Artists are encouraged to submit their work by March 25 – or by April 5, if delivered in person – to be considered for the UO's Erb Memorial Union annual art acquisition program.
The program, known as the Pacific Northwest Art Annual, is presented by the EMU Cultural Forum. The piece that earns "Best in Show" honors will be purchased and become part of the EMU's permanent art collection.
The 2013 West Regional Meeting of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) will take place March 22 to 24 at the UO's Ford Alumni Center.
The theme of the three-day meeting is “Green Materials: Sustainable Approaches to Tomorrow’s Challenges.” Jim Hutchison, a green chemistry pioneer who holds the UO’s Lokey-Harrington Chair in Chemistry, will deliver the keynote address.
A pair of University of Oregon psychologists' new book about deceit and the deep-seated reasons people cover it up hit bookstands earlier this month.
"Blind to Betrayal," by Jennifer Freyd and Pamela Birrell, presents case studies of unfaithful spouses, abuse by powerful authority figures and corrupt institutions. It addresses coming to grips with betrayal and how doing so helps victims move on.
Tim Gleason, dean of the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication, will receive the 2013 Charles E. Scripps Award as journalism and mass communication administrator of the year.
The Scripps Howard Foundation’s national journalism awards, established in 1953, recognize outstanding print, broadcast and online journalism in 15 categories. Two additional categories honor college journalism and mass communication educators for excellence in administration and teaching.
A new study by University of Oregon researchers has taken contact sport to a new – and very scientific – level.
The researchers investigated how the skin microbiome – the microorganisms we can’t see, but help define who we are – is transmitted between players in a contact sport, using roller derby as their model system. The invisible microbes contribute to health in such ways as educating the immune system, protecting people from pathogens and mediating skin disorders.
Ryan Jung, a senior honors student majoring in mathematics with a minor in economics, has achieved success with numbers even before he heads out into the working world.
His book, “Everything You Need to Know for Studying Abroad in the U.S.,” is a bestseller in Korea. More than 3,000 copies of the book, which is written in Korean, sold in 2012, making it a bestseller in the nonfiction/educational literature category. Jung says he knows of no other book like it in all of Asia.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – whose TED Talk "The Danger of the Single Story" has been viewed by more than three million people – will speak at the UO's Ford Alumni Center on Monday, April 1.
The 7 p.m. talk, which is free and open to the public, is presented by the UO's Center on Diversity and Community.
The New Yorker has named Adichie one of its “20 Under 40” writers to read. Her latest novel, "Americanah," will be published by HarperCollins this spring.
The University of Oregon’s Department of Human Physiology will host a March 15 talk, “How People Get Around: The Biomechanics of Walking,” as part of the department’s ongoing lecture series.
The event – Art Kuo, a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan – will be at 11 a.m. in Room 211 of the Lillis Business Complex. It is free and open to the public.
The UNESCO-UO conference on prisons and peace was scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Thursday (March 14) with a keynote speech by Lisa Guenther, a professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University, on "Solitary Confinement: A Living Death Sentence."
The local nonprofit agency Kind Tree – Autism Rocks was awarded a $5,000 grant from Wells Fargo on Wednesday (March 13), after emerging as this year's top pick of students in the University of Oregon's "American Philanthropy" freshman seminar.
Kind Tree's Tim Mueller was awarded a ceremonial, oversized check by Wells Fargo representatives and students from the philanthropy class in Wednesday's Hendricks Hall reception.
