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Rose Bowl Bound! UOAA Invites Fans to Join the Ducks in PasadenaAre you ready to go Bowling? Join us for these great Rose Bowl events — from the official Duck Pep Rally at the Santa Monica Pier, to the Kick-Off Luncheon and the exclusive first class Official Oregon Tailgate. » Learn more at the UOAA Bowl Headquarters…
See and Be Seen on New Website! Duck fans! Share your photos, memories, and party plans on a new University of Oregon website, "Celebrating Champions: In Academics and Athletics." You’ll find a host of interactive ways to celebrate the UO’s many champions.
• Photos you submit to University of Oregon’s official Facebook page might just show up on the UO Champions homepage. • Share your best Duck football memories on Memory Blog. • Use the Twitter hashtag #goducks and you can see you very own tweets on the Champions site. • The week of the game, get the latest info from SoCal in our Pasadena section. “Celebrating Champions” goes beyond the football field, providing information (some that may surprise you) about academics, UO professors and UO students.
Campus News  Osher Lifelong Learning Institute to Host Oregon Author, R. Gregory Nokes
University of Oregon alumni are invited to join members of the University of Oregon Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Portland for an afternoon with Oregon author, R. Gregory Nokes. Nokes will read from his new book, Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon, at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 13, at the University of Oregon in Portland, 70 NW Couch. » Learn more…
 From UO Cheer Squad to Infantry in Iraq
Second Lt. Libby Smith and First Lt. Daniel Cotton are both overseas with the Oregon National Guard. Cotton was Smith's first cheer partner at the UO, and so far, they have yet to see each other in person in Iraq. » Find out more…
Enlarging the Umbrella We All Share By Bob Welch -- Register-Guard columnist
Appeared in print: Thursday, Nov 19, 2009
It was a crazy idea. You're a comparative literature professor at the University of Oregon and only weeks away from welcoming 70 people from around the world for the Nov. 5-7 Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry's biennial meeting. You realize these guests might need umbrellas. So, naturally, you turn to the, uh, UO athletic department. "I just thought it would be a nice way of injecting some humor and goodwill into the relationship between academics and athletics," says Leah Middlebrook, who has been to two football games in her life. "How funny would it be to have the athletic department donate umbrellas to a poetry conference?" » Learn more…
Gresham 101: A Series of Classes Target City’s Growth Take 250 University of Oregon students and their 14 teachers, then turn them loose on the state's fourth largest city and you have a project that might be called Gresham 101.
The university picked the east Multnomah County city of 100,000 for its first subject in an initiative to apply the specialties of architecture, planning, design, law, business and geography in an in-depth study of one city. » Read more from Oregonian reporter James Mayer’s November 13 article…
Physics Student Selected for 2010 Marshall Scholarship Tamela Maciel, a University of Oregon student from Grants Pass, has been selected as a prestigious Marshall Scholar. Maciel is the third Marshall Scholar from the University of Oregon in the scholarship program's 55-year history.
"We are very proud of Tamela Maciel and couldn't be happier that she was selected as a Marshall Scholar," said Richard Lariviere, UO president. "She is one of Oregon's brightest students who will go on to accomplish great things in the area of astrophysics, which has been her personal passion since childhood." » Read more and watch the You Tube video of Tamela…
Featured Alumni Annalise Romoser ’01 Earns World Peace Fellow Sponsorship The Rotary Foundation recently named two Washington-area professionals to a new class of its prestigious World Peace Fellows, making the Rotary Club of Capitol Hill the only club in the world to sponsor four fellows at once.
One of those fellows, Annalise Romoser, grew up in Eugene, OR. She graduated from South Eugene High School in 1996 and the University of Oregon, in 2001 with a double major in Spanish and International Studies. She also holds an MA from the University of California, San Diego in Latin American Studies and International Migration. » Learn more about the Rotary Club of Capitol Hill…
 Kelly Kuo ’96 Wins 2009 Solti Award
Kelly Kuo ’96, Assistant Conductor of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, was one of three recipients of the 2009 Solti U.S Assistance Awards. The Solti Foundation U.S., established to honor the memory of the legendary conductor Sir Georg Solti, seeks to lend significant support to talented young American conductors, providing critical assistance to them at the start of their professional careers. » Read more about Kuo…
David Eber ’08: The Long Road Back for the Lower 9th WardDavid Eber ’08 is deeply involved in the ongoing restoration of the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans. He joined Avodah Jewish Service Corps last fall as sustainability outreach coordinator — just after Hurricane Gustav swept through. So he hit the ground running, providing supplies to local residents who were returning after the Gustav evacuation. His longer-term work, though involves a more notorious hurricane: Katrina. Four years after Hurricane Katrina, the Lower 9th Ward is still putting the pieces back together, and David is an advocate for the community. » Watch a video about David Eber and Adovah Jewish Service Corps…
Ducks Giving  A Passion for Politics
Don Powell was already interested in politics when he walked into Jim Klonoski's political science class at the UO in 1963. After the class, politics became Powell's passion and later his career. And Klonoski became his mentor and friend. » Read more…
Program Helps Students Find Volunteer Roles On a cold, rainy Monday recently, several dozen University of Oregon students left campus looking for something to do. What they found was something many people might not have expected. The students spent several hours pulling weeds and picking up trash in three neighborhood parks. And no, they didn’t have to do it.
The neighborhood cleanup was one of the first projects coordinated in part through a new program at the UO called Duck Corps. It’s a convenient, online program that allows students to easily find volunteer opportunities that fit both their interests and schedules. » Learn more from Greg Bolt’s November 28th Register-Guard story…
Athletics  Jordan Hasay Earns All-America Status
University of Oregon freshman Jordan Hasay finished 18th as an individual Monday at the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. Hasay ran the 6K women’s race in 20 minutes, 23.1 seconds, earning All-America honors by posting the Ducks’ best time and leading Oregon to a ninth-place team finish with 276 points at the event hosted by Indiana State. » Read more from San Luis Obisbo.com story…
Second-Place Finish Solidifies Cross Country Ducks’ Return to Prominence Five years ago, not a single runner from the University of Oregon qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships. But just look at them now.
Under the tenure of UO coach Vin Lananna, and assistants Andy and Maurica Powell, the Ducks are, once again, the measuring stick in collegiate distance running, echoing the past triumphs of teams that ran for iconic coaches Bill Bowerman, Bill Dellinger and Tom Heinonen. » Read more from Register Guard November 25 article…
New Mountain Biking Club Prepares for Spring While they might not receive the same adoration and fame as the athletes on the Oregon football team, the men and women who comprise the Duck mountain biking club team are just as fearless. Only instead of being tackled by 250-pound linebackers, the cyclists have to deal with imposing obstacles like rocks, trees and jumps as they race down mountain trails at speeds eclipsing 30 mph.
» Read more from November 16 Oregon Daily Emerald edition…
 Paul Westhead Wants His New Team Running
On a hot July day at a crowded In-N-Out Burger outside Las Vegas, Paul Westhead was reminded of the remarkable length of his basketball life. Westhead was waiting for his order, holding claim check 722 after scouting hours of elite high school basketball for the University of Oregon, where he recently had been hired as women's basketball coach. » Learn more from November 19 Oregonian story…
Oregon News Dr. Lariviere Invites Nominations for Distinguished Service AwardFrom President Lariviere:  “On behalf of the University faculty, I invite you to nominate qualified individuals for one of the University's highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award. Those selected to receive this honor are chosen in accordance with faculty legislation of May, 1956, which provides that recipients be persons who by their knowledge and skills have made a significant contribution to the cultural development of Oregon or society as a whole."
Up to three awards may be given in any one year. The awards will be presented at our June Commencement exercises. Download this year's nomination form and view a list of previous winners of this award here. Nominations are due by February 1, 2010.
 Football Fan’s Halloween Tee a Winner
University of Oregon Ducks football fan Jordan Walbridge said he made enough money the week of Halloween to support his family for the next six months and found a business — thanks to the Grim Reaper. The 27-year-old Gresham resident is the man behind the hot-selling Grim Reaper “Welcome to Autzen: Where Teams Go to R.I.P.” black T-shirts and sweatshirts. » Read more from Register Guard November 13th article…
Faculty News 
Dr. Lariviere is An Aspirational SortRichard Lariviere always knew he was going to college, though no one in his family had before him. His father, Wilfred F. “Larry” Lariviere, grew up in the Depression and dropped out of school after the eighth grade because that was the norm in his French-Canadian working-class community. But he always felt cheated out of a significant opportunity and was determined that the same thing would not happen to his children. He made an oath when Lariviere’s mother Esther announced her pregnancy, that his child would go to college no matter what the financial obstacles. » Read more from Guy Maynard’s Oregon Quarterly article…
 Chemistry Prof Named to Endowed Professorship
David Tyler — whose areas of research include green chemistry — has been named the first recipient of the Charles J. and M. Monteith Jacobs Professorship in Chemistry. Professor Tyler is a member of the Materials Science Institute and is widely recognized as a dedicated teacher and mentor, in addition to having a long history of productive research. His CV lists 174 papers in print, and several articles accepted or submitted for publication. » Read more…
Duck Photo Gallery 
Left: Women’s Basketball 2009.
Right: The Class of 1897 University of Oregon Women's Sophomore Basketball Team. 
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