LA Confidential: UO Alumni on Media Mashups and Digital Dreams

Please join distinguished alumni in Los Angeles on September 15 for an evening reception and panel discussion on how the rapidly changing landscape of Journalism and media are affecting our lives. Moderated by Bryce Zabel ’76, UO Alumni presenters include ESPN’s Neil Evertt ’84, LA Weekly Editor, Drex Heikes ’75, MySpace President Mike Jones ’97, NBC Universal’s Barbara Biangiardi ’79, UO Journalism Dean Tim Gleason, Stephanie Drachkovitch ’79 of Blue Production, Inc. and Glenn Cole ’92 of 72 and Sunny.

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A Bridge to Chiloquin’s Future

“I grew up in a small town,” Brandon Hoaglen said. “And people there think in small town ways — they think I’ll never get out of that small town.” Brandon is planning to leave his small town — but only so he can go to college and then return to make things better for his community. Earlier this summer, Brandon took the first step toward that goal by participating in the Bridge of the Gods Summer Academy.

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Lewis Integrative Science Building Site Work Begins along Franklin Boulevard

Another new building is about to rise near the University of Oregon’s front door, one that will emphasize science rather than scores. Site work for the 100,000-square-foot Lewis Integrative Science Building is under way, with full-scale excavation and construction of the five-story building expected to begin by fall. The $65 million building will go up along Franklin Boulevard not far from Agate Street and the new Jaqua Academic Center for Student Athletes.

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Sapsik’walá Project Graduates 16 Native Americans Set to Teach in Native Schools

Jacintha "Jay" Stanley is a member of the Navajo tribe, and had never attended a non-Native educational institution — until she arrived on the University of Oregon campus last summer. Through the UO education department's Sapsik'walá Project, Stanley learned to navigate the culture shock of attending the university's program and will complete her journey by receiving a master's degree.

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What Can 11 Hours of Meditation Training Do? UO Scientists Find Out

Meditation: It's not just for new age gurus and Yogis anymore. And, now, new research suggests that you don't have to devote years or even months of your life to the practice of meditation to reap major benefits on mind and body. Meditation can change our brain for the better in as little as 11 hours.

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The Courthouse Garden: Students Work to Turn Blight into Bloom

The old Agripac cannery, which for decades processed the bounty of the Willamette Valley, was torn down in 2003 to make way for progress and a new federal courthouse. But even after the Wayne Morse Federal Courthouse opened in 2006, the cannery lot remained vacant and strewn with rubble, posing a stark contrast to the gleaming, curving lines of the six-story building across the street. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken looked at the lot from her chambers and saw an opportunity to create an urban garden, a place where University of Oregon students could gain skills and where former inmates could work while they sought to get their lives back on track.

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Clark Honors College Celebrates 50th Anniversary

Get ready for Homecoming 2010! Plan now to join us for two special 50th anniversary events on November 3rd at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. In concert with the exhibit “Giuseppe Vasi’s Rome: Lasting Impressions from the Age of the Grand Tour,” associate professor of Italian Nathalie Hester and CHC assistant professor of literature Mai-Lin Cheng will present a special lecture on the literary grand tour. Following the lecture, all CHC alumni are invited to a special tour of the exhibit led by exhibit co-curator associate professor of art history James Harper. On Saturday, November 6th, watch the UO Ducks take on the Washington Huskies!

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Anna Gilbert ’05 Lifting Up Her Audience

Indie pop singer-songwriter Anna Gilbert's music glows with a rare and ennobling luminescence. The optimism in her songs reflects Gilbert's beliefs. "I am always consciously trying to point people in a direction of hope and love and not dwell on things that are dark and depressing," she said. "There's so much in the world right now that you could focus on and will drag you down. So I want to uplift the audience."

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UO Journalism Grad Cali Bagby ’08, UO J School Instructor Dan Morrison Embed with Marines in Afghanistan

Camp Marjah, Afghanistan: it’s nearly 7,000 miles from Eugene — and where two embedded journalists now call home as they bring the war in Afghanistan to your screen. University of Oregon graduate Cali Bagby and UO journalism instructor Dan Morrison are embedded with the Marines 2 /6 Infantry Battalion in the Helmand Province. Their mission: report about life on the front lines. (Photo: KVAL-TV)

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Elan Fayard ’02 Shares Her Love of Wine

For Elan Fayard ’02, her love of wine became apparent after attending the University of Oregon and living in the Willamette Valley for 4 years. After graduating, the next logical step was to go to France and cultivate her talents in winemaking.

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Guy Maynard ’84 on “The Risk of Being Ridiculous”

Oregon Quarterly Editor Guy Maynard ’84’s first novel: “It’s Boston 1969 and nineteen-year-old Ben Tucker lives in a funky apartment on Mountfort Street with his tribe of fellow long-haired freaks. Together they mix radical street politics, a love of rock and roll, and celebratory drug use in their desperate search for lives that make sense in a world distorted by war, racism, and bankrupt values.”

Available late Summer 2010 from Hellgate Press • Pre-order at Amazon

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Dreams Realized

Gina Maria Stalone graduated from Churchill High School in 1998 without much of an idea of what she wanted out of life, other than to have a good time. She was a Talented and Gifted student, but she lacked direction. Her MySpace page listed interests that include mowing the lawn, doing cartwheels, playing scratch-its, balancing salt shakers at the bar and “dancing the chicken noodle soup.”

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Musical Instrument Donations Wanted in Eugene

Some old, dusty musical instruments are finding new life in a Eugene band room.Cascade Middle School's band program is tuning up for the new school year with an instrument drive. Band director and ’06 grad ’Gabe Dickinson has collected about 20 donated horns for kids who can't afford to rent instruments for the school year. (Photo: KVAL-TV)

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UO Soccer Season Ticket Scarves on Sale

Fans of the University of Oregon soccer team now have the opportunity to purchase a limited edition scarf which will serve as a season ticket for the 2010 season. The Ducks, who are currently in their second week of practices, will play 10 home matches in the upcoming campaign.

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Women’s Athletics Needs Your Help

Are you or someone you know on the UO Athletics Department Women’s Teams roster prior to 1981? UO Athletics is currently gathering information on former female student-athletes who competed at the University of Oregon prior to 1981. These women were not awarded varsity letters for their intercollegiate athletics participation, so Athletics wants to provide them the recognition they deserve.

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President Obama Extends Invitation to UO’s NCAA Track & Field Champions

President Obama has invited the University of Oregon’s national championship women’s indoor track & field team to be part of a ceremony honoring NCAA student-athletes next month in the nation’s capital. The Women of Oregon will join more than 30 NCAA team champions from the 2009-10 academic year who will be recognized by the President at the White House on Sept. 13.

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Football at PK Park

It may the next-best thing for Duck football fans who can't get a ticket to a game. PK Park, the University of Oregon’s new baseball stadium, is offering fans the game day experience — free.

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Central Oregon Alumni Chapter’s Game Day Travel Package

Central Oregon’s Chapter President, Amanda Gow ’03 has presented a fantastic option for fans to travel in luxury to the Oregon games. “I was inspired to create the Duck Fan Bus due to my work with the UOAA chapter in Central Oregon and the Oregon Club of Central Oregon. I always thought it would be great to have a shuttle that went over for the games that Duck Fans could ride together. I own an event management firm (Specialized Events) and figured I might as well be the one that starts the bus. It has been a great experience and so much fun getting to know local alumni.”

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In Oregon, Students Seek Key to a Sustainable City

Roughly 600 University of Oregon students in 25 classes will devote 80,000 hours to Salem during the coming year. The novel program, part of the university's three-year-old Sustainable Cities Initiative, will focus on making Salem more economically, socially and environmentally sustainable.

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University of Oregon Moves Up in U.S. News Rankings of Best Colleges

The University of Oregon is attracting more freshmen students in the top 10 percent of their high school classes and it's making an impact on the university's national rankings.

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UO Professor Dr. Peggy Pascoe

The UO mourns the passing of Peggy Pascoe, Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and Professor of Ethnic Studies, who died from ovarian cancer on July 23.

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Associate Professor Emerita Janet Descutner

Janet Descutner, an Associate Professor emerita in dance, passed away in late July. She was on the Asian Studies faculty, teaching Dance in Asia, and collaborated with UO Theater Arts colleagues on several Asian/Western fusion productions, inspired by Japanese and Balinese artistic traditions. Descutner served as chair of the dance department from 1988–92, and retired from full-time teaching in 1999.

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Poet George Hitchcock ’35

George Hitchcock, a poet, painter and University of California, Santa Cruz, emeritus professor whose iconoclastic vision as publisher of the literary magazine kayak helped free American poetry from mid-20th century orthodoxies and provided an early forum for such distinguished writers as Robert Bly, Raymond Carver and Philip Levine, died Friday at his home in Eugene, Ore. He was 96.

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Postdoctoral Researcher Brian S. Nelson, and Terry T. Takahashi, Professor of Biology on Sound

Voices carry, reflect off objects and create echoes. Most people rarely hear the echoes; instead they only process the first sound received. For the hard of hearing, though, being in an acoustically challenging room can be a problem. For them, echoes carry. Ever listen to a lecture recorded in a large room?

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‘My Teenage Werewolf’: UO Writing Prof Lauren Kessler's Journey through the Thicket of Adolescence with her Daughter

Way back when my daughter was 13 and a half — was it really only last year? — we were having one of our increasingly frequent differences of opinion and she delivered the standard zinger: "You just don't know what it's like to be 13!" Remarkably, I had a comeback. "I certainly do," I shot back. "I was 13 once for an entire year; you're only halfway through."

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Mobile Art Studios Design is a New Project for Architecture Professor Erin Moore

A new project now underway is fertile ground for architectural questions that intrigue assistant professor, Erin Moore. Moore explores the life cycle of buildings and the environmental impacts of materials production, construction and deconstruction. With funding from the Roundhouse Foundation in Sisters, Oregon, she and her students will conduct research and design a prototype mobile artist space to be used in the city of Sisters in central Oregon.

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