From June 25 to July 9, UO senior physics instructor Dean Livelybrooks and a team of national scientists on board the Atlantis research vessel will recover earthquake-monitoring equipment in the Pacific Ocean. Follow tweets and other activity at @uocas and #uoshiptrip. To read other dispatches from the Atlantis, visit http://around.uoregon.edu/cascadia-initiative.
The University of Oregon School of Law recently named Lauren Charles to be assistant director of Admissions. She began her new position June 17.
Charles is a 2011 graduate of the law school. She earned her undergraduate degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University and received her master's degree in historic preservation from Pratt Institute in New York.
Waste material: It may not seem glamorous, but finding sustainable ways to deal with it is one of the century's most pressing issues.
Bulk Handling Systems has taken on this challenge. The Eugene-based company provides innovative turnkey systems for large-scale recycling of industrial and municipal waste.
At the UO's SPRNG conference in Portland in May, UO president emeritus Dave Frohnmayer described Bulk Handling Systems as "one to watch."
The State Board of Higher Education granted permission at its June 21 meeting for the University of Oregon to equip its police officers with firearms. The board acted on the recommendation of UO President Michael Gottfredson, who reached the decision following a campus engagement process that considered input from many members of the campus community. In his recommendation, Gottfredson cited the safety and security of faculty, students, staff and the community as his primary consideration.
Ellen is having a bad hair moment. So goes the plot line from an episode of “The Ellen Show,” the 2002 sitcom starring comedian and talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres.
The episode, entitled “Vanity Hair,” centers around Ellen feeling compelled to get a new hairstyle because she’s going to be featured in Vanity Fair magazine.
Nine UO School of Journalism and Communication students traveled to Vienna this spring, hoping their professor and Billy Joel knew something they didn’t. They quickly discovered that SOJC Professor Peter Laufer and Billy Joel were correct: Vienna was amazing.
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art is presenting a photographic exhibit of Russian Orthodox cathedrals and churches from the 11th to the 20th centuries in the McKenzie Gallery.
The photographs, which will be on view through Aug. 11, the were taken during research trips by Professor Emeritus A. Dean McKenzie, who retired in 1988 from the University of Oregon’s Department of Art History.
McKenzie will lecture on 2,000 years of Russian Orthodox Church architecture during an event at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 10, at the museum.
David Woken has been hired by UO Libraries as the as new history and Latin American studies librarian.
Woken will oversee development of collections and services to support the instructional and research needs of the Department of History and the interdisciplinary programs of Medieval Studies and Latin American Studies. He will also assist the library's Reference and Research Services Unit.
An op-ed piece by Yvette Alex-Assensoh, the UO's vice president for equity inclusion, appears today in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The column discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to remand a University of Texas equal access case to a lower court, and the opportunity it raises to more effectively achieve the goal of a diverse student population.
From the op-ed:
