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UO religious studies professor Stephen Shoemaker has been named a fellow of The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University for the 2015–16 academic year.

The Department of Romance Languages is hosting the 2015 Spring Social and Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, May 19.

The event runs from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the Gerlinger Alumni Lounge. The ceremony publicly recognizes 2015-16 scholarship recipients at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In addition, it celebrates the achievements of undergraduate majors and minors in French, Italian, Spanish and other romance languages who are graduating this spring, as well as those graduate students finishing a master’s or doctoral program.

Incoming UO President Michael Schill paid a visit to the University Senate during his visit to campus this week, and he told senators he is eager to learn from them and work with the campus to move the university forward.

“We are beginning a new chapter in the history of the University of Oregon,” Schill said. “This is an extraordinary university. The research and teaching that takes place within our walls are inspiring. We are a great institution of higher education, and we can be even better. I’m looking forward to a partnership with each of you to make that happen.”

Conversations will provide trustees with the opportunity to hear directly about the many ways faculty and other employees work to support and strengthen the university.

A new balloting window will open Monday, May 25, and continue through Monday, June 8. All previous ballots must be recast.

Michael Schill met with faculty, staff and students Tuesday, plans to visit with legislators later this week.

The anthropology professor is involved in First-Year Programs and College Scholars and was a Williams Fellow in 2012.

Former provost James Bean has accepted a position as provost of Northeastern University in Boston and will leave the University of Oregon after 11 years. 

Bean served as UO provost from 2008 to 2013 and oversaw the introduction of the PathwayOregon program for Pell Grant-eligible students during an enrollment surge at the UO, and he was pivotal in the introduction of a new academic budget model recently described in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The UO has completed or is working on more than 100 recommendations
 

The contest challenges graduate students to explain their research in nontechnical terms in just three minutes.