Faculty Stars

Celebrating champion professors — Faculty and staff at the University of Oregon are among their best in the fields. The stories below highlight just of few of the ways they routinely serve the state, region and nation.

Divided Loyalties: Rose Bowl poses mixed feelings for former Badgers

Several University of Oregon professors developed academic roots at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before coming to the University of Oregon, but the allegiance to their alma mater will be tested by the Jan. 2 Rose Bowl football game.
A few of our favorite professors

Ever wonder how much difference a great teacher can make in a student’s life? Then check out these responses to a question we posted to our Facebook followers last fall: Who is or was your favorite professor?
Geography professor elected to Academia Europaea

Geography Professor Alexander B. Murphy has been elected to membership in the prestigious Academia Europaea.
Roering to be honored at Oregon-Nevada game

Oregon (0-1) hosts Nevada (0-0) Saturday at Autzen Stadium in its 2011 home opener.
Preserving sacred texts

An estimated 60,000 hand-written Arabic manuscripts, some as much as 800 years old, are tucked away in private libraries in Yemen on the Arabian peninsula.
UO’s museum director named president of national academic museum organization

Jill Hartz, executive director of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon, is now president of the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG).
Journalism professor’s film wins Best Documentary Award

“What We Could Carry,”a documentary film produced and directed by Professor Daniel Miller from the UO School of Journalism and Communication has been awarded the 2011 Best Documentary Award in short form faculty documentaries in the 2011 Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Festival of Media Arts.