UD in the News, Sept. 8, 2004

James Corbett, assistant professor of marine studies, will be featured Friday, Sept. 10, on an Earthwatch Radio program concerning air pollution caused by ocean-going ships. Corbett told Earthwatch that the International Maritime Organization is looking for ways to cut exhaust by improving efficiency through improved hull and propeller designs. Earthwatch Radio programming is produced by the Gaylord Nelson Institute and the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant program.

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in a Sept. 8 Atlanta Journal-Constitution story about corporate webcasts that grew out of Securities Exchange Commission fair disclosure rules. “It's a good thing,” Elson, a regular listener, told the Journal-Constitution. “They're always interesting.”

The new Darden Bistro at UD’s Vita Nova restaurant in the Trabant University Center was featured in the Sept. 8 News Journal.

Linda Gottfredson, professor of education, was quoted in a Sept. 7 Washington Post story about the debate in education over the theory of multiple intelligences.

Vilmos Misangyi, assistant professor of business administration, was featured in a Sept. 7 News Journal story about charisma and corporate chief executive officers. “We're very receptive to hero worship, to charisma," Misangyi told the News Journal, "but unless there is some substance behind the CEO's style, you're not going to get what you've been sold."

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