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UD in the News, Aug. 24, 2004 To view past UD in the News, click here. 3:32 p.m., Aug. 24, 2004--Susan Strasser, professor of history, was a featured guest on National Public Radio's Morning Edition on Aug. 24. She discussed the history of housework as part of Susan Stamberg's series on leisure. Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in an Aug. 24 Sacramento Bee article on the California State Controller's campaign to change the corporate governance strategy of the California Public Employees Retirement System. Elson also was quoted in an Aug. 23 Wall Street Journal story about Stanford University and its relationship with Google. A $16.7 million award from the National Institutes of Health to the University of Delaware, the Delaware Biotechnology Institute and other state educational and health care institutions was reported in the Aug. 20 issue of the News Journal. James Newton, professor of black American studies, was quoted in an Aug. 19 Toronto Star story on the popularity of the pound, a gesture in which athletes touch fists, at the Athens Olympic Games. The University of Delawares new hotel, being developed in conjunction with the Shaner Hotel Group, was featured in the business section of the Aug. 18 issue of The New York Times. To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |