Selected Coverage May 2007 National HIGHLIGHTS ABC News ABC12.com (Michigan) Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio) Astrobiology Magazine About the University Bloomberg.com Newsday (May 21) Business Week Canberra Times (Australia) Eastman School of Music appoints new dean CBS News The University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music said Monday it Chicago Sun Times has appointed conductor-composer Douglas Lowry as its new dean. He Chronicle of Higher Education will bring to Eastman the leadership, musicality and drive to provide new Clarion Ledger (Mississippi) University of Economic Times (India) energy to this nation’s leading school of music,” said the Exduco.net (Italy) Rochester’s president, Joel Seligman. Lowry, who is dean of the College- First Science News (UK) Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, will take up his new Forbes post Aug. 1. (Also reported by Playbill Arts New York, Cincinnati Post, New HULIQ (North Carolina) York Times, MSN Money, Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal, WCAX Ithaca Journal LA Times Vermont, WSTM Central NY, R News, WHAM TV ABC, WHEC TV NBC, Market-Day.net (Arizona) Rochester Business Journal, Democrat and Chronicle, News Record Ohio, and Miami Herald other publications/broadcast) MSNBC MSN Money New York Times (May 16) Nanowerk (Hawaii) New Kerala.com (India) Ivy League Admissions Crunch Brings New Cachet to Next Tier Newsday Supply, however, has remained constant. Most of the sought-after universi- News8Austin (Texas) ties have not expanded their freshman classes. The result, said Jonathan New York Post Miller, a senior at Mamaroneck High School in suburban Westchester New York Times PBS County, N.Y., is that many classmates perceive institutions like Tufts The Peoples Voice (Tennessee) University, Bowdoin, the University of Rochester and Lehigh in a new Photonics light. “I would say that high school students are looking more and more at PhysOrg.com these schools,” he said, “the way they used to look at the Ivies.” “I’m sure ScienCentral News (New York) Scientific American part of what we’re seeing is people are saying, ‘Well, if the Ivies and Duke Seattle Times are inaccessible, where do I go to get a similar academic experience?’ ” said SpiritIndia Jonathan Burdick, dean of admissions and financial aid at Rochester. (Also UPI reported by International Herald Tribune France, The Ledger Florida, Sarasota USA Today Herald-Tribune Florida, Tuscaloosa News Alabama) Wall Street Journal WYFF News (South Carolina) About Research and Faculty Local PhysOrg.com, Virginia (May 22) Democrat and Chronicle R News Choice is a Key Element for Smokers Who Want to Quit Rochester Business Journal Rochester researcher Dr. Geoffrey Williams associate professor of medicine WHAM TV (ABC) at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, will WHEC TV (NBC) unveil new findings at a Toronto conference this month that demonstrate WROC TV (CBS) patient involvement in a quit plan leads to smokers who are more motivated to quit because they genuinely want to, not because they are being nagged or bullied. (Also reported by News-Medical.net Australia, UPI, New Kerala. com India, MedIndia.com, Earthtimes.org, HULIQ North Carolina, PsychCentral.com Massachusetts, SpiritIndia.com, Times of India) 1 NATIONAL COVERAGE About University-Related Businesses MSN Money (May 9) About the University VirtualScopics Reports First Quarter 2007 Results VirtualScopics, Inc. is a provider of advanced medical Seattle Times (May 27) image analysis services. The company evolved from Beneath famous string sound, an undercurrent of research first carried out at the University of Roch- turmoil ester Medical Center and School of Engineering. And a few weeks ago, the Philadelphia became the VirtualScopics has created a suite of image analysis first major symphony to transmit a live concert to tools used in detecting and analyzing specific struc- multiple large-screen venues. (The remaining “Big tures in volumetric medical images, as well as char- Five” symphonies are the New York Philharmonic, acterizing minute changes in structures over time, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony providing vital information to support clinical trials Orchestra and Cleveland Orchestra.) A live concert and diagnostic applications. by the Philadelphia on April 29 was transmitted (using seven robotic cameras) through a high-speed, About Research and Faculty high-bandwidth network to venues at six locations, from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, PhysOrg.com, Virginia (May 22) N.Y., to the University of Porto in Portugal, and the Choice is a Key Element for Smokers Who Want University of Copenhagen in Denmark. to Quit Rochester researcher Dr. Geoffrey Williams associate Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio (May 24) professor of medicine at the University of Roches- Summer festival warms up ter School of Medicine and Dentistry, will unveil Steven Daigle, the company’s artistic director since new findings at a Toronto conference this month that 1999, will be on leave this summer, reportedly demonstrate patient involvement in a quit plan leads to spend some time with his family and work on to smokers who are more motivated to quit because academic pursuits, including OLO-related research. they genuinely want to, not because they are being Daigle is the head of the opera program at the East- nagged or bullied. (Also reported by News-Medical.net man School of Music of the University of Rochester. Australia, UPI, New Kerala.com India, MedIndia.com, Earthtimes.org, HULIQ North Carolina, PsychCentral. Bloomberg.com (May 24) com Massachusetts, SpiritIndia.com, Times of India) Cox Sets Off Alarms Over Investor Rights After Recent SEC Moves PhysOrg.com, Virginia (May 22) Barney Frank said he feared that review might open Want to Improve Your Relationship? Do the the door to replacing shareholder lawsuits with Dishes Because You Really Want To arbitration. “This is like the nuclear bomb issue from If you do something positive for your mate, does it Cox,” said Joel Seligman, president of the Universi- matter why? The answer is yes, according to new re- ty of Rochester and author of a book on the history search from University of Rochester research assistant of the SEC. “To so radically change the structure professor Heather Patrick. She will unveil a study at a of securities-dispute resolution should only occur if Toronto conference later this month that shows both Congress weighs in.” small sacrifices, like doing the dishes for your partner, and big ones, like moving across the country for a new Astrobiology Magazine (May 9) job he or she really wants, mean more if you do them Hammering a Diamond Anvil because you genuinely want to. Patrick will be one of To date, Jeanloz and his colleagues have achieved more than 300 researchers from 25 countries at the pressures near 10 million atmospheres using the 30 University of Toronto this weekend sharing their work kilojoule ultraviolet Omega laser at the University of within Self-Determination Theory, a groundbreaking Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics in New psychological theory of human motivation developed York. They hope eventually to use the 2 megajoule by Edward Deci and Richard Ryan, University of laser of LLNL’s National Ignition Facility to achieve Rochester professors of Psychology. (Also reported more than a billion atmospheres of pressure. by News-Medical.net Australia, UPI, Earthtimes.org, 2 Hindustan Times India, South Asian Women’s Forum develop ulcers or H. pylori-related cancers. “Nobody India, New Kerala.com India, HULIQ North Caro- can predict whether the organism will cause disease,” lina, Post Chronicle New York, SpiritIndia.com and Saubermann tells WebMD. “There are those who other publications) have H. pylori all their lives and have no trouble. What causes some people to develop complications CBS News (May 31) from it is not clear.” Doctor Sees Blood Cancers In WTC Program The researchers from Johns Hopkins University Canberra Times, Australia (May 29) and the University of Rochester suggested track- Vaccine hope for boys ing diseases for at least two decades through a New Professor Robert Rose, of the University of Roch- York City-based health registry that plans to monitor ester, in New York, whose work also contributed to residents’ and workers’ health for 20 years. (Also re- development of the vaccine, welcomed the results. ported by Forbes, MSN Money, Toronto Star Canada, “Based on these reports, we are optimistic that po- Houston Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner, The Olym- tential benefits of vaccination may expand to include pian Washington, Tuscaloosa News Alabama and many prevention of other HPV-associated malignancies other publications/broadcast) and precursor lesions, including anal intraepithelial neoplasia and some head and neck cancers, which oc- Chronicle of Higher Education (May 31) cur with equal frequency in males and females,” Rose What Research Says About Race-Linked Barriers said. (Also reported by Blayney Chronicle Australia, to Achievement Jindabyne News and other publications) For decades researchers have suggested that partici- pating in campus organizations can help students UPI (May 26) succeed in college. But Douglas A. Guiffrida, an Gene therapy may stop arthritis pain assistant professor of counseling and human develop- Researchers at the University of Rochester School ment at the University of Rochester, has done work of Medicine and Dentistry used gene therapy to showing that not all black students benefit from such increase the number of opioid