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Ford Alumni Center Construction Underway
Construction on the Ford Alumni Center is well underway in conjunction with the Matthew Knight Arena. The UO will be celebrating the alumni center’s construction launch with a gathering on May 21, 2010, 11:00 a.m., in the parking lot of the John E. Jaqua Center for Student Athletes.
» Get involved and be a part of this historic endeavor, or just take a sneak peak at the progress…
» Have a look at the latest Alumni Center video…
Campus News
 Adventure Programs Welcome Community
As a student at the University of Oregon School of Law, James Cleavenger often took advantage of group wilderness trips organized through the Outdoor Program. After graduating last June, he wasn’t ready to give up the participant-initiated adventures.
» Read more from the Oregon Daily Emerald…
 Coffee with President Lariviere
Washington Post reporter Daniel de Vise sat down and had coffee recently with President Lariviere.
» Find out more about what Dr. Lariviere had to say…
 UO to Debut Cinema Pacific Film Festival
Cinema Pacific features a wide selection of new film and media art from Pacific-bordering countries, including nations in America and Asia. Each year, the festival focuses in-depth on a particular national cinema.
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Senate Funds Campus Residence Hall
 The first step toward increasing the percentage of University of Oregon students living on campus, according to Gregg Lobisser, UO’s Director of Student Activities, is to stop calling student living facilities "dormitories."
» Read more from the Daily Journal of Commerce…
"Green Stories: The Environment and the Media"
 The School of Journalism and Communication is planning the 2010 John L. Hulteng Conversations in Ethics: "Green Stories: The Environment and the Media,” a one-day conference on Friday, May 14, 2010 at the George S. Turnbull Center at the UO Portland.
The conference begins at 9:00 a.m. with "Puberty on the Scale of a Planet: Why Global Warming Isn't the Story of Our Time and What Really Is,” a keynote address by noted environmental writer Andrew Revkin. Revkin explores his learning curve after two decades of covering the growing human imprint on the planet and proposes that a great untold story — the halting coming of age of a species currently locked in a teen-style spree —lies beneath the headlines on climate.
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Featured Alumni
 Kari Herinckx ’09 Commits to Leadership and Multicultural Advocacy
Community involvement, academic excellence and outstanding leadership are what earned University graduate student Kari Herinckx the title of Miss Black Oregon USA 2010.
» Read more from the Oregon Daily Emerald’s March 8th article…
Mike Jones ’97 Becomes MySpace President
 MySpace may no longer be the hottest social networking web site in the US, but it is still a major player online with 122 million unique visitors each month. That is enough to make MySpace one of the 25 most visited web sites in the world. Now the cultural and technological icon is run by a Portland, Oregon area son.
» Read more from The Portlander.com…
 Douglass Forbes Ph.D. ’78 Prevents Cell Hijacking
Any invading army would want to control its target's lines of communication. Harmful diseases, from the flu to leukemia, are no different when laying siege upon healthy cells. The key for these malevolent bugs is interrupting the flow of transmissions in the nuclear pores — protein-laden gateways in our cells that carry messages back and forth between the nucleus and the cytoplasm.
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 Zack Poelwijk ’08 Uses UO Skills for Startup Company
“Prepare to perform” is the mantra that Zack Poelwijk ’08 learned as the piano player for the Oregon Gospel Choirs and one that he still uses at his job with Limelight Department. He learned this saying from the former University of Oregon Gospel director, Cedric Weary who said, “It’s not the 90 minutes of performance that matters, it’s the four weeks of preparation going up to it.
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Ducks Giving
Strong Donations Buck National Trend
 Despite a battered economy, the University of Oregon continues to attract multimillion dollar donations and is on track to have one of its top fundraising years. According to the latest figures released by the university, the UO brought in $75.6 million in the first seven months of its fiscal year, a pace that would easily surpass the goal of $90 million to $100 million a year if it can be sustained.
» Read more from Register Guard reporter Greg Bolt’s February 24th article…
 The Duck Call: Providing Connections for Alumni and Friends
Each year, Duck alumni, parents and donors have an opportunity to connect with today's Oregon students through Duck Call, the University of Oregon student calling program.
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UO Earns Funds via Internet Searches
 GoodSearch.com is a Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the organization its users designate. Users operate it like any search engine, getting quality search results from Yahoo, while the donations add up. By entering the University of Oregon as the organization to support, automatic fundraising occurs.
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Athletics
 New AD Brings a History of Leadership
After 40 years at the University, Lorraine Davis has achieved another female administrative landmark. The Oregon Daily Emerald sat down with Davis to discuss her academic experience, her work with student-athletes and her track record of being the first woman to fill administrative positions. (Photo by Ivar Vong)
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Eaton Breaks Decathlon Record, Again
 For the second time in his career, Ashton Eaton surpassed the University of Oregon’s all-time decathlon record. And for the second time in his career, the score will not go in the record books as strong winds pushed his second day mark well beyond the legal wind limit of 4.0 meters per second. (Photo-AP)
» Learn more from KVAL-TV…
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In Memoriam
Former Professor Charles Dowd
 Charles Dowd, principal timpanist of the Eugene Symphony for 35 years, died of pancreatic cancer on March 24th. He was 61 years old. Dowd, who also performed with the Oregon Bach Festival for many years, recently retired from the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance where he was a Philip H. Knight professor of music and a faculty performing artist.
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 Assistant Dean of Advancement-College of Education Andrea Wiggins
Andrea Wiggins, Assistant Dean of Advancement for the College of Education, passed away at her home on March 5th. Andrea was a phenomenal fundraiser and advocate on behalf of the College of Education.
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Oregon News
 President Lariviere’s Investiture
Join the celebration on May 21, 2010 from 2:30pm to 3:30pm at the Memorial Quad, north of the Knight Library. A reception will follow at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, 1430 Johnson Lane.
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Clark Honors College Kicks Off 50th Anniversary Celebration
 Alumni, resident and affiliated faculty, students, and friends of the Robert D. Clark Honors College are invited to join us in celebrating our fiftieth anniversary throughout 2010. Information on upcoming events, historical sketches of the past fifty years, and profiles of CHC alumni (updated bi-monthly) can be found on the 50th Anniversary website.
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Faculty News
Researchers Find How Brain Hears the Sound of Silence
 Think back to the most recent sound you’ve heard — and to the silence, however brief, that followed it. That noise-and-quiet sequence followed two different routes into your brain. A team of University of Oregon researchers has isolated an independent processing channel of synapses inside the brain’s auditory cortex that deals specifically with shutting off sound processing at appropriate times.
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 Prof Takes Role in New College-Preparation Efforts
A University of Oregon professor is getting to the root of how best to prepare high school students for college. David T. Conley, a professor of education, is heading a new project that aims to develop a set of standards for the core content required by college-bound high school students.
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Photo Gallery
Visual Essay: History of Mac Court
Photos courtesy of UO Archives and goducks.com.
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The Passing of the Platypus Trophy
The UO Student Alumni Association (SAA) has reinvigorated a long standing tradition between the Ducks and the Beavers; the passing of the Platypus Trophy. As many may, or may not know, it has been thought that a platypus is a combination of a duck and a beaver, at least the UO and OSU rivalry believes so! The Platypus Trophy was given to whichever school won the Civil War football game.
The SAA reclaimed the trophy this month and plans keep this tradition alive and well, and hopefully on the UO campus for many years to come!
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