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

The paradox of biodiversity will be the subject of a series of workshops beginning Nov. 21 at the University of Oregon and continuing through next spring.

The annual fundraiser put on by the Oregon Law Students Public Interest Fund (OLSPIF) titled “A Flurry of Giving” kicked off Nov. 4 and will run through Nov. 26.OLSPIF sells decorated paper snowflakes in an effort to provide stipends for law students who want to spend their summers working in public service. They use the purchased snowflakes to decorate the School of Law’s Wayne Morse Commons.

John Laursen, editor of the Northwest Photography Series and co-author of “Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia Gorge, 1867-1957,” will present a slide talk of photographs from the book at 7 p.m. Nov. 25 in Knight Library's Browsing Room, 1501 Kincaid St., Eugene.

Members of the campus community gather to identify areas in which safety could be improved with better lighting or landscaping changes