UO employees are invited to bring their children to campus April 25 for “Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day,” a national program to inspire girls and boys to begin thinking about their futures and introduce them to career opportunities. Children ages 9 to 13 may come to the UO to observe a parent's work, whether in a classroom, laboratory, studio or office. “It’s never too early to start encouraging youth to have an active imagination, to set goals and to take more control of their future,” says Work-Life Resources Director Karen Logvin.

Artists are encouraged to submit their work by March 25 – or by April 5, if delivered in person – to be considered for the UO's Erb Memorial Union annual art acquisition program. The program, known as the Pacific Northwest Art Annual, is presented by the EMU Cultural Forum. The piece that earns "Best in Show" honors will be purchased and become part of the EMU's permanent art collection.

Ryan Jung, a senior honors student majoring in mathematics with a minor in economics, has achieved success with numbers even before he heads out into the working world. His book, “Everything You Need to Know for Studying Abroad in the U.S.,” is a bestseller in Korea. More than 3,000 copies of the book, which is written in Korean, sold in 2012, making it a bestseller in the nonfiction/educational literature category. Jung says he knows of no other book like it in all of Asia.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – whose TED Talk "The Danger of the Single Story" has been viewed by more than three million people – will speak at the UO's Ford Alumni Center on Monday, April 1. The 7 p.m. talk, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the UO's Center on Diversity and Community. The New Yorker has named Adichie one of its “20 Under 40” writers to read. Her latest novel, "Americanah," will be published by HarperCollins this spring.

Language Arts is the theme for the sixth annual “New Art Northwest Kids” exhibition, on view until June 2 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. More than 40 works submitted by area K-12 students will be on view in the Education Corridor Galleries. The exhibition explores the integration of writing and visual art, inspired by the Schnitzer museum's previous shows, “Lesley Dill’s Poetic Visions: From Shimmer to Sister Gertrude Morgan,” and “Good Grief: A Selection of Original Art from Fifty Years of Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts.”