"Buongiorno" and "ciao" may be the preferred greetings of the week in Eugene, as the University of Oregon hosts the 33rd annual conference of the American Association for Italian Studies from April 10 to April 14.
The international conference was also held at the UO in 1999.
Aaron Grieser, a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law, is tapping some Oregon roots in Thailand.
Grieser and a business partner, Bryan Bartrusch, co-founded Beervana last June in Bang Na, Thailand. The start-up imports craft beer from small-scale breweries such as Oregon's Rogue Ales and sells them to upscale Thai bars and restaurants.
Grieser and Bartrusch came up with the concept after meeting while enjoying a beer at a food festival.
Two family-oriented events from UO Work-Life Resources are heading to the University of Oregon campus in April: a “Duckies at Dusk” family movie night on Thursday, April 18, and a “Spring Clothing & Toy Exchange” for UO families on Saturday, April 20.
The movie night, featuring the movie “Wreck it Ralph,” is sponsored by Ducks after Dark, an Erb Memorial Union program that provides students the opportunity to plan and implement events. It functions as a student program board that typically presents late-night film festivals.
The University of Oregon's Service-Learning Program will host its next Service-Learning Roundtable on Thursday, April 11, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., in Lokey 119.
The roundtable – a collaboration between the Service-Learning Program, the College of Education and the Division of Student Affairs – is intended as an opportunity for faculty and staff from across the university, within the community and from various disciplines to share information, build relationships and learn more about each other's work in the context of service-learning.
The University of Oregon's Office of Organizational Development and Training is offering a variety of new skills for faculty or staff members looking to improve themselves – from contracts and purchasing to holding high-stakes conversations.
More than 15 professional development courses, meetings and events are available to UO employees over then next five months. Most are offered at no cost and several can be expected to be provocative.
The ever-changing digital world means new roles for faculty members, university administrators and information technology providers in the years to come.
Education technology expert Richard Katz will help UO personnel understand those roles in an upcoming talk that is free and open to the public.
The University of Oregon’s Department of Human Physiology will host a May 10 talk, “Human Shoulder Muscle Structure and Function in Health and Disease,” as part of the department’s ongoing lecture series.
Samuel Ward, an assistant professor in radiology and orthopaedic surgery at the University of California-San Diego, will present from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in Room 211 of the Lillis Business Complex. The lecture is free and open to the public.
A University of Oregon program that pairs faculty and students with local cities for sustainability projects has been something of a best-kept secret. But those days might be numbered.
So says Mariah Hudson-Dula, sustainability coordinator at San Diego State University, the latest institution among a half-dozen nationwide to adopt the UO’s Sustainable City Year Program. When Hudson-Dula and Geoff Chase, dean of Undergraduate Studies, learned about the program at a national conference last year, they knew it was right for their university.
Jim Keju feels that having a “golden” personality means being friendly, kind, and patient with others. That's what he aims for each day when he comes to work for University Housing.
Keju, a custodial worker in Bean Hall, makes sure the halls are tidy, bathrooms clean and custodial closets filled. He also emanates a passionate, kind persona, allowing him to develop relationships with a variety of students in the halls – relationships that he says are vital to his success and enjoyment of the job.
An exhibit on display in the Architecture and Allied Arts Library, "Color: A Magic Power," shows the ways colors interact with each other – such as bricks surrounded by white concrete appearing brighter than bricks surrounded by a darker concrete.
The plates on display through spring term 2013 are from the classic work "Interaction of Color," by Josef Albers, first published in 1963 by Yale University Press. The original volume is housed in the Secure Collection of the Architecture & Allied Arts Library.
