Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber attended an economic development forum at the University of Oregon’s new high-tech science facility, the Lewis Integrative Science Building, on Tuesday.
DNA sequencing – determining the precise order of nucleotides within a DNA molecule – is evolving rapidly. The sequencing of an organism’s entire genome that once took biologists months to map is now done in days.
University of Oregon biologists Karen Guillemin and Jessica Green have teamed with a pair of designers and illustrators from a German company to create an instructional video suitable for teachers to use in developing lesson plans.
The educational production "You are your microbes" is part of TED Ed Lessons for Sharing (http://ed.ted.com/ ). TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It began in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment and Design.
Charles "Dusty" Miller, longtime director of the University of Oregon's Erb Memorial Union, passed away last weekend after complications from a fall. He was 65.
A memorial celebration honoring Miller will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 12, in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom. His family has asked that friends and colleagues join and share their "Dusty stories."
The University of Oregon has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation to award and administer Freeman Fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students conducting internships in East and Southeast Asia.
The funds, administered by the UO’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, offers fellowships of up to $6,000.
The grants allow students to choose internships in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand or Vietnam.
The UO Opera Ensemble, a resident company of the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, has won second place in the National Opera Association’s annual Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition, Division II, for performers age 23 and older.
The Jan. 3 competition at the NOA’s annual convention – held this year at the Hilton Portland and Executive Towers in Portland – allowed UO opera students an opportunity to learn from a competitive environment.
First place in the scenes completion was awarded to the University of Montevallo, located in Montevallo, Alabama.
Kathryn Lynch, an environmental anthropologist and co-director of the University of Oregon's Environmental Leadership Program, has been named one of 10 Chevrolet GREEN Educator Award-winners from around the country for 2012.
Earth Force and the General Motors Foundation make the awards to inspirational educators who engage youth in innovative and interactive environmental learning.
Meeting sites for this week's discussions of an equity and inclusion action plan and restructuring of the UO's Office of Equity and Inclusion have been changed to accommodate the expected high interest in both topics.
The Oregon Humanities Center’s “being human/human being” series continues in late January with two lectures by Dr. Ira Byock, director of palliative medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire.
During his medical school residency in the late 1970s, Byock witnessed his father’s battle with pancreatic cancer. The experience was transformative, and ultimately led Byock into the fields of hospice and palliative care. He is now one of the leading proponents of compassionate end-of-life care in the United States.
University of Oregon professors Yong Zhao of the College of Education and Helen Neville of the Psychology Department are among 168 scholars recognized today for moving ideas "from the pages of academic journals into the national conversation."
Both were included on the third annual "Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings" by Frederick M. Hess, who is director of education policy studies for the American Enterprise Institute and a blogger for Education Week.
