The University of Oregon's Celebrating Champions website is profiling one new UO freshman each day – exploring everything from hometowns to academic interests to the things people might be surprised to know. And even the one personal item each student must bring with then to college. Here's a week's worth of the profiles: Abby Gray High school and home town – Lake Oswego High School, Lake Oswego, Ore.

National Geographic photographer Sam Abell returns to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the University of Oregon campus at 2 p.m. Sept. 28 for the lecture, “My Journey in Photography.” Abell’s photography is included in the new Schnitzer exhibition “National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West,” which opens to the public the same day. The exhibition, on view through Dec. 31, includes photographs by Abell, Ansel Adams, William Albert Allard, Edward Curtis, David Alan Harvey, William Henry Jackson, Sarah Leen and Joel Sartore.

The weekly AroundtheO photo gallery focuses on the people and places that make the University of Oregon special.

New faculty and administrative officers at the University of Oregon are invited to get the lay of the land during an orientation Sept. 25-26. The Orientation for New Faculty and Officers of Administration provides a transition into the UO community for new tenure-track faculty, tenured faculty, non-tenure-track faculty and officers of administration.

Newly hired faculty, staff and GTFs can share information with AroundtheO about their new positions and their occupational and/or educational backgrounds