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Today's News: Tuesday, June 30, 2009
U of M students build solar house for international competition
This summer, a group of University of Minnesota students are using what they've learned about architecture, design and energy to build a solar-powered house from the ground up.
Minnesota Public Radio
To listen:http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/06/29/solar_house/
New Parking Zones for Neighborhoods Near U of M?
A task force is proposing some sweeping changes in regards to parking near the University of Minnesota.
KMSP - TV
To view:http://www.myfoxtwincities.com/dpp/news/metro/minneapolis
/New_Parking_Zones_for_Neighborhoods_Near_U_of_M_june_29_2009
Advocates say housing aid doesn't go far enough
This week, the Obama administration is launching a nationwide campaign to modify millions of home loans and help people save their homes from foreclosure... University of Minnesota law professor Prentiss Cox says the Obama administration should stop lenders from foreclosing on homeowners until they can be evaluated for help.
Minnesota Public Radio
To listen:http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/06/29/foreclosure_assistance/
Why Do Some Teens Behave Recklessly?
It has long been assumed that the cavalier behavior of teenagers — driving too fast, engaging in unprotected sex, dabbling in illicit drugs — is due in part to their characteristic disregard for mortality... "Thankfully most youths don't hold this belief," says lead author Dr. Iris Wagman Borowsky, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, "but 15% did. That's one in seven youths in this country."
TIME Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1907750,00.html
Teen Fatalism Linked to Risky Behavior
New research challenges the widely held belief that teens underestimate the dangers associated with risky behaviors because they think they are invincible... "The conventional wisdom has been that teens underestimate their risk, but there are also studies showing that they are no worse than adults at perceiving their vulnerability to risk and that they tend to overestimate their risk of dying," pediatrician and study researcher Iris Borowsky, MD, PhD, of the University of Minnesota tells WebMD.
WebMD
http://www.webmd.com/parenting/news/20090629/
teen-fatalism-linked-to-riksy-behavior
Study: 'Hopeless' Teens More Likely To Take Risks
We have often been told that youth take extreme risks because they feel indestructible... An eye-opening finding from a University of Minnesota researcher asserts that one in seven adolescents expect to die young... "Thus, they develop a sense of hopelessness and a feeling that 'Hey, not much is at stake, I'm going to die anyway,' so [they] engage in risky behaviors," said Iris Borowsky, M.D., Ph.D.
WCCO - TV
http://wcco.com/local/teens.risky.behavior.2.1064870.html
Lion prides form to win turf wars
Lions form prides to defend territory against other lions, not to improve their hunting success, a study reveals... Conducted by ecologists Anna Mosser and Craig Packer of the University of Minnesota in St Paul, US, the study collated data about the prides' behaviour over 38 years, including where they ranged, their composition and how they interacted.
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8120000/8120712.stm
Gray wolves get federal protection again
Advocates and U.S. government agree to list the gray wolf as "threatened" in Minnesota and to put ones in Wisconsin and Michigan on the endangered list... Gray wolves should have been removed from the endangered list long ago, argues David Mech, senior research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey and an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/local/49433357.html?page=2&c=y
Bakk eyes governor's office
Minnesotans haven't elected a Democratic governor since 1986... University of Minnesota-Morris political science professor Paula O'Loughlin doesn't think that approach will pack as much punch as some suspect it will.
Red Wing Republican Eagle
http://www.republican-eagle.com/event/article/id/60109/
New Hmong Studies Fellows at the University of Minnesota Announced
The Program in Asian American Studies and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota announced recently the selection of the University of Minnesota’s first Hmong Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and Graduate Fellow for 2009-2010… Leena Her, currently a visiting assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will be the Hmong Postdoctoral Fellow.
AsianWeek
http://www.asianweek.com/2009/06/29/daily-dose-announcements-062909/
Conservationists say tax equals green Minnesota
Mike Kilgore says the green Minnesotans pay in a higher tax beginning Wednesday will mean a greener Minnesota in a year... The University of Minnesota professor said the 12-member council received 99 requests for funds and handed lawmakers a recommendation, which was accepted, for 18 projects.
Detroit Lakes Tribune
http://www.dl-online.com/event/article/id/45642/
Nibi Software taps growth of e-learning niche
Stillwater’s Nibi Software Group Inc. is tying its fortunes to a swift-moving current sweeping the nation’s education industry: e-learning... Eric Schneider, a University of Minnesota junior majoring in applied economics and scientific and technical communications, is among Nibi’s new curators.
Finance and Commerce
http://www.finance-commerce.com/article.cfm/
2009/06/30/Nibi-Software-taps-growth-of-elearning-niche
Area students attend Minnesota Academy of Science State Science Fair
The Minnesota Academy of Science State Science Fair was held at the Crown Plaza Riverfront in St. Paul and several area students attended to present their research projects... Cloquet students attended with their teachers, Cynthia Welsh and Tim Anderson, as well as University of Minnesota Graduate Fellows Jacob Lyons and mDan Costello.
Duluth News Tribune
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/124072/
Gangsters on the Rock: Tiburon author details fascinating years at Alcatraz in new book
Al Capone visited Tiburon once...Ward, 75, a professor emeritus in sociology from the University of Minnesota, served as consultant to the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary for an investigation of Alcatraz's successor, the Federal penitentiary at Marion, Ill.
Marin Independent Journal
http://www.marinij.com/lifestyles/ci_12718435
Assistant promoted to head department
The Pierce County Board voted last week to confirm the hiring of Assistant Director Sue Galoff as director of the public health department... Galoff is now completing requirements for her master’s degree in health care administration at the University of Minnesota.
Pierce County Herald
http://www.piercecountyherald.com/event/article/id/20603/
Study Shows Lions form Prides for Territory Domination
According to a new research, it appears that lions do not form their basic type of social aggregation, the pride, in order to be more efficient hunters... The main difference from humans is that these are gangs of female lions,” University of Minnesota in St Paul (UMSP) Ecologist Craig Packer explains.
Softpedia
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Study-Shows-Lions-
form-Prides-for-Territory-Domination-115357.shtml
Other laws taking effect Wednesday
New Minnesota laws as of Wednesday include: Energy funds: The University of Minnesota Initiative for Renewable Energy and the Environment begins to receive $5 million a year to study environmentally sound ways of producing renewable energy.
Duluth News Tribune
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/124133/
Growing Green: Hardy shrub roses for Minnesota
If you’ve wandered through any of the colorful rose gardens in Minnesota, you may be wondering if you could include some of this beauty in your own yard... There are many prolific blooming roses in a variety of colors. Visit your local nursery and look for the Canadian Explorer Series, The Parkland Series, Morden shrub roses or the new Minnesota varieties developed by the University of Minnesota and Bailey nurseries called Ole, Sven and Lena.
Osakis Review
http://www.theosakisreview.com/event/article/id/3805/
Like Duluth schools Red Plan it analyzes, UMD impact study stirs controversy
Early in June, economists at the University of Minnesota Duluth unveiled an impact study to mixed reviews.
Business North
http://www.businessnorth.com/construction.asp?RID=3040
Teens Who Think They'll Die Young Take More Risks
Teenagers tend to wildly overestimate the odds of dying young, and teenagers who think they'll be dead before age 35 are far more likely to abuse drugs, attempt suicide, get arrested, or contract HIV... The new data, which came from the University of Minnesota and were published in the July Pediatrics, found that teens who anticipated an early death when first asked in 2005 were more likely to have made a suicide attempt, been injured in a fight, had unsafe sex, or been arrested a year later.
US News & World Report
http://health.usnews.com/blogs/on-parenting/2009/06/29/
teens-who-think-theyll-die-young-take-more-risks.html
The Cent of Tobacco
For more than 100 years, the emerald green 4-H clover has been a symbol of wholesome living... mong those indicating that they wouldn’t participate: the 4-H state program leader in Wisconsin, California’s statewide 4-H advisory board, and the center for 4-H youth development at the University of Minnesota.
YouthToday
http://www.youthtoday.org/publication/article.cfm?article_id=3089
Doctors Boo Obama in Chicago
You would have thought it was Wrigley Field not the Hyatt Regency Chicago... No, in a year in which two leading researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital, two at Emory University and one at the University of Minnesota are exposed for conducting checkbook science and pay-for-play drug schemes that promote unsafe drugs, the AMA wants to talk about Vitamin D.
Foodconsumer
http://www.foodconsumer.org/newsite/Opinion/36/290620090816_doctors_boo_obama_in_chicago.html
Morning Rounds: Teens, Elders, And Expectations
Never underestimate the power of the mind to shape reality... First the teens: Psychologists at the University of Minnesota queried 20,000 students from grades seven through 12, then followed up five years later.
National Public Radio Health Blog
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/06/morning_rounds_teens_elders_an.html
Editorial Counterpoint: You needn't stand up to be counted
Here are some realities about the census and about Michele Bachmann's opposition to it that the Star Tribune didn't check... For example, in 2000, when I couldn't catch up with a resident of an apartment near the University of Minnesota, I asked for a neighbor's help and got the resident's form completed.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/commentary/49453147.html?page=1&c=y
Our opinion: Teens must be taught about long life ahead
A generation or so ago, James Dean carried the mantle of “only the good die young.”.. The study, authored by University of Minnesota researcher Dr. Iris Borowsky, found that many teenagers take dangerous chances “because they feel hopeless and figure that not much is at stake.”
Wichita Falls Times Record News
http://www.timesrecordnews.com/news/2009/jun/30/
teens-must-be-taught-about-long-life-ahead/
University of Minnesota experts reveal top 100 rural traffic safety "Hot Zones"
http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2009/UR_CONTENT_121673.html