UO chemistry faculty win Dreyfus Grant for Furlough Friday Science Days

Three faculty members in the UO chemistry department have been awarded a grant for $25,785 from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences for their work on a science education outreach program for middle school and high school students.

The Furlough Friday Science Days program brings Springfield students into the laboratory for hands-on learning opportunities on no-school days. 

UO professor's book "assigned" to Oregon lawmakers

Mike Hibbard, a professor emeritus in the UO's Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management, will have the ear – and eye – of this year's Oregon Legislature in a most unusual way.

"Toward One Oregon: Rural-Urban Interdependence and the Evolution of a State" – a book edited by Hibbard and three others – was assigned to all members of the Oregon House of Representatives as "book club" reading by House Speaker Tina Kotek, a Portland Democrat.

Autzen Stadium access to improve (UPDATED)

Update (3 p.m. Friday): The University of Oregon received approval from the Oregon University System Friday afternoon to move forward with improvements that will create easier and greater access for fans entering and exiting the north side of Autzen Stadium.

The Finance and Administration Committee of the State Board of Higher Education voted unanimously to approve a license agreement that enables the UO to proceed with the project.

CSWS Noon Talk covers “neuroscientific turn”

There is an ongoing debate about the increasing influence of the brain sciences – and the next Noon Talk by the Center for the Study of Women in Society will provide a platform for it.

Faculty affiliate Kate Mondloch, an associate professor and director of graduate studies at the UO Department of the History of Art and Architecture, will examine the neuroscientific turn across the humanities, and in relationship to art history in particular.

UO PEOPLE PROFILE: University Housing's Benjamin Wilkinson

Benjamin Wilkinson is passionate about coffee. He loves creating it, describing it and presenting it. Ask Wilkinson where his favorite cup of coffee in Eugene is, he says without hesitation: “UO Dining Services, of course!”

Wilkinson is the Food Services Manager at UO Dining Services, and though some may call his opinion biased, it is not entirely unfounded. Wilkinson is experienced, to say the least, when it comes to coffee.