University of Oregon announces diversity scholarships
The Office of Equity and Inclusion and the Center for Multicultural Academic Excellence have announced the 2013-14 recipients of several diversity scholarships
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Jill Baxter honored by UO for advancing math education
For many of us, the clearest memories of our grade-school math instruction were their mind-numbing, time-consuming repetitiveness. Odds 1-59 of long division, evens 2-40 of adding fractions. Show your work.
Not understanding what you were doing was its own punishment; it took forever and if you didn't get the first couple problems you probably weren't going to get the rest.
Cherokee Nation citizen to teach new Native American minor
When Kirby Brown taught “Introduction to Native American Literatures,” he had his first experience of having Native students taking one of his classes
UO art student awarded fellowship for international research
Farhad Bahram has been awarded an Oregon University System Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund Graduate Fellowship for International Research
UO's Sinha training local math teachers on Common Core standards
Dev Sinha, UO associate professor of mathematics, is helping Lane County K-12 students become better problem solvers.
This week, Sinha is putting his national Common Core development into play at the local level, giving Lane County math teachers hands-on training in the new standards that will bring Oregon students up to speed in math ability.
FACULTY PROFILE: Alec Murphy broadens the world for students
The first few lectures in a course taught by Alexander Murphy – a UO professor of geography and the James F. and Shirley K. Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts and Science – can sometimes be a little intimidating for students.
The renowned political geographer says students often come into his classroom the first day believing they are there to memorize place names, but soon he manages to "change their views."
Students, Opsis Architecture collaborate on Beaverton arts venue
The goal was ambitious: Design the first public performance and visual arts venue in Beaverton, Oregon.
Fourteen students in an architecture studio at the University of Oregon in Portland were up to the task, in a recent collaboration with Opsis Architecture to enhance the Portland suburb.
The students took part in the class, “The Beaverton Performing ArtSpace,” taught by James Kalvelage and Joe Baldwin from Opsis and professor Nancy Cheng, program director for the UO in Portland Department of Architecture.
UO education professors forge data-driven relationships with Thai colleagues
Nearly four years ago, the government of his native Thailand asked Sirichai Kanjanawasee to help improve the country's educational system. That work has led to unique, mutually beneficial relationships between educators and researchers in Thailand and at the University of Oregon's College of Education.
OBF artistic director receives Presidential Medal, conducts final concert
Following his last performance as the Oregon Bach Festival artistic director, Helmuth Rilling was honored for his contributions to the University of Oregon
Seafaring students dive into STEM careers
In front of the camera, UO geophysicist Dean Livelybrooks gestures to a screen that shows scientists retrieving a device that measures earthquake activity from the ocean floor.
Behind the camera, community college student Jonás Cervantes beams Livelybrooks’ narrative live to 500 people watching from an aquarium theater in Texas. The broadcast is done from the research vessel Atlantis, rolling in waves of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.