The digital age presents a host of information issues for the business professional: Information management, information design, business management and research in various issues. And a new blog at the University of Oregon has the latest in those areas. The Applied Information Management (AIM) Program has developed a new blog, The Information Umbrella.

A celebration of the role of Oregon’s Latino community in helping shape the state’s cultural, social and political history will be held June 6 in Knight Library on the University of Oregon campus. “Latino Roots Celebration,” running from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., features music, speakers, a display of student work completed in a Latino studies class and more.

The UO’s Computer and Information Science department will host a forum June 5 on data-mining, social networks and the impact on health-care outcomes. Dejing Dou, a professor in the department, and his SMASH research team will host a forum on their project, “Understanding the Mechanism of Social Network Influence in Health Outcomes through Multidimensional and Semantic Data Mining Approaches.”

The red “JSMA @ 80” symbol is your guide to new artwork at the Schnitzer museum. Artwork acquired by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in the past five years will be on display throughout the museum’s galleries during its 80th anniversary celebration. On view beginning June 1, these new acquisitions will be identified with a red “JSMA @ 80” symbol.

Consumer Reports called it “one of the most inventive uses of laminate you might ever see.” They were referring to UO product design student Katie Lee’s café chair. Judges for the "Wilsonart Challenges..." agreed, naming it the winner in the 2013 contest. Lee and six other University of Oregon design students who were finalists in the student design competition had their chair designs displayed May 18 to 21 at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, North America’s showcase for contemporary design, at the Javitz Center in New York, New York, in Wilsonart’s booth.