The University of Oregon Opera Ensemble will present a program of modernized scenes. In addition, a UO dancer will collaborate with digital and visual artists for a unique performance experience at the Hult Center.

Primary documents in the UO Libraries are essential to telling the story of women’s political work in Oregon in the mid-to-late twentieth century. And a new online finding aid provides access to them.

W. Andrew Marcus, associate dean of social sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed acting dean of the college while Scott Coltrane serves as interim provost, Provost James Bean said recently, in a message to the university community. “Andrew begins July 1 and will serve as long as needed,” Bean said. “I am confident that he will do a great job."

Hungarian Romani activist Angela Kocze, currently a visiting Fulbright Scholar at Wake Forest University, will be at the University of Oregon on Friday, May 24, to present “Romani (Gypsy) Women and Activism: Challenges and Opportunities,” at 4 p.m., in 204 Condon Hall. Kocze is a research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and an affiliated research fellow at the Central European University. Growing up in a small Hungarian village near the border of Hungary and Ukraine, Kocze experienced first-hand the discrimination faced by Romani families.

Eugene is not regularly characterized as normal, nor is the University of Oregon. But amid the tie-dyed shirts, home-brewed kombucha and unicycling commuters sits the Normal Gate. A wrought-iron arbor situated somewhat inconspicuously in front of the Miller Theater complex, the gate has outlasted the trials of history.