{"id":65200,"date":"2009-11-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/news-roundup-ballard-on-60-minutes-others-make-national-headlines\/"},"modified":"2009-11-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T00:00:00","slug":"news-roundup-ballard-on-60-minutes-others-make-national-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2009\/11\/news-roundup-ballard-on-60-minutes-others-make-national-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup: Ballard on 60 Minutes, others make national headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tSeveral other faculty members also made national news this month<\/p>\n


\n\tThe top-rated CBS news program \u201c60 minutes<\/a>\u201d will air a profile of Oceanography Professor Robert Ballard, who will discuss ocean exploration and the importance of the University\u2019s newly opened Inner Space Center<\/a>, Sunday, Nov. 29 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n


\n\tA \u201c60 Minutes\u201d film crew joined Ballard and a team of researchers and students during an expedition to the Black Sea in August to search for the remains of ancient shipwrecks. The television crew also spent a day on the Narragansett Bay Campus earlier this month interviewing Ballard as he demonstrated the usefulness of the Inner Space Center in a live video communication with a research vessel in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n


\n\tBallard was also featured on a National Geographic Channel<\/a> premiere on Nov. 18 that examined his August 2009 efforts to find British and French warships sunk off the coast of Turkey during the epic World War I Battle of Gallipoli. Two previously aired programs about Ballard\u2019s expeditions, \u201cGhost Ships of the Black Sea\u201d and \u201cTitanic: The Final Secret,\u201d were rebroadcast that same night on the National Geographic Channel.<\/p>\n


\n\tBallard isn\u2019t the only URI faculty member receiving national media attention in recent months. Research conducted by Kathleen Melanson, associate professor of nutrition, was reported in hundreds of news outlets that were viewed by more than 17 million people in late October and early November.<\/p>\n


\nMelanson found that individuals who chew gum for an hour in the morning will consume fewer calories at lunchtime and expend greater energy than when they do not chew gum. Dozens of television stations<\/a> from around the country mentioned the study, including MSNBC and the Today Show, and lengthy news reports aired on the Rhode Island affiliates of NBC and CBS. Read more about the study in a URI news release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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