The UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History will be the new home to a major collection of Arctic artifacts, according to an agreement between the University of Oregon and Western Oregon University, and thanks to support from the 2013 Oregon Legislature.
In the wake of Supreme Court victories striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act and restoring marriage equality to California, the LGBT rights movement faces the challenge of how to achieve marriage equality nationwide while also addressing the many other issues facing LGBT people, such as widespread homelessness among LGBT youth, astronomically high rates of violence and discrimination against transgender people, and the absence of legal protections for same-sex parents in most states.
More than 3,000 students from across the globe will arrive at the University of Oregon on Thursday, Sept. 26, to begin the college experience.
Here’s a great way to welcome them: Leave your car at home.
The University of Oregon's Celebrating Champions website is profiling one new UO freshman each day – exploring everything from hometowns to academic interests to the things people might be surprised to know. And even the one personal item each student must bring with then to college.
Here's a week's worth of the profiles:
High school and home town – Lake Oswego High School, Lake Oswego, Ore.
National Geographic photographer Sam Abell returns to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus at 2 p.m. Sept. 28 for the lecture, “My Journey in Photography.”
Abell’s photography is included in the new Schnitzer exhibition “National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West,” which opens to the public the same day. The exhibition, on view through Dec. 31, includes photographs by Abell, Ansel Adams, William Albert Allard, Edward Curtis, David Alan Harvey, William Henry Jackson, Sarah Leen and Joel Sartore.
New faculty and administrative officers at the University of Oregon are invited to get the lay of the land during an orientation Sept. 25-26.
The Orientation for New Faculty and Officers of Administration provides a transition into the UO community for new tenure-track faculty, tenured faculty, non-tenure-track faculty and officers of administration.
Paintings honoring the late Alex Rovello, a UO student athlete, are among the offerings in “Art of the Athlete II,” continuing at the UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through Feb. 9.
University of Oregon law professor and president emeritus Dave Frohnmayer was named recently to the executive committee for The Lincoln Project, an initiative of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
