University of Oregon President Michael Gottfredson welcomed the Oregon Social Learning Center's annual conference to the UO today (April 26) by paying homage to OSLC work from more than 30 years ago that supported his own academic research on the causes of crime.

The UO president told his audience in the Knight Law Center he was studying the age distribution of crime and delinquency – which shows a curve that peaks during late adolescence – when he came across a paper by Gerald Patterson, the OSLC's founder and currently its senior scientist emeritus.

A group of scholars who specialize in African American literature will gather at the University of Oregon from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today (April 26) to give talks about their research.

The free symposium is open to the public and will take place in the Alumni Lounge of Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University Street.

When University of Oregon School of Law alumna Starla Hargita graduated in 2011, she set up a ballot box and invited friends and professors to vote on her future.

The votes would determine whether Hargita would become a legal practitioner or continue her education and receive her Master of Law degree. The results were mixed, but one of her friends insisted that Hargita belonged in front of a classroom, as a professor.

The words resonated with Hargita. With dual degrees in law and conflict and dispute resolution in hand, she didn’t feel she was finished learning.

The mark of a university can be found in its people.

That was the message from Jamie Moffitt, vice president of Finance and Administration, at a recent reception honoring this year’s outstanding employees.

The 2013 recipients of the Outstanding Employee awards were recognized April 11 at the university’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. The program was created to acknowledge excellent employees, with faculty and staff nominating colleagues, co-workers and supervisors who have made outstanding contributions in the past year.

University of Oregon archaeologist Jon Erlandson, whose research has found some of the earliest evidence of seafaring societies contributing to the peopling of the Americas, is a newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Two leaders of the University of Oregon-based Network Startup Resource Center – Steven Huter and Dale Smith – have received the Internet2 President's Leadership Award for their efforts in building and expanding Internet infrastructure and training technicians around the world.

The award recognizes individuals from Internet2's membership for their exemplary service for the benefit of the national and global research and education community. Smith accepted the award during this week's Spring 2013 Internet2 Member Meeting in Arlington, Va.

Karyn Lewis, a doctoral candidate in the University of Oregon's Department of Psychology, will discuss her research on women in the traditionally male-dominated fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, in 330 Hendricks Hall.

Lewis’s talk, “When Hard Work Doesn’t Pay Off: Exploring Self-Perceptions to Understand the Underrepresentation of Women in STEM,” is based on her research that was funded by a grant from the Center for the Study of Women in Society in 2010.

Architecture Professor Ihab Elzeyadi lit up brightly as he detailed his new University of Oregon building envelopes laboratory during its "soft opening" April 15.

His new lab is Onyx Bridge – a building that opened in 1961.

Laura McKinney has been hired as the Oregon University System's assistant vice chancellor for industry partnerships and executive director of the Engineering and Technology Industry Council (ETIC), marking an expansion by OUS in its outreach and collaborations with business and industry.

McKinney is the former president and CEO of Galois, Inc., in Portland. She will begin at the OUS on April 22.

The University of Oregon opened its James H. Warsaw Sports Marketing Center 20 years ago this month as one of the nation’s first academic centers dedicated to the multi-billion-dollar global industry.