The University Counseling and Testing Center (UCTC) and the UO Suicide Prevention Team are offering suicide prevention trainings to faculty, staff, departments, individuals and groups. These trainings will teach participants how to recognize the warning signs associated with suicides and how to intervene effectively to steer at-risk students toward professional help.
The UO Libraries will soon acquire four of the new digital database archives that form the popular Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) database.
Each archive adds more than one million full-text, fully searchable pages, enhancing historical scholarship and unlocking one of the most exciting centuries with greater depth.
The new archives include: “Women: Transnational Networks;” “Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest;” “Photography: The World Through the Lens’” and “Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925.”
After more than 35 years of service to the UO, Curt Lind, currently the Director of Academic Extension, is retiring.
Lind’s most recent accomplishment has been providing critical leadership during the reorganization of Distance Education and other units and services within Academic Extension. In addition to guiding the development of the unit, Lind contributed to its administrative and financial stability.
Campus Copy, a branch of UO Printing and Mailing Services, held an art contest last year to promote the business’s location and to “add some creativity to the stark EMU walls and showcase the talent we have at the university,” says Printing and Mailing Services Assistant Director John Boytz.
“Without knowing what to expect,” Boytz adds, “We had almost 100 entries, 1,100 ‘likes’ on Facebook and two of the top winners were interviewed on the local news. We were proud and pleased at the response.”
An exhibition by Rich Bergeman of photographs depicting the history of Oregon's Baker County is being hosted through July 24 at the UO School of Law's second-floor gallery.
A public reception for the photographer will take place in the gallery from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 21.
University of Oregon faculty and staff and their families can watch the Ducks put the biscuit in the basket – for free – when the Oregon Ducks Club Hockey team hosts faculty and staff night at 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 1.
The team is hoping to pack the stands at Lane County Ice for its final home stand of the season, against Portland State University. The UO team's seniors will be honored for their four years of dedication to the team.
Tracey Dudley enjoys solving the riddle that each day brings.
“You never know what might happen,” Dudley says, her eyes bright with excitement. “I just love that – the agenda is always new, always fresh.”
Dudley works as a buyer in the business office of University Housing. She's a Eugene native, and worked with massage table manufacturers before starting work as an office specialist, then purchasing assistant and now buyer for the housing office.
The University of Oregon's 6th annual Green Business Symposium will take place beginning at 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 15, at the White Stag Building in Portland. The event will tackle the topic "Raining Green: Practical Innovations for Northwest Technologies."
The symposium brings together regional and national business leaders, policymakers, legal practitioners, academics and students to engage in discussions on how to achieve a more sustainable economy and living environment.
The University of Oregon's American English Institute (AEI), College of Arts and Sciences, and Teaching Effectiveness Program will host “The International Classroom,” a workshop for UO instructors, from 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m., on Friday, Feb. 1.
The breakfast discussion will focus on teaching implications of the increase in the UO's international student population.
On Jan. 20, Knight Library began its new around-the-clock schedule. The library is now open for study from 9 a.m. Sunday to 7 p.m. Friday. Saturday hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The ASUO is financially supporting the extended hours.
To ensure the safety and security of those using the library between midnight and 7:30 a.m. each week night, the building will be available only to current UO students, faculty, and staff, who must present a current UO photo ID card to enter.
