COMING ATTRACTIONS: Family Rec Day is first up on the list of attractions at UO

Other events coming soon to campus include a lecture on human locomotor control, a presentation about human rights and culture, and a lecture about strategies for the classroom.

  • Family Rec Day will be held on Jan. 26 from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the UO rec center. The event will include physical activities as well as arts and crafts designed especially for university families. Parents are required to accompany children during all UO Family Rec Day events. No registration required.
  • Dan Ferris will lecture on “Human Locomotor Control Revealed by Robotic Lower Limb Exoskeletons and Mobile Brain Imaging” on Wednesday, Jan. 29. The lecture will be in the Knight Library, Proctor 41 and 42 from noon to 1:20 p.m. Ferris studies how the interaction of the nervous system and musculoskeletal system produce coordinated locomotion.
  • Professor Alison Dundes Renteln will present a lecture called “The Right to Culture as a Human Right: Noise, Gender Violence, and the Cultural Defense” on Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 3:30 p.m. The lecture will explore reasonable limits on the right to culture and where to draw the line, specifically when customs clash with the law. The lecture will take place in the Ben Linder room in the Erb Memorial Union.
  • Trey Crisco will present “Teaching for Deep Learning: Strategies for the Classroom from the Psychology of Learning” on Wednesday, Feb. 12, from noon to 1:20 p.m. in the Knight Library, Proctor 41.

COMING ATTRACTIONS is a regular feature of AroundTheO, highlighting some of the many upcoming lectures, exhibits and other events at the UO. For a full list of scheduled events, see UO's Events Calendar.

- from the UO Office of Strategic Communications