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UO’s Brooks offers tips to better chances of receiving state grants

Apply early and list state schools first when filling out the FAFSA: Those are two pieces of advice that University of Oregon financial aid director Jim Brooks provides in a recent article in Forbes.

Brooks’ quote highlights the value of state grants and how prospective and current college students can better their chances of receiving them. State grants are just one of the ways students who don’t qualify for federal Pell Grants can get financial aid.

Vandenburgh work provides ‘bravura moment,’ critic says

Artist-educator Laura Vandenburgh “delivers (a group) show’s one true bravura moment,” writes art critic Nathan Green in art ltd. about “Constructs,” a recent exhibition at Disjecta Contemporary Art Center in Portland.

Vandenburg is associate professor in the Department of Art.

 “Vandenburgh’s wall sculptures of meticulously cut paper variously resemble webs, nets, and the warped Penrose diagrams that show how black holes distort space-time,” Green writes. “Dazzlingly complex and immaculately pieced together, they deliver a genuine ‘Wow!’ “