Commentary in Washington Post by UO Economist

A guest column by UO economist Mark Thoma, "Making Financial Regulation Work: 50 More Years," is featured by the Washington Post series: The Hearing -- Decoding the Economic Policy Debate. Read more

Yakama Elder Interviewed on KLCC

"I was born in a bear cave," said Virginia Beavert, a Yakama tribal elder in an interview with KLCC radio. Beavert, who by her own estimate is in her late 80s, is currently working on her doctorate in linguistics at the UO and also teaching Sahaptin, an endangered Native American language. Read more

Digital Ethnography Site Launched

In 2006, a group of women in Oaxaca, Mexico took over television and radio stations in support of striking teachers who were being brutalized by state police forces and paramilitary groups.  These women and their stories compose one of six chapters on a new website, “Making Rights a Reality." Read more

Reviewed Across the Pond

The London Times Literary Supplement recently took notice of Mary Jaeger, UO professor of Classics, and her new book, Archimedes and the Roman Imagination. 

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Pakistan Expert Featured on News Hour

Anita Weiss, head of the UO international studies department, was interviewed on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, in a discussion about the impact of Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's move to impose Islamic law in the Swat Valley. Read more

Judaic Studies Scholar Named Associate Dean of Humanities

Judith Baskin, Knight Professor of Humanities, has been named Associate Dean of Humanities for the UO College of Arts and Sciences. Her three-year term will begin July 1, 2009. Read more

New York Times Features UO Green Chemistry Program

A Greenwire news service story that ran recently in The New York Times singled out the University of Oregon's prominence in the field of green chemistry. Read more