UO Professor Carol Stabile has received the 2013 Ronald T. and Gayla D. Farrar Media and Civil Rights History Award for her article “The Typhoid Marys of the Left: Gender, Race and the Broadcast Blacklist.”

The piece was published in the Summer 2011 issue of “Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.”

Stabile serves as director of the UO's Center for the Study of Women in Society and is a professor of both the School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies.

A Message From Brian Caufield, the OUS’s Chief Labor Spokesperson:
 
To All Classified Employees:
 
Last week the Oregon University System and your union, SEIU Local 503, started negotiations for a successor labor contract. I am happy to report that negotiations began in history-making fashion with the parties signing tentative agreements on the first day—something that has never before occurred between the OUS and SEIU Local 503.
 

The second of three open campus forums to discuss the issue of arming University of Oregon police officers drew 30 people on Tuesday. The final forum will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, in the Knight Library Browsing Room.

The fourth of five small group discussions with interim UOPD Chief Carolyn McDermed is from noon to 1 p.m. on Friday, March 1, in the Bean Residence Hall Moore Dining Room; the final session is from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, in the EMU Walnut Room.

The UO Duck Store is showcasing Oregon’s people, artisans and entrepreneurs at “Proudly Oregon” – a one-day, trade show style event – from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28.

The purpose of the event is to draw attention to homegrown businesses, highlight Oregon success stories and support the local economy.

A range of product categories will be represented, including apparel, electronics and art supplies.

There will also be local food, beer and wine samples, authors, artist demonstrations and poetry readings.

Amanda Wojick, an associate professor of art and head of the sculpture program at the University of Oregon, will have her new work featured in a solo show at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland from March 7 through March 20.

There will be a First Thursday opening reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on March 7.

Her exhibition consists of a series of 12 welded steel sculptures, each painted a different solid color. The sculptures are made of hundreds of hand-cut steel blossom silhouettes, welded to “prickly angular structures that are human scaled.”

Members of the UO campus community turned out at a recent event to learn about the needs and concerns of student veterans and their families, and how to support them.

Speakers discussed the issues veterans face when they transition from active military duty to campus life and the readjustment they must move through.

Breakout sessions in the one-day symposium included topics such as facing trauma and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), family life and how to transition from the military to academia, and into a career.

Applications are being accepted to the University of Oregon’s 2013 Croatia Conservation Field School, a hands-on experience in the conservation of vernacular settings and more.

The field school will accept applications through March 1 for the program on Croatia's central Dalmatian Coast June 21-July 19. Registration priority will be give to students in historic preservation, architecture, landscape architecture, and other A&AA majors and programs.

UO Vice President for Research and Innovation Kimberly Espy has announced a new award program to support and enhance UO research.

“Showcasing Oregon Research: Conference Support Awards” are available to tenured or tenure-track, full-time faculty and provide partial support for organizing conferences that promote and encourage scholarship, research and creative work.

Walk up to the second floor of the Knight Library and into the Special Collections and University Archives section, and you will encounter utopia.

Well, almost. A new exhibition, "Constructing Utopia: From Literary Works to Intentional Communities in Oregon," contains artifacts and memorabilia donated by the late researcher James J. Kopp (1952–2010) and his wife Sue, who together inspired and motivated Special Collections to acquire and maintain material pertaining to intentional communities and countercultural documentation.