As University of Oregon supporters hope for a continued Duck walk through the March Madness of this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament, the university has already risen to the top of another bracket.

The UO is included in the Alliance to Save Energy’s “EE Eight” – a list of the most energy-efficient campuses whose teams made it to the NCAA tournament.

University of Oregon women had a large role in the 33^rd annual Oregon Women in Higher Education conference held earlier this winter at Oregon State University.

For Portland architect William Hawkins III, preservation has been a career-long pursuit dating to a great uncle who met famed naturalist John Muir on a hike at Yosemite National Park.

That commitment to providing the public with remarkable spaces has been recognized by a UO program that named Hawkins the recipient of a prestigious award for preservation efforts.

The University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business has teamed up with Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands on a simple idea with high stakes: a case competition in which the winner will be awarded a full-tuition scholarship to Nyenrode's Master of Science in Management program.

Richelle Krotts, academic program assistant in the Education Studies department, received the 2013 Outstanding Classified Employee award during a surprise "ceremony" March 19 at the College of Education.

The deadline is March 29 for nominations from UO faculty for research titles that the UO Libraries should add through an awards program.

Each year, the UO Libraries adds several new research titles to its collections through the Stanley B. Greenfield Faculty Awards Program. Greenfield was a longtime professor of English at the UO and a longtime personal advocate for the library.

Labor and management representatives of the Oregon Public Employees' Benefit Board will hold a meeting on healthcare costs and benefits at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in the EMU Walnut Room.

The University of Oregon Police Department recommended that residents of the near-campus area keep curtains closed and windows locked following at least two reports of a "peeping Tom" in the area of Onyx Street and 21st Avenue on Sunday (March 24).