University of Oregon chemist David Johnson likens his lab's newly published accomplishments to combining two flavors of ice cream — vanilla and chocolate — and churning out thousands of flavors to appeal to any taste bud.

Get up to speed on open-enrollment questions related to your health benefits. Join the UO Benefits staff for the annual Open Enrollment Kick-Off Meeting.

Maltreatment and socioeconomic factors can be stressors for families: Childrens' reactivity to stress varies as a function of socioeconomic status, and abusive parents manifest stress in harsher abuse or more pronounced neglect. That was the keynote message delivered by Elizabeth Skowron, an associate professor in the College of Education, during a recent symposium organized by the Family Systems Institute in Sydney, Australia. The symposium was titled, “Parenting and the Family System: Unraveling the Complexity of Child Focus.”

A new gift to the UO by Larry and Janice Bruton will make a difference for the School of Architecture and Allied Arts for years to come. The Brutons recently made a $5 million deferred gift commitment to aid faculty recruitment and retention, keeping leading faculty of architecture, design, planning, policy, art and architectural history and the arts at the UO.

Although librarians adopted Internet technology quickly, they initially dismissed search engines, which duplicated tasks they considered integral to their field.