Educators have unprecedented access to oral histories, thanks to the Internet.
English professor Jill Goodman Gould and instruction librarian Gail Gradowski, both of Santa Clara University, will examine the way video oral histories can be used and integrated in various university courses during a talk at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 20, in University of Oregon's Knight Library Browsing Room.
Randy Sullivan had some science-based tricks up his sleeve and his audience of seventh-graders was all eyes and ears on Tuesday (March 12) as the "Campus Bound" project brought 200 middle-schoolers to the University of Oregon for a sampling of college life.
One of the two remaining finalists for the second-in-command position in the University of Oregon's Office of Equity and Inclusion will interview and give a public presentation Tuesday (March 12) on the UO campus.
All tickets have been sold for the Dalai Lama’s May 10 visit to the University of Oregon.
Student tickets for the 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate’s presentation were made available at no cost to incidental fee-paying students on March 5. Tickets for UO faculty and staff were made available for $20 each on March 7 and 8, and tickets for the general public went on sale today (March 11); the event is sold out, the university said Monday afternoon.
Sit through any of Chuck Hunt’s classes, and you’ll find the adjunct professor of sociology casually interweaving his personal life story with a laser-beam examination of society. His directness and conviction can startle newcomers, but those qualities have made students take notice during Hunt’s 17 years at the UO.
“I don’t really understand it,” Hunt said of students’ interest. “I’m not sure I can explain my style, because what I do is not innovative. I just talk and show films and try to speak from my experiences.”
What city wouldn't be pleased with about $1 million in extra earnings for the year? The city of Salem is thrilled, and has a team of Oregon MBA students to thank for the financial bump.
A small number of faculty and staff tickets to the Dalai Lama's lecture at the UO on May 10 are still available for purchase. Tickets will remain on sale through 10 p.m. Friday (March 8) or until supplies are exhausted.
A recent trip to Rome by Michael Posner, a University of Oregon professor emeritus of psychology, had a distinct "Da Vinci Code" flavor.
The University of Oregon Senate is requesting nominations for two awards with April deadlines: the Classified Staff Leadership Award and the Wayne T. Westling Award.
The Classified Staff Leadership Award is given to a classified staff member who is an agent for change and continues to make a difference through actions and collaborative relationships in a complex organization.
University of Oregon junior Christine Liu conducted research in the UO's Summer Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) that has landed her an award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
