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.

Michael Gottfredson was officially installed as the University of Oregon’s 17th president today (Thursday, May 30), during a ceremony in Matthew Knight Arena at which he stressed the importance of public research universities and “the thrill of discovery, the engagement of learning by doing.”

Think Nike in Beaverton. Google in Palo Alto. Urban Outfitters in Philadelphia. Corporate campuses aren’t unique, but having one downtown is. Helping design such a campus in a dynamic city like Portland is an even rarer opportunity, but that’s precisely what a cadre of University of Oregon graduate students is doing.

In the early 1950s, the saying was “meet me at the SU” – a reference to the Erb Memorial Union. That’s also the title of an upcoming documentary on the history of the facility: "Meet Me at the SU: A History of the Erb Memorial Union" premieres at 6 p.m. June 6, in the EMU Ballroom, free and open to the public. Presented by the Division of Student Affairs and written and directed by Oregon journalism graduate Jonna Threlkeld, the film features interviews with Oregon alumni representing generations of students dating to 1945.