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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

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

Law professors Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres to speak on law and social movements

Noted legal scholar to discuss “James Madison’s Belated Appreciation of the First Amendment”

UO boasts two Champions of Sustainability in Community Award-winning programs

Connections between university and community organizations are honored

UO prepares for record enrollment, welcomes first PathwayOregon students

Week of Welcome activities kick-off in advance of fall term classes

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

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

UO students awarded important scholarships for study and work abroad

UO's Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship is No. 23 in the nation

Recognition as a top program a tribute to students, faculty

Constitutional law scholar Mark Graber to speak on polarization and the courts

Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics will examine recent political era and consequences at UO

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

UO receives largest gifts ever for international scholarships

MyHaggle and Cascade Crews win UO Venture Quest Competition

Conflict and Dispute Resolution program director to talk about climate change

Oregon Quarterly essay contest winners to read from winning essays

Reasoning in a Just society; UO conference addresses issues in argument

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

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

UO School of law to remember World War II Internment of Japanese

Author, human rights activist to present global treaty to eradicate hunger

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

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

Law professors Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres to speak on law and social movements

Noted legal scholar to discuss “James Madison’s Belated Appreciation of the First Amendment”

UO boasts two Champions of Sustainability in Community Award-winning programs

UO prepares for record enrollment, welcomes first PathwayOregon students

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

Grand opening weekend at University of Oregon in Portland

UO students awarded important scholarships for study and work abroad

UO's Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship is No. 23 in the nation

Constitutional law scholar Mark Graber to speak on polarization and the courts

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

UO receives largest gifts ever for international scholarships

MyHaggle and Cascade Crews win UO Venture Quest Competition

Conflict and Dispute Resolution program director to talk about climate change

Oregon Quarterly essay contest winners to read from winning essays

Reasoning in a Just society; UO conference addresses issues in argument

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

UO School of law to remember World War II Internment of Japanese

Author, human rights activist to present global treaty to eradicate hunger

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