A five-person delegation from the University of Oregon led a two-day faculty development workshop for instructors at Japan’s Nagoya University on March 16 and 17. The Japanese Ministry of Education’s Global 30 initiative sponsored the workshop.

Launched in 2008, the Global 30 initiative aims to help Japan internationalize its higher education practices by creating English-language programs, recruiting international students to study in Japan, and providing opportunities for Japanese students to study abroad.

Six faculty have been named winners of the 2013 UO Research Excellence Awards, sponsored by the Office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education

The Office of Communications has earned the UO’s highest distinction for earth-friendly operations, adopting policies and practices certified “green” by the university.

The department was one of seven recognized during the latest round of green-office certifications by the Office of Sustainability.

A study by a UO psychologist confirms what has long been suspected: There is biology behind the adolescent’s drive to self-evaluate at puberty.

A specific region of the brain is in play when children consider their identity and social status as they move into adolescence, the often-turbulent time of reaching puberty and entering middle school, psychology professor Jennifer Pfeifer said. She is director of the department's Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab.

The monthly Schnitzer Cinema at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art will host the Black Maria Film and Video Festival at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8.

The evening will include a live Skype conversation with festival director John Columbus. Cinema Pacific Film Festival co-sponsors the free event.

The University of Oregon is pleased to host special guest artists, the jazz ensemble Refuge Trio. In addition, two lectures by Trotter Visiting Professor Stephen Kelly will round out the scholar’s UO residency. The UO School of Music and Dance is located in the Frohnmayer Music Building on the UO campus, 961 E. 18th Ave, Eugene. For more information or for a complete calendar of events, call 541-346-5678 or visit music.uoregon.edu.

Public Lecture: Stephen Kelly: "Joan Baez at Spring Hill: A Study of Intersecting Histories"

Runners looking for a leg up on the competition will have the opportunity to be critiqued by biomechanical experts in advance of the upcoming Eugene Marathon.

University of Oregon President Michael Gottfredson welcomed the Oregon Social Learning Center's annual conference to the UO today (April 26) by paying homage to OSLC work from more than 30 years ago that supported his own academic research on the causes of crime.

The UO president told his audience in the Knight Law Center he was studying the age distribution of crime and delinquency – which shows a curve that peaks during late adolescence – when he came across a paper by Gerald Patterson, the OSLC's founder and currently its senior scientist emeritus.

A group of scholars who specialize in African American literature will gather at the University of Oregon from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today (April 26) to give talks about their research.

The free symposium is open to the public and will take place in the Alumni Lounge of Gerlinger Hall, 1468 University Street.

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