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UD in the News, May 12, 2006 To view past UD in the News, click here. 10:01 a.m., May 12, 2006--A roundup of recent news items about UD, its faculty, students, staff and alumni. Paul R. Jones, UD benefactor, was featured in the summer issue of American Legacy magazine. The story focuses on the Paul R. Jones Collection, one of the oldest, largest and most complete collections of works by 20th-Century African American artists, which Jones donated to UD in February 2001. Quoted in the article are Amalia Amaki, curator of the collection, and Janis Tomlinson, director of University Museums. Richard S. Sacher, manager in UD's Information Technologies-User Services office, was quoted in a May 12 Chronicle of Higher Education story about UD's involvement in a project to provide high-speed Internet2 service and videoconferencing to students at the Delaware School for the Deaf at the Margaret S. Sterck School. Ajay Prasad, professor of mechanical engineering, discussed fuel cell technology on WILM-AM on May 11. Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in the May 10 New York Times, concerning executives using company planes for private transportation, and the May 10 Los Angeles Times, concerning a California official and his relationships with the massive California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). "Personal use of corporate aircraft is almost always inappropriate," Elson said. "We pay them enough so that if they need to use private aircraft, let them charter it." Elson also was quoted in a May 8 Baltimore Sun story on Constellation Energy Group, in a May 6 Rocky Mountain News story on executive pay, in a May 6 St. Paul Pioneer Press story on UnitedHealth and in a May 5 St. Louis Post-Dispatch story on Peabody Energy Corp. Joel Best, professor of sociology and chairperson of the Department of Sociology, was quoted in a May 9 Las Vegas Review-Journal story about the inexact science of estimating crowd sizes. "This is a traditional issue in crowd counting," Best said. "It could be the Promise Keepers or gay rights. The organizers often have larger numbers than the police. It's one of those regularities of behavior." Bud Malone, an associate scientist in animal and food sciences with the UD Cooperative Extension Service, was quoted in a May 9 WMDT-TV story about the UD research that can help keep avian flu from spreading. David P. Roselle, UD president, Nancy Targett, dean of the College of Marine Studies, and Matthew Hawkins, director of marine operations, were quoted in a May 9 Cape Gazette story about the commissioning of the new Research Vessel Hugh R. Sharp. The commissioning also was noted by United Press International. Tricia Wachtendorf, assistant professor of sociology affiliated with the Disaster Research Center, was quoted in a May 8 Associated Press story on the large numbers of Florida hurricane victims still in search of permanent homes years after the storms hit. Meryl Gardner, associate professor of business administration, was quoted in a May 7 San Diego Union-Tribune story about the emergence of wine as a mass market commodity. “Wine is one of the very few ways you can communicate to friends how carefully you selected the bottle, how special you think they are and, more cynically, how much money you make,” Gardner said. Ralph Begleiter, Edward and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Communication and Distinguished Journalist in Residence at UD, was featured in the May 7 News Journal concerning an honors class that has been meeting via teleconference with students in Beirut through the spring semester. “The headline of the semester is how much similarity is discovered in one another,” Begleiter said. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Chair in Human Services, Education and Public Policy, was featured in a May 5 News Journal story about research on infants and language. "Parents shouldn't wait for kids to talk to them," she said. "Kids are learning a lot about language even when they don't speak. All people need to do is talk with their babies." |
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