10:09 a.m., Sept. 25, 2009----UD in the News provides a roundup of recent news items about the University of Delaware, its faculty, students, staff and alumni.

Julie Bruck, assistant professor of plant and soil sciences, and Rebecca Pineo, a UD student, were cited in an October Delaware Today story about assistance provided to Panaro Construction for “green” landscape design plans.

Burton Abrams, professor of economics, and George R. Parsons, professor of marine policy and economics, were cited in a Sept. 23 Detroit Free Press article about the government's cash for clunkers program. In a study published this week, Abrams and Parsons noted that the program cost about $2,600 per vehicle while producing benefits of just under $600 per trade, and that the benefits were from burning less fuel and not in real economic growth.

Willett Kempton, professor of marine policy, was featured in a Sept. 23 WBOC-TV report for his work in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology in electric cars. The report followed the Sept. 21 press conference at AutoPort near Wilmington, where V2G vehicles are being prepared, with Gov. Jack Markell signing legislation to benefit owners of the cars who return power to the electric grid. Kempton also was cited in a Sept. 22 Philadelphia Inquirer and News Journal articles on the event.

Paige Barton, a UD student, was featured in a Sept. 22 News Journal article as she traveled to New York City to tape an episode of The Rachael Ray Show. She discussed healthy eating on campus.

James Kirby, Edward C. Davis Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was quoted in a Sept. 22 Salisbury Daily Times article about a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project to stabilize shoreline along the Indian River Inlet. "I just don't know if moving sand will guarantee anything too long term," Kirby told the newspaper. "That area is very dynamic in terms of the soil."

Charles Epifanio, Maxwell P. and Mildred H. Harrington Professor of Marine Biosciences and associate dean of the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment, was quoted in a Sept. 22 Salisbury Daily Times article about changes brought on by warming ocean temperatures.

Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the School of Education, and frequent co-author Kathy Hirsh-Pasek of Temple University were featured in the Sept. 21 The Choice Blog in The New York Times. The blog concerns college admissions.

William Innes Homer, H. Rodney Sharp Professor Emeritus of Art History, was featured in a Sept. 21 Philadelphia Inquirer article as the Philadelphia Museum of Art held “An Afternoon with Thomas Eakins” to celebrate the publication of the The Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins, which Homer edited.

Marianne Green, assistant director of the Career Services Center, was quoted in a Sept. 21 News Journal article about graduate enrollment in the face of a down economy. Many students are coming in, kind of casting about for alternatives," Green told the News Journal. "While graduate school in many cases is an option if you know what you want to do, I don't recommend grad school as just a means of waiting it out. If you know you're going to graduate school because you have a career goal in mind and say you might as well go now instead of waiting a couple of years, I might get behind that. If you're just using it as a tool for escaping the real world, I do not recommend that at all."

Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, was quoted in a Sept. 21 Providence (R.I.) Business News article about possible conflict of interest questions facing a Providence Equity Partners adviser, in a Sept. 21 Charlotte Observer article about executive compensation and in a Sept. 19 Charlotte Observer story about perks. Both Elson and James Butkiewicz, professor of economics, were quoted in a Sept. 19 News Journal article on policies to police compensation at major banks.

Gregg Silvis, assistant director for library computing systems, University of Delaware Library, was quoted on the WorldCat Web site in "Students Find the Most Creative Ways to Utilize Their New Discovery-to-Delivery Service," and spoke about the service that WorldCat Local provides which makes a vast amount of resources readily available in one search.

Michael Gotch, UD Resident Ensemble Players actor, was cited in a Sept. 20 News Journal review of the one-man show I Am My Own Wife. The reviewer, Tom Butler, wrote, “Gotch manages to make Charlotte a vivid and distinct individual using very few external tools.”

Shuaib Meacham, associate professor of education, was quoted in a Sept. 20 News Journal article about violence in the city of Wilmington. With the breakdown of social institutions, he said, young people “form institutions of their own, namely small gangs, and start socializing themselves into that world. The more they are committed to gang life, the more you see this fanatical level of violence that gives you respect in that world."