The UO’s Computer and Information Science department will host a forum June 5 on data-mining, social networks and the impact on health-care outcomes.
Dejing Dou, a professor in the department, and his SMASH research team will host a forum on their project, “Understanding the Mechanism of Social Network Influence in Health Outcomes through Multidimensional and Semantic Data Mining Approaches.”
The red “JSMA @ 80” symbol is your guide to new artwork at the Schnitzer museum.
Artwork acquired by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in the past five years will be on display throughout the museum’s galleries during its 80th anniversary celebration. On view beginning June 1, these new acquisitions will be identified with a red “JSMA @ 80” symbol.
Consumer Reports called it “one of the most inventive uses of laminate you might ever see.”
They were referring to UO product design student Katie Lee’s café chair. Judges for the "Wilsonart Challenges..." agreed, naming it the winner in the 2013 contest.
Lee and six other University of Oregon design students who were finalists in the student design competition had their chair designs displayed May 18 to 21 at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, North America’s showcase for contemporary design, at the Javitz Center in New York, New York, in Wilsonart’s booth.
Michael Gottfredson was officially installed as the University of Oregon’s 17th president today (Thursday, May 30), during a ceremony in Matthew Knight Arena at which he stressed the importance of public research universities and “the thrill of discovery, the engagement of learning by doing.”
Think Nike in Beaverton. Google in Palo Alto. Urban Outfitters in Philadelphia.
Corporate campuses aren’t unique, but having one downtown is. Helping design such a campus in a dynamic city like Portland is an even rarer opportunity, but that’s precisely what a cadre of University of Oregon graduate students is doing.
In the early 1950s, the saying was “meet me at the SU” – a reference to the Erb Memorial Union.
That’s also the title of an upcoming documentary on the history of the facility: "Meet Me at the SU: A History of the Erb Memorial Union" premieres at 6 p.m. June 6, in the EMU Ballroom, free and open to the public.
Presented by the Division of Student Affairs and written and directed by Oregon journalism graduate Jonna Threlkeld, the film features interviews with Oregon alumni representing generations of students dating to 1945.
Eugene will study a redesign of 13th Avenue by University of Oregon students when it considers changes for the roadway in the months ahead, a city official said recently.
The news capped an open house on the redesign held May 28 by LiveMove, an interdisciplinary student group that spent the academic year rethinking the corridor for safety and access.
“Breaking the Code,” a biographical drama and comprehensive character study that deciphers the life of Alan Turing – brilliant mathematician, code breaker, and founder of computer science – opens at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 30, at the University of Oregon’s Hope Theatre.
UO-affiliated business startups have brought nearly $40 million in revenue and more than 270 jobs to Oregon since last summer.
The University of Oregon's marshal will lead the way, with official mace in hand, and a total of four student musical groups will perform. The list of notables in attendance will include UO officials, the State Board of Higher Education president, Oregon University System chancellor, Oregon Education Investment Board chair and a U.S. Senator.
