by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Weise receives grant to transform a podcast into a YouTube series
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…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Lowthorp calls for caution around gene editing in human embyos
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…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Richmond receives top award from Oregon Historical Society
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Geri Richmond is a CSWS faculty affiliate. University of Oregon chemist Geri Richmond has once again been recognized for her contributions to the field of science. Richmond is adding a…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Peters receives NSF Rapid Response grant for coronavirus study
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Ellen Peters is a CSWS faculty affiliate. Since COVID-19 first surfaced in December in China, the disease has spread rapidly around the globe, sickening nearly 100,000 people, killing more than…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Kawai wins Eastern Oregon Film Festival awards
Masami Kawai, assistant professor of cinema studies at University of Oregon, won the Audience Choice Best Short and Curator’s Pick Director to Watch awards at the Eastern Oregon Film Festival for her 2018 film, “Tides.” Kawai also received the 2020 summer humanities and creative…
by alicee • • Comments Off on Kate Mondloch named interim dean and vice provost of the Graduate School
October 31, 2019—Professor and CSWS faculty affiliate Kate Mondloch of the UO College of Design has been named interim dean and vice provost of the Graduate School. Currently, Mondloch is head of the College of Design’s history of art and…