Sociology major helps fellow students find career paths
After spending decades in the professional world, this sociology major has finally found his path—and he’s helping other students find theirs.
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Creative writing professor publishes new speculative fiction book
Bestselling author Karen Thompson Walker has found success as a writer—and as a teacher—by asking 'what if?'
Serenade for La La Land
CINEMA STUDIES - It was a cinema studies major’s dream come true: Four CAS undergrads traveled to Los Angeles to work on the set of Professor Ernesto Javier Martínez’s upcoming feature film. From dressing a background set to operating a boom mic in the trunk of a car, they share what it’s really like behind the scenes of a movie. Read more in the January 2025 issue of CAS Connection.
Environmental Studies Alumna Attends UN Climate Change Conference
Kaley McCarty’s experiences as an environmental studies major catapulted her into a job in higher ed. Now she’s paying it forward by taking groups of students to the world’s biggest climate change conference.
CAS Faculty and Alumni Hit it Big in Hollywood
Our extraordinary faculty, students and alumni have continued to put CAS on the pop culture map with their talent and ingenuity, spawning a list of Hollywood hits that will make you laugh, cry, shiver and think.
English Professor Explores Media Impact on Cultural Debates
In the 1920s, a criminal trial sparked a media blitz. Nearly a century later, everything—and nothing—has changed, says English Professor Mark Whalan.
Engineering the Future
CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY- Antibiotic resistance could pose a problem for humans in the future. Farmers use antibiotics in livestock to combat pathogens, which could result in human consumers being immune to the drug that staves off bacterial infections. CAS students like biochemistry undergrad Favour Foday are working on ways to address big problems like human antibacterial resistance or the looming energy crisis.
Drones Defying Gravity
GEOGRAPHY - Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane—it’s students using drones for mapping! High-flying unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, are increasingly used to map and analyze large areas, especially in a world impacted by climate change. To prepare students for mapping-related careers, the College of Arts and Sciences’ Department of Geography offers a Mapping with Drones course during the spring term.
Unlocking Memory: Brice Kuhl awarded new professorship
PSYCHOLOGY - Brice Kuhl is the first faculty member awarded the Dr. Michael Posner Psychology Professorship in Cognition and Neuroscience. This brand-new professorship, awarded in honor of the Department of Psychology’s groundbreaking researcher Michael Posner, will help support Kuhl’s teaching, research and professional development.
Tiny Invisible Universes
The world looks different in the laboratories buried 17 feet beneath campus, where you can pick up an object 1,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair and peer at its individual atoms. In UO’s underground materials characterization labs, researchers are pushing the boundaries of what can be observed through a microscope. Read more in the December sci-fi issue of CAS Connection.