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About the University of Oregon

UO Gateway on Franklin Blvd.Founded in 1876, Oregon’s flagship institution offers a broad spectrum of opportunities in the liberal arts and sciences as well as in professional programs in architecture, arts, business, education, journalism, law, and music and dance. Approximately 16,500 undergraduates and 4,400 graduate students learn from and work side-by-side with the 1,600-member faculty, which includes prominent scholars and eminent researchers involved in breakthrough discoveries.

More than 5,000 students – roughly 25 percent of the student body – hail from the three-counties in the Portland metro area. In spring 2006, the university awarded 5,507 degrees and 339 certificates.

More than 60 major buildings, including cutting edge science facilities, are on the 295-acre campus in Eugene (pop. 140,000). The university boasts facilities all over Oregon, from the Pacific coast to the high desert. The UO is a global institution, offering more than 110 international programs and hosting more than 1,100 international students. Renovations in Old Town Portland are underway and will house a handful of professional and academic offerings in a single landmark center in 2008. UO Libraries have more than 2.6 million volumes – the second-largest collection in the Northwest. The University of Oregon is a member of the Association of American Universities, one of only two such universities in the greater Northwest.

Integrated Marketing and Strategic Communications

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What makes the University of Oregon a special and unique place? How do we share this information with the rest of the world?

These are the questions the university’s Integrated Marketing and Strategic Communications Task Force (IMSC) has been charged with answering. Read more about the effort HERE.

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Media Relations Contact Info

Phone: (541) 346-3134
Email: uonews@uoregon.edu

Staff Members (Position Details)
Phil Weiler: 541-346-3873; pweiler@uoregon.edu
Julie Brown: 541-346-3185; julbrown@uoregon.edu
Heidi Hiaasen: 541-346-3606, heidih@uoregon.edu
Jim Barlow: 541-346-3481; jebarlow@uoregon.edu
Pauline Austin: 541-346-3129; paustin@uoregon.edu
Shannon Rose: 541-346-3314; roses@uoregon.edu

About the Office

NPR interviews UO's Frey and hand-transplant recipient about renewed hand-brain connection

Scott Frey-faceNational Public Radio’s science correspondent Richard Knox reported on new research by the UO’s Scott Frey, who has found that a hand-transplant recipient’s brain is re-mapping its connection – to a donor’s hand the recipient received 35 years after losing his in an industrial accident. Knox talked to the patient, and Frey. (Read and Listen)

Investors worried, tuned into news reports, UO psychologists tell Wall Street Journal writer

Paul Slovic mug shot    Two with University of Oregon ties named to new FDA risk advisory panel

Since 2001, investors’ comfort zone with their stocks has nose-dived from little worry about negative returns to growing worry about their stocks going nowhere for maybe a decade, reports UO psychologist Paul Slovic in an interview with Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Zweig about today’s economy. In same article, UO psychologist Ellen Peters notes that American investors are spending a lot of time following, especially on TV news, the economic turmoil. Zweig’s column, however, carries the message that those who have some cash and can conquer their stock-phobia may be a good position, likening their potential investments to a venture in emerging markets. (Read story – may require paid subscription)

 

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