Within the University of Oregon's 295-acre campus, its 260 academic programs and its countless websites, a variety of resources are available to help acclimate new additions to the university's workforce of nearly 7,000 faculty, staff and graduate teaching fellows.
New faculty and staff are invited to periodic orientation sessions, but sometimes may come away feeling overwhelmed by the volume of materials.
The University of Oregon will host ESPN's "College GameDay" for the fifth-straight year when the on-campus pregame show comes to Eugene this week for No. 2 Oregon's showdown with No. 12 UCLA on Saturday.
The football pregame show that has made Lee Corso and Kirk Herbstreit household names will be in UO’s Memorial Quad by Thursday morning – two and a half days before kickoff on Saturday.
Four Alaska Native students got the chance over the summer to conduct research on the cutting edge of innovation at the University of Oregon.
They used innovative strategies to isolate novel bacteria from fish. They explored the emerging fields of gnotobiology, live imaging, genomics and bioinformatics. They gained a holistic understanding of biology that focuses on host-microbe systems.
Scholarly journals are the primary vehicle to communicate discovery to the science community and the public. But as the number of journals in print has exploded, the information is getting harder to access due to high subscription costs and copyright restrictions.
Eugene Scoles, former dean of the University of Oregon School of Law and distinguished professor emeritus, died Oct. 11 in Eugene. He was 92.
Scoles was born on June 12, 1921, in Shelby, Iowa, to Samuel Sherman and Nola Elizabeth Leslie Scoles. He was married in St. Louis on Sept. 6, 1942, to Ruby Helen Glawson; after 56 years of marriage, Glawson died on Dec. 26, 1998.
Images of the human brain aren’t just educational – they’re artistic.
Psychology professor Marjorie Taylor has found her niche in something she calls “brain art”; MRI images of the human brain provide her with the inspiration to create rugs, beadwork and other forms of fabric art. Taylor also has more than a little fashion sense – she designs “unusual clothes,” she said, that are regularly modeled on runways in Eugene.
Kartz Ucci, associate professor of digital arts for the University of Oregon Department of Art, died Oct. 6 of cancer. She was 52 years of age.
Ucci joined the UO faculty in 2004 and taught art and digital arts, concentrating on contemporary art practice, time-based media and interactive installations.
The University of Oregon’s Career Center in Portland is hosting the fifth annual Get Connected event on Tuesday, Oct. 22 from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the UO Portland's White Stag Building.
The event aims to bring UO alumni and employers together to facilitate discussion about the job market. UO graduates will have an opportunity to ask questions and listen to a panel of human resources professionals who are also Ducks, in addition to networking with UO alumni.
