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 Tim Clevenger ’86 to Lead UOAA
Tim Clevenger, an alumnus of the University of Oregon with 25 years of experience in management and marketing, has been hired as the Associate Vice President and Executive Director of the UOAA. Mr. Clevenger will begin May 31 in the leadership position that is charged with building lifelong connections between more than 180,000 alumni and friends and the University of Oregon. He assumes the role from Dan Rodriguez who will retire from the post on June 30, after 23 years of service to the university.
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Campus News
 Anstett Hall Opens
On March 17, Anstett Hall was formally opened and marked a special day for LCB. After many years of construction, the UO has a finished state-of-the-art business complex. Thank you to all the donors who helped with the college’s building project, which includes all the buildings in the Lillis Business Complex. None of the renovations to Anstett Hall would have been possible without all of them.
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 Behind the Bylines
Even in an era when pixels are threatening to make ink on paper obsolete, the staff of the Oregon Daily Emerald remains hooked on the old-school joys of publishing a daily newspaper. The 111-year-old campus newspaper remains an irresistible lure for a cadre of dedicated student journalists who get hooked on the highs and lows of deadlines, breaking news and bylines.
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 Undergraduates Recognized for Research Efforts
When UO undergraduate Shelley Grosjean decided to research the establishment of lesbian separatist communities in southern Oregon for a history class, “Rethinking the 1960s,” she turned to UO manuscripts librarian Linda Long for help.
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Korean Studies Gets a Boost with $1.8 Million Grant
 The UO Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS) is expanding East Asian programs and public outreach thanks to a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant. The award designates the UO as an East Asia National Resource Center. The new center, which will be housed in CAPS, will receive $1.8 million over the next four years in programming and fellowship funding.
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Adrenaline Film Project Wows Crowd
 Crowds of students, a red carpet and the flashes of paparazzi style photographers surrounded the entrance to UO’s Columbia Hall late on Saturday evening, April 9. It was the 2011 Adrenaline Film Project screening, presented to a sold out crowd of over 500.
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Featured Alumni
Phil Knight ’59 Sits for Rare Interview with Oprah
 Phil Knight came ready for his quintessential "Oprah" moment. While he didn't come bearing brand-new automobiles for the 400 members of "The Oprah Winfrey Show's" audience, he did bring cool stuff for each: a special pair of LunarGlide 2 running shoes and a Nike+ SportWatch GPS. (Photo: oregonlive.com)
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 Peter Hollens ’05 Sings to Make a Change
From creating On the Rocks (OTR) and singing on national TV, to touring on cruise ships all over the world, Peter Hollens ’05 makes connections in places many people dream of. Peter is a talented individual, but along with that comes a big heart and an energy that is captivating and endearing. It’s no wonder that after he and his group OTR was voted off “The Sing Off,” connections and friendships were made with the other vocal groups from the show. And it is through these connections that Peter began his next project.
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 Caroline Lundquist MA ’06 Selected as a Newcombe Fellow
Caroline Lundquist MA ’06 was selected as one of twenty-one Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for 2011. She is a doctoral candidate in philosophy who also received her master’s degree in 2006. Her dissertation, The Promise of Kindness, explores the nature and moral significance of kindness.
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 Professor Adell Amos '98, Nationally Known, Locally Grown
She's an Oregonian, a law professor, a Duck, and a graduate of the nationally ranked Top 10 program she was asked to lead. She's currently in Washington, D.C., helping to set policy at the national level. For the past two years, Professor Amos has been on leave from the law school, serving as the Deputy Solicitor for Land and Water in the Department of the Interior.
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Ducks Giving & Advocacy
Kelley Monroe ’91 Gift of Life Keeps Giving
 Kelley Monroe decided at 17 that she would be an organ donor because, she told her mother, "It's the right thing to do." Twenty years later on April 2, while skiing, Monroe became the victim of a ruptured brain aneurism and died in a helicopter on her way to a hospital in Reno. Her organs gave life to six people and her tissues helped countless others, says her mother, Phyllis Monroe.
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UO Program Helps Southwest Oregon Prepare for Disaster
 The Oregon Partnership for Disaster Resilience, a program of the University of Oregon, has recently helped communities along the state's southwest coast to adopt recovery plans that would reduce the human toll and economic impacts of disasters such as the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March.
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Community Involvement
 UO and Greenhill Humane Society Partner for “Rent a Pooch”
On Wednesday, May 25th UO students and community members will have the opportunity to “rent” a Greenhill dog and interact with and enjoy the company of man's best friend. Located on the lawn in front of the Knight Library, this event is a fun opportunity for students who aren’t permitted to have their own pets in their dorm or in their no-pets-allowed apartment.
Participants will be able to rent a canine for either a quarter-hour, half-an-hour or hour increment and will be provided toys, treats, and a leash to help entertain the dog. Rent a Pooch is a fundraiser for Greenhill and Oregon Voice Magazine.
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For more information, call Greenhill Humane Society at (541) 689-1503 or their website.
Athletics
 Acrobatics and Tumbling Ducks #1
Top-seeded Oregon edged Maryland’s competitive cheer team 283.482 to 283.352 April 9th in the National Collegiate Acrobatics and Tumbling Association's national championship at the Matthew Knight Arena.
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 Flashback: Top 20 Football Players of 2000’s
With the 2011 season approaching ever so quickly, it is hard to believe that the 2000's have just flown by. The past ten years have brought a lot of change to college football and has seen the University of Oregon football program make strides to become an elite program.
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Travel with the Ducks as They Take on LSU
 September 3rd the Ducks travel deep in the heart of Texas to take on the LSU Tigers in Dallas. Don't miss out on this great opportunity to experience America's newest football landmark, Cowboys Stadium, and cheer on your Ducks versus a perennial SEC power.
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 Six Ducks Earn All-Mountain Lacrosse Honors
The Oregon lacrosse team is well represented on the 2011 All-Mountain Pacific Sports Federation teams. A school-record six Ducks were voted onto the two postseason teams. Senior Alex Breiner and junior Jana Drummond were named first-team all-conference for the second year in a row. UO also placed juniors Bina Barrett, Lara Bennett, Jess Drummond and sophomore Salliebeth Finnegan on the All-MPSF second team.
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 Philadelphia Eagles Draft Matthews
The Philadelphia Eagles chose UO linebacker Casey Matthews on April 30th in the fourth round of the NFL Draft with the 116th pick. Matthews is credited with “great football instincts and willingness to blow opponents up on special teams.”
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Duck Authors
 Eileen Cooley ’78
Alumna Eileen Cooley-MS Counseling, College of Education ‘78 first became interested in thoughts and feelings associated with both retirement and preschool development during grad school at the UO.
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 UO Dept of Anthropology’s Lamia Karim
The new book by Center for Study for Women in Society Associate Director Lamia Karim was garnering attention months before its debut. An in-depth feminist critique of the much-lauded microcredit process in Bangladesh, Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh was touted at the beginning of the year on the Huffington Post’s “Most Anticipated” list.
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Carl Malmgren ’73 MA ’74 PhD ’79
 His debut novel, Paris Metro, is a “you are there” stroll through the streets of Paris in 1925 with the likes of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein and Stearns. When a murder occurs, protagonist Nick Edwards becomes an inadvertent sleuth, digging into things that happened long ago, providing a possible solution to a murder or two. Paris Metro won the 2009 Omega Publications novel contest.
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 Professors Jacobsen-Tepfer and Meacham Win National Book Award
Fifteen years of intense work by two UO professors and a photographer has culminated in a national book award for their exhaustive atlas of a far northwestern landscape in the vast nation of Mongolia. Art History Professor Emerita Esther Jacobson-Tepfer and Geography Senior Research Associate James E. Meacham co-authored “Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai: An Atlas,” which was named the 2010 AAG Globe Book Award for Public Understanding of Geography by the Association of American Geographers. The authors accepted the award at the annual AAG meeting in Seattle on April 16.
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In Memoriam
Chris Kilcullen ’95
 Eugene Police Officer Chris Kilcullen ‘95, was born and raised in Eugene and earned a sociology and psychology degree from the UO. He left behind a wife, Kristie, their daughter, Katie, and Kristie’s daughter from a previous marriage, 11-year-old Sidney, whom he took to as if she were his own child, said the officer’s father. Kilcullen was especially close with Katie, who happily tagged along with him all over town, as he picked up supplies for building beehives or a two-story playhouse for his girls.
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 Helen Frye ’53
Helen J. Frye — Oregon’s first female federal judge — died April 21st after a long illness. She was 80. Frye, a Portland resident and life-long Oregonian, was known for paving the way for generations of women entering the law profession. She also was known for a strong work ethic despite challenges she encountered starting in the earliest years of life.
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 Virginia Johnson Hosford ’55
Virginia was born on July 16, 1933 in Colorado. She graduated from Hood River High School in 1951 and she entered the U of O and joined Alpha Chi Omega and held offices in the sorority. After graduation in 1955, she taught school in Sheridan, OR, where she met her husband, Don Hosford.
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 Philanthropist Harold Schnitzer
Portland Philanthropist and real estate developer Harold Schnitzer died Wednesday, April 27, after a two-year bout with abdominal cancer. Schnitzer also had diabetes for more than 40 years. He was 87. "We say goodbye to an Oregonian for the ages," said University of Oregon President Richard Lariviere. "It is a time to mourn, but it is also a time to celebrate a life that enhanced more lives than anyone can count. Harold's approach to life was simple: work hard, take care of your family, and give generously."
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Oregon News
Summer Field School Offers Hands-on Preservation Experience
 Students in this year’s 17th annual UO Pacific Northwest Preservation Field School can learn carpentry and other preservation skills at sites in Olympic National Park in August and September. The field school offers opportunities for both novices and professionals interested in historic preservation to gain experience and fine-tune skills.
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 Award for Applied Research in Food-Supply Chain Goes to UO
A new “local food coordinator” job, start-up expenses for a grain mill and a 90-acre demonstration farm are just a few innovations already implemented from a UO student project honored with a national award. The American Institute of Certified Planners named the “Lane County Local Food Market Analysis” the winner in applied research for its analysis of how food grown, processed, distributed and sold in the county can boost the local economy.
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 Dancers take center stage at Mac Court Mother's Day Pow Wow
For 44 years, Native Americans from all over the Northwest have gathered to celebrate on the University of Oregon campus in early May. The Mother’s Day Pow Wow and Salmon Bake returns to McArthur Court this year for three days of dancing, drumming and strengthening social connections.
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Faculty News
 Biologist Eric Selker Elected to American Academy of Arts and Scientists
University of Oregon biologist Eric U. Selker, a member of the Institute of Molecular Biology, is among 212 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Selker's selection puts him into one of the nation's most prestigious honorary societies and a leading center for independent policy research, based in Cambridge, Mass. Members contribute to academy studies of science and technology policy, global security, social policy and American institutions, the humanities, and education.
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Trigger Man Professor David Strom
 Professor David Strom has been elected to serve as deputy trigger coordinator for the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest particle accelerator. Located near Geneva, Switzerland, in a 17-mile-long loop more than 500 feet below the earth’s surface, the collider is home to several experiments that will attempt to unravel some of nature’s biggest mysteries.
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 Kindle-ing an Improvement in Reading Skills
Two UO researchers, Stephen Kickas and McKay Sohlbery, seek to harness the power and portability of e-reading technology such as the iPad and Kindle to help college students who have difficulties with reading comprehension. The project could ease students’ academic anxieties as well as their (literally) heavy textbook loads.
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 Architecture Professor Michael Fifield Elected to Prestigious National Fellowship
Department of Architecture Professor Michael Fifield has been elected to the College of Fellows in the American Institute of Architects. Fellowship is one of the highest honors the AIA bestows and is intended to recognize “a model architect who has made a significant contribution to architecture and society on a national level.” Fewer than 2 percent of all AIA members of the current 80,000 AIA membership have been distinguished with the honor.
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Photo Gallery
Executive Director Dan Rodriguez celebrates his upcoming retirement at a scramble held in his honor at the Portland Golf Club.
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