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Free family day event to be held at UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Pacific Continental Bank Free Day: Family Detective Day to take place on Oct. 18

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Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art symposium to explore conservation of contemporary and public art

Brian Considine, of the Getty Museum, is the keynote speaker for the Conservation Symposium Northwest

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UO museums offer free admission for Smithsonian magazine's Museum Day

UO museums offer free admission for Smithsonian magazine's Museum Day

Visit the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art for free on Sept. 27

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Museum of Natural and Cultural History to host volunteer open house

Community members are encouraged to volunteer at the museum

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Grand opening weekend at University of Oregon in Portland

Grand opening weekend at University of Oregon in Portland

UO invites the public to tour the facility and art exhibits, attend a free concert or lecture

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Contemporary Cuban Art makes West Coast premiere at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Contemporary Cuban Art makes West Coast premiere at Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

West Coast premiere of "Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from The Farber Collection" opens Oct. 4.

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Free admission offered at UO museums on home football weekends

The UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art invite all inside

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Young artists' reception at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Young artists' reception at the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History

If the Shoe Fits – Kids Contemplate Shoes features artwork by local fourth graders

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UO students putting on show for June's First Thursday in Portland

Digital arts projects and architecture designs on display in Old Town's White Stag Block facility

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Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art hosts Korean textile lecture and workshop

Textiles expert, Jiseon Lee Isbara, to lead special sessions as part of 2007-08 Farwest Steel Lecture Series

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Visiting architecture professor Thomas Hubka to lecture in Portland and Eugene

Hubka, a UO alumnus, will speak about his research on historic wooden synagogues

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Family day activities to focus on connections between shoes, culture, history

Visitors to the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History can play games, decorate shoes and explore a new exhibit during "Does the Shoe Fit? A Family Day of Art and Learning."

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$1 million gift will help bring major art exhibitions to Oregon

$1 million gift will help bring major art exhibitions to Oregon

Foundation fulfills Coeta Barker's wishes for UO Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

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UO to sponsor talks by Richard Taruskin, expert on music history, censorship

Is it ever apropriate to censor musical or dramatic works that contain offensive text? What if the language is anti-Semitic or racist? Musicologist Richard Taruskin will explore these and other questions about censorship during two Kritikos Lectures.

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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)

UO's Hutchison is part of ACS's touting of global sustainability via chemistry

Face shot of Jim HutchisonCheck out Jim Hutchison's participation in an American Chemical Society production of its "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions" Podcast, in which the society says: "Faced with concerns about dwindling petroleum supplies and environmental pollution, we must begin to consume in a new and more sustainable way." (Listen in)

Also, still available is a report featuring Hutchison by ScienCentral: Some are calling it a revolution in manufacturing technology. But, will nanotechnology be a "green" industry? It’s a question that some scientists are saying needs to be answered now, before nanotech goes big-time. (Check it out)

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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)

 


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