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.
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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.
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.
Exploring Cultural Differences through Science Fiction
Professor Phil Scher uses science fiction and alien cultures to teach anthropology—and to challenge college students’ assumptions about humanity.
Meet Your New Latinx Studies Professors
This academic year, nine tenure-track faculty members are joining the College of Arts and Sciences, in what is a comprehensive investment in the college’s Latinx studies-related course offerings, in several departments across the college's three divisions.
CAS Seniors: Stepping into the Future
GLOBAL HEALTH, GLOBAL STUDIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE, PHYSICS - Where can a liberal arts degree take you? These College of Arts and Sciences seniors are charting their own course as they pursue careers in the specialty coffee industry, particle physics and public service.
Rediscovering Indigenous storytelling
ENGLISH, NATIVE AMERICAN AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES — As a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an associate professor of English at the University of Oregon, Kirby Brown blends a deep commitment to preserving his family’s personal stories with a vision for fostering Indigenous research and archival storytelling. Through storytelling and literature, he seeks to highlight moments of love, joy, humor, resistance, desire, and futurity.
Fighting Feminine Genocide
With violence against women on the rise in many Latin American countries, a UO philosophy professor is working to make feminine genocide a recognized crime throughout Mexico.
Student Spotlight - Eugene to Santa Fe
In a theater production class, Grigorii Malakhov discovered a new passion that has taken him all the way to a world-renowned opera company.
Elevating Women Scholars Around the World
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES, ASIAN STUDIES - Fulbright Scholar and CAS Professor Alisa Freedman is chronicling the rise of women’s scholarship during a five-month trip to Vietnam, where she's helping women professors find their footing in the academic publishing world.