Category: People

UO professor to open international literary conference | Around the O

Barbara Mossberg, humanities professor in the Clark Honors College
December 7, 2015—“Barbara Mossberg, a humanities professor in the Clark Honors College, has been chosen to contribute to the 2015 Abroad Writers’ Conference this month in Dublin, Ireland — which was honored as UNESCO’s fourth ‘City of Literature’ in 2010.
“The annual conference is an international summit that features acclaimed […]

Medical Research Foundation of Oregon honors UO’s Judith Eisen

Judith Eisen
Source: Medical Research Foundation of Oregon to honor UO’s Eisen and Nolen | Around the O
Nov. 12, 2015—Biologist Judith Eisen received the Medical Research Foundation of Oregon’s Discovery Award during its annual banquet “for her seminal work in transforming the aquatic vertebrate model, the zebrafish, into a groundbreaking research model for biomedical science.”
Around the […]

Reading with Lauren Kessler: Raising the Barre

[ November 30, 2015; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Global Scholars Great Hall
1710 E. 15th Ave.
UO campus

The UO Bookstore presents a reading, signing and reception with Lauren Kessler, featuring her latest book, Raising the Barre: Big Dreams, False Starts and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker. The event also includes a short performance by The Eugene Youth Ballet.

Kessler is a professor in the […]

Two Chosen as Graduate Interns for Fembot

November 10, 2015—The Fembot Collective has selected two University of Oregon graduate students as graduate interns to help work on Fembot projects, with special project funding awarded by the UO Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS). Jeremiah Favara and Tara Keegan will travel to Los Angeles in March for the event “Ms. […]

Q&A with Carol Stabile, interim director of CSWS – Research and Innovation News

From the UO Office of the Vice President of Research & Innovation, an interview with Carol Stabile in the enewsletter Research and Innovation News.
Carol Stabile, professor of journalism and communication, was recently appointed interim director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
Source: Q&A with Carol Stabile, interim director of CSWS – Research […]

2015 CSWS Annual Review now available

2015 CSWS Annual Review
If you are on our mailing list as a CSWS faculty affiliate, research interest group member, supporter, contributor, or UO administrator, the 2015 CSWS Annual Review should soon be arriving in your mailbox. You can also access this 28-page publication online now.
2015 CSWS Annual Review Contents

“Facing Up to Institutional Betrayal,” by Michael […]