Campus and Community

The next time you’re at the Eugene Airport, look for the University of Oregon’s Center for the Study of Women in Society.

A regional partnership that includes the University of Oregon will help lead an education pilot initiated by the Oregon Education Investment Board.

The partnership, called Connected Lane County, will receive $50,000 through the Oregon Solutions Network to help transform education in Oregon and achieve the 40-40-20 goals set by Senate Bill 253 in 2011.

The University of Oregon School of Law will welcome alumni back to campus on Thursday, Sept. 26, through Saturday, Sept. 28, for its 2013 Homecoming & Reunions celebration.

The celebration recognizes all alumni from the school with special events planned for members of the classes celebrating their 10-, 25- and 50-year reunions.

University of Oregon doctoral student Sonia De La Cruz is keeping the feminist movement alive.

The UO School of Journalism and Communication student contributed to the second section of “Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies, and Future in Media Studies,” a recently published book that contradicts the belief that the feminist movement is a thing of the past.

Images representing the diversity of the female experience are on display in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the University of Oregon's Center for the Study of Women in Society.

Earthquake research at the University of Oregon went primetime recently for a “Disaster Week” special on Canadian television.

A National Geographic exhibit of historic and contemporary photos of the American West will open Sept. 28 at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

“National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West” – which features 125 years of shots from various photographers – will remain at the museum through Dec. 31. A free public reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sept. 27 will mark the exhibition's opening the following day.

Oregon Bach Festival’s first season under the directorship of Matthew Halls promises to be as diverse and widespread as the conductor’s own musical passions.

The University of Oregon will make no changes for now to its apparel and headwear licensing agreement, according the UO's Office of Marketing and Brand Management.

The UO issued a request for proposals in June for possible changes to its licensing program for headwear and apparel. The university decided not to make changes at this time.

The latest "A couple minutes with…" video interview is with Lonnie Ekstrom, who started working at the UO Department of Public Safety in 2004 – first as a patrol sergeant and then as a dispatcher. He’d already had a nearly 30-year career as a police officer in Idaho.

But he didn’t just bring decades of experience as a cop; he’s also an artist, with an illustrious career sketching composites of police suspects.