Jun Li’s work as a professor in Computer and Information Sciences will take him from Germany to China to Texas over the next 18 months.

Li has been invited to serve as chair of three technical program committees in the area of computer networks:

In March, University of Oregon law school student Roma Pawelek suffered a pinched nerve in her neck that caused pain to shoot down her shoulder.

The culprit? An illegal “neck crank” that Pawelek received while training with a partner at a local gym. Injury is the price one pays to enter the world of MMA fighting.

"If you're not getting hurt,” Pawelek said, “you're probably not training hard enough."

New research by a scientist in the University of Oregon’s Institute of Neuroscience illustrates how a gene critical to autism can be manipulated to produce behaviors of the disorder.

A new, university-wide facility seeks your input as it determines how best to support faculty and student research efforts.

The Center for Assessment, Statistics, and Evaluation is a research core facility to be housed within the Office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education.

In the Lundquist College of Business, students learn money management by investing real money, working with real portfolios and creating annual reports.

They also experience another critical component of investment: the annual meeting with stakeholders.

So it was for the University of Oregon Investment Group, which recently held its annual meeting.

Dagoberto Morales grew up poor in Michoacán, Mexico, although he didn’t know it. Everyone was poor.

He migrated to the United States and settled in Medford, where he became an activist and community organizer. He founded a farm workers organization, Unete, now 16 years old.

In a video on his life, he is asked, “how would you describe your experience as an organizer?”

The University of Oregon has submitted a docket item to the Oregon University System asking the State Board of Higher Education to consider a request to equip UO’s sworn police officers with firearms. The meeting is scheduled for June 21.

The breadth and depth of discovery at the University of Oregon was highlighted at a recent ceremony celebrating the 2013 Research Excellence Awards. Honors were handed out to six UO faculty members in history, biology, chemistry, architecture, English and linguistics. The event took place at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

President Michael Gottfredson, in his opening remarks, pointed to the fact that the awardees were nominated by their peers for the awards and noted how pleased he was to be able to recognize faculty for their research.