This year's 4th annual UO Alumni Women’s Roundtable drew a record turnout of almost 100 attendees earlier this month for a panel presentation that focused on negotiating for pay, promotion and flexibility. The roundtable, held at the White Stag Block, was free for UO students and 2012 graduates and open to the public with a registration fee. Its four-woman panel – all UO alums – came from a variety of professional backgrounds.

University of Oregon School of Music and Dance faculty members Dean Kramer and Claire Wachter will perform a free, two-piano concert at Steinway Hall in New York City at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 28. Titled “Broadway Meets Steinway,” the concert will feature George Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” and Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story Dances,” as well as other great works for two pianos.

Two sprawling murals that have been with UO Libraries since its opening in 1937 are getting a second look. The Digital Scholarship Center and UO Libraries have launched an art project on murals by Oregon artists Albert and Arthur Runquist that depict figures and ideas about race and ethnicity that some may no longer find acceptable.

Autism spectrum disorder is the fastest growing group of neurodevelopmental disorders, affecting an estimated 1 in 88 individuals. Now a UO team of researchers is evaluating different approaches to early intervention in this and other cases of developmental disabilities.

A weekend of Morris Graves programming takes place April 5-6 on campus and across Eugene, in conjunction with the publication of “Morris Graves: Selected Letters.” “Morris Graves: Selected Letters” is a collection of letters to and from the Pacific Northwest painter well-known for paintings influenced by Japanese aesthetics and Asian philosophy.