When your client is the Springfield Golf Club, it just makes good business sense to visit the course and play a few holes. Undergraduates in Lundquist College of Business instructor Beth Hjelm’s business strategy and planning course did just that recently, as part of their real-life consulting efforts for a real-world client.

The UO has received the Fresh Air Gold Campus award for adopting a 100 percent tobacco-free policy, the highest level of achievement awarded by the Fresh Air Campus Challenge. The award is the pinnacle of a challenge that brings together college campuses and local, state and federal tobacco control partnerships to help ensure all institutions of higher education in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington begin the process of going smoke or tobacco-free by the end of 2013.

A University of Oregon professor will chair the 27th International Conference on Supercomputing, considered the premier forum for research results in high-performance computing systems. Allen Malony, a professor in Computer and Information Science, will preside when the conference comes to campus, June 10 to 14. Keynote speakers include:

Her school supplies were glass cups, dried mugwort, three-thousand-year-old textbooks and, of course, needles. “It kind of reminded me of the Hogwarts School, only because it was all these really ancient things,” Mary Ann Petersen says of her first impression of the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, where she studied for her career as an acupuncturist.

Campus offices and classrooms will fill with the girls and boys of UO families April 25 as the university celebrates “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.” Under the theme “Work in Progress,” nine- to 13-year-old girls and boys of UO families will follow parents through the day and participate in a variety of organized activities. The event is part of a national program to inspire girls and boys to begin thinking about their futures and introduce them to career opportunities. Children will observe a parent's work, whether in a classroom, laboratory, studio or office.