Tim Gleason, dean of the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication, will receive the 2013 Charles E. Scripps Award as journalism and mass communication administrator of the year.

The Scripps Howard Foundation’s national journalism awards, established in 1953, recognize outstanding print, broadcast and online journalism in 15 categories. Two additional categories honor college journalism and mass communication educators for excellence in administration and teaching.

A new study by University of Oregon researchers has taken contact sport to a new – and very scientific – level.

The researchers investigated how the skin microbiome – the microorganisms we can’t see, but help define who we are – is transmitted between players in a contact sport, using roller derby as their model system. The invisible microbes contribute to health in such ways as educating the immune system, protecting people from pathogens and mediating skin disorders.

The University of Oregon’s Department of Human Physiology will host a March 15 talk, “How People Get Around: The Biomechanics of Walking,” as part of the department’s ongoing lecture series.

The event – Art Kuo, a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan – will be at 11 a.m. in Room 211 of the Lillis Business Complex. It is free and open to the public.

The UNESCO-UO conference on prisons and peace was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Thursday (March 14) with a keynote speech by Lisa Guenther, a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, on "Solitary Confinement: A Living Death Sentence."

The local nonprofit agency Kind Tree – Autism Rocks was awarded a $5,000 grant from Wells Fargo on Wednesday (March 13), after emerging as this year's top pick of students in the University of Oregon's "American Philanthropy" freshman seminar.

Kind Tree's Tim Mueller was awarded a ceremonial, oversized check by Wells Fargo representatives and students from the philanthropy class in Wednesday's Hendricks Hall reception. 

For the imperiled prairies of the Pacific Northwest, the equation is simple, says Environmental Studies professor Scott Bridgham: Germinate or die.

The University of Oregon Graduate Internship Program is a 54-credit blend of real-world training and graduate level instruction that fast-tracks students into scientific careers.

The program is unique in that it places students who are studying basic science, such as chemistry or physics, into positions that are typically reserved for engineering students. The program was developed in 1998 in collaboration with industry partners seeking qualified young professionals with a mix of skills for the industrial research careers of tomorrow.

The University Senate is seeking nominations for its Leadership and Service Award for Officers of Administration. The nomination deadline is April 8.

The senate award for officers of administration was created two years ago to recognize outstanding leadership and service to the UO.

The University of Oregon’s Ford Alumni Center is a national award winner for its interior use of wood products.

WoodWorks, an initiative of the Wood Products Council, announced the winners of its 2013 national Wood Design Awards, including the top honor for “Interior Beauty of Wood” to the Ford Alumni Center. Awards were presented earlier this winter in San Francisco.

Trygve Faste, an assistant professor in the product design program of the UO's School of Architecture and Allied Arts, is the recipient of a 2013 Oregon Arts Commission (OAC) Opportunity Grant to help support travel to and shipping costs for two solo exhibitions.

The grants are intended to help artists advance their careers through opportunities for the development of artistic, business or professional skills.