UO Portland employees reunite on new campus

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Newly renovated buildings on the University of Oregon Portland campus started reopening in September, allowing employees to look inside for the first time in a year. Many marveled at the transformation of tired, dark and outdated buildings into light-filled, reimagined academic spaces.

Moving trucks picked up furniture and boxes from the White Stag Block and Naito building and shuttled everything to the university’s new campus in northeast Portland. After a year of being split between two locations, Portland-based programs and departments are together once.

Last week buzzed with excitement as UO Portland employees and students attended orientations and toured campus. Students moved into on-site apartments, and faculty and staff worked to set up labs, classrooms, offices and student spaces.

UO President Karl Scholz recognized the moment on Monday during Quack-tacular, the campus welcome reception. Employees, students and their families came together on the green in the center of campus to celebrate the milestone and the new academic year.

A new webpage is available with frequently asked questions about working in Portland and the campus.

—By Heidi Hiaasen, Assistant Director for Portland Communications

—Top photo: John Hromco, director of campus safety, Emily Fischer, student life engagement coordinator, Mirta Strickland, events scheduler, and Jason Kovac, chief of staff in the Office of the Vice President for Portland, at the UO Portland Welcome Table.

A group of UO Portland students gather outside a building to listen to their tour guide
Sarah Kutten, assistant vice president for students and belonging, walks a group of students through campus during an orientation session. 
UP Portland employees sitting at round tables during an orientation session with a speaker in the center of the background addressing the crowd
Dane Bevan, assistant director of facility services, talks to UO Portland faculty and staff during an orientation session in the event space of the UO Portland Campus Center.
UO Portland Innovation Building open office space with an employee sitting at a table working on a computer and other employees across the room standing and talking behind a loveseat and chairs
Chuck Triplett, associate vice president for Portland operations, talks with Carly Mick, director of Sports Product Design, and Tom Bonamici, assistant professor of product design as they move into their offices in the Innovation Building as building systems are tested. 
Two UO Portland employees looking at stacked storage bins in a large open space inside a building
Krista Martenson and Greg Leedy who manage the Sports Product Management lab, worked through a mountain of totes and boxes to set up the space in the Innovation Building before the start of the term.
A group of UO Portland employees eating lunch together at an outdoor table in a courtyard in the campus center
Employees enjoy a lunch break outside the UO Portland Campus Center during their orientation, onboarding and campus tour sessions.
Uo community members gathered in open grass space listening to President Scholz speak from a stage with campus buildings in the background
President Karl Scholz marks the first day of fall term at the new UO Portland campus during the welcome reception.
Two students playing cornhole on the lawn outside the UO Portland campus center building
Students, employees and family members enjoy the UO Portland welcome reception on the campus green.
UO students talking to representatives and walking through a campus building at the UO Portland resource fair
Students explore the resource fair in the UO Portland Campus Center.