Canadian scholar and editor Kathryn Allan has been selected as the first-ever recipient of the University of Oregon’s Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship.

The Center for the Study of Women in Society created the fellowship as part of its 40th anniversary celebration, and as a way of honoring the role UO Libraries Special Collections and University Archives played in the founding of the women’s center.

The late UO alumnus James Blue, an independent filmmaker renowned for his socially engaged documentaries and teaching, will be honored with a six-month tribute to his career.

The tribute will kick off Nov.13 and Nov. 14 with Schnitzer Cinema’s presentation of Blue’s ”The March.” The screening event includes remarks from Gerald O’Grady, visiting scholar and former colleague of Blue, and UO journalism professor Daniel Miller who will present Blue’s classic 33-minute film in celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.

This summer, Andre Le Duc, the University of Oregon executive director of Enterprise Risk Services, graduated from FEMA’s National Emergency Management Executive Academy at the Emergency Management Institute in Emmitsburg, Md.

Benjamin Slutz found his job in sales – to put it bluntly – “soul-crushing.”

His colleagues seemed to care mostly about just getting people to sign on the dotted line, buying residential or commercial security systems. Empathy for the customer? Ha – just do what the law allows to get contracts, contracts, contracts. Then you’ll get paid.

Slutz loves business but there had to be more to it than this, right? And so, with associate’s degree in hand, the 25-year-old is back in school, charting a course to a career that will satisfy him professionally, and personally.

The University of Oregon has launched its new Global Studies Institute – a home for internationally oriented centers, programs and new initiatives within the Office of International Affairs.

The Global Studies Institute mission is to support internationally oriented projects that enhance faculty research, enrich the student experience, globalize the campus and promote the UO’s academic excellence with partners around the world.

A new graduate certificate program in new media and culture will give University of Oregon master's and doctoral students an opportunity to study the history, criticism, aesthetics and production of new media technologies in conjunction with their existing degree programs.