You don’t have to be a graduating student to enjoy commencement – faculty and staff can get in on the fun, too.
With Spring Commencement coming Monday June 17, volunteers are being sought by Centralized Scheduling and Family Programs.
Volunteers are needed anytime between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., and will receive a free T-shirt to memorialize this special day.
Sustainable cities aren’t a concept specific to Eugene or even the United States.
Deni Ruggeri, UO assistant professor of landscape architecture, is involved in bringing them to a destination halfway around the world: Morocco.
Ruggeri will speak at the conference “New Medina: from Pilot Towns to Sustainable Cities,” in Morocco from June 9 to 13. The consortium is the culmination of a multiyear project that assembles experts and stakeholders to share planning strategies for the creation of sustainable “new towns” in Morocco, Algeria and Egypt.
He has walked away with the top prize: a full-tuition scholarship to the Master's of Science in Management program at Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands.
It’s never too early to get your kid interested in math.
The University of Oregon makes it easier, too: The Eugene Math Circle will open weekly sessions for elementary, middle and high school students this fall who like solving challenging problems and learning exciting topics outside the school curriculum.
Leading researchers in the field of programming languages will come to the University of Oregon for the 11th annual Oregon Programming Languages Summer School, running July 22 to Aug. 3.
The school hosts the world's leading researchers in the field of programming languages for a series of tutorial style lectures on current research. The focus is "Types, Logic, and Verification," an investigation of the interplay between theory and practice in program verification.
Mia Tuan has accepted the offer to become interim dean of the College of Education, replacing Dean Mike Bullis, Provost James Bean said, in a recent message to the campus community.
Tuan will serve from Sept. 1 through to the appointment of a permanent replacement. Her work as dean designate with Bullis will begin this summer to allow for a smooth transition in the fall, Bean said.
A witness description has helped the University of Oregon Police Department create a sketch of a potential suspect in a string of burglaries in campus offices.
One or more thieves have broken into faculty and staff offices in Gerlinger, Lawrence, Anstett and Willamette halls, using a tool to pry open office doors and steal computers and other electronics. Ten similar incidents were reported between April 26 and May 23, usually occurring between 6 p.m. and midnight.
For three exceptional faculty members, receiving an apple for teaching may never have been so sweet. Last week, University of Oregon President Michael Gottfredson paid surprise visits to a trio of educators and presented them with Crystal Apple awards.
The Crystal Apple is an annual award given to three outstanding professors who are nominated by students and colleagues. This year’s winners are Richard York from Sociology, Sara Hodges from Psychology, and Colin Koopman from Philosophy.
1. Where in the world were you?
I was in Vienna for the spring term, but it was snowing today. This has been the coldest Viennese winter, a colleague informs me, in 130 years here.
2. What work were you doing there?
Everybody has met that couple: The one who spends and the one who stresses out about the spending.
SOJC advertising student Dan Drullinger tapped into that collective consciousness to win the Allstate Life Tracks Ad Competition. His team's ad “Honey Look What I Got” portrays the relationship dynamic between an over-spender and his slightly concerned fiancé.
The ad was released nationally across multiple online platforms in May.
