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Today's News: Monday, November 2, 2009
Gas prices creeping up again
Creepy costumes are gone for another year... "There's more demand for gasoline, for diesel fuel, for heating oil," said Associate Professor Jerry Fruin of the University of Minnesota's Department of Applied Economics
KARE - TV
To view: http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=827647&catid=391
US government faces no-win fight with flu
First came the jibes about the US government rushing out an untested swine flu vaccine... "The one thing they have to stop saying is there is a dose for everybody," said Mike Osterholm, a former Minnesota public health official and expert on pandemic preparedness at the University of Minnesota.
Kuwait Times
http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=MTIyOTY3NDQ1OQ==
Americans take Obama to task
Shannon Norris thinks President Barack Obama deserves more time to deliver on his promises from last year's campaign... 'There's a kind of realism that's taken over, that 'the change you can believe in' -- people have woken up and seen that as kind of a talking point, and I think there's some disappointment, some deflation," says Lawrence Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota.
Battle Creek Enquirer
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20091101/
NEWS01/911010327/Americans-take-Obama-to-task
Departure of Mission CEO an industry microcosm
The resignation of Mission Hospital's CEO amid tensions with the hospital's medical staff is not unique to Asheville... “I would say that relationships between the hospital and physicians are probably the toughest part of the hospital administrator's job,” said Jim Begun, a professor of health care management at the University of Minnesota.
Asheville Citizen Times
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20091031/NEWS01/91031026
Resignation of Mission Hospital CEO Joe Damore reflects nationwide trend
The resignation of Mission Hospital's CEO amid tensions with the hospital's medical staff is not unique to Asheville... “I would say that relationships between the hospital and physicians are probably the toughest part of the hospital administrator's job,” said Jim Begun, a professor of health care management at the University of Minnesota.
Asheville Citizen Times
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20091101/NEWS01/911010367
Steering committee to plan U’s academic future
University President Bob Bruininks said the most significant way the University of Minnesota can cut costs is by "resetting priorities" - determining which activities merit increased investment, which can afford cuts and which should be eliminated.
Twin Cities Daily Planet
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2009/10/30/steering
-committee-plan-u%E2%80%99s-academic-future
Spirituality considered in giving health care
One of the many scary memories Bobbi de Cordova-Hanks has from her first cancer surgery was of feeling desperately alone as she was wheeled into the operating room... Providing deeper healing also requires going far beyond simply asking patients their religious affiliation during admissions or treatment, said the Rev. David F. Berg, who trains health care professionals in spiritual assessment techniques at the University of Minnesota's Academic Health Center in Minneapolis.
Jacksonville News
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-11-01/
story/spirituality_considered_in_giving_health_care
Mexico conference discusses Martí, Juárez, Lincoln legacy
Some 200 people, including students, teachers, and workers, gathered here October 15-17 for an international conference focused on the relevance for today of the political legacy of the 19th century popular revolutionary democratic struggles in Mexico, the United States, and Cuba... August Nimtz from the University of Minnesota took on the arguments of historians like Howard Zinn who deny that the U.S. Civil War became, by necessity, a revolutionary war to destroy the slave system.
The Militant
http://www.themilitant.com/2009/7343/734304.html
U vet school gets $55M to study deadly pandemics
The University of Minnesota's School of Veterinary Medicine has been awarded a $55 million federal grant, one of the largest in the university's history, to help stop future pandemic diseases around the globe.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/67833552.html
Nanotechnology: A risky frontier?
Inside a cramped back room at Rushford Hypersonic, a start-up headquartered in southeastern Minnesota, sits a cube-like machine that throws a mean atomic fastball... Rushford's technology, licensed from the University of Minnesota, is just one example of how local companies, from corporate giants such as Medtronic Inc. and Seagate Technology to start-ups like Rushford, Vixar Inc., and BioCee Inc., are embracing nanotechnology.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/business/67823902.html
Surviving cancer - and the cure
Charles Bushard perked up when the nurse practitioner walked by and gave a thumbs-up to his daughter, 17-year-old Elizabeth... Elizabeth and her parents were anxious July 11 as they sat in a crowded waiting room at the University of Minnesota's Masonic Cancer Center.
Pioneer Press
http://www.twincities.com/ci_13681920
Academy Awards and mtvU seek college journalists for red carpet coverage
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and mtvU recently announced their second annual "Oscar® Correspondent Contest."... "As for the University of Minnesota, mtvU has offered the channel to the university. We would be thrilled if they were to decide to make the network available on campus," she said.
Twin Cities Daily Planet
http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2009/10/29/academy-
awards-and-mtvu-seek-college-journalists-red-carpet-coverage
Employers Brace for Swine-Flu Outbreaks
Swine flu has made Friday afternoons a lot busier for some employees of Hormel Foods Corp... Eighty-one percent of attendees polled at a September conference by the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota said their greatest concern about H1N1 flu was employee absenteeism.
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748
704746304574508110025260366.html?mod=
googlenews_wsj
Suburban draw
Small but mighty convenient... National research conducted by the University of Minnesota has shown that when a region has multiple arts venues across cities and suburbs, people are more likely to leave their neighborhood and experience the arts in multiple places.
Columbus Dispatch
http://dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2009/11/01/1
_MCCONNELL_CENTER.ART_ART_11-01-09_E2_HRFGMM9.
html?sid=101
H1N1 virus found in pig at Minnesota fair
The National Veterinary Services Laboratories has confirmed the presence of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in a pig sample collected at the Minnesota State Fair... Samples collected at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair were part of a University of Iowa and University of Minnesota cooperative agreement research project funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Palladium Item
http://www.pal-item.com/article/20091101/NEWS01/911010309
Editorial: Addressing a national disgrace
Six months into the H1N1 influenza pandemic, the vaccine to protect against it is still flowing more like the drip-drip-drip of an intravenous line than the rushing river it needs to be... The Mayo Clinic's Dr. Gregory Poland and the University of Minnesota's Michael Osterholm are among the experts who have laid out smart, practical recommendations that federal lawmakers should embrace to entice drug manufacturers to stay in the vaccine business and invest in new technology.
Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/opinion/editorials/67763187.html?page=2&c=y
University of Minnesota Moment, October 29, 2009 - "Behind the screams" of horror movies
There's an added layer of fear this Halloween season with the smash hit movie "Paranormal Activity" terrorizing audiences across the country. But why do we enjoy being scared? It may help us work through our fears, says University of Minnesota Art History professor Robert Silberman, an expert on horror films.
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Researchers discover links between city walkability and air pollution exposure
http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2009/UR_CONTENT_146049.html
Jean Quam named dean of the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development
http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2009/UR_CONTENT_146055.html