Excellence in Scholarship
Fulbright research will analyze biking, walking patterns
Linking sustainability to the suburbs allows for cross-cultural analysis of research.
Online teaching presentation May 15 at noon
PSU professor Anne McClanan will share her experiences teaching art history online at the free presentation; lunch will be provided.
UO faculty, staff and students are invited to a presentation Tuesday, May 15, from 12-1 p.m. in Room 100, Lawrence Hall, for a lunchtime talk about teaching art (and especially art history) online. Lunch will be provided.
PPPM capstone projects work with four agencies
Students put their analytic skills into practice while helping community and governmental agencies.
Master of public administration graduate students are halfway through their “capstone” projects – a two-term collaboration with public and nonprofit agencies organizations – and the students are excited by the real-world applications they’re experiencing.
“The capstone is great in that it’s not as focused on theory as it is applying your skill sets in the workforce,” says graduate student Sarah Puleo.
Emotion in contemporary art topic of lecture April 12
Jennifer Doyle from UC Riverside opens the 8th annual Graduate Student Symposium presented by the Art History Association April 12-13.
Student scholars representing the arts and humanities will share research results at a student-led symposium on Art and Politics on April 12-13 at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art on the UO campus. This is the eighth year of the symposium presented by the Art History Association.
Research forum highlights sustainability research in A&AA
“Research Matters” theme from third annual forum attracts students interested in furthering research.
This year’s third annual Graduate Student Research Forum hosted a wide array of graduate students from A&AA, but a common theme among many participants university-wide emphasized sustainability through design and contributed to the growing body of research in how to create eco-friendly environments.
Speranza presents findings on place branding
Architecture Assistant Professor Philip Speranza presents his research in The Netherlands and is scheduled to address several other conferences in 2012.
Website broadens access to traditional Chinese arts, culture
The collaborative education effort between the U.S. and China now allows easier posting of content by scholars and others with an interest in China.
ChinaVine’s re-imagined website, ChinaVine.org, launched February 15, adding interactive dialogue and more robust social media elements to the six-year-old project that seeks to educate English-speaking audiences about China’s cultural heritage.
Clifford S. Ackley
2011 Ellis F. Lawrence Medal honors
Clifford S. Ackley
Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Curator of Prints and Drawings
Chair, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Melnick: Preservation strategies needed prior to disasters
The ways cultural resources are identified may need to be reconsidered due to the unique difficulties historic structures suffer in disaster events.
UO Professor Robert Z. Melnick will be keynote speaker at the 13th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium Feb. 24-25 at the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M University campus in College Station, Texas. This year’s gathering will focus on historic preservation efforts undertaken in the wake of natural and manmade disasters.
Curator to discuss art, love and politics in the 1980s
Helen Molesworth’s visit to Oregon continues the series ‘Connective Conversations,’ a partnership between The Ford Family Foundation and the UO to bring renowned art curators and critics to Oregon.
How global changes between 1979 and 1992 were reflected in art is the topic of curator Helen Molesworth’s lectures in Eugene on March 6 and in Portland on March 8.
