Selected Media Coverage: November 15/2007

USA Today, 11/4/2007 SUV with mind of its own wins robot car race A widely-distributed Reuters article mentions a driver-less vehicle designed by engineering students from the University of Pennsylvania and Lehigh, which excelled in a robot car race sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense.

National Public Radio, 10/27/2007 Talk of the Nation In an op-ed, Henri Barkey, the Cohen professor of international relations, discusses the implications of Turkey's possible cross border military operations in Iraq against the PKK.

Bloomberg News, 10/30/2007 Office Depot Shares Plunge Following Earnings Delay Paul Brown, dean of the College of Business and Economics, explains that Office Depot may have to provide a restatement of their financials as a result of earlier misreported information.

New York Times, 11/7/2007 Aiding the Environment, A Nanostep at a Time Wei-xian Zhang, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and a pioneer in the field of green nanotechnology, talks about the environmental benefits of nanoparticles.

Other highlights of Lehigh in the News from this month include:

Barkey offers further insight into the Turkey / PKK conflict with The Washington Post and Reuters.
Ted Morgan, distinguished university professor of political science, talks about the media’s coverage of racial issues with The Washington Post.
Amardeep Singh, assistant professor of English, talks about Louisiana governor-elect Bobby Jindal in The Washington Post.
University chaplain Lloyd Steffen discusses pagan holidays with the Associated Press.

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Wednesday, November 14, 2007