PORTLAND — The University of Oregon hosted an event at the UO in Portland’s White Stag Block to honor three recipients of the UO Stamps Scholarship, the most prestigious and generous merit award from the institution.
Cities facing budget cuts, obsolete infrastructure and fading urban centers have an innovative place to get help: the University of Oregon’s Sustainable Cities Initiative, which The Chronicle of Higher Education’s May 20 edition termed “one of higher education’s most successful and comprehensive service-learning programs.”
Haley Gillham, a graduate student from Damascus, Ore., is on a hot streak.Gillham, who has just started graduate studies in the lab of assistant human physiology professor Jeff Gilbert, recently won a major undergraduate research award at the Experimental Biology Meeting in Boston.
In a darkened, packed classroom in Esslinger Hall, Ben Saunders is talking about the Golden Age of comics, an era when hundreds of superheroes with strange names saved the world from evil-doers many times over.
A high school student from Central Oregon who is already editing her first novel has been selected as one of the first five recipients of the University of Oregon’s most generous and prestigious undergraduate scholarships for incoming students.
