News Sources: Yahoo! Takeover Attempt

Software titan Microsoft’s bold $44.6 billion bid to acquire Internet media company Yahoo Inc on Friday may shake up the industry like no deal has done in a long time. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news soures and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Alva W. Butcher - Associate Professor of Business Leadership, University of Puget Sound - Butcher specializes in corporate finance and specifically in share repurchase and Internet stock offerings.

David Newton - Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, Westmont College - Newton is an expert on corporate finance and investments, and innovation strategy/change management/intellectual capital. He has written numerous books, including How to Be an Internet-Stock Investor.

L. Stephen Bowers - Professor of Business and Economics, Ursinus College - Bowers spent 20 years in executive leadership, 16 as CEO of a manufacturing and technology company serving a worldwide market. His turnaround consulting firm helped businesses regain growth and profitability, with impressive results. He serves on the boards of several manufacturing and tech firms, and maintains a consulting practice concentrating on the turnaround of troubled manufacturing companies.

Superdelegates Committing Super Early

About a fifth of all delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this year will be "superdelegates" - party regulars and elected officials who are free of the influence of party primaries or caucuses. More than 300 of these delegates have already announced who they will support for the presidential nomination. But DePauw University journalism professor Ken Bode says such early commitments run counter to the intentions of party officials who created the superdelegate slots.

Focusing the Nation on Global Warming

Focus the Nation, a massive Jan. 31 national teach-in on global warming solutions, marshaled the support and participation of more than 1,500 colleges and universities across America. Headquartered at Lewis & Clark College, it was the brainchild of Lewis & Clark College economics professor Eban Goodstein.

News Sources: California Health Revamp Fails

The demise of California's proposed health-care restructuring underscores a difficulty states face in achieving universal insurance coverage: their inability to slow the upward trajectory of health-care costs, analysts said. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

Merton Finkler - Professor of Economics, Lawrence University - A specialist in the economics of health care, Finkler has served as consultant to California's Kaiser Permanente Medical Group since 1987. He also runs Innovative Health Associates, a private consulting firm specializing in long-term care and managed care evaluation and strategy. He is a former Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Fellow in health care finance.

Edward Sayre - Assistant Professor of Economics, Agnes Scott College - Sayre has written extensively on the effect of HMOs on the quality of health, care.

Ann Owen - Associate Professor of Economics, Hamilton College - Owen served as an economist for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors before joining Hamilton College. Owen focuses her research on the effects of international trade on health and savings behavior. Owen is a frequent media commentator on issues related to Federal Reserve decisions, Social Security, and various economic indices for outlets including MarketWatch, Associated Press, The New York Times, UPI, Atlanta Journal Constitution and the Baltimore Sun. She also serves as director of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center at Hamilton College and is a board member for the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

Willamette Honors WWII Internees

Japanese-American students at Willamette University during World War II were forced to say an abrupt goodbye when federal prosecutors rounded them up for a trip to an internment camp. In February, Willamette invites them to return for a series of events in their honor.

Undecided White Voters 'Flee' to White Candidates

Keith Reeves, political science professor at Swarthmore College, talks about the effects of race on politics in a recent issue of New Yorker. "The voting booth is tantamount to the confessional - it's the secrecy of the ballot that is the critical issue," says Reeves. "One thing we found that was surprising was when you have instances of a fairly large percentage of undecided white voters, they flee to the white candidate."

News Sources: Kenyan Riots

Police battled rampaging youths in western Kenya as ethnic clashes that have left more than 100 people dead in the past four days spread across the country. Tribal violence has killed nearly 900 people there since elections last month. Reporters looking for experts to interview on this topic can find them online at the collegenews.org database of news sources and subject matter experts from America's leading liberal arts colleges, including the following (click on names for contact information):

The Hon. Joseph Melrose - Professor of Politics and International Relations, Ursinus College - Melrose retired from the U.S. Department of State in 2002, after three decades in the Foreign Service, most recently as Ambassador to Sierra Leone, where he helped broker a peace treaty. In the fall of 2006 he served as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Delegation to the 61st United Nations General Assembly for the State Department. He also led the Foreign Emergency Support Team, deployed to Nairobi, Kenya in the aftermath of the Embassy bombings, where he helped oversee the reestablishment of Embassy operations and the recovery effort.

Kevin Dunn - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges - Dunn specializes in the politics and development in Africa, theories of international relations and U.S. foreign policy. He has investigated how theory and practice in international relations differ-with particular attention paid to U.S. foreign policy toward underdeveloped nations. Dunn co-edited Africa's Challenge to International Relations Theory.

Eve Sandberg - Associate Professor of Politics, Oberlin College - Sanberg is an expert on contemporary African affairs, political economies of developing nations and international relations. She has given talks for the USIA, Council on African Studies at Yale and Columbia and she edited The Changing Politics of Non-Governmental Organizations and African States.

Sundance as an Educational Eye-Opener

Charles Lee and Jessica Pesola went to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah as part of a DePauw University winter term session. While there, the students were recruited to provide insights to a major Hollywood studio that may help decide which films wind up in theaters acros the country.

Clintons Have Little Room to Talk

You can't learn from your mistakes if you don't admit them, says DePauw communications professor Ken Bode. In that respect, he says, Hillary Clinton is altogether too much like George W. Bush -- she cannot and will not admit a mistake.