The UO Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics kicks off its winter/spring 2013 Public Affairs Speaker Series, "Governing a Polarized Republic: Is This Any Way to Run a Democracy?" with a roundtable discussion, Governing after the 2012 Election, at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 30 in the Gerlinger Lounge.
The roundtable will feature Richard Ellis, Willamette University; Alison Gash, UO; Melissa Buis Michaux, Willamette University; and Dan Tichenor, UO.
A Gabonese delegation headed by education minister Séraphin Moundounga spent a full day at the University of Oregon on Monday and heard descriptions of potential research projects that could result from a new Gabon/Oregon Transnational Research Center on Environment and Development.
The 14-member group – on a U.S. State Department-arranged tour of Western universities, community colleges and vocational schools – took a UO campus tour, looked in on a biology lab, met with Gabonese students at the UO and participated in a reception Monday night at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
The sports marketing world moves fast – but not too fast for students in the University of Oregon’s Warsaw Sports Marketing Center.
A team of four UO MBA students associated with the center bested teams from seven other schools for a first-ever win in the National Sports Forum’s Case Cup Competition, which challenged graduate students to create a successful marketing campaign for a client in just 24 hours.
A 14-person delegation from the west-central African nation of Gabon – including Gabonese education minister Séraphin Moundounga – are at the University of Oregon today.
The group is on tour of universities, community colleges and vocational schools in the Western United States, arranged by the U.S. Department of State.
The Gabonese delegation visited Sacramento and the San Francisco area before coming to Eugene. A trip to Corvallis with stops on Tuesday at Linn-Benton Community College and Oregon State University are next on the agenda.
The Oregon State Board of Higher Education met today and accepted the resignation of Oregon University System Chancellor George Pernsteiner. The board also approved the terms of Pernsteiner's separation agreement.
World-renowned pianist Julian Martin will visit the UO School of Music and Dance to teach a master class from 10 a.m. to noon on Monday, Feb. 4 in Beall Concert Hall.
The public is invited to observe Martin working with piano students on a movement from Beethoven’s Sonata in D Major, Op. 28; Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in C minor, BWV 847; Schumann’s Abegg Variations, Op. 1; and one work from Albéniz’s Iberia, Book 2.
The class is part of the Nellie Tholen Fund Piano Master Class series. There is no charge to observe the class.
University of Oregon faculty members are being encouraged to contact student authors of exceptional papers or theses and urge them to submit applications before the Feb. 4 deadline for the UO Libraries' annual Undergraduate Research Awards.
Undergraduates who complete outstanding research projects using library resources and services are eligible for awards as high as $1,500. A letter of support from a sponsoring UO faculty member is required as part of the application process.
Architecture and landscape architecture students in the “OregonBILDS 2” studio at the University of Oregon are designing prototypes for an annual series of classes that will design and build a residence every year, with profits from each home's sale poured into a fund to make the program self-perpetuating.
A grant from the UO Meyer Fund for a Sustainable Environment helped launch the idea.
From quarterly earnings releases to CEO annual report letters, Wall Street has a language and communication style all its own.
Students in the UO School of Journalism and Communication will learn that style in an upper-division elective being offered for the first time: J410 Strategic Business/Financial Communications dives into the world of 24/7/365 global financial markets, probing the psychologies and issues associated with communicating with Wall Street investors.
Five careful readers of AroundtheO are receiving stainless steel travel mugs after their numbers were drawn in an unannounced "Friday surprise" scavenger hunt drawing Friday afternoon.
The mug winners were chosen from 458 correct responses to this week's daily scavenger hunt questions. All of this week's correct responses will remain in play for the drawing on Friday, Feb. 1 – for a new, retina display iPad.
