UD in the News, June 28, 2005

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, is quoted in a story in the June 28 New York Times concerning negotiations to bring in a new chief executive officer at Morgan Stanley.

Christine McCauley Ohannessian, assistant professor of individual and family studies, was quoted in a June 27 News Journal story on the growth of Sweet 16 birthday parties. "We may actually be searching for ways to more clearly mark the transition to maturity," she said. "Researchers studying adolescence have subdivided the stage into early, middle and late. Sweet 16 parties would coincide with the transition to late adolescence."

James T. Kirby, Edward C. Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was quoted in a June 27 Cape Gazette story about rip currents. Kirby studies wave action at UD’s Center for Applied Coastal Research.

Joseph Farrell, resource management specialist for the UD Sea Grant Marine Advisory Service, was quoted in a June 27 Cape Gazette story concerning a study of the health of the Broadkill River by the Sea Grant program and UD’s College of Marine Studies.

Amalia Amaki, assistant professor of Black American Studies and curator of the Paul R. Jones Collection, was featured in the June 25 Washington Times for her art exhibit Boxes, Buttons and the Blues on view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.

William Saylor, associate professor of animal and food sciences, was quoted in a June 24 News Journal story concerning poultry waste in the region. He said a food additive had cut phosphorus levels in chicken manure by about 50 percent.

Charles Epifanio, professor of marine studies, was quoted in a June 23 report on WBOC-TV concerning the booming population of Asian shore crabs along the East Coast. "These things came over with a tiny little population as perhaps larva form,” adding that now there could be tens of hundreds or even millions along the coast. Epifanio said the crabs likely arrived here because of shipping traffic between Asia and the United States.

John B. “Jack” Gingrich, postdoctoral fellow in entomology and applied ecology, was quoted in a June 23 WDEL-AM story concerning the onset of mosquito season. Gingrich said some people actually are mosquito magnets due to the presence of certain chemicals in the body.

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