Here's your USD News Connect — where each week the University of San Diego media relations team offers expert voices to speak on stories impacting our community. If you're interested in the stories below, or need experts for any other topic you might be working on, don't hesitate to reach out to us at press@sandiego.edu.*
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San Diego Mayor to Proclaim “Knauss School of Business Day”
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San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria’s office will proclaim October 1, 2022 as “Knauss School of Business Day” during the University of San Diego’s grand opening celebration for the Knauss Center for Business Education, one of the most innovative buildings in business higher education. Knauss School of Business Dean Tim Keane can speak about how this building will help to transform business education as well as all of the great work the Knauss School of Business does to help the community.
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How Industries and Activists Use Persuasion to Gain Public Support on Ballot Measures
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Political ads are flooding mailboxes and television commercial breaks ahead of the November election. Two propositions that have seen millions in contributions are Prop 26 and Prop 27. Recent research co-authored by USD marketing professor, Andrea Godfrey Flynn, outlines how industries and activists try to persuade the public to support their positions on prominent issues. She is available to speak about her research and how it relates to controversial propositions in the upcoming election.
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New Research: USD Professor Uses MRI Images to Study the Impact of Lifelong Exercise on Our Bodies + Genes
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A new study in the journal Physiological Reports, co-authored by USD professor Dr. Mark Chapman, investigated the influence of lifelong exercise training on body composition and muscle characteristics by using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). To the researchers' knowledge, no other study has examined genes using MRI metrics to look at the body's tissue, connected to fat content and muscles. Some of the findings found that endurance-trained women had a higher muscle area in two of the four muscle groups measured (quadriceps & pectoralis) but only had less fat content in the pectoralis compared with the untrained women. And, both endurance-trained and strength-trained men had less fat infiltration and larger muscle cross-sectional area in a majority of the muscles compared with untrained men.
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