 2003

The NCAA Division I-AA football championship game between the University of Delaware and Colgate University is generating headlines. The Dec. 16 Syracuse Post-Standard has a preview story, noting that if UD-Colgate is the main course, then Andy Hall-Jamaal Branch for the Walter Payton Award is the appetizer.

Julio Carrion, University of Delaware assistant professor of political science and international relations, is quoted in a Dec. 16 Associated Press story concerning changes in the Peruvian government and the elevation of Carlos Ferrero to the position of prime minister. "It is very clear that Ferrero is a person who can build bridges," Carrion said. He also tells the Dow Jones Newswires Dec. 15 that the primary goal of the shakeup is for Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo to ease his own exit. "This is a failed administration, and the major goal is to have a soft-landing, and (for Toledo) to be able to finish his term," Carrion said.

Danielle Ford, assistant professor of education, is cited in a story in the Dec. 16 issue of The New York Times concerning the writing of children's science books. The Times cited an article she wrote for The Horn Book in which she said many books have nothing new to offer. "Certain topics," Ford wrote, "are definitely overrepresented in children's science books--endangered baby animal survival stories, dinosaurs and natural disasters, to name just a few."

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, is quoted in the Dec. 16 New York Post in a story about efforts to gain disclosure about the pay of former New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso. "Given what's happened, it's important that everything come out," Elson said. "Because of the what preceded it, it is important to be as transparent as possible, unless it compromises the exchange legally."

Eleanor Craig, associate professor of economics, is quoted in a Dec. 15 Wilmington News Journal story concerning the death of former Sen. William Roth. "He just had a rare breed of elegance," Craig said.

The Extreme 2003 expedition led by Craig Cary, associate professor of marine studies, is getting strong play from newspapers that represent communities where schoolchildren are getting an opportunity to call the scientists aboard the research vessel Atlantis. Stories have appeared in the Salt Lake City Deseret News, the Kennebec (Maine) Journal, the Conway (New Hampshire) Daily Sun and the Eau Claire (Wisconsin) Leader Telegram, where one of the teachers involved is UD alum Bev Pierson.

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