Eight awards of up to $2,500 will be made in this year's Innovations in Graduate Education program.

The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art will host the only exhibit of the rare document in Oregon.

Think fast — the Three Minute Thesis competition is returning to the University of Oregon.The competition, developed by the University of Queensland, Australia, is a challenge to graduate students to effectively explain their thesis research in three minutes or less.The preliminary rounds will be held from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Room 177, Lawrence Hall on Friday, April 17, and the next week on Friday, April 24. The top five presenters from each preliminary round will advance to the UO Finals.

Three days of sessions include a symposium on the coordination of efforts that followed last year's mudslide in Oso, Washington.

The annual Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability (HOPES) conference will feature a student-designed parklet in downtown Eugene.