Greg Walker in the UO Athletics Department blogged on Tuesday about the overwhelming success of a track and field clinic for kids at Hayward Field. Great event.
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University of Oregon junior Benjamin Eckstein has been selected as a finalist for the nationally prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship.
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is an award for students who wish to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in government or other areas in public service. Seventy-five Truman Scholarships can be awarded each year. Last year 53 were awarded, one from each state and the District of Columbia, with the exception of California, which had...
A UO physicist, Jim Brau, and two UO chemists, Victoria DeRose and David Tyler, have been chosen as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
This year’s 531 new...
Duck fans are all over the world. Right now, they're starting to congregate in Southern California. One Duck fan, who works with the UO's Office of Communications and was vacationing down south, sent us this tidbit:
"A couple days ago I went on a hike with my family in Joshua Tree
National Park. At Keyes View in the park, an impressive spot from which
you can see everything from Mexico and the Salton Sea to Palm Springs,
we also spied Ducks from Eugene and Chicago....
Singing “Hotel California” and “Country Roads,” both American music classics, wasn’t what Miriam Lipton expected from a summer study program in Kaliningrad, Russia. The University of Oregon general science major was a recipient of a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State. She spent two months in summer 2009 as one of...
