Architecture and landscape architecture students in the “OregonBILDS 2” studio at the University of Oregon are designing prototypes for an annual series of classes that will design and build a residence every year, with profits from each home's sale poured into a fund to make the program self-perpetuating.
A grant from the UO Meyer Fund for a Sustainable Environment helped launch the idea.
From quarterly earnings releases to CEO annual report letters, Wall Street has a language and communication style all its own.
Students in the UO School of Journalism and Communication will learn that style in an upper-division elective being offered for the first time: J410 Strategic Business/Financial Communications dives into the world of 24/7/365 global financial markets, probing the psychologies and issues associated with communicating with Wall Street investors.
Think the success of University of Oregon athletic teams has helped the UO stand out on the national stage? If you credit the student-athletes, you may also want to recognize the role of the world-class educational programs that helped draw them to the university.
In the past year alone, faculty members associated with the Lundquist College of Business' Warsaw Sports Marketing Center have introduced the college and its programs to hundreds of visiting high school athletes and their parents.
Secondary seismic waves from timed explosions helped University of Oregon scientists capture a three-dimensional view of Newberry Volcano near Bend, allowing them to see where magma dwells below the caldera.
There is magma but in low volumes, possibly from refilling some 50 years ago but since quiet, says Emilie Hooft, assistant professor of geological sciences.
Omar Little, one of the most popular characters in the critically acclaimed HBO drama “The Wire,” is a stick-up man who robs drug dealers. He dresses like a hip-hop gangster and he’s capable of pulling a gun in the blink of an eye and putting it in his victim’s face, laughing all the way.
He also helps University of Oregon assistant professor Katie Meehan teach a course in urban geography.
An AMBER Alert that had been activated on Wednesday morning in Oregon was canceled after authorities located the suspect and a 5-year-old boy involved in an incident reported in The Dalles, state police said.
Police said the child, identified as Skylar Meldin Coulcer-Jarding, is safe.
The boy was reportedly taken at approximately 5:40 a.m. from a home in The Dalles, where the suspect — identified as Brian Lester DePriest, 36 — had arrived and assaulted two adults with a hammer, police said.
DePriest knows the boy’s mother, police said.
The University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication has named Stephen Ward director of its Portland operation. He will take charge of the George S. Turnbull Center on July 1.
Ward comes to his new post from the University of Wisconsin’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, where he was the director of the Center for Journalism Ethics. He has extensive experience as a journalist and a doctorate that focused on media ethics.
University of Oregon law Professor Emeritus Mary Lawrence, who created the UO School of Law’s nationally ranked Legal Research and Writing program in 1978, received a lifetime achievement award at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) meeting in January.
Vermont Law School’s Greg Johnson presented the award at the Blackwell Award Reception hosted by the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute.
The Office of Equity and Inclusion has announced winners of the inaugural Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Essay Contest and winners of the University of Oregon's 2013 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Awards.
In this first year of the essay contest, materials were solicited from undergraduate and graduate students in two categories: written and video essays.
Three faculty members in the UO chemistry department have been awarded a grant for $25,785 from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences for their work on a science education outreach program for middle school and high school students.
The Furlough Friday Science Days program brings Springfield students into the laboratory for hands-on learning opportunities on no-school days.
