News Archive prior to Feb. 2015

Legal Ducks get early start on campus

EUGENE, Ore. -- (Aug. 22, 2011) -- While most University of Oregon students still have more than a month to savor the remaining vestiges of summer, UO School of Law students are busy preparing their first assignments.

Higgs boson is running out of hiding places, physicists report

GENEVA -- Aug. 22, 2011 -- Two experimental collaborations at the Large Hadron Collider, located at CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, say they have significantly narrowed the mass region in which the Higgs boson could be hiding.

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art receives highest national recognition

EUGENE, Ore. -- (Aug. 11, 2011) -- The University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has again achieved accreditation by the American Association of Museums (AAM) - the highest national recognition for a museum. The UO museum is one of just six in Oregon to receive AAM accreditation.

UO releases fundraising report for 2010–11

EUGENE, Ore. -- (Aug. 12, 2011) -- Private giving to the University of Oregon remains strong despite the struggling economy. The university announced today that donors increased their financial support by nearly 10 percent in 2010-11.

Symposium explores ethical debates of information technologies use in China

EUGENE, Ore. -- (Aug. 12, 2011) -- The University of Oregon's Department of Computer and Information Sciences and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies will host an evening symposium about the ethical responses and social impacts of advances in information technology in China at 7:30 p.m.

UO to confer more than 1,000 degrees at summer commencement Aug. 13

EUGENE, Ore. -- (Aug. 10, 2011) -- More than 1,000 degree candidates are eligible to
participate in the University of Oregon's 2011 summer commencement exercises at
10 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 13.

UO leader selected for board appointment at Science magazine

EUGENE, Ore. -- (Aug. 8, 2011) -- Dr. Denis Fred Simon, Vice Provost for International Affairs at the University of Oregon, has been invited to join the Board of Reviewing Editors by Science magazine.

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