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Past Issues

A person walking across a ridgeline with a city skyline in the background obscured by wildfire smoke

April 2025

How will Oregonians feel the crunch from climate change? These economists dug through the data.

a person standing by a volcano explosion

March 2025

Our faculty are investigating solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues, 
from AI to Alzheimer's to ice sheet loss in Greenland. Find out about the grant-funded research projects CAS researchers are working on.

A miniature globe resting on top of an open book

February 2025

Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages is preparing today’s students to 
go out and serve the world tomorrow.

Timothy Chadwick

January 2025

Cinema studies students gain show business experience working behind the scenes in
LA on the set of a CAS professor’s upcoming feature film, La Serenata.

An exoplanet orbiting a sun with stars and galaxy in the background

December 2024

Could life exist elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy? A group of undergraduate planet hunters are helping NASA discover unknown worlds beyond our solar system.

Dean Chris Poulsen speaking to an audience in a classroom

October 2024

How will CAS tackle the major challenges higher education faces? Dean Chris Poulsen has a strategic plan to establish the college as a leader and innovator.

AI robot reading a book

May-June 2024

Artificial intelligence can detect art forgeries and take scientific research in new directions. But its impact on the classroom raises as many questions as answers. Can AI help students learn what they need to succeed in a rapidly changing workplace—and at what cost?

Saghar Salehi

Mar-Apr 2024

Robotics champion and international women's education advocate Saghar Salehi escaped certain death in Afghanistan to pursue her dream of becoming a software engineer in the US. Now the 19-year-old continues to fight for Afghan women’s rights as a computer science major at UO.

Road damage

Jan-Feb 2024

What will happen if a massive earthquake reduces the Pacific Northwest to rubble? The nation’s first subduction zone earthquake hazards center, CRESCENT, brings together researchers and policymakers to help build resilience against the inevitable temblor—and increase diversity in the Earth sciences.

Student and professor analyze ash particles

Nov-Dec 2023

The UO is one of the top 25 higher ed institutions in the US for producing Peace Corps volunteers. For these two CAS students, the Peace Corps is about joining a global community and using their liberal arts degree in a meaningful, life-changing way.