"Here, Bullet"

UO creative writing alum Brian Turner was recently featured in a front page New York Times article, "A Well-Written War, Told in the First Person." Read more

Stephen Receives MLK Award

Lynn Stephen has been selected as a winner of the UO's 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award.  Recipients are honored for their contributions to diversity and equity efforts in the university community. Read more

CAS Faculty Publish More Than 40 Books

A recent Dean's reception honored books published by CAS faculty in 2008-2009. Scott Coltrane, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, highlighted three authors whose books have received special accolades. Read more

Int'l Treaty Expert Debriefs Copenhagen

UO political scientist Ron Mitchell was among the authoritative voices called on to reflect on the  international climate change meeting that took place in mid-December in Copenhagen. Read more

Three CAS Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

A UO physicist, Jim Brau, and two UO chemists, Victoria DeRose and David Tyler, have been chosen as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers. Read more

Mysteries of Brain Development Revealed, on DVD

It is the consistency of room-temperature butter, fits easily into two outstretched hands and contains a galaxy's worth of neurons. It is the human brain and the focus of a new DVD — "Changing Brains: Effects of Experience on Human Development" — produced by the UO's Brain Development Lab. Read more

"Telling" Travels to DC for Veterans Day

Imagine returning from Iraq or Afghanistan, thrilled to be home but uncertain about how you’ll be received by the country for which you fought, a country increasingly ambivalent about these wars. Or imagine going back to college, trying to contribute in class, but being told you can’t speak about your military experiences. Read more

Worm Sex Study Spotlighted by NSF.gov

To mate or not to mate? That's the question for some of nature's creatures that have the option of partnerless self-reproduction. And according to a highly publicized study from a team of UO biologists the answer is "mate," at least if the goal is evolutionary success. Read more

Rewriting Computer Science's Gender Code

Sexism isn’t rampant in computer science, says Kiki Davis, but it’s there — simmering beneath the surface, an undercurrent that bubbles up with small, insensitive comments and unfair assumptions. Case in point: When Davis, a first-year graduate student in Computer and Information Science (CIS) recently went to a computer repair store, a male worker felt the need to offer a long-winded explanation of the difference between hardware and software. Read more

UO Creative Writing MFA Ranked #10 by Poets & Writers

The UO's MFA program in creative writing was ranked 10th in the nation by Poets & Writers Magazine in an online story that will appear in its upcoming November/December issue. UO is also fifth in the country in the magazine's postgraduate placement category, which ranks schools based on fellowships and awards. Read more

Medical Historian Diagnoses Health Care Ills for HistoryNet

UO Medical Historian Jim Mohr offered his prescription for what ails the American health care system in a recent interview with HistoryNet, the Web site of American History magazine. Fielding a wide range of questions, Mohr argued that doctors are too automonous and face too little accountability and that health care is already being rationed under the current system. Read more

CAS Researchers Receive Millions in Recovery Grants

CAS researchers won the vast majority of the thirty-four grants totaling $12.3 million awarded to the university under the federal government's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. ARRA funding for scientific research includes major increases from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, which are the primary focus of UO requests Read more

Facebook Happiness Index Makes the New York Times

Stock market reports can give us daily snapshots of the country's economic health, but what if another kind of measurement similarly disclosed our country's mental health? UO psychology doctoral student Adam Kramer thinks his Gross National Happiness Index, which was featured in an Oct. 11 New York Times article, could be the first step in creating such a tracking system. Read more

Wired Humanities Projects to Document Aztec Language

The Wired Humanities Projects at the University of Oregon will engage in a three-year research project to document the Aztec language, Nahuatl, which is. spoken by millions of people. Read more

Preserving Endangered Languages

Roger Jacob knew he had to do one thing when he heard that Virginia Beavert was moving to Eugene, Oregon — follow her. So he left his home in Washington state and enrolled in graduate school at the University of Oregon. Read more