UD in the News, June 20, 2005

John Antil, associate professor of business administration, was quoted in the June 20 issue of the Atlanta Business Chronicle in a story about the diversification of the restaurant chain Hooters into other ventures, including an airline and a Las Vegas hotel.

Garrett L. Van Wicklen, associate professor of bioresources engineering, was quoted in a June 19 News Journal story about the increasing use of high technology in poultry farms on the Delmarva Peninsula.

McKay Jenkins, Cornelius A. Tilghman Sr. Professor of English, wrote a review of the David Plotz book, The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank, in the June 19 Baltimore Sun.

James T. Kirby, Edward C. Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Jack A. Puleo, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, were featured in a segment on rip currents during the June 17 broadcast of The Early Show on CBS. The show included interviews with both researchers and a look at how rip currents work through the use of a wave tank at UD’s Center for Applied Coastal Research.

James M. Jones, professor of psychology and the new director of UD’s Black American Studies program, was featured in the June 17 News Journal.

Gary May, professor of history, discussed his new book, The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo, on the June 16 broadcast of WHYY-FM’s Radio Times program.

A new biography of William Dean Howells by Susan Goodman, H. Fletcher Brown Chair of Humanities, and Carl Dawson, professor of English, is cited in an article on Howells in the June 13 issue of The New Yorker. The biography is called “respectful and even reverent” and “easily the best that Howells has received.”

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in a June 16 Newark (N.J.) Star-Ledger story about charges brought against Bristol-Myers Squibb. Elson also was quoted in a June 15 San Francisco Chronicle story about a stock sale by Mark Hurd, the new chief executive officer of Hewlett Packard

Katherin A. Rogers, associate professor of philosophy and a member of the Catholic Scholars at the University of Delaware, wrote a Delaware Voice opinion piece in the June 13 News Journal on the intrinsic value of human life and the dangers posed to embryonic life by Senate Bill 80, the proposed Delaware Regenerative Medicine Act. "There are many avenues of research," Rogers wrote, "including using stem cells produced from umbilical cords, placenta and the cells of willing adult donors who do not have to be killed, which hold out great promise. Why should we put our limited resources behind research requiring homicide, when nonlethal research methods may produce equal or greater benefits?"

George W. Luther III, Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Studies, was featured on the May 20 radio program Our Ocean World, which is sponsored primarily by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and broadcast on radio stations around the world, including the Voice of America. Luther discussed a new research tool he has developed, a solid state electrode that can analyze many underwater chemicals in particular ecosystems to learn more about the health of those ecosystems and the life forms that live in them.

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