- PMR Affiliations
PMR is located within the UO Division of Advancement and part of the Office of Public and Government Affairs.
Other affiliated offices are:
- Welcome new UO alumni ... 66 years after their expulsion
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:
- Magazine looks at UO fans: In this case, we're talking about the Lokey Labs exhaust system
Writer Charlie Gans, reporting in the March issue of College Planning & Management magazine, says the choice of a laboratory workstation exhaust system for science facilities, as well as its placement, represent a critical step in ensuring the ultimate success of the facility. He then goes on to detail the system placed in the UO's Lokey Labs in a story slugged: Keeping Things Quiet at the
- HPC Wire talks to Allen Malony about 'The POINT of Performance,' (new NSF grant)
The National Science Foundation has funded a project to integrate, harden and deploy an open, portable, robust performance tools framework for productive performance engineering of petascale applications on the NSF TeraGrid systems. The multi-institutional POINT project, is headed by the UO's Allen Malony, professor of computer and information science. Read the story.
- 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.
- 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.
- Archaeologist Jenkins reels in the media with ancient DNA discovery in Oregon cave
Research by archaeologist Dennis Jenkins (UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History) in the online edition of Science on April 3 drew stories by newspapers, radio outlets and television stations. The news was international within 15 minutes of a media embargo. Jenkins found human "droppings" in Oregon's Paisley Caves, and leading experts on human DNA determined the, er, poop came from people living 14,300 years ago. Below is a listing, with links, of just some of the coverage:
- Media Links
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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)