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Transforming Lives
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| Takiya Ahmed, the first Haugland Foundation Fellow |
Transforming Lives is about changing the future—for our students and faculty, for our alumni and friends, for our state and our nation. It’s about producing good citizens, extending the frontiers of knowledge, strengthening our economy, and making the world a better place. These stories are representative of the ways in which private gifts impact student learning and achievement.
“The Freedom to Focus”
“The Haugland Fellowship gives me the freedom to focus on research—without worrying about how to fund myself through grants or teaching,” says Takiya Ahmed, the first Haugland Foundation Fellow. “I am very fortunate.” With a second gift, the foundation will assist senior faculty members in pure and applied chemistry to focus on their research. The Haugland Foundation Chair in Pure and Applied Chemistry is the first fully-endowed chair in the department’s 100-year history of excellence.
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| Mark Spence lectured in the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History series “Changing Perspectives on the Expedition,” which marked the occasion of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. |
Recruiting the Best for the West
The study of the American West is a particular strength of UO’s history department, according to Dean Joe Stone. To further strengthen this area, Rocky ’78 and Julie Dixon created the Rock ‘N’ J Chair in the Department of History. The honor will be awarded to an exceptional faculty member focusing on the period of American history that begins with Lewis and Clark and the opening of the West and extends to the present.
Milestone for German
Philip ’67 and Teresa Hansen established two endowed scholarships in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. These are the first endowed scholarships for the department, which ranks 11th nationally for its number of German majors.
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| Undergraduate actors perform “Shakespeare A La Carte” on the Robinson Theatre stage. |
Professing Shakespeare
In honor of his former graduate advisor, Robert A. Lee ’66 and his wife Gloria established the Kingsley A. Weatherhead Professorship in English, which will further strengthen the department’s distinguished teaching and research in Renaissance studies. A retired humanities professor himself, Lee says Weatherhead was an inspiration for his own teaching style. Endowed faculty funds, such as the one the Lees created with their bequest gift, will help the college continue to cultivate the very best faculty.
A Lifelong Commitment
Over the past four decades, Dr. Robert Weiss and Dr. Barbara Perry have shared a love for studying and teaching psychology at the UO and a deep commitment to the department’s growth and success. With their financial advisor’s help, they purchased a life insurance policy and gifted the ownership to the university, deciding to make payments during their lives and from their estate to fund a faculty endowment in psychology. “We wanted to leave a legacy of support for the department, and assure that the department remains a leader in the field,” said Dr. Weiss.
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| Students help restore the Millrace through the Service Learning Program. |
With Honors
Two 2004 Distinguished Alumni Fellows in the Arts and Sciences have decided to create funds to honor student achievement and service in the liberal arts and sciences. Jack Borsting ’60 and wife Peggy created an award for an outstanding student in mathematics, and F. Robert Miller ’64 and his family established a new project for the service learning program in Environmental Studies.
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| Nancy and Dave Petrone are greeted by President Dave Frohnmayer at a reception to honor their contributions last fall. |
Building on Inspiration
Thanks to a generous donation from Dave ’66 and Nancy Petrone, the Condon Hall expansion project is getting off the ground, and students in geography and anthropology are getting closer to having better access to: state-of-the-art “wet” laboratories; map and aerial photograph collections; computer cartography classrooms; and primate skeletal collections. University students and faculty packed a Condon Hall classroom last fall to celebrate the many tiers of this transformational gift. “It’s the people at the university who inspire us,” said Dave Petrone at the event. “They make the university the kind of organization we want to be involved with.” A portion of the 2.5 million dollar gift will also fund a new biomedical research center, providing teaching, research and diagnostic health programs to the local community as well as incredible hands-on learning opportunities for UO science students. Now that’s inspiring!
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| Professor Susan Hardwick and geography graduate student Maylian Pak work in the UO Infographics Lab. |
Mapping the Path for Future Students
As a graduate student, Sandra F. Pritchard Mather says the opportunities she received in the UO’s Department of Geography helped to set her on the path of success. She’s extending the same opportunity to today’s graduate students by endowing a graduate fellowship fund in the department. “I’m really excited about this gift,” she said, “because it offers me the chance to give something back to the university and, especially, to the department that provided me with so much.”
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