Special Message from the Executive Director
Alumni and Friends of the University of Oregon…
What a great time to be a Duck. It is Homecoming week here at the University of Oregon. We’ve been greeted this week with foggy weather in the morning, sunshine burning it off by mid morning, highs this week reaching up to 70 degrees, and the beautiful leaves turning color and falling all over campus. And at the same time your university is having an outstanding year. As we enjoy this fall week, I would like to share a few of the accomplishments that have taken place:
- Construction has begun on a new east campus residence hall
- Construction has started on the Lewis Integrated Science Building
- Finishing construction on the Matt Knight arena
- Finishing construction on the Cheryl Ramberg Ford and Allyn Ford Alumni Center
- UO cited in the New York Times as having the most comprehensive curriculum and project/base sustainability hub in the nation
- Two visits to the White House: 1) Professor Emeritus Michael Posner, who received a National Medal of Science Award. 2) the UO Women’s Indoor Track and Field NCAA Champions
- Two Guggenheims: Biologist Judith S. Eisen and Cultural Anthropologist Carol T. Silverman. To date 60 UO faculty members have won 64 Guggenheim Fellowships
- Six faculty members have received Fulbright Scholar Awards to teach or conduct research abroad. The UO tied for first for producing the most Fulbright Scholar awards of any institution of higher education
- U.S. News and World Report listed three Oregon law programs as top ten nationally: The Appropriate Dispute Resolution Center, Legal Research in Writing and the Environmental and Natural Resource Law Program
- UO biologist Jessica Green was named a 2010 Ted Fellow (Technology, Entertainment and Design). She studies microbial diversity, a research area undergoing rapid growth because of new technologies
- This fall we have an all time record enrollment of 23,400. The freshman class is considered one of the most academically qualified and diversified class in the history of the UO
- The University of Oregon Football team is the number one team in the BCS for the first time in school history
As you can see, we are so proud of the many accomplishments at the University of Oregon. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the UO Alumni Association. Those of you who are not members are invited to join today and connect with 18,000 other alumni and friends. Just to reiterate, the mission of the UOAA is to connect alumni back to the university. We do this by assisting in admissions and working with our schools and colleges to provide alumni programming all over the country. So join now and be a part of it.
Go Ducks, we are number one!!!
Dan Rodriguez, Executive Director