Undergraduate Research ("University in Peace and War" projects)

Ken Metzler has a good op-ed in the Eugene Register-Guard for Sunday, March 4, 2007 about student research conducted for "The University in Peace and War." This course was a collaboration between the Professors Suzanne Clark and David Frank and the University Libraries. Students in the class conducted original research using primary sources from the University Archives, and their final papers from were then published online in the library's Scholars' Bank, the UO's institutional repository. Browse their projects here.

This story illustrates the dynamic interaction between teaching and learning, research, technology, and collections in the networked environment. Yochai Benkler (Yale Law School) says that "the means of production are radically decentralized" and "being a creator (author) makes you a better reader (more critical consumer)." Kudos to Professors Clark and Frank for shaping their pedagogy and curriculum so their undergraduate students become creators of significant new scholarly content.