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E-Clips, Sept. 15-17
Top stories from Sept. 15-17, 2007: Chronicle of Higher Education details problems of science grads finding jobs, with the UO's Stephen Hsu highlighted; faces to know on UO campus; and UO faculty member is mentioned in story on Alabama's integration fight.
E-Clips, Sept. 18
Top stories for Sept. 18, 2007: Youth drinking at crisis point, reports the Oregonian with mention of a UO anti-underage drinking message; Daily Emerald reports on student fee disclosures.
E-Clips, Sept. 19
Top stories for Sept. 19, 2007: UO economist quoted in Atlanta's coverage of the national economy; traffic congestion expected at UO on Move-In Day!
E-Clips, Sept. 20
Top stories for Sept. 20, 2007: New UO product design program detailed in the Oregonian, and student move-in day!
E-clips, Sept. 21
Top stories for Sept. 21, 2007: UO's Paul Swangard quoted in story about the controversy surrounding Barry Bonds' record-tying and record-breaking home run balls; R-G story on UO's move-in day focuses on a student, an Army reservist, moving from a large Portland home to a small dorm room to pursue a law degree.
E-clips, Sept. 22-24
Top stories for Saturday-Monday, Sept. 22-24: Housing in UO dormitories are the fullest they've ever been, reports the Daily Emerald; entering students attending Convocation 2007 were challenged to test what they already believe by listing controversial subjects and pondering them, then review them at graduation in four years (Register-Guard); More than 81,000 students are pouring into the state's seven university campuses amid a state budget reversal after a decade of troubles (Register-Guard); and the state's universities, including the UO, are seeking to retain their new students (Associated Press, Oregonian).
E-clips, Sept. 25
Top stories for September 25, 2007: Eugene City Council votes 6-2 to put Autzen Stadium in the legal drinking zones on game days; the Oregon Daily Emerald reports on UO’s already-in-place emergency plans in the aftermath of the shootings at Virginia Tech; and the Oregonian’s report on the UO law dean agreeing to stay until 2011.
E-Clips, Sept. 26
Top stories for September 26, 2007: The Daily Emerald reports on the boom of campus construction and renovation since 1997, with 31 new buildings or renovation projects and more on the way; Nike goes native with a new shoe designed specifically for the feet of American Indians, and the UO’s Paul Swangard, managing director of the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center, says the new product reflects how Nike does business; and the Oregonian reports that a UO student team has won the Student Investment Program Program title for 2006-2007, by capturing a 29 percent return.
E-clips, Sept. 27
Top stories for September 27, 2007: The Associated Press quotes UO constitutional law expert Garrett Epps in its reporting on a stern rebuke by a federal judge of parts of the Bush administration’s antiterror law; multiple business news outlets report on the UO’s new NSF grant to fund entrepreneurship collaboration; and the Register-Guard details UO aspirations to modernize most on-campus housing over the next 10 years.
E-clips, Sept. 28
Top stories for September 28, 2007: The Daily Emerald reports on the UO's approach to student notification in the event of a campus emergency; and the Register-Guard notes that Eugene's 69-year-old Civic Stadium has received a panel's endorsement, based on a UO student's nomination, to put the baseball facility on the National Register of Historic Places.
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UO students to get Mexico travel opportunity to get a look at immigration issues

Edward Olivos, College of EducationThe Oregon Daily Emerald's Jessie Higgins recently reported on a course being offered this summer by Edward Olivos of the UO's College of Education. That story, in turn, was picked up by CBS News and posted online for the world to see. (Read the original story)

Students may still sign up for this unique opportunity to get a first-hand look at the immigration issue facing the United States. For details on the class, click here.

Welcome new UO alumni ... 66 years after their expulsion

Honorary degree from UO

The University of Oregon on Sunday, April 6, honored Japanese Americans who had been students at the UO when World War II broke out. The students -- including Alice Kawasaki Sumida, shown above with UO President Dave Frohnmayer (photo by Dave Martinez, Oregon Daily Emerald) -- were expelled under a federal order and their education cut short. Frohnmayer told the group that "we are proud to claim you as alumni." Read the coverage:

UO Alumni News

1) Keep up on alumni news with the official e-newsletter of the UO Alumni Association.

2) Alumni in Portland have their own newsletter: See PDX Ducks.

 
By ocean 70,000 years ago? UO's Jon Erlandson featured in Discover magazine

ancient points

Mug-Jon ErlandsonPopular science magazine Discover recently spent time with the University of Oregon's Jon Erlandson. The result, a long feature story about Erlandson's research on ancient Ice-Age mariners. (Read the story)

Bureau of Land Management features Jenkins' ancient DNA discovery

Dennis Jenkins on site

The Bureau of Land Management's Oregon Office, which administers the Paisley Caves area where UO archaeologist Dennis Jenkins, pictured above, found 14,000-year-old human DNA, has provided its own story. (Read the story)

For early Northwest inhabitants, it really wasn't all about eating salmon

"A stream of new studies," including work by the UO's Madonna Moss (pictured) and presented at an American archaeology meeting, is raising serious questions about long-held assumptions such as early Native Americans expanding their culture as a result of leisure time created by surpluses of dried and smoked salmon. In a "News Focus" in the April 11 journal Science, science writer Health Pringle reports on the new developments.

Media Links

Oregon Quarterly Magazine

Newspapers:
Daily Emerald (UO students)
Register-Guard
Eugene Weekly
The Oregonian

Campus Radio:
a) Eugene's Classical
KWAX (99.1 FM)
b) Student Run
KWVA (88.1 FM)

TV Stations:
KEZI, Channel 9 (ABC)
KVAL, Channel 13 (CBS)
KMTR, Channel 16 (NBC)
KPTV (FOX-12, Portland)
 
Public TV, Radio:
Oregon Public Broadcasting
NPR (LCC, 89.7 FM)
KOPB (1600 AM)

News/Talks Radio:
KUGN (590 AM): UO Sports
KPNW (1120 AM)

UO students getting a Mexico travel opportunity to get a look at immigration issues

Edward Olivos, College of EducationThe Oregon Daily Emerald's Jessie Higgins recently reported on a course being offered this summer by Edward Olivos of the UO's College of Education. That story, in turn, was picked up by CBS News and posted online for the world to see. (Read the original story)

Students may still sign up for this unique opportunity to get a first-hand look at the immigration issue facing the United States. For details on the class, click here.

 

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