A weekend of Morris Graves programming takes place April 5-6 on campus and across Eugene, in conjunction with the publication of “Morris Graves: Selected Letters.”
“Morris Graves: Selected Letters” is a collection of letters to and from the Pacific Northwest painter well-known for paintings influenced by Japanese aesthetics and Asian philosophy.
UO employees are invited to bring their children to campus April 25 for “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day,” a national program to inspire girls and boys to begin thinking about their futures and introduce them to career opportunities.
Children ages 9 to 13 may come to the UO to observe a parent's work, whether in a classroom, laboratory, studio or office.
“It’s never too early to start encouraging youth to have an active imagination, to set goals and to take more control of their future,” says Work-Life Resources Director Karen Logvin.
Artists are encouraged to submit their work by March 25 – or by April 5, if delivered in person – to be considered for the UO's Erb Memorial Union annual art acquisition program.
The program, known as the Pacific Northwest Art Annual, is presented by the EMU Cultural Forum. The piece that earns "Best in Show" honors will be purchased and become part of the EMU's permanent art collection.
Ryan Jung, a senior honors student majoring in mathematics with a minor in economics, has achieved success with numbers even before he heads out into the working world.
His book, “Everything You Need to Know for Studying Abroad in the U.S.,” is a bestseller in Korea. More than 3,000 copies of the book, which is written in Korean, sold in 2012, making it a bestseller in the nonfiction/educational literature category. Jung says he knows of no other book like it in all of Asia.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – whose TED Talk "The Danger of the Single Story" has been viewed by more than three million people – will speak at the UO's Ford Alumni Center on Monday, April 1.
The 7 p.m. talk, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the UO's Center on Diversity and Community.
The New Yorker has named Adichie one of its “20 Under 40” writers to read. Her latest novel, "Americanah," will be published by HarperCollins this spring.
Language Arts is the theme for the sixth annual “New Art Northwest Kids” exhibition, on view until June 2 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
More than 40 works submitted by area K-12 students will be on view in the Education Corridor Galleries.
The exhibition explores the integration of writing and visual art, inspired by the Schnitzer museum's previous shows, “Lesley Dill’s Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan,” and “Good Grief: A Selection of Original Art from Fifty Years of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts.”
University of Oregon faculty, staff and students who commute regularly from Corvallis or Salem may soon be able to catch a break – and a ride – from the Lane Transit District.
Point2point – an arm of LTD aimed at helping people find affordable and sustainable ways to get where they're going – is hoping to launch a pair of "Valley VanPools" to transport commuters to Eugene's city center and the UO campus. One vanpool will originate in Salem and the other in Corvallis.
The Eugene and University of Oregon police departments are urging members of the UO community to make sure their spring break isn't ruined by preventable crime.
Vacation periods in recent years have been prime time for property crime on and near campus. But there are basic steps that can help protect your home, vehicle and valuables.
It's all coming full circle for Townshend's Tea Company founder Matt Thomas, a 2002 alum of the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business.
Thomas developed the idea for Townshend's Teahouse a little more than a decade ago in a Lundquist College management course. The company website describes the business concept as "to bring together a casual, college, campus-style coffeehouse atmosphere with top-grade loose leaf tea."
Corvallis artist Julie Green’s “The Last Supper” – a selection of some 500 painted porcelain plates that illustrate the final meal requests of U.S. death row inmates – is on display through April 7 in the Artist Project Space Gallery at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
The exhibition is in conjunction with a series of citywide events including the Eugene Opera’s production of “Dead Man Walking.”
