When the Robert D. Clark Honors College opened its doors in 1960 as a channel for challenging Oregon’s smartest students, the best and brightest were taught in the rather dim basement of Friendly Hall.
The oldest honors college in the country with a four-year curriculum, the Clark Honors College (CHC) bided in that basement for 18 years.
The red “JSMA @ 80” symbol is your guide to new artwork at the Schnitzer museum.
Artwork acquired by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in the past five years will be on display throughout the museum’s galleries during its 80th anniversary celebration. On view beginning June 1, these new acquisitions will be identified with a red “JSMA @ 80” symbol.
Consumer Reports called it “one of the most inventive uses of laminate you might ever see.”
They were referring to UO product design student Katie Lee’s café chair. Judges for the "Wilsonart Challenges..." agreed, naming it the winner in the 2013 contest.
Lee and six other University of Oregon design students who were finalists in the student design competition had their chair designs displayed May 18 to 21 at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, North America’s showcase for contemporary design, at the Javitz Center in New York, New York, in Wilsonart’s booth.
Michael Gottfredson was officially installed as the University of Oregon’s 17th president today (Thursday, May 30), during a ceremony in Matthew Knight Arena at which he stressed the importance of public research universities and “the thrill of discovery, the engagement of learning by doing.”
Think Nike in Beaverton. Google in Palo Alto. Urban Outfitters in Philadelphia.
Corporate campuses aren’t unique, but having one downtown is. Helping design such a campus in a dynamic city like Portland is an even rarer opportunity, but that’s precisely what a cadre of University of Oregon graduate students is doing.
In the early 1950s, the saying was “meet me at the SU” – a reference to the Erb Memorial Union.
That’s also the title of an upcoming documentary on the history of the facility: "Meet Me at the SU: A History of the Erb Memorial Union" premieres at 6 p.m. June 6, in the EMU Ballroom, free and open to the public.
Presented by the Division of Student Affairs and written and directed by Oregon journalism graduate Jonna Threlkeld, the film features interviews with Oregon alumni representing generations of students dating to 1945.
The most recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education calls the UO’s Sustainable Cities Initiative “one of higher education's most successful and comprehensive service-learning programs.”
Chronicle sustainability reporter Scott Carlson visited the UO personally to speak with SCI co-founder Marc Schlossberg and other faculty involved in the multi-disciplinary program, which connects students with cities to create real-world solutions to real-world problems. Carlson also interviewed city staff who offered insight into the importance and impact of working with students.
Three alumni from the Oregon Executive MBA program were honored at the Portland Business Journal’s annual CFO Awards luncheon on May 16 at the Governor Hotel in Portland.
Karen Shepard of St. Charles Health Systems, Doug Shafer of iovation, Inc., and Mick Reynolds of Pacific Continental Bank were all finalists, with Doug and Karen taking top honors among the medium companies and nonprofits categories, respectively.
The annual awards recognize Portland-area business people for their financial acumen.
Eugene will study a redesign of 13th Avenue by University of Oregon students when it considers changes for the roadway in the months ahead, a city official said recently.
The news capped an open house on the redesign held May 28 by LiveMove, an interdisciplinary student group that spent the academic year rethinking the corridor for safety and access.
“Breaking the Code,” a biographical drama and comprehensive character study that deciphers the life of Alan Turing – brilliant mathematician, code breaker, and founder of computer science – opens at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 30, at the University of Oregon’s Hope Theatre.
