If you missed out on getting live-audience tickets for the UO’s TEDx conference on Saturday (Feb. 9), you can still see live streamed sessions for free at four locations on the UO campus and one in Portland.
The streaming-media service is provided by the UO Libraries’ Center for Media and Educational Technologies (CMET).
A University of Oregon-based study has found that patients with the motivation, knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own health have better outcomes and incur fewer health care costs.
Wade Davis, a National Geographic "explorer-in-residence," will lead a journey through ancient worlds and demonstrate how today's civilizations are richer because of contributions from those of the past when he comes to the University of Oregon on Feb. 12.
Davis' lecture, “The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World,” will be at 7:30 p.m. in 182 Lillis Hall (955 E. 13th Ave.). The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a book sale and signing.
The University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History will present three speakers and a Darwin-themed family program as part of the international celebration of the birth month of Charles Darwin.
Each talk in the speakers' series – called "Primate Perspectives" – will highlight a different primate population, from long-extinct North American primates to currently endangered African monkeys.
Each event will last an hour and begin at 6 p.m. at the Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate St., Room 110. Admission is free.
“Measuring Marketing: 110+ Key Metrics Every Marketer Needs,” is UO marketing instructor John Davis’ second edition of his popular “Measuring Marketing: 103+ Key Metrics Every Marketer Needs.”
One of the world’s leading experts in marketing, Davis presents key marketing ratios and metrics in easy-to-understand formulas and real-life scenarios. His work endeavors to make decision-making easier for marketers and to help them strategize in more efficient ways.
The office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education (RIGE) hosted the RIGE Excellence Awards breakfast on Thursday. The event drew nearly 100 staff and faculty members, who turned out to celebrate “a fast paced and rewarding year.”
“This is an opportunity for us to get together and honor staff excellence, celebrate our accomplishments and set new goals,” said Kimberly Andrews Espy, vice president for research and innovation, and dean of the graduate school.
Prediction: February will be a good month for Marge Wise. She got it started by winning an iPad in AroundtheO's scavenger hunt drawing this afternoon (Feb. 1).
Wise, an office specialist at the University of Oregon's Early Childhood CARES program, had a total of six correct answers to the nine daily scavenger hunt contests over the past two weeks that made up the iPad drawing. Working from a list of 1,103 correct responses received over the period, one of her numbers (681, from Jan. 25) was picked by a random number generator.
A 19-year-old man was arrested Thursday and charged with dropping a rock onto a car from an Interstate 5 overpass at Rice Hill in November, injuring University of Oregon distance runners Molly Grabill and Chris Brewer.
Mathew McKinney was lodged in the Douglas County Jail on charges of second-degree assault, reckless endangering, first-degree criminal mischief, fourth-degree assault and first-degree throwing an object off an overpass.
Kyu-ho Ahn, an assistant professor in interior architecture at the University of Oregon, hands a visitor eyewear designed to simulate what it’s like to have macular degeneration.
“That one is very disorienting,” he says.
The low-vision goggles allow vision only at the outer edges of the eyes, forcing wearers to turn their bodies sideways to view reading material, a store aisle, a bus doorway or a large room, making daily navigation anything but simple.
Columbia University political scientist Dorian Warren – a frequent commentator on CNN, NBC Nightly News and other television and radio networks – will lecture at the University of Oregon on Feb. 7 as part of the Department of Political Science's speaker series.
Warren's talk, "Boxing Out: Chicago and the Politics of Race, Labor and New City Trenches," will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room. It is free and open to the public.
