UD in the News, Feb. 8, 2005

John Antil, associate professor of business administration, was quoted in a Feb. 7 News Journal story about MBNA’s Super Bowl commercial. “Overall, I thought the MBNA ad was one of the better ones that I saw," Antil said.

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted by The Times of London in a Feb. 6 story on the large salary paid to former New York Stock Exchange chairman Dick Grasso. Elson said the findings of a report on the matter were indisputable. “It says the level of pay was improper. Who knew what, and when, is going to be fought out in court, but the basic fact is that the report says Grasso was excessively overpaid,” Elson told The Times.

The UD Institute for Energy Conversion was featured in a Feb. 6 News Journal story on its position as a leader in the field of solar energy.

David Ames, director of the Center for Historic Architecture and Design, was quoted in a Feb. 6 News Journal story on the new Westown development planned for the Middletown area. "It's going to have a massive influence, I think," Ames said. "It's almost like developing a parallel town."

Neil Lanctot, supplemental faculty in history and the author of Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution, was the subject of a story in the Feb. 5 Woonsocket (R.I.) Call. He presented copies of the book to the local high school and public library.

Peter Williams, professor of art, was noted in a Feb. 4 story in The New York Times about the National Black Fine Art Show in New York City. Watercolors by Williams, included in the show by Detroit’s Revolution gallery, were cited as “zany, vehemently satiric and beautifully made.”

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