Deborah Morrison Receives A.D.C Grandmasters Award
Four distinguished educators who have inspired generations of creatives will be honored as ADC Grandmasters by the Art Directors Club (www.adcglobal.org), the premier organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind with membership in advertising, design and visual communications. Deborah Morrison's reach in advertising education extends deeply into the advertising industry, focusing on the creative side of agency life. Read more... |
Deborah Morrison receives A.D.C Grandmasters Award
Sandy Bond's Freshman Seminar is highlighted in Cascasde
Dorothee Ostmeier's Freshman Seminar is highlighted in Cascade
Miriam Gershow's debut novel is reviewed in the New York Times
Melissa Hart's latest article in High Country News
President Frohnmayer's Freshman Seminar is highlighted in NewsCast
David Frank on NPR's Talk of the Nation
Sana Krusoe's Freshman Seminar is highlighted in the Oregon Daily Emerald
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Dress for Success
Cascade, Fall 2009
Sandy Bonds is making the past come alive with a course called "Reinventing Yourself: Creating Your Past Alter Ego." Through the fall term, students will learn about the lives of Europeans in the medieval and Renaissance periods, as well as design and construct their own period-accurate clothing. Read more... |
Fairy Tales for Modern Times
Cascade, Fall 2009
Dorothee Ostmeier, professor of German, stirred up her students' creativity when she assigned them the task of writing their own fairy tales, à la the Brothers Grimm. One student, Kate Fox Hayward, bound her own storybook, complete with embossed cover and hand-drawn illustrations. But things really got interesting when some students took the opportunity to write post-modern versions of their classically inspired tales. These new stories are saturated with enough sarcasm, snark and Hollywood celebrity references to turn the literary form on its head. Read more... |
With a Disappearance, Life Turns Upside Down
The New York Times, February 15, 2009
“The Local News,” a debut novel by Miriam Gershow, bears a family resemblance to “The Lovely Bones.” Ms. Gershow’s book is narrated by an adolescent girl, Lydia Pasternak, and describes the way her friends, parents and town are affected by the disappearance of a young person: Lydia’s brother. Read more... |
The Vitality of Language
High Country News, April 27, 2009
My husband and I have volunteered at a raptor rehabilitation center for years, and when we decided to adopt a toddler, the center's staff threw us a baby shower on the lawn outside the kestrel's cage. They presented our new daughter, Maia, with bird-embossed T-shirts and a stuffed toy turkey vulture. Read more... |
The Presidential Treatment
NewsCast,Spring 2008
University of Oregon President Dave Frohnmayer spends his Tuesday and Thursday evenings leading about two dozen people in some serious high-level discussion about his favorite topic: leadership.Where can you sign up? You can’t. This course isn’t for up-and-coming CEOs or graduate students or even university seniors. This course is for UO freshmen only. Read more... |
The State of the Election: Momentum and Rhetoric
Talk of the Nation, February 20, 2008
Just how powerful are words? David Frank, a professor of rhetoric at Honors College at the University of Oregon, discusses the importance of discourse on NPR's Talk of the Nation. Listen to the program... |
Freshmen Get a Taste for the Art of Eating
Oregon Daily Emerald, November 29, 2007
On a dinner table in the University's Millrace Studios Wednesday, the actual soup bowls were much wider at the bottom than at the top. To keep from see-sawing, the serving platter had to be supported by Wheat Thins crackers. The cups were cone-shaped and the salt and pepper shakers were stuck together, though their holes didn't align properly. To keep from getting sushi, cottage cheese, sweet plum tomatoes or caramel popcorn on themselves, the three dining companions - wearing a Hawaiian shirt, sweatpants tucked into riding boots and a bright, mismatched outfit, respectively - had paper napkins tucked into their shirts like bibs. Read more... |
University of Oregon physicist Parthasarathy receives NSF career award
Inside Oregon, February 18, 2008
University of Oregon physicist Raghuveer Parthasarathy began the month with a five-year 2008 Career Award from the National Science Foundation. NSF Career Awards recognize a researcher's early accomplishments and potential to be an international leader in a chosen field. The award to Parthasarathy came from the NSF's Biomaterials Program and provides just over $475,000 over the five years.
Just last year Parthasarathy was among 118 researchers at 52 universities to receive a 2007 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, which also recognizes career potential.
Parthasarathy, a member of UO’s Materials Science Institute and the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI), joined the physics department in June 2006. He earned a doctorate in physics from the University of Chicago in 2002, after which he did postdoctoral research in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the material properties of biological membranes and membrane-associated molecules. |
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