The School of Journalism and Communication will celebrate the grand opening of the renovated Allen Hall at 1 p.m.
The new hall includes 18,000 additional square feet, which will include amenities such as a hearth, a student gallery, and bridge areas to allow opportunities for student collaboration. The third floor will house a digital commons, equipped with projection screens and breakout rooms.
Lauren Lindstrom, an associate professor in Family and Human Services at the University of Oregon's College of Education, represented the UO recently at the annual Zero Project Conference in Vienna, Austria.
Twenty-two University of Oregon professors will receive this year's Faculty Research Awards from the UO's Office of Research, Innovation and Graduate Education.
The recipients were among a total of 37 applicants for the annual awards, which will support research activities during the 2014 fiscal year than begins July 1.
“As in past years, the submissions we received for this award program are a testament to the breadth of scholarship at the UO," said Kimberly Andrews Espy, the UO's vice president for research and innovation.
An internal search for a new Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies will begin soon, Provost James Bean said, in a recent message to the campus community.
The Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies leads undergraduate initiatives and oversees undergraduate programs that include Academic Advising, Disability Services, First-Year Programs, the Teaching and Learning Center and initiatives relating to General Education.
The University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History remained closed for a second straight day on Feb. 28, as unscheduled maintenance was conducted.
The museum, at 1680 East 15th Ave., will reopen as soon as the maintenance is completed.
This year’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, “Earth Too Big to Fail,” not only has one of the best slogans in the event’s 31-year history, but a plethora of panels, internationally-known speakers and young minds agitating for legal environmental reforms.
UO Professor Carol Stabile has received the 2013 Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Media and Civil Rights History Award for her article “The Typhoid Marys of the Left: Gender, Race and the Broadcast Blacklist.”
The piece was published in the Summer 2011 issue of “Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.”
Stabile serves as director of the UO's Center for the Study of Women in Society and is a professor of both the School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.
A Message From Brian Caufield, the OUS’s Chief Labor Spokesperson:
To All Classified Employees:
Last week the Oregon University System and your union, SEIU Local 503, started negotiations for a successor labor contract. I am happy to report that negotiations began in history-making fashion with the parties signing tentative agreements on the first day—something that has never before occurred between the OUS and SEIU Local 503.
UO Vice President for Research and Innovation Kimberly Espy has announced a new award program to support and enhance UO research.
“Showcasing Oregon Research: Conference Support Awards” are available to tenured or tenure-track, full-time faculty and provide partial support for organizing conferences that promote and encourage scholarship, research and creative work.
Walk up to the second floor of the Knight Library and into the Special Collections and University Archives section, and you will encounter utopia.
Well, almost. A new exhibition, "Constructing Utopia: From Literary Works to Intentional Communities in Oregon," contains artifacts and memorabilia donated by the late researcher James J. Kopp (1952–2010) and his wife Sue, who together inspired and motivated Special Collections to acquire and maintain material pertaining to intentional communities and countercultural documentation.
