Month: March 2020

Liu celebrated as UO ‘star’

Pictured is Charlene Liu.

Editor’s note: To celebrate Women’s History Month, Around the O is celebrating 10 extraordinary UO faculty members including Charlene Liu, Associate Dean and Interim Diretor of School of Art + Design. See the full article here. Liu is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Charlene Liu

Associate DeanInterim Director of School of Art + DesignCollege of Design

When Charlene […]

Amos adds her ‘star power’ to UO

Pictured is Adelle Amos.

Editor’s note: To celebrate Women’s History Month, Around the O is celebrating 10 extraordinary UO faculty members including Adell Amos, Clayton R. Hess Professor of Law. See the full article here. Amos is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Adell Amos

Clayton R. Hess Professor of Law, Environmental and Natural Resource Law Center, School of Law

Collegiality. Self-Discovery. Mentorship. To […]

The UO’s women scholars are taking the lead in academia

Pictured is Lynn Stephen.

Lynn Stephen is one of several UO women scholars celebrated for their leadership roles / photo by Jack Liu.

Editor’s note: This article was originally published March 19, 2020, in Around the O. Several featured scholars are CSWS Faculty Affiliates including Monique Balbuena, Priscilla Peña Ovalle, Geri Richmond, and Lynn Stephen.

They
are mentors and role models […]

Beck lauded as ‘Star’ faculty

Pictured is Erin Beck.

Editor’s note: To celebrate Women’s History Month, Around the O is celebrating 10 extraordinary UO faculty members including political science professor Erin Beck. See the full article here. Beck is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Erin Beck

Associate ProfessorDepartment of Political ScienceCollege of Arts and Sciences

“The
biggest inspirations for my career have been the resilient, creative,
and generous […]

Weise receives grant to transform a podcast into a YouTube series

Pictured is Julie Wiese.

Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Julie Wise is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Julie Weise, an associate professor of history, has been awarded a $50,000 public-engagement grant to take her Nuestro South project to the next level, building on a successful podcast series to create a five-part YouTube series.

The
YouTube […]

Lowthorp calls for caution around gene editing in human embyos

Pictured is Leah Lowthorp.

Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Around the O. Leah Lowthorp is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

A
University of Oregon cultural anthropologist is among a 21-member group
of international researchers and public-interest advocates who have
published a strong, cautionary statement about the use of genome editing
in human embryos.

The statement emerged from a discussion about […]