The Image Services Center in the UO Knight Library will be taking professional headshots of UO faculty and staff who wish to participate from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7, and Wednesday, May 8, in Room 61 of the Knight Library.
The $20 headshot fee can be paid for via departmental index. Participants will be e-mailed copies of their headshots one week after their portrait sessions.
A Veteran Job Fair will be held May 1 at the Tuality Healthcare center in Hillsboro, with about 40 employers and 20 veteran resources.
Hundreds of veterans are expected to attend, participating in workshops, breakout sessions and interviews that provide an opportunity for them and their families.
Veteran representatives from WorkSource Oregon will attend and workshops will include career-related subjects such as resume writing, interviewing skills, dressing for success and professionalism.
The crowds that came to hear the UO Gospel Singers during their first-ever tour of China held to a pattern: Expected to be conservative and fastened to their seats, instead they were exuberant – standing, clapping, waving side-to-side and even rushing the stage.
An historic event returns to Eugene April 25 with the 34th annual Take Back the Night 2013, a free, public event seeking an end to sexual violence in the community.
Presented by the ASUO Women’s Center and Sexual Assault Support Services of Lane County, the event incorporates three parts to support those who have survived sexual violence: the Rally, March, and Speak Out.
Anthony Hornof, an associate professor in Computer and Information Science, has been selected for a supervisory position with the National Science Foundation.
Hornof will serve as a program director in NSF's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. Core programs include human-centered computing, information integration and informatics, and robust intelligence.
University of Oregon leaders reacted with concern and disappointment following the discovery on Thursday that doors leading to the Native American Student Union, the Vietnamese Student Union and Black Women of Achievement had been vandalized.
University of Oregon Campus Operations is presenting a "UO Furniture Purchasing Expo" on Monday, April 29, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the EMU Fir Room. All faculty and staff are invited to attend, and refreshments will be provided.
An upcoming nine-week course promises to teach participants how to diminish stress and pain while improving physical and mental health.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. in 1979, is used in schools, hospitals and other institutional facilities worldwide. Kabat-Zinn’s eight-week MBSR curriculum has been completed by more than 19,000 people since its creation.
As a pilot program, the course will be offered free of charge to approximately 35 individuals. It is geared for UO faculty and staff but is open to everyone.
The University of Oregon's food studies research group and various other disciplines on campus are presenting several food-related discussions this spring – from the cultural politics of dietary health to the visual components of food.
The "Food in the Field Research Interest Group" events are being organized under the UO's Center for the Study of Women in Society.
From the mountainous Caucuses region of Georgia in Eastern Europe, a tradition of song in three-part harmony, dancing and winemaking – suppressed during the Soviet era – has re-emerged with vigor.
The cultural revival is due in part to Georgia’s independence as a nation and to members of the Zedashe Ensemble, who will be at the UO this week for the World Music Series, giving vocal workshops and a public performance at 8 p.m. Friday, April 19, in UO’s Beall Hall.
