New research by a scientist in the University of Oregon’s Institute of Neuroscience illustrates how a gene critical to autism can be manipulated to produce behaviors of the disorder.

A new, university-wide facility seeks your input as it determines how best to support faculty and student research efforts. The Center for Assessment, Statistics, and Evaluation is a research core facility to be housed within the Office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education.

In the Lundquist College of Business, students learn money management by investing real money, working with real portfolios and creating annual reports. They also experience another critical component of investment: the annual meeting with stakeholders. So it was for the University of Oregon Investment Group, which recently held its annual meeting.

Dagoberto Morales grew up poor in Michoacán, Mexico, although he didn’t know it. Everyone was poor. He migrated to the United States and settled in Medford, where he became an activist and community organizer. He founded a farm workers organization, Unete, now 16 years old. In a video on his life, he is asked, “how would you describe your experience as an organizer?”

The University of Oregon has submitted a docket item to the Oregon University System asking the State Board of Higher Education to consider a request to equip UO’s sworn police officers with firearms. The meeting is scheduled for June 21.