Setting specific and challenging goals can help us stay focused and improve our performance during a task, a UO graduate researcher discovered in a recent study, published in the academic journal Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
Courtney Thorsson’s new book, The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture, brings together documents, close readings and interviews to show readers what happened at those gatherings.
Growing up as a Chehalis Tribal member in the predominantly white town of Olympia, Wash., Tiera Garrety struggled to connect with her peers. She felt isolated in schools that lacked Indigenous representation, and her grades began to suffer.
It’s been 50 years since hip hop became a recognized genre in music. What started with the song “Rapper’s Delight” by the New Jersey-based group The Sugarhill Gang has grown into a cultural revolution that has spread throughout the US and the world, affecting everything from fashion to language.
Four months later and 62 miles away, University of Oregon student Marcus Chaknova was sailing around the Lau Basin with marine biologists from the College of Arts and Sciences’ Oregon Institute of Marine Biology and other universities, looking for snails and other organisms at hydrothermal vents—deep-sea hot springs where seawater and magma combine and enable a rare set of organisms to thrive without any sunlight.
In his 2022 book Red Leviathan: The Secret History of Soviet Whaling, the Department of History professor and Ann Swindells Chair explores the fascinating history of Soviet whalers who secretly contributed to the near extinction of endangered whale populations while also ironically providing the necessary scientific research for these whales’ salvation.
Many students at the University of Oregon’s College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) feel driven to extend their studies outside of class, taking advantage of the many hands-on learning opportunities the college offers. CAS spoke with three students in the college who are taking their education abroad, whether it’s studying Italian in a small village, podcasting with marine biologists or gathering research for a doctoral dissertation.
David McCormick, who teaches the popular elective course Happiness: A Neuroscience and Psychology Perspective, offered in the College of Arts and Sciences, has some tips for incorporating mindfulness into everyday routines.
Ernesto Javier Martínez, associate professor and head of the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, has launched a crowdfunding campaign to turn his short film 'La Serenata' into a full-length movie.
