Sheila Bong has been named Program Director of the Global Oregon Initiative to help lead the upcoming expansion of the program.

Global Oregon is a university-wide program that aims to enhance internationalization in the student experience and in research, and to improve the UO’s outreach to the state and the world. The program is deliberately cross-regional and interdisciplinary, drawing together UO expertise in every world region and from many academic disciplines.

Kimberly Andrews Espy will be participating in the Association of American Universities' fourth annual Media Roundtable in Washington, D.C.

University of Oregon molecular biologist Andy Berglund has been named an interim associate dean of the UO Graduate School, according to an announcement Monday from Kimberly Andrews Espy, dean of the Graduate School and vice president for the Office of Research, Innovation and Graduate Education.

Berglund's appointment will become effective in the middle of July. He succeeds Mia Tuan, an education studies professor at the UO, who was recently appointed acting dean of the College of Education.

As part of the Center for the Study of Women in Society’s 40th Anniversary Celebration, the center is collaborating with the University of Oregon Knight Library and the Robert D. Clark Honors College to create the Le Guin Feminist Science Fiction Fellowship.

The fellowship also honors the role that Special Collections and University Archives played in the founding of CSWS.

More than two dozen science and math instructors from Eugene’s 4J school district received a crash course in real world nanotechnology this spring, courtesy of Kurt Langworthy, director of the high-tech extension service CAMCOR.

In two sessions, teachers were introduced to basic concepts in materials characterization and given an overview of the CAMCOR facility, which is located in the Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories.

Fourteen tenured faculty members have been selected to receive the Fund for Faculty Excellence Awards for the 2013-2014 academic year

The UO Libraries has recognized three individuals as recipients of High Jump Awards for 2013. The award is part of a peer recognition program that honors exceptional contributions, achievements, and endeavors of anyone serving the library as an employee, volunteer, or student assistant.

2013 winners are:

June 2013 marks the centennial of the Department of Political Science. Here are some of the major milestones in the department’s 100-year history.

A cross-campus initiative, "Genocide and Mass Atrocities: Responsibility to Prevent," has announced the recipients of its inaugural project grants

When Katelyn Occhipinti travels to India to study public health this summer, she will be following in her family’s footsteps. Her grandmother, mother and father have all traveled there and it’s been one of her personal goals to visit, as well.

Thanks to the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship program, Occhipinti can achieve her dreams.