Campus and Community

March 4, 2013

Multi-year salary adjustment program

With the cost of living increasing each year, it is critical that the University of Oregon be able to provide periodic adjustments to salaries in order to recruit and retain the highest-quality faculty and staff. This is not something the UO has been able to do on a consistent basis for a number of years. With that fact in mind, I am pleased to announce a new multi-year program that will provide cost of living adjustments along with the possibility of merit/equity increases.

Multi-Year Salary Adjustment Program (FY13 and FY14)

FY13 Program

• 1.5 percent cost of living adjustment (COLA) retroactive to Jan. 1, 2013 for all officers of instruction and officers of research.
• Employees who began employment on or before June 30, 2012 are eligible.

FY14 Program

With budget sequestration taking effect, Research, Innovation and Graduate Education has launched a new informational website for the University of Oregon community.

"Silent Spaces," an exhibition of photographs by Eugene artist Jon Meyers that capture scenes of the Four Corners area of the United States, opens Wednesday, March 6, at the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

The exhibition features 30 large-format photographs of Hovenweep National Monument and Chaco Canyon National Park in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. Four Corners is where the borders of southwestern Colorado, northwestern New Mexico, northeastern Arizona and southeastern Utah come together.

The University of Oregon and the Eugene Sakya Center (Nyen-Gyud Samten Choeling for Tibetan Buddhist Studies) will be welcoming His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, to the University of Oregon campus for a public lecture on Friday, May 10 at 1:30 p.m.

The University of Oregon and the Eugene Sakya Center (Nyen-Gyud Samten Choeling for Tibetan Buddhist Studies) will be welcoming His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14^th Dalai Lama of Tibet, to the University of Oregon campus for a public lecture on Friday, May 10 at 1:30 p.m.

After two months of classes and a full slate of activities, it became official on Friday: The new Allen Hall is open.

Allen Hall – home to the UO's School of Journalism and Communication – got its grand opening on what was the warmest day of 2013, to date. Ribbon was cut and guests were guided through the renovated and expanded building by student ambassadors from the SOJC.

UO alumni Bret Jacobson, 33, and Ian Spencer, 29, have formed an Arlington, Va., company called Red Edge, which offers digital services for politically conservative causes.

The two worked on the Commentator, the UO’s conservative alternative paper, where they learned about media messaging. Jacobson served as the Commentator's publisher and ran unsuccessfully for ASUO president in 2001. Spencer was the paper's editor-in-chief in 2005.

If the conscious mind—the part you consider you—accounts for only a fraction of the brain’s function, what is all the rest doing?

David Eagleman will answer that during a free public lecture, “The Secret Lives of the Human Brain,” at 7:30 p.m. March 5 in 182 Lillis Hall, 955 E. 13th Ave.

Our behavior, thoughts, and experiences are inseparably linked to a vast, wet, chemical-electrical network called the nervous system, said Eagleman, a neuroscientist and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action at Baylor College of Medicine.

Silicon Shire, a consortium of over 150 technology companies in the Eugene-Springfield area, hosted a business mixer earlier this year at the University of Oregon's Ford Alumni Center.

The well-attended event gave UO students and faculty a chance to mingle with representatives from local tech firms specializing in computer gaming, biotech, web and media, mobile and embedded applications, networking and security, business and educational software, and industrial optimization – all located in the university's backyard.