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UD in the News, Sept. 22, 2006 To view past UD in the News, click here. 2:42 p.m., Sept. 22, 2006--A roundup of recent news items about UD, its faculty, students, staff and alumni. YoUDee, the University of Delaware's Fightin' Blue Hens mascot, was featured in the September issue of Southern Living magazine. It was named to the All-South mascot team by the magazine, which includes color pictures of the honorees. Charles Elson, Edgar S.Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in a Sept. 22 Wall Street Journal story about chief executive officers who are extremely active out of the office. Such outside activities can become sensitive issues, the newspaper noted, when companies are underperforming. "They don't hire you to be a CEO for your extracurricular skills," Elson said. "For the extraordinary amount of money they're making, it's reasonable to expect executives to focus on the job all the time." Also, Elson was quoted in a Sept. 19 Reuters story on the changing face of corporate boards, in a Sept. 18 Business Week story on executive compensation at Home Depot, in a Sept. 16 Washington Post story on increasingly combative board rooms and in Sept. 15 Associated Press stories on the problems at Hewlett Packard. Frank B. Murray, H. Rodney Sharp Professor of Educational Studies and Psychology, was quoted in a story in the Sept. 22 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education. Murray is president of the Teacher Education Accrediting Council (TEAC), which provides an alternative for accreditation of colleges of teacher education to the more established National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Audrey J. Noble, director of the UD's Delaware Education Research and Development Center, was quoted in a Sept. 22 News Journal story about the Delaware Student Testing Program. UD researchers have found that third graders who fail the test are not making improvement as they continue through the school systems. Decisions by Harvard University and the University of Delaware, and more recently Princeton University, to end early admissions have been praised in editorials in the Sept. 20 Philadelphia Inquirer and the Sept. 18 Washington Post. UD also received notice for its action, taken earlier this year, in stories in the Sept. 19 USA Today and the Sept. 19 New York Times. UD's new Research Vessel Hugh R. Sharp was featured in a story on blue crabs studies in the Sept. 20 Salisbury (Md.) Daily Times. Nancy Brickhouse, interim director of UD's School of Education, was quoted in a Sept. 20 News Journal story about the Microsoft-designed School of the Future in Philadelphia. Norman Ness, retired professor of physics and astronomy, was quoted in a Sept. 19 Investor's Business Daily story about the late James Van Allen, the pioneering astrophysicist. "His enthusiasm for research knew few bounds," Ness earlier had told the Iowa City Press-Citizen. "His scientific curiosity on as-yet unresolved questions continued to drive him." UD's training for teaching assistants (TAs) was cited in a Sept. 19 Associated Press story about how some universities are promoting strong teaching as they train the next generation of professors. Burton A. Abrams, professor of economics, was quoted in a Sept. 19 News Journal story about a rise in DuPont Co. stock prices that coincides with a drop in the price of crude oil and natural gas. Iris Snyder, associate librarian, was quoted in a Sept. 18 News Journal story about the show “Century of Science Fiction” now on view in the Special Collections section of the Morris Library. Danilo Yanich, associate professor of urban affairs, was featured on the Sept. 15 National Public Radio All Things Considered story about a Federal Communications Commission report on television ownership that only came to light recently. The report, which found that locally owned stations provide significantly more local news, was based on research by Yanich, who created a database of stories from local markets. Of the squelched FCC report, Yanich told NPR, "It was an extremely well done piece of research, and it should have been used as it was supposed to have been used--to inform policy.” Louis Hirsh, director of admissions at UD, was featured on the Sept. 15 WHYY Radio Times program to discuss the University's decision made earlier this year to end early admissions. Ryan Bonifacino, a UD alumnus, was featured in the September issue of Entrepreneur magazine in a story about college graduates who have used ties from Greek life to boost their businesses. Bonifacino was a founding member of Pi Kappa Alpha and said one of the main investors in his Bozmedia digital media services and Internet marketing firm was originally a sponsor of a fraternity philanthropic event. |
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