Garrett Hongo's Quest for Artistic Perfection
CREATIVE WRITING - The professor and poet, whose art explores natural beauty and repressed emotion, is recognized for a lifetime of achievement.
Faculty
UO physicist gets rare staff position at CERN atom smasher
PHYSICS - UO physics professor Tim Cohen has become the second researcher from a U.S. institution ever to join the staff at the European Organization for Nuclear Research theory group.
New Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino names UO faculty to advisory council
WOMEN'S, GENDER AND SEXUALITY STUDIES- Ana-Maurine Lara, associate professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Oregon, has been invited to the Scholarly Advisory Committee of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino.
Paul Slovic wins Bower Award for Achievement in Science
PSYCHOLOGY - Paul Slovic, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and one of the founders of the Decision Science Research Institute, has been awarded the 2022 Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science by the Franklin Institute.
Professor of Comic Studies Ben Saunders to collaborate with Marvel and Penguin Classics
Marvel and Penguin Classics are producing a new series, starting with the Black Panther, Captain America, and The Amazing Spider Man.
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Ben Saunders, UO Professor of Comic Studies, is working with Marvel Comics on a new collaboration series with Penguin Classics.
UO professor to collaborate with Marvel and Penguin Classics
ENGLISH - Ben Saunders, a UO professor of comic studies, is working with Marvel Comics on a new collaboration series with publisher Penguin Classics. The first three books published in the series will be “Black Panther,” “Captain America” and “The Amazing Spider-Man,” with Saunders serving as the series editor and author of the scholarly introductions for the latter two.
MNCH conjures up a spellbinding exhibit on medieval magic
ENGLISH - Visitors to the Museum of Natural and Cultural History will be able to explore unicorn horns, witch bottles and more at the “Magic in Medieval Europe” exhibit, on view beginning Saturday, Oct 23. Curated by Martha Bayless, professor of English and director of the Folklore and Public Culture Program at the UO, the exhibit offers an enchanted journey through the Middle Ages.
UO physicist revels in colleague being awarded a Nobel Prize
PHYSICS - When Italian physicist Giorgio Parisi was one of three scientists named last week to receive this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics, UO physicist Eric Corwin was elated to see his longtime collaborator recognized.
Profile: Kaori Idemaru, professor of Japanese linguistics
LINGUISTICS - Kaori Idemaru was a middle schooler living in the Japanese countryside when she discovered that learning a foreign language—English, in her case—could open a portal to a new world. Today, Idemaru studies how speech is learned and perceived.