Longtime University of Oregon supporters will be honored Friday night at the annual Pioneer Awards Gala at the Nines Hotel in Portland.
Charles and Gwendolyn Lillis are loyal Ducks and have been active UO volunteers and supporters. They received the UO Presidential Medal in 2001 and their leadership gifts made construction of the Lillis Business Complex possible.
The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s music series Museum After Hours features a concert by Betty and the Boy on Friday, May 10 from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. The doors open at 6 p.m.
The UO's very own Friendly Hall made it to Jeopardy! earlier this week.
A staff member was watching the popular trivia show May 7, and "Friendly Hall" was the answer to a question about the first dormitories in the U.S.
Finished in 1893, the three-story red brick building was conceived to be co-ed, with two main entrances, one to the south for men and one to the north for women. Additions came in 1914, 1920, and 1924, and remodelings in 1933, 1951, and to this day.
With autism rates especially high in Oregon and rising everywhere, University of Oregon experts on May 7 helped the public separate fact from fiction during a seminar at the Ford Alumni Center.
The group discussed the latest in research and plans for a center at the UO, during an at-times emotional, three-hour program at which many shared stories of the impact of autism in their lives.
Intel Corporation announced recently that the board of directors elected UO alum Renée James to be president, assuming her new role on May 16.
James, 48 -- who earned her bachelor's degree in 1986 and master's degree in business administration in 1992 from the UO -- began her career with Intel through the company's acquisition of Bell Technologies.
Top psychologists from the University of Wisconsin will present the latest on youth language and emotions during the May 10 Leona Tyler Lecture Series, which is free and open to the public.
Jenny Saffran and Seth Pollak have traveled internationally to speak on changing views of infant language development and children’s emotions.
The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon hosts the second annual CSWS Northwest Women Writers Symposium May 9-11, free and open to the public.
Held in cooperation with Eugene Pubic Library, the event, “Common Ground: Land, Language, Story,” headlines American Book Award winning author Ruth Ozeki, who will read from her latest novel and participate in two panel discussions
Other features include Northwest women writers participating in panels and leading workshops:
The University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art celebrated its 80th birthday on Saturday, May 4 with a gala that drew more than 200 people for an evening of dancing and donating.
Attendees, who paid $80 for admission, also had the opportunity to purchase raffle tickets for art and jewelry. Proceeds from the gala went to fund the variety of K-12 education programs the JSMA organizes to provide essential arts education to schools throughout the state.
