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Experiential Learning

Students in Cahoots with CAHOOTS

Data science undergrads use their analytical skills for public good in a research-based course piloted last spring.

Sprinting Toward Innovation

Student coders put their creativity to the test at QuackHacks, a 24-hour hackathon organized by computer science students.

Serenade for La La Land

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.

Strange New Worlds

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.

Learn Today, Change Tomorrow

Discover what Dean Chris Poulsen has to say about how experiential learning propelled him toward a career as a climate scientist.

Up, Up and Away

Are flying robots taking over? Not in this geography class, where students learn how to control the drones that will help map our future.

Blowing Minds

Have you ever held a human brain in your hand? Or watched in fascination as zebrafish neurons make connections in real time? Or helped develop a potential brain implant? These are just a few of our students' mind-blowing highlights from the growing Neuroscience Program.

Hacking the Job Market

Millions of cyberattacks each year put our sensitive information at risk. A new hands-on major prepares students to become front-line defenders of consumer privacy within the dynamic and growing cybersecurity field.

Little Larvae to Hit the Big Screen

Students from the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology delved into the Atlantic Ocean in search of rare organisms that thrive without sunlight. An upcoming IMAX film will document their journey—and, they hope, inspire a new generation of women scientists.

Student Unearths Explosive Evidence

While cruising the Pacific Ocean looking for deep-sea creatures to study, a UO undergraduate researcher got more than he bargained for—rare ash samples from an underwater volcanic eruption 62 miles away.