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UD in the News, March 8, 2005

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9:22 a.m., March 8, 2005--A roundup of recent news items about UD, its faculty, staff and alumni.

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted widely concerning the dismissal of former Boeing Co. president and chief executive officer Harry Stonecipher in the wake of an extramarital affair. Elson was quoted March 8 in stories in The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Post and on Dow Jones Newswires.

Also, the March 8 Rocky Mountain News quoted Elson in a story about pay for the chief executive at the Ball Corp. and the Associated Press quoted Elson in a story about shareholders and mergers.

Joyce Hill Stoner, professor of art conservation, was featured in a March 6 Cincinnati Enquirer story on her upcoming lecture-performance about artist James McNeill Whistler and his volatile love life. The event is scheduled May 19 at the Taft Museum of Art.

McKay Jenkins, Cornelius A. Tilghman Sr. Professor of English, was noted for his new book Bloody Falls of the Coppermine: Madness, Murder, and the Collision of Cultures in the Arctic, 1913, in the March 6 Book World section of The Washington Post.

Fred DeMicco, ARAMARK Chair in Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management, was quoted in the March issue of Lodging Magazine concerning campus hotel laboratories, such as the new Courtyard Newark-University of Delaware. “Employers want students to have good hands-on experience,” DeMicco said. “We always felt that to be a top-tier program, we needed to give the students hotel experience­a lodging laboratory.”

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