Here's some better-late-than-never Valentine's Day love for 10 careful readers of AroundtheO: the lucky numbers have been drawn for last week's scavenger hunt contest and stainless steel travel mugs are awaiting the winners.
A delegation from the University of Oregon recently visited Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates – the first such visit in more than five years by a UO group in the Middle East.
It was also the first official visit to Kuwait by UO officials.
The visit was intended as a first step in establishing strategic contacts to promote study abroad and internship programs in the area, recruit students from Middle Eastern countries and explore new research opportunities that benefit both the UO and countries in the region.
Larry Miller has experience working with Michael Jordan, the Portland Trailblazers and the NBA.
And later this month, he’ll bring that experience to a UO School of Law conference.
Miller, president of Jordan Brand, a division of Nike, Inc., will keynote the 2013 Sports & Entertainment Law Conference, hosted by the University of Oregon School of Law Feb. 22 at Rose Garden Arena in Portland.
It took Katie Underwood a couple years in high school to work up the nerve to become a cheerleader.
Little did she know one day she’d be the coach.
Underwood, a development program assistant in the UO School of Journalism and Communication, is the cheerleading coach for the junior varsity and freshman cheerleading teams at Thurston High School.
Timothy Miller, a leading authority on communes in the United States, will speak at the University of Oregon on Feb. 22 about the phenomenon of intentional communities in Oregon and the critical role the researcher James J. Kopp played in tracing and preserving the history of these communities.
The talk is at 3 p.m. in Knight Library’s Browsing Room on the UO campus.
Early childhood special educators and community leaders will hold a free conference on Saturday, Feb. 23, for Eugene-Springfield area parents to learn parenting techniques.
The 6th annual Power of Parenting Conference is presented by Early Childhood CARES, LaneKids and the Early Intervention Council. It will run from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m., at the University of Oregon's HEDCO Education Building, 1655 Alder St.
Call it “Experiential Learning 101.”
Students entering the Lundquist College of Business MBA spend their first fall term immersed in consulting projects for a real-life client.
This year's client was CBT Nuggets, a Eugene company that creates online videos for information technology training. The MBA students had their choice of three projects to work on: a proposal for the company's international expansion, recommendations for a new pricing model, and developing a social media strategy.
New data show how undergraduate student credit hours and other undergraduate measurements have changed over the last five years, Provost James Bean said, in a recent message to the campus community.
Three graphs posted to the Provost’s website show how undergraduate student credit hours, degrees and majors have changed over five years, from academic year 2008-09 to 2012-13 (numbers for 2012-13 are projections based on fall term enrollments).
The University of Oregon and the Eugene Sakya Center (Nyen-Gyud Samten Choeling for Tibetan Buddhist Studies) are co-organizing a visit by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, to the University of Oregon campus on May 10. Tickets to this event will go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. on March 11.
University of Oregon President Michael Gottfredson and his wife Karol attended the Lane County League of Women Voters monthly luncheon in Eugene on Thursday (Feb. 14) and the UO president spoke to the large audience celebrating the league's 93rd anniversary, Oregon’s 154th birthday and Valentine’s Day.
