A regional partnership that includes the University of Oregon will help lead an education pilot initiated by the Oregon Education Investment Board. The partnership, called Connected Lane County, will receive $50,000 through the Oregon Solutions Network to help transform education in Oregon and achieve the 40-40-20 goals set by Senate Bill 253 in 2011.

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.