A law that went into effect Jan. 1 requires University of Oregon employees to report incidents of child abuse and prohibited discrimination, including sexual harassment and sexual assault, Provost James Bean said, in a recent message to the campus community. “The duty to report child abuse is new,” Bean said. “The duty to report prohibited discrimination is ongoing.”

The future is unknowable, but Information Services and UO Libraries will be ready for it. The University of Oregon departments have launched a collaborative “Listening Tour” to better understand what faculty, researchers, administrators, staff, GTFs and students across campus have to say about goals, pending initiatives and projects relating to technology.

The University of Oregon's Office of Equity and Inclusion will host three town hall meetings during the first week of winter term to gather input from across campus about an equity and inclusion action plan. The meetings signal the start of a process to update OEI's strategic plan for diversity.

Conventional wisdom says a typical recovery from concussion takes seven to 10 days, said David Howell, a graduate student in the UO Department of Human Physiology.

“Airmail,” a solo show by visiting UO Department of Art faculty member Sylvan Lionni, continues at Stene Projects in Stockholm, Sweden, through Jan. 12. Lionni, who is teaching painting and drawing, represents a new generation of contemporary minimalism and abstract painters. He uses existing forms or ideas as drawings; his paintings are neither pictures, nor primary structures, nor allusions. While complicated to make, they look simple and can be seen at a glance.