Captain Austin Luher, who expects to earn his MBA from the UO's Lundquist College of Business a year from June, knows what it means to lead.
He commanded 188 soldiers in Kandahar, Afghanistan. He led a platoon in Basra, Iraq. And he and ran operations for a 1,000-soldier battalion in South Korea.
With only a couple of concept meetings and a suggested shot list, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication seniors Hannah Everman and Adam Holmes set out to find Eugene's coolest hotspots, creating a video portrait to show off the hometown of the UO School of Law.
Born in Italy, the fifth of six children, a young Rosaria Haugland developed a love for Latin, literature and the opera that put her on the path of lifelong learning.
She was the first in her family to get a college degree, following it with doctorates in biology and biochemistry. She helped start a successful Eugene biotechnology company and then moved into philanthropy and community service.
“Takin’ it to the Streets” – it’s not just a Doobie Brothers classic.
It’s also the name of an annual service project by more than 60 UO students and partners to give back to the communities in which they live by participating in a day of service.
“Takin’ it to the Streets” is an annual service project aimed to improve near-campus area neighborhoods and bring neighbors together with a shared activity.
University of Oregon biologist Jessica Green has become the UO's 61st Guggenheim Fellow. She was one of 175 U.S. and Canadian scholars, artists and scientists named today (April 11) as 2013 Guggenheim Fellows.
Recipients were chosen because of their prior achievement and exceptional promise.
The Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School will return to Puget Sound and Whidbey Island this year, where five sessions will take place during August and September.
Topics include cultural landscapes, cultural resources management, advanced preservation technology and vernacular farmstead preservation. The hands-on work this year will include window rehabilitation, roofing replacement, barn door rehabilitation and siding repair.
Pets and domesticated animals haven't received proper credit for all they've done to to help shape human societies, University of Oregon sociologist Richard York says in a recently published paper.
York and fellow sociologist Philip Mancus of the College of the Redwoods in Crescent City, Calif., made their case for four-legged friends in a paper published in the current issue of the quarterly journal Sociological Theory. Animals have had "profound influence" in driving the evolution of human societies, the pair say.
Jeffrey Ostler, a faculty research fellow in history, will present "Why the United States Was Forced to Refute Allegations of Genocide in Its First Treaty with Indians" in an upcoming talk open to the public.
The lecture starts at noon, Friday, April 12, in 159 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall. It's part of the Oregon Humanities Center's Work-in-Progress Series.
UO alum and former tennis team captain Duncan MacDonald-Korth (anthropology, 2011) has aced his way to the international round of the prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
The Oregon School for the Deaf's BEAT (Bold Expressive Arts Theater) program will present a series of songs, stories and poems – entirely in American Sign Language (ASL) – in the UO's Jacqua Center theater on Thursday, April 11.
