Two extra evenings this year bring additional excitement to the University of Oregon’s annual Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead Celebration.
The free celebration runs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Oct. 29 and 30 and Nov. 1 and 2 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout that country and around the world in other cultures.
The University of Oregon's Office of Equity and Inclusion has begun discussions with individuals and organizations – on- and off-campus – about creating positive changes in the UO’s equity, inclusion and diversity behaviors and policies.
The discussion continues on Thursday, Oct. 31, when OEI hosts a “Breakfast for Diversity Champions” with UO President Michael Gottfredson and OEI expert-in-residence A.T. Miller, an associate vice provost at Cornell University. The event is from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the Ford Alumni Center.
Kirk Herbstreit of ESPN's College GameDay met with local reporters outside the network's temporary office in the UO's Johnson Hall on Friday, and had nothing but love for Eugene and the University of Oregon.
"I think we've been here maybe more than anyplace else in the past five years," Herbstreit said.
"I love this place. I love the weather. I love the team. I love Eugene, and like to go for a run down by the river."
Former UO cheerleader and alumna Mimi Sommerville was joined by football players from 55 years ago, current players including De'Anthony Thomas, and others on Thursday to place a plaque commemorating a yellow buckeye tree given to the UO following the 1958 Rose Bowl. The event was organized by the College of Education in conjunction with UO Athletics.
The tree – now 60 feet tall and a fixture outside the Lillis Business Complex – was a sapling when it was planted by Sommerville and others following the 1958 game, in which the UO lost to Ohio State, 10-7.
The University of Oregon's Business Affairs Travel Office will host its first UO Travel Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at the Matthew Knight Arena McArthur Club Room.
The Travel Fair aims to connect the university’s business travel coordinators, travelers and the university and community travel partners to network and share information. Various UO departments and local travel vendors will share information and market their products and services to UO business travel coordinators by hosting tables at the event.
If you’ve been dragging your feet regarding renewal of your health benefits, drag them no more.
All new, current and returning benefit-eligible employees have until 5 p.m., Oct. 31, to enroll in a medical, dental and vision plan for Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 31, 2014.
UO President Michael Gottfredson joined the University Health Center's flu prevention efforts on Thursday when he stopped by the Faculty and Staff Flu Clinic for his annual flu shot.
“It’s a good prevention practice,” he said. “The flu is an important health issue and I’m hopeful not to get it and I’m hopeful not to spread it to others … plus, the shot really doesn’t hurt.”
University of Oregon professor Jon Erlandson was among 164 artists, scientists, scholars, authors and institutional leaders inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at a ceremony in Cambridge, Mass., this month.
