If you started work as a classified employee at the University of Oregon during the Reagan years – or earlier – then this party’s for you.
Human Resources will sponsor an invitation-only event to recognize classified employees who have university service of 25 years or longer, from noon to 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the Knight Library Browsing Room.
The University of Oregon climbed to No. 8 in the Peace Corps’ 2013 Top Colleges rankings, a jump of two spots that reflected the university’s long-standing commitment to international service.
The annual list recognizes the highest volunteer-producing colleges and universities for small, medium, large and graduate institutions.
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The last of three open campus forums to discuss the issue of arming campus police officers will be on Wednesday, March 6.The first forum was Feb. 11 and the second was Feb. 26.
Wednesday's event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room.
Seattle-based choreographer Mark Haim joins an eclectic evening of dance presented by the UO’s Department of Dance Feb. 14-16.
The department will present Dance 2013, the annual faculty dance concert, at 8 p.m. on those nights in the Robinson Theatre in the Miller Theater Complex on the UO campus.
The concert will feature new and repertory works by UO dance faculty members, UO dance students and local guest artist Cynthia Gutierrez-Garner.
Concussions may accelerate normal cognitive deterioration.
So says Steven Broglio, assistant professor at University of Michigan's School of Kinesiology and director of the Neurotrauma Research Laboratory, who will discuss new research in concussions during a lecture provided by the UO Human Physiology department.
It’s been a year – time for Fembot to take a good hard look at itself.
The website, produced by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, is a scholarly international collaboration promoting research on gender, media and technology.
Direct spending by the UO, its researchers, students and visitors accounted for more than $1.2 billion in FY2011-12.
The office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education (RIGE) hosted the RIGE Excellence Awards breakfast on Thursday. The event drew nearly 100 staff and faculty members, who turned out to celebrate “a fast paced and rewarding year.”
“This is an opportunity for us to get together and honor staff excellence, celebrate our accomplishments and set new goals,” said Kimberly Andrews Espy, vice president for research and innovation, and dean of the graduate school.
Prediction: February will be a good month for Marge Wise. She got it started by winning an iPad in AroundtheO's scavenger hunt drawing this afternoon (Feb. 1).
Wise, an office specialist at the University of Oregon's Early Childhood CARES program, had a total of six correct answers to the nine daily scavenger hunt contests over the past two weeks that made up the iPad drawing. Working from a list of 1,103 correct responses received over the period, one of her numbers (681, from Jan. 25) was picked by a random number generator.
A 19-year-old man was arrested Thursday and charged with dropping a rock onto a car from an Interstate 5 overpass at Rice Hill in November, injuring University of Oregon distance runners Molly Grabill and Chris Brewer.
Mathew McKinney was lodged in the Douglas County Jail on charges of second-degree assault, reckless endangering, first-degree criminal mischief, fourth-degree assault and first-degree throwing an object off an overpass.
