The Eugene and University of Oregon police departments are urging members of the UO community to make sure their spring break isn't ruined by preventable crime.
Vacation periods in recent years have been prime time for property crime on and near campus. But there are basic steps that can help protect your home, vehicle and valuables.
The latest edition of the U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Graduate Schools was announced today and includes several University of Oregon programs from the School of Law, College of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences. The 2014 edition reinforces several Top 10 programs for the UO as key strength areas.
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It's all coming full circle for Townshend's Tea Company founder Matt Thomas, a 2002 alum of the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business.
Thomas developed the idea for Townshend's Teahouse a little more than a decade ago in a Lundquist College management course. The company website describes the business concept as "to bring together a casual, college, campus-style coffeehouse atmosphere with top-grade loose leaf tea."
Corvallis artist Julie Green’s “The Last Supper” – a selection of some 500 painted porcelain plates that illustrate the final meal requests of U.S. death row inmates – is on display through April 7 in the Artist Project Space Gallery at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.
The exhibition is in conjunction with a series of citywide events including the Eugene Opera’s production of “Dead Man Walking.”
Spring break is from March 25 to March 29, and children in the second- through sixth-grades have a variety of classes to choose from through the UO’s Youth Enrichment/Talented and Gifted Program.
Morning and afternoon classes range from “Creative Writing and Greek Myths,” taught by elementary arts educator Bob Marquis, to “Computer Programming Using Scratch,” taught by Mary Hochberg, School District 4J technology specialist.
One of the two remaining finalists for the second-in-command position in the University of Oregon's Office of Equity and Inclusion will interview and give a public presentation Tuesday (March 12) on the UO campus.
Oregon death row inmate Gary Haugen is fighting Gov. John Kitzhaber for his right to die. The governor has granted the twice-convicted murderer a reprieve, but Haugen does not want it.
The Oregon Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Haugen v. Kitzhaber during its annual visit to the University of Oregon School of Law. The arguments will take place at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, March 14, in room 175 of the Knight Law Center, 1515 Agate St. in Eugene.
All tickets have been sold for the Dalai Lama’s May 10 visit to the University of Oregon.
Student tickets for the 1989 Nobel Peace Laureate’s presentation were made available at no cost to incidental fee-paying students on March 5. Tickets for UO faculty and staff were made available for $20 each on March 7 and 8, and tickets for the general public went on sale today (March 11); the event is sold out, the university said Monday afternoon.
Sit through any of Chuck Hunt’s classes, and you’ll find the adjunct professor of sociology casually interweaving his personal life story with a laser-beam examination of society. His directness and conviction can startle newcomers, but those qualities have made students take notice during Hunt’s 17 years at the UO.
“I don’t really understand it,” Hunt said of students’ interest. “I’m not sure I can explain my style, because what I do is not innovative. I just talk and show films and try to speak from my experiences.”
What city wouldn't be pleased with about $1 million in extra earnings for the year? The city of Salem is thrilled, and has a team of Oregon MBA students to thank for the financial bump.
