Campus and Community

The University of Oregon School of Law will welcome alumni back to campus on Thursday, Sept. 26, through Saturday, Sept. 28, for its 2013 Homecoming & Reunions celebration. The celebration recognizes all alumni from the school with special events planned for members of the classes celebrating their 10-, 25- and 50-year reunions.
University of Oregon doctoral student Sonia De La Cruz is keeping the feminist movement alive. The UO School of Journalism and Communication student contributed to the second section of “Renewing Feminisms: Radical Narratives, Fantasies, and Future in Media Studies,” a recently published book that contradicts the belief that the feminist movement is a thing of the past.
Images representing the diversity of the female experience are on display in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the University of Oregon's Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Earthquake research at the University of Oregon went primetime recently for a “Disaster Week” special on Canadian television.
A National Geographic exhibit of historic and contemporary photos of the American West will open Sept. 28 at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. “National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West” – which features 125 years of shots from various photographers – will remain at the museum through Dec. 31. A free public reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Sept. 27 will mark the exhibition's opening the following day.