10:00–11:00 a.m.
Most professional development programs encourage exploration of your interests and career options. But career and life decisions are inextricably connected. In this workshop, Laura Murray, PhD, and Kate Thorpe, PhD, adapt the strategies in the best-selling book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans to your experience as a PhD student, whatever your stage or discipline, to help you begin the process of designing a satisfying, integrated, coherent life both during and after graduate school.
We’ll invite you to reflect on what you’ve learned about yourself through academic, personal, and professional experiences and to consider your goals and values as well as key questions regarding future possibilities to begin paving a path to a joyful, well-designed future. Register at https://gradfutures.princeton.edu/events/2025/designing-your-future-phds-primer
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
5:00 p.m.
What is Research? (2025) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.
This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.
The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
What is Research? (2025) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.
This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.
The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
What is Research? (2025) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.
This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.
The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Graduate students! Perfect your skills in creating captivating and concise posters tailored for the Graduate Research Forum and any upcoming conference. This webinar will equip you with the essential principles of modern poster design, enabling you to simplify complex ideas, integrate visuals effectively, and deliver your message within the strict space confines of a poster. Whether you're a novice or an experienced presenter, don't miss this opportunity to learn the art of creating impactful poster that reinforce your research narrative and engage your audience. Register at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/b75dada44ac6432e9100b9271193c184
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
3:30–5:00 p.m.
The Department of History is pleased to welcome Professor Laurie Marhoefer (University of Washington) for the 2025 Pierson Lecture: "Trans Berlin: The World's First Trans Politics, Berlin's Queer Golden Age, and the Rise of Fascism, 1918 – 1933."
In 1918, Germany had a democratic revolution. In the fourteen years that followed, Berlin became the most open city in the world for transgender men and women. They organized the world's first trans political groups. They ran magazines for and by trans people. They helped to establish the beginnings of legal and medical transition, working with city police and with Magnus Hirschfeld's Institute for Sexual Science. Then, the Nazis came to power and destroyed trans Berlin. Yet, much of what trans people fought for in the 1920s has become a reality today. This talk explores the fascinating lives of transgender women and men in the 1920s and the world they created.
The Annual Pierson Lecture is a Department of History tradition that spans back to 1993, when it was founded to honor Stan and Joan Pierson. The Piersons were both exemplary citizens of the community, dedicated to history and education as proven by their distinguished records of intellectual accomplishment and community involvement. This lecture series brings distinguished scholars to the University of Oregon, so that they may share their work in alignment with the Piersons’ interests in cultural, intellectual, and political life.
7:30 p.m.
Join the Creative Writing Program for a screening of Rule Breakers (2025) and Q&A with Director Bill Guttentag, Writer & UO Creative Writing Professor Jason Brown, Actor Amber Afzali, and Actor Nina Hosseinzadeh.
7:30 pm on Tuesday, April 8 in the EMU Redwood Auditorium Free and Open to the Community
Film Synopsis: In a nation where educating girls is seen as rebellion, a visionary woman dares to teach young minds to dream. When their innovation draws global attention, their success sparks hope—and opposition. As threats loom and sacrifices are made, their courage and unity ignite a movement that could forever transform the world.
2025 | 2 Hours | Rated PG
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Did you know you can have someone review your resume before the Spring Career & Internship Expo on 4/17? Drop-in with a career readiness coach or peer coach in Tykeson Hall Commons to get feedback on your resume! Free cookies & hot chocolate too :)
Don’t have a resume? Come learn how to make one! ALL students are welcome to participate!
Want to apply for the Peace Corps? We'll also have returned Peace Corps volunteers available to review resumes and give advice about the application process with any interested students! Ask for Carolyn Williams!
This University Career Center event is part of the 2025 Spring Career Readiness Week sponsored by Enterprise Mobility and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events
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Join cinema studies for “Evolving Animation Through its Long, Lost Past: An Artist Talk with Eric Dyer.”
Free and open to the community.
Animation is still a young art form with many underexplored avenues of expression. Although the lay-person’s view of animation is still predominantly as entertainment on screens, it can also exist as participatory sculpture and painting, immersive kinetic environments, live performance visuals, and as experiences of exploration and discovery. Such forms and experiences challenge us to rethink what animation is and how it can engage people. Artist Eric Dyer draws on all of this and more through works based on one of the keystones of animation – the zoetrope, or the ‘wheel of life’.
Artist Eric Dyer, dubbed The Modern Master of the Zoetrope by Creative Capital, brings animation into the material world through his sequential images, sculptures, installations, and performances. He has been honored as a Fulbright Fellow, Sundance New Frontier Artist, Creative Capital Grantee, and Guggenheim Fellow. Dyer has been a visiting artist at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh), East China Normal University (Shanghai, China), California Institute of the Arts (Los Angeles), and the Royal College of Art (London, UK), among others. His participatory animated sculptures and award-winning films have been widely exhibited at prestigious international events and venues such as the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC), Ars Electronica (Austria), Tabakalera (Spain), ARoS Museum of Modern Art (Denmark), and at the Cairo and Venice Biennales. His talk on TED.com, The Forgotten Art of the Zoetrope [go.ted.com/ericdyer], has been viewed over 1.1 million times.
Cosponsored by the UO Minor in Comics and Cartoon Studies, the Department of Art, the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Department of History, and the generous donation from the Kaplan family.
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Looking for a job or internship and need help getting started?! Learn how to utilize Handshake and networking strategies to find opportunities that align with your interests; and how to get university credit for an internship (UGST404).
This event is part of the 2025 Spring Career Readiness Week sponsored by the University Career Center, Enterprise Holdings, and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events
9:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.
Thinking about a career in Healthcare? Have we got a Friday morning for you! Hop on the bus and let’s go explore PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center RiverBend in Springfield for a behind-the-scenes tour and Q&A with healthcare leaders just for UO students! Learn more about all the different types of job functions needed to keep this growing industry booming--from both the medical and business sides. They are excited to introduce you to career paths, meet alumni and leaders, and show off some of their innovations in action!
This event is FREE, open to all majors, and bring a friend! Must register on Handshake to save your spot! Tour limited to 40 students, but if we have enough students on the waitlist we can create a 2nd tour so sign up even if it looks full!
OUTLINE OF TOUR:
Meet near the duck statue outside Ford Alumni Center NO LATER THAN 9am; We'll walk over to the bus stop (Agate) to catch the EMX to the hospital in Springfield. Tour from 10am-1pm. At 1 pm we'll be done with the tour and there will be a group getting on the bus to head back to campus you can join OR feel free to go grab lunch or have fun in Springfield!
Sponsored by University Career Center and Collaborative Economic Development Oregon. Check out other events happening this term at career.uoregon.edu/events
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Let’s talk about interviews! We will discuss different types of interviews, how to prepare, how to answer certain types of questions, and give you a chance to practice what you learned in a group interview session. Interviews can be nerve-racking, so come learn about strategies to help you feel more comfortable and prepared.
This event is part of the 2025 Spring Career Readiness Week sponsored by the University Career Center, Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Graduate students! Perfect your skills in creating captivating and concise posters tailored for the Graduate Research Forum and any upcoming conference. This webinar will equip you with the essential principles of modern poster design, enabling you to simplify complex ideas, integrate visuals effectively, and deliver your message within the strict space confines of a poster. Whether you're a novice or an experienced presenter, don't miss this opportunity to learn the art of creating impactful poster that reinforce your research narrative and engage your audience. Register at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/e96c6b04da494caeb5998923151098d9.
4:00–5:20 p.m.
Japan is shrinking. How are its cities and towns responding?
Traditionally, Japanese local governments, encouraged by national policy, have sought to halt or reverse their decline by luring urban migrants, increasing birth rates, attracting businesses, and curbing outmigration. This obsession with growth threatens to exhaust already limited resources, closing windows of opportunity for managing a soft landing.
Eventually, continuous shrinkage will force local governments to abandon growth-focused planning and redesign their communities: they must learn to shrink gracefully. Some municipalities are already charting this different course. This presentation argues that shrinking municipalities must break free from pro-growth strategies, embracing more sustainable approaches. These cities are putting socio-environmental concerns at the centre of their strategies, identifying new ways to transition successfully into smaller, sustainable communities.
The event is sponsored by School of Planning, Public Policy and Management, Department of Geography, Ecological Design Center and Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.
7:00 p.m.
Please join us for the April pub lecture hosted by the Department of History and the Lane County Historical Society. Assistant Professor Hannah Cutting-Jones will discuss "Back to Your Roots: Nutritional Advice to the Cook Islands, 1850-1975."
Free and open to everyone!
The UO Department of History and the Lane County Historical Society present a series of talks with scholars about history, from the local to the global. Join us for stories, food, and conversation in a casual setting!
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
2:00–3:00 p.m.
Are you looking for ways to really stand out as a candidate? Come learn about the basics of resume writing and have the opportunity to ask questions on formatting, structure, and bring your own resume for tailoring and much more! Questions are welcomed and encouraged!
Workshop is IN-PERSON, in Tykeson Hall-Garden Level 50P (aka University Career Center Conference Room) This workshop is hosted by the University Career Center's Career Readiness Coaching team!
This event is part of the 2025 Spring Career Readiness Week sponsored by the University Career Center, Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events
4:00–6:30 p.m.
The United States has the largest tech market in the world (1/3 of a $5 TRILLION industry!) and overall employment in computer and information technology occupations is projected to grow much faster than the average for all occupations in the next decade! (learn more) The future of the technology industry is so much more than just artificial intelligence and social media platforms. About 377,500 competitive openings are projected each year in the U.S.A. in these highly skilled roles—are you up for the challenge?
Join us for a special industry-connection night dedicated to helping YOU get career ready for your future in Tech. Come to either or both events—Learn something new and meet employers and alumni you can add to your network!
4-5pm Industry Insights Panel
Hear from alumni, industry leaders, and experts about their career journeys, the future of the industry, and how you can be developing the career readiness skills, technical skills, and connections today to thrive in your future in Tech.
PANELISTS
Jillyan Gillard, Regional Recruiter for Amazon
Michelle Regotti UO’20 MS, Applied Physics (Semiconductors), Metrology Process Engineer for HP
D. Blair Elzinga, Director of Software Development for Oregon Community Credit Union
5:15-6:30pm Connect with Tech Employers
Grab a snack & rotate through casual small group chats with alumni, professionals, and employers to learn more about their companies, career paths, and get advice about how to find career-building opportunities and connections for your future in Tech.
COMPANIES: COMING SOON!
Both events are open to all majors and academic years. Snacks provided. Casual Dress. No RSVP is required. Bring your friends!
Sponsored by the University Career Center and the School of Computer and Data Sciences as part of Spring Career Readiness Week 2025.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Network with a variety of environmentally focused public agencies, non-profit organizations, and businesses in a casual roundtable-style event. Over the course of the event, you’ll have a chance to meet with over 25 employers who are looking for interns, volunteers or have career opportunities.
There is no fee to participate, so come ready to network and find your next steps!
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Why YOU should come to this Expo...
You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world. You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!). You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply. You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about. Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner. You want a FREE professional headshot! Dress to impress and get a headshot taken you can use on your Linkedin!WHO'S COMING? Find your career fit with over 70+ employers comprised of private industry; public, educational, and non-profit organizations; local government, the federal government, law enforcement, and military--ALL on campus and excited to share more with you about their organization and early career talent opportunities. Open to students from ALL majors, classifications, and identities. Every expo looks a little different so come each term to keep exploring and expanding your career opportunities!
WHAT NEXT? Register for the Expo on Handshake today to learn about all the companies coming, and positions of interest you can be researching. We'll also send you tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo, including Career Readiness Week workshops like our Resume Extravaganza so you can have a great resume to hand to potential employers!
The University Career Center gives a special thanks to Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Spring Career Readiness Week events and workshops!
For a full list of Spring Career Readiness Week (April 11–18) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events
12:15–1:45 p.m.
Chloe Thurston, Northwestern; and Emily Zackin, Johns Hopkins; will discuss their forthcoming book. The Political Development of American Debt Relief traces how geographic, sectoral, and racial politics shaped debtor activism over time, enhancing our understanding of state-building, constitutionalism, and social policy.
4:00 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
We are at a moment when it is vitally important to imagine and articulate what makes us human. The steady drumbeat of news about AI, about ever more competent models achieving unprecedented milestones, raises questions about what the role for humans will be in the not-so-distant future. We have seen similar moments before. For hundreds of years, automation has pushed people into new relations with technology, with work, and with each other. And scholars have long come up with different answers to explain the uniquely human contribution: e.g., mental versus manual labor, creativity versus rote work. But today’s technologists are tackling new terrain: the mechanization of human relationship.
Join us as the 2024–25 Cressman Lecturer Allison Pugh gives a talk titled “Re-imagining the Other/Ourselves: Finding the Human in the Age of AI” on Thursday, April 17, 2025 at 4 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room. Based on five years of ethnographic research, Pugh offers a humanistic response to the rise of AI, one that probes the profound meaning of human connection, reckons with the challenges of seeing and being seen, and reimagines what we know of ourselves and others in light of the automation challenge.
Allison Pugh is a professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University. She writes about how people forge connections and find meaning and dignity at work and at home. In her latest book The Last Human Job:The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World (2024), Pugh develops the concept of “connective labor,” the collaborative work of emotional recognition. This includes three key components—empathetic listening, emotion management, and the act of “witnessing,” in which one individual reflects what they have seen and heard. Drawing on years of interview and observational data, Pugh shows how in sectors like education, healthcare, and therapy, this work is increasingly systemized—a process that she argues makes it ripe for eventual mechanization. In the face of teacher shortages and hype around “chatbot therapists,” Pugh makes a case for connective labor’s value to society and the potential consequences for inequality should it become a scarce commodity.
In addition, Pugh is the author of The Tumbleweed Society: Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity (2015), Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture (2009), and an edited volume Beyond the Cubicle: Job Insecurity, Intimacy, and the Flexible Self(2016).
Pugh’s talk, part of this year’s “Re-imagine” series, is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed and recorded. Please register at ohc.uoregon.edu
7:00 p.m.
The Creative Writing Program invites you to a poetry reading with Henri Cole.
Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to a French mother and an American father. He has published eleven collections of poetry and received many awards, including the Jackson Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Rome prize, the Berlin Prize, the Lenore Marshall Award, and the Medal in Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has also published Orphic Paris, a memoir. He teaches at Claremont McKenna College.
For more information about the Creative Writing Reading Series, please visit https://humanities.uoregon.edu/creative-writing/reading-series
Free and open to the public.
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Join Ms. Ilana Sol, documentary filmmaker and archival producer, for a special screening of her film Samurai in the Oregon Sky.
Following the screening, Ms. Sol will discuss the inspiration behind the film, the research process, and the stories uncovered along the way. She will also take questions from the audience.
Samurai in the Oregon Sky is a compassionate and engaging film that tells the story of Fujita Nobuo, the only Japanese pilot to bomb the US mainland during World War II, and the connections he formed with Brookings, Oregon, the site of his attack.
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Want to learn more about graduate school or different types of part-time/full-time jobs, internships, volunteer opportunities, and careers in the health professions? The Health Grad & Career Expo is your chance to get curious about your present and future in healthcare! This expo is a mix of graduate schools, health-related businesses, non-profits, and government agencies excited to share more with you about their organization/program and early career talent and educational opportunities. Great for students exploring career paths as well as students ready to start applying for the year ahead.
Register on Handshake today to learn about all the schools and organizations coming, positions of interest, and get tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo.
For more information, visit the Unviersity Career Center in Tykeson-Garden Level to learn more about how the UCC supports students applying to grad school through career coaching and document reviews! Also check out our NEW online career exploration resources around Health & Scientific Discovery!
6:00–7:30 p.m.
Will Jones, professor of history at the University of Minnesota, will deliver the Bob Bussel Labor History Lecture on April 24, 2025.
The UO Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) created the lecture in recognition of Bob Bussel’s years of service as LERC’s director and an affiliated member of the UO history department. The lecture features historians with a distinguished record of scholarship, a commitment to public history, and an interest in labor and working-class issues. Will Jones is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota with a particular interest in issues of race and class. Professor Jones is the author of two books and numerous articles on labor and working-class history. He is also a past president of the Labor and Working-Class History Association.
6:00–10:00 p.m.
The Women’s Center is beyond excited to invite you to our annual Take Back the Night Rally, March and Speak-Out Against Sexual and Domestic Violence.
Take Back the Night is on Thursday, April 24th, 2025 starting with the Rally at 6:00pm followed by the March at 7:00pm and Student-Led Speak-Out at 8pm.
The Rally begins in the EMU Amphitheater at 13th and University St. followed by an approximately 1.6 mile March from the UO Campus through the streets of Eugene and back to UO Campus in the EMU Cedar and Spruce Rooms where the Student-Led Speak Out (by and for students) is held.
The UO Women’s Center holds this event in collaboration with the UO Campus Community (UO Muxeres, UOIWMGW, Prevention SVPE,UO Green and Yellow Garter Band and more). Community Collaborators will be on hand from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm at tables surrounding the Rally Area.
Take Back the Night Rally, March and Speak-Out Against Sexual and Domestic Violence is an event for the entire University of Oregon Campus Community. Take Back the Night is a yearly international protest founded in 1976 which seeks to raise awareness about the realities of Sexual and Domestic Violence on campus and in the community, both for Survivors of Sexual and Domestic Violence and those who want to support and bear witness in solidarity. Take Back the Night is a Survivor-Centered event that begins with a Rally in the EMU Amphitheater, continues as a March through the streets of Eugene to symbolize reclaiming people’s safety on public streets at night, and ends with a Student-Led Speak-Out on campus during which Survivors and Allies can share personal stories of how Sexual and Domestic Violence has impacted their lives.
The Rally will feature UO Student Speakers from diverse intersecting identities and lived experiences, including the Native American Community, Latine Community, LGBTQIA2S+ Community, a Child Abuse Prevention Advocacy Organization and more.
Our theme for this year’s event is REST IS RESISTANCE, inspired by the work of Black Activist Tricia Hersey. As well, we will continue to center marginalized communities too often left out of essential dialogue about Sexual and Domestic Violence - despite being disproportionately impacted by these systems of oppression. As always, the Women’s Center is committed to providing this essential event to support Survivors, educate the community and prevent future harm.
ASL Interpretation will be provided at the Rally. This event is wheelchair accessible and will have transportation available during the March and back to Student-Led Speak-Out. We ask that no UO Professional Staff or Media be present during the Student Led Speak-Out portion of the event to provide a sacred space for students to have dialogue circles of peer-to-peer support.Event will take place **rain or shine** and is free and open to the public. We support and believe survivors in ALL WEATHER! Masks are not required but highly encouraged. Questions regarding Take Back the Night should be directed to
UO Women’s Center Program Assistant, Karyn Schultz (karyns@uoregon.edu) UO Women's Center Leadership Fellow, alejandra pedraza (apedraza@uoregon.edu) UO Women’s Center Sexual Violence Prevention & Education Student Coordinator, Lola Sponaas (svpewc@uoregon.edu)
7:00 p.m.
The Department of Cinema Studies proudly announces the 10th Annual Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Series with award-winning Director Sean Wang.
Join cinema studies for a screening of Sean Wang’s 2024 feature film DÌDI (弟弟) followed by an in-person Q&A and reception with the award-winning writer and director.
Free and open to the community.
For more information about the screening, please visit cinema.uoregon.edu.
Sean Wang is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker from the Bay Area. He began his career developing and directing commercials at Google Creative Lab. Since then, his work has screened at globally renowned film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, and TIFF. He is a former Sundance Ignite and TAAF fellow, and 2023 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab Fellow. In 2024, he was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Artist and received the Sundance Vanguard Award for Fiction.
His most recent short film, Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma), premiered at SXSW 2023 where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award and was acquired by Disney+. It went on to screen at dozens of film festivals worldwide, earning top honors at AFI Fest and SIFF, and was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
His feature directorial debut, Dìdi (弟弟), premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast, and was acquired by Focus Features for a global theatrical release. Sean was nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film and the film was named a New York Times Critics Pick, nominated for 4 Independent Spirit Awards, winning 2 for Best First Screenplay and Best First Feature, and was named one of the top ten independent films of 2024 by the National Board of Review.
The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.
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The Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies welcomes Kit Myers, Assistant Professor of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced, for a talk on “The Violence of Love: Race, Adoption, and Family in the United States.”
12:00 pm on Friday, April 25 in EMU Crater Lake North (Room 146) Free and Open to the Public
The Violence of Love challenges the narrative that adoption is a solely loving act that benefits birth parents, adopted individuals, and adoptive parents–a narrative that is especially pervasive with transracial and transnational adoptions. Using interdisciplinary methods of archival, legal, and discursive analysis, Kit W. Myers comparatively examines the adoption of Asian, Black, and Native American children by White families in the United States. He shows how race has been constructed relationally to mark certain homes, families, and nations as spaces of love, freedom, and better futures–in contrast to others that are not–and argues that violence is attached to adoption in complex ways. Propelled by different types of love, such adoptions attempt to transgress biological, racial, cultural, and national borders established by traditional family ideals. Yet they are also linked to structural, symbolic, and traumatic forms of violence. The Violence of Love confronts this discomforting reality and rethinks theories of family to offer more capacious understandings of love, kinship, and care.
Cosponsored by the Mellon Foundation.
Kit Myers is transracial and transnational adoptee from Hong Kong and grew up in Oregon. He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of California, San Diego in ethnic studies and his B.S. in ethnic studies and journalism from the University of Oregon. His book, The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States, was recently published with the University of California Press (2025). Myers has published journal articles in Adoption Quarterly, Critical Discourse Studies, Adoption & Culture, and Amerasia. He has also written on issues of race and policing. He serves on the executive committee for the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture and previously served on the leadership team of the Adoption Museum Project. When Myers is not working, he loves spending time with his partner and two kids, being in nature, watching sports, coaching his daughters' soccer teams, and visiting family in Oregon.
2:00 p.m.
The Department of Cinema Studies proudly announces the 10th Annual Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Series with award-winning Director Sean Wang.
Join cinema studies for masterclass with award-winning Director Sean Wang. He will share his creative process for developing and directing scenes from his independent feature DÌDI , including ideas and techniques for casting, blocking, and working collaboratively on set with both talent and crew.
Open to UO students • Priority to CINE majors • Space is limited Register to attend by April 14.
For more information about the masterclass and to RSVP, please visit cinema.uoregon.edu.
Sean Wang is an Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker from the Bay Area. He began his career developing and directing commercials at Google Creative Lab. Since then, his work has screened at globally renowned film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, and TIFF. He is a former Sundance Ignite and TAAF fellow, and 2023 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Lab Fellow. In 2024, he was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Artist and received the Sundance Vanguard Award for Fiction.
His most recent short film, Nǎi Nai & Wài Pó (Grandma & Grandma), premiered at SXSW 2023 where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award and was acquired by Disney+. It went on to screen at dozens of film festivals worldwide, earning top honors at AFI Fest and SIFF, and was nominated for Best Documentary Short Film at the 96th Academy Awards.
His feature directorial debut, Dìdi (弟弟), premiered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival where it won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award, Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast, and was acquired by Focus Features for a global theatrical release. Sean was nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film and the film was named a New York Times Critics Pick, nominated for 4 Independent Spirit Awards, winning 2 for Best First Screenplay and Best First Feature, and was named one of the top ten independent films of 2024 by the National Board of Review.
The UO Cinema Studies Visiting Filmmaker Series is Funded by the Generous Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment.
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
4:00–5:30 p.m.
Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mosbacher Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He also chairs the Hoover Institution Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific Region and is the principal investigator of the Global Digital Policy Incubator, part of Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Diamond has served as a consultant to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and advised and lectured to the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other agencies dealing with governance and development. His books include In Search of Democracy (2016), and The Spirit of Democracy (2008). He has edited or coedited some fifty books on democratic development around the world.
Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and a faculty member of FSI's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He is also director of Stanford's Ford Dorsey Master's in International Policy. Fukuyama has written widely on issues in development and international politics. His 1992 book, The End of History and the Last Man, has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. His latest book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, was published in May 2022.
This event is sponsored by the School of Global Studies and Languages, Global Studies Institute in the Division of Global Engagement, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, and the Department of Political Science.
Free and open to the public.
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
4:00–7:00 p.m.
The Division of Graduate Studies invites you to a celebration of the research, scholarship, and creative expressions of UO graduate students. The forum regularly showcases the work of more than 100 students representing more than 35 disciplines. Join us for the popular poster and networking session !
To participate, all graduate-level students are invited to submit a proposal by April 16, 2025. All accepted posters will be judged. Posters are categorized by field; first place in each category will win $300.
For more information, go to https://graduatestudies.uoregon.edu/forum
7:00 p.m.
Please join us for the May pub lecture hosted by the Department of History and the Lane County Historical Society. Associate Professor Yvette Saavedra will discuss "On the Trail of Bad Women: La Mala Vida and Defiant Women in Nineteenth Century Mexican Los Angeles, 1790-1870."
Monday, May 12 at 7 pm at Whirled Pies Downtown Free and open to everyone!
The UO Department of History and the Lane County Historical Society present a series of talks with scholars about history, from the local to the global. Join us for stories, food, and conversation in a casual setting!
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
noon
Looking for a part-time job this summer in Eugene? Looking ahead for fall job opportunities on campus? Or want to learn more about future work-study opportunities during your time at UO? Stop by the UO Part-Time Job & Work-Study Fair, Wednesday, May 14, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Tykeson Hall 1st Floor Commons area to meet local and on-campus employers hiring for seasonal employees! Bring your resume and apply on the spot, or just look around and learn more about the great ways you can get work experience and build career readiness skills during your time at the UO.
FYI: Work-Study is a specific type of part-time job available to students based on financial need. If a job says it requires Work-Study, you must have accepted an award on Duckweb. To learn more about the program and how to find your award, check out https://career.uoregon.edu/jobs-and-internships/work-study
There will still be LOTS of jobs at this event that do not require work-study in order to apply--something for everyone!
Register in Handshake to keep up to date on which employers are coming to the fair and what jobs you can be applying for!
4:00 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
In an era of increased isolation where civic deserts, disinformation, and technological dependence separate us from one another, how can we reimagine our capacity for deeper connection and sustainable collaboration in our current reality? Deepa Iyer, a social justice advocate, will lead an exploration of the pathways that strengthen ecosystems for social change in her talk titled “Re-imagine: Our Social Change Ecosystems” on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 4 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room.
Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American writer, strategist, and lawyer. Her work is rooted in Asian American, South Asian, Muslim, and Arab communities where she spent fifteen years in policy advocacy and coalition building in the wake of the September 11th attacks and ensuing backlash. Currently, Deepa leads projects on solidarity and social movements at the Building Movement Project, a national nonprofit organization that catalyzes social change through research, strategic partnerships, and resources for movements and nonprofits. She conducts workshops and trainings, uplifts narratives through the “Solidarity Is This” podcast, and facilitates solidarity strategy for cohorts and networks.
Deepa’s first book, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (2015), chronicles community-based histories in the wake of 9/11 and received a 2016 American Book Award. Her debut children’s picture book, We Are The Builders!, was released in 2024.
Deepa’s book Social Change Now: A Guide for Reflection and Connection (2022) is a practical guide for those on journeys towards justice, equity, and solidarity. It introduces an ecosystems framework that includes ten roles that many people play in service of social change values. Over the past three years, individuals and organizations around the world have used the social change ecosystem framework to respond to the pandemic, express solidarity during the uprisings against anti-Black racism, and support multiracial coalitions struggling for reproductive rights, immigrant and refugee protections, and climate justice. Free copies of Social Change Now will be available at Iyer’s talk.
Iyer is the UO’s 2024–25 Lorwin Lecturer in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Her talk, part of the OHC’s “Re-imagine” series, is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed and recorded. Please register at ohc.uoregon.edu
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
7:30 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
7:30 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
7:30 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
7:30 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
2:00 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
10:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
5:30 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
Lanie Millar, associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Fabienne Moore, associate professor of French, collaborated on a newly published book The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act: African Culture and Decolonization (Polity, 2024), a translation of essays and speeches by prolific anticolonial writer, poet, and politician Mário Pinto de Andrade. The two scholars will give the Oregon Humanities Center’s Spring Wine Chat.
Born in Angola during Portuguese colonial rule, Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928–1990) was one Africa’s most important 20th-century intellectuals who wrote in French, Portuguese, and Spanish. In 1956, he founded the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola but was exiled after independence was achieved in 1975. He never returned.
As anti-colonial movements got underway in the mid-twentieth century, Andrade wrote extensively about the urgent necessity for Africans to turn away from European cultural and political models, arguing that communities emerging from colonization should focus on voices from within, on self-representation, and on horizontal relationships among Black, African, and decolonizing peoples. Andrade played a key role in theorizing the international reach of revolutionary 20th-century poetry and literature, Black cultural vindication, and African liberation.
When asked how this project came about, Millar shared, “My initial thought was that I was going to translate five of his introductions to anthologies. Then as I kept digging, I realized there was much, much more material, and a significant amount of material in French. I thought the picture of his intellectual production would be incomplete if I just focused on Portuguese, and I approached Fabienne to collaborate.”
“When you research and teach a multilingual, transnational revolutionary figure,” says Moore, “you are educating students about values, actions and modes of writing. The knowledge that this thinker existed, this is how they carried out their actions, this is how the work was perceived by his contemporaries, it provides an educational impact that is huge.”
Along with the translated essays and speeches, the book includes a foreword by Millar and an interview with Andrade’s two daughters, who are guardians of his work. This work is particularly relevant not only to scholars of African decolonization movements but to anyone engaged in contemporary conversations about race, belonging, and political community.
The Wine Chat is free and open to the public. Beverages are available for purchase and a food cart is on the premises of Capitello Wines. There is ample parking at Banner Bank across the street. Please register at ohc.uoregon.edu
7:30 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
7:30 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
7:30 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
2:00 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Additional Material by Jay Reiss Originally Directed on Broadway by James Lapine Originally produced on Broadway by David Stone, James L. Nederlander, Barbara Whitman, Patrick Catullo Barrington Stage Company, Second Stage Theatre
Directed by Tara Wibrew
An eclectic group of six mid-pubescents vie for the spelling championship of a lifetime. While candidly disclosing hilarious and touching stories from their home lives, the tweens spell their way through a series of (potentially made-up) words, hoping never to hear the soul-crushing, pout-inducing, life un-affirming “ding” of the bell that signals a spelling mistake. Six spellers enter; one speller leaves a champion! At least the losers get a juice box.
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com
Join the Neuroscience department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 8:00 am in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom.
8:00–9:30 a.m.
Join the Neuroscience department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 8:00 am in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom.
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Join the Classics, Humanities, Medieval and Religious Studies, and Philosophy departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am in Straub Hall room 156. For more information, RSVP requirements, and day of details please email asu3@uoregon.edu.
Join the School of Global Studies and Languages for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am on the East Campus Green.
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Join the School of Global Studies and Languages for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am on the East Campus Green.
Join the Sociology department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am on the Southwest Campus Green.
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Join the Sociology department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am on the Southwest Campus Green.
Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am in the Miller Theatre Complex.
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Join the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:00 am in the Miller Theatre Complex.
Join the Multidisciplinary Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:30 am in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom.
10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Join the Multidisciplinary Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 10:30 am in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Join the Comparative Literature department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm in Erb Memorial Union Ballroom. For more information, RSVP requirements, and day of details please email asu3@uoregon.edu.
Join the Environmental Studies department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm on the East Campus Green.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Join the Environmental Studies department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm on the East Campus Green.
Join the Math department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm in Straub Hall.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Join the Math department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm in Straub Hall.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Join the Native American and Indigenous Studies, Black Studies, Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, and the Latinx Studies departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm in the Miller Theatre Complex.
Join the Political Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm on the Southwest Campus Green.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Join the Political Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 1:00 pm on the Southwest Campus Green.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the Chemistry and Biochemistry department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm on the Southwest Campus Green. For more information and to RSVP for the department ceremony, please visit the Chemistry and Biochemistry department wesbite.
Join the Earth Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in Straub Hall.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the Earth Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in Straub Hall.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the English & Folklore departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in the EMU Ballroom. For more information, RSVP requirements, and day of details please email asu3@uoregon.edu
Join the Geography & Anthropology departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm on the East Campus Green.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the Geography & Anthropology departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm on the East Campus Green.
Join the department of Human Physiology for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in Matt Knight Arena.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the department of Human Physiology for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in Matt Knight Arena.
Join the Theatre Arts department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in the Miller Theatre Complex.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the Theatre Arts department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 15th at 4:00 pm in the Miller Theatre Complex.
Join the Biology department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm on the East Campus Green.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Join the Biology department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm on the East Campus Green.
Join the Cinema Studies department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm on the Straub Hall.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Join the Cinema Studies department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm on the Straub Hall.
Join the General Social Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm at Autzen Stadium.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Join the General Social Science department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm at Autzen Stadium.
Join the Linguistics department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom.
1:00–3:00 p.m.
Join the Linguistics department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 1:00 pm in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom.
Join the Computer and Data Science departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm on the Southwest Campus Green.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the Computer and Data Science departments for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm on the Southwest Campus Green.
Join the Economics department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm on the East Campus Green.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the Economics department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm on the East Campus Green.
Join the History department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm in Straub Hall.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the History department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm in Straub Hall.
Join the Physics department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the Physics department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm in the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom.
Join the Psychology department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm at Autzen Stadium.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Join the Psychology department for our 2025 Commencement ceremony on Monday, June 16th at 4:00 pm at Autzen Stadium.
The University of Oregon Department of Linguistics is pleased to be hosting the 2025 Linguistics Society of America Summer Institute. LSA will span from July 7 to August 8, 2025. The Institute is the largest and most prestigious summer school for linguistics in the world, and has been held since 1928.
Some courses will be held on Monday & Thursday; others on Tuesday & Friday (except for Field Methods, which will be four days a week). Wednesdays and weekends will host tutorials, workshops and conferences.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series
Professor Professor Renana Gershoni Poranne, Technion Hosted by Mike Haley
Data are a Girl’s Best Friend: From High-Throughput Computation to Generative Deep Learning
Chemical databases are an essential tool for data-driven investigation of structure-property relationships and design of novel functional compounds, and they are the crucial foundation for machine- and deep-learning techniques, which efficiently map the chemical space and allow discovery of new molecular motifs of molecules and materials for various uses. However, there is a lack of suitable databases of polycyclic aromatic systems (PASs).
To enable the application of such techniques to the design of novel functional PASs, we established the COMPAS Project — a COMputational database of Polycyclic Aromatic Systems. This new database already contains over 500k molecules in three datasets: cata-condensed polybenzenoid hydrocarbons (COMPAS-1),1 cata-condensed hetero-PASs (COMPAS-2),2 and peri-condensed polybenzenoid hydrocarbons (COMPAS-3).3
With this new data in hand, we demonstrate the first examples of interpretable learning models in the chemical space of PASs. To this end, we developed two types of molecular representation to enable efficient and effective machine- and deep-learning models to train on the new data: a) a text-based representation4 and b) a graph-based representation.5 Our dedicated representations not only achieve higher predictive ability with fewer data, but are also amenable to interpretation – thus allowing the extraction of chemical insight from the model.
Using the COMPAS database and our dedicated representations, we implemented the first guided diffused-based model for inverse design of PASs: GaUDI.6 Our model generates new PASs with defined target properties. In addition to its flexible target function and high validity scores, GaUDI also accomplishes design of molecules with properties beyond the distribution of the training data.
References
(1) Wahab, A.; Pfuderer, L.; Paenurk, E.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. The COMPAS Project: A Computational Database of Polycyclic Aromatic Systems. Phase 1: Cata-Condensed Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. J. Chem. Inf. Model. 2022, 62 (16), 3704.
(2) Mayo Yanes, E.; Chakraborty, S.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. COMPAS-2: A Dataset of Cata-Condensed Hetero-Polycyclic Aromatic Systems. Sci. Data 2024, 11 (1), 97.
(3) Wahab, A.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. COMPAS-3: A Data Set of Peri-Condensed Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. ChemRxiv February 26, 2024.
(4) Fite, S.; Wahab, A.; Paenurk, E.; Gross, Z.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. Text-Based Representations with Interpretable Machine Learning Reveal Structure-Property Relationships of Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. J. Phys. Org. Chem. 2022, e4458.
(5) Weiss, T.; Wahab, A.; Bronstein, A. M.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. Interpretable Deep-Learning Unveils Structure–Property Relationships in Polybenzenoid Hydrocarbons. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88 (14), 9645–9656. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.2c02381.
(6) Weiss, T.; Mayo Yanes, E.; Chakraborty, S.; Cosmo, L.; Bronstein, A. M.; Gershoni-Poranne, R. Guided Diffusion for Inverse Molecular Design. Nat. Comput. Sci. 2023, 3 (10), 873–882. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-023-00532-0.