Brown University has seen a 50 percent decline in computer science enrollment since the dot-com bust. Tom Doeppner, associate professor and vice chair of the computer science department, said the parents of many freshmen are “very concerned about whether there are jobs” in technology, “and the perception is that they are going offshore. But our Brown career services is getting lots of requests” for computer science graduates. “Our students aren’t going into entry level,” he added, “they’re going into advanced positions.”
www.pbn.com/stories/23992.html

An article about the way blogs are reshaping journalism focuses on Talking Points Memo, a blog owned and run by Josh Marshall, who received his doctorate from Brown. Marshall and Talking Points Memo have led coverage of national issues, including the Bush administration’s recent firing of several U.S. attorneys.
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-blogs17mar17,1,6990783.story

Professor of Anthropology Catherine Lutz, a researcher at the Watson Institute for International Studies, discussed President Bush’s tour of Latin America, as well as International Conference for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases, held recently in Ecuador. Lutz discussed the same topics in several other radio interviews: KPFA in North Central California on March 11; WBAI in New York March 13; WKPFK in Los Angeles March 14; and WUSB in Stony Brook, NY, March 19.
www.kpfk.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1046&Itemid=79&lang=en

See news release: www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1452

A mural produced by participants in The Adolescent Leadership Council, a program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital that pairs chronically ill teenagers with mentors from Brown University, who are also chronically ill, went on display in a Pawtucket, R.I., art gallery. The mural depicts aspects of chronic illness.
www.projo.com/art/content/PMURAL20_03-20-07_HH4U7I7.356a3bc.html

Coverage of a lecture by Harold Ford Jr., the former Tennessee congressman who is president of the Democratic Leadership Council. Ford’s talk was this year’s Noah Krieger Lecture.
www.projo.com/news/content/ford20_03-20-07_QC4U9TU.344a56f.html

In a visit at the Queensland Cancer Fund, Kristina Jackson, assistant professor of community health (research), discussed the attitudes of young women toward tanning and sun protection.