Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber attended an economic development forum at the University of Oregon’s new high-tech science facility, the Lewis Integrative Science Building, on Tuesday.
Everything just seems to happen faster for Chris Banek.
He was a dedicated researcher before he'd finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. At 22, he was the senior graduate student in a human physiology laboratory at the University of Oregon. By 23, he had co-authored 10 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and a book chapter on sex differences in the developmental programming of adult disease.
It’s trite but true: The family that plays together, stays together.
You and your family are invited to the annual University of Oregon Family Recreation Open House, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27 in the UO Student Recreation Center.
Your family can join other UO families in celebrating the Student Recreation Center family hours, in an event that is free for all students and employees with your UO identification.
Special Activities include:
DNA sequencing – determining the precise order of nucleotides within a DNA molecule – is evolving rapidly. The sequencing of an organism’s entire genome that once took biologists months to map is now done in days.
UO Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Yvette Alex-Assensoh held the second of three town hall meetings on Thursday to receive input from students, faculty, staff and the greater community on issues relating to a new strategic action plan for the Office of Equity and Inclusion.
The third meeting will be from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Friday in Room 184 of the Knight Law Center.
University of Oregon biologists Karen Guillemin and Jessica Green have teamed with a pair of designers and illustrators from a German company to create an instructional video suitable for teachers to use in developing lesson plans.
The educational production "You are your microbes" is part of TED Ed Lessons for Sharing (http://ed.ted.com/ ). TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It began in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment and Design.
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.”
Charles "Dusty" Miller, longtime director of the University of Oregon's Erb Memorial Union, passed away last weekend after complications from a fall. He was 65.
A memorial celebration honoring Miller will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 12, in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom. His family has asked that friends and colleagues join and share their "Dusty stories."
The University of Oregon has been awarded a $100,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation to award and administer Freeman Fellowships for undergraduate and graduate students conducting internships in East and Southeast Asia.
The funds, administered by the UO’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, offers fellowships of up to $6,000.
The grants allow students to choose internships in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand or Vietnam.
The UO Opera Ensemble, a resident company of the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance, has won second place in the National Opera Association’s annual Collegiate Opera Scenes Competition, Division II, for performers age 23 and older.
The Jan. 3 competition at the NOA’s annual convention – held this year at the Hilton Portland and Executive Towers in Portland – allowed UO opera students an opportunity to learn from a competitive environment.
First place in the scenes completion was awarded to the University of Montevallo, located in Montevallo, Alabama.
