An architecture professor and associate dean, Muller has served as acting dean since last fall.

University of Oregon graduate Phil Knight, the Nike co-founder and philanthropist, is one of 197 people elected to the 2015 American Academy of Arts and Sciences membership class. The AAAS is one of the country's oldest learned societies, made up of more than 4,600 leaders from a broad range of academic, business and government sectors.

Invitations to students to take part in a survey by the AAU will go out soon, with a local survey to launch in about a month.

The event will mark the first time in the IAAF's 33-year history that the championships will be held in the United States.

Football coaches pledge $250,000 in matching money and hope to double that by the May 2 spring game.