Steven Hamburg, associate professor of environmental studies is among the experts interviewed about Wal-Mart’s efforts to adopt environmentally-friendly business strategies.
www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_05/b4019005.htm

Professor of Africana Studies Tricia Rose is among the guests discussing this season’s anti-terror theme of the television show “24.” She notes the show is “not unlike many crime, military, police-type shows. ... when you have a protectionist narrative, when you have a group of people constantly in need of being protected from some outside force, the idea is to heighten anxiety about that. So, all crime dramas have a fundamentally this kind of self-protectionist trajectory.”
www.onpointradio.org/shows/2007/01/20070118_b_main.asp

“Climate change is a human rights issue for Native Alaskans and Native Americans. Our very existence is being challenged,” writes Brown University junior Verner Wilson III, a Yupik Eskimo who is majoring in environmental studies. In this opinion piece, Wilson urges people to testify at an upcoming hearing held by the Alaska Climate Change Commission.
www.juneauempire.com/stories/011907/opi_20070119012.shtml

Professor of Engineering Kenneth Breuer and Sharon Swartz, associate professor in ecology and evolutionary biology, have joined forces to record the fine details of wing and body movement in bat flight - together with the patterns of air movement that generate lift. Similar measurements have been made in insects and some birds, but this is the first such data for bats, which are highly flexible and maneuverable flyers and a potential model for engineered micro air vehicles. This press release was republished in media outlets around the world.
www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-082.html

Brown University received an award from the Providence Preservation Society for adaptive reuse of the Cabinet Building, 68 Waterman St., new home of the Population Studies and Training Center.
www.projo.com/news/content/Prov_Preservation19_01-19-07_O240MA3.1b1c7a0.html

Conduit, the alumni magazine produced by the Department of Computer Science, captivated columnist and Brown alumnus David Margulius for the “come-hither ... nature of its cover story, ‘CSI: Computer Science Investigations.’ Using blurry crime-scene photos and some hand-typed ransom-letter-like teaser copy, the cover resembled a TV-style case-file promo.” The columnist’s point: “Although much of IT is really cool – and we know that – you’ve got to sex it up a bit to appeal to a wider audience.”
www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/18/04OPenterinsight_1.html