Workplace

The award recipients of the UO’s 2015 Outstanding Classified Employee Recognition Award and the Outstanding Officer of Administration Recognition Award were honored at a reception on April 14. 

Interim UO President Scott Coltrane presented the awards, which were selected based on nominations reviewed by a selection committee comprised of members of the university community.

The two recognition programs were specifically created to acknowledge excellence in officers of administration and classified employees.

The 2015 recipients are:

Football coaches pledge $250,000 in matching money and hope to double that by the May 2 spring game.
 

Beavers claim the 2015 trophy with a scant 0.10 pounds per person advantage over the Ducks.

The play is the first to incorporate Inuit myth, Arctic Circle policy and climate change in a theatrical performance.

The plan will convert more than 100 restrooms across campus before the start of fall term.

Following the news conference where he was introduced, incoming President Michael Schill spent time with students, faculty, staff and leadership.

The UO's 18th president will be introduced to the campus community at a special event today in Willamette Hall.
 

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The Board of Trustees of the University of Oregon will hold an emergency meeting today, April 14, to discuss the selection of a new university president.

The meeting will be held at 12:30 p.m. in Room 403 of the Ford Alumni Center and is open to the public.

Plans to change the busy corridor into a multi-way boulevard are under discussion by local officials.

A leading author on the civil rights movement, Branch will talk about his work on the rise of Martin Luther King Jr.