Southern Oregon University News

Visitors to the Vacaville Library Civic Center will get to meet live animal ambassadors for an educational presentation on "Wild Things Animals of the World."

The Writers Resource Center will hold a workshop on how to write your life story from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday in the conference room next to the He Brews It coffee shop, 1745 Enterprise Drive.

Drummer Max Malcomb and guitarist J.D. Brooks play rock, R&B and blues as The Suaves.

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Southern Oregon University will host two weekend open houses to showcase organizations that strive to keep older adults intellectually stimulated and socially connected.

Kelsey Kuhta of Camas has been accepted into the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2014 Summer Seminar.

In celebration of Solano County Library's 100th year of promoting learning, families are invited to come out for Extreme Magic Science of Don O'Brien.

Bert Etling, editor of The Cambrian for nearly 14 years, is leaving next week to become editor of the Ashland Daily Tidings in Ashland, Ore.

The Schneider Museum of Art will offer family activities revolving around the exhibit "Royal Nebeker: An Artist's Journey" from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, July 12, at the museum at Southern Oregon University, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland.

City officials expect the Talent-Ashland-Phoenix water pipeline to be finished by mid-August to early September - in time to provide emergency water when the Talent Irrigation District cuts off water that has been supplementing the city's drinking water supply.

Take a guided tour through the exhibits of the Schneider Museum of Art on the Southern Oregon University Campus, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, at noon on Tuesdays.

Recent Southern Oregon University graduate Sai Weiss has shown solar panels and crops can co-exist on the same land - and that the combination can even boost the productivity of shade-loving plants such as lettuce.

Rates of climate change may have slowed, but winemakers must prepare themselves for increased warming and greater extremes, warned viticultural research climatologist, Professor Gregory Jones.

The Fairfield church, located at 1735 Enterprise Drive, will offer free tutoring sessions for ages 6 to 17 from Tuesday to July 22. The program includes lunch and runs from noon to 3 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Federal Title IX laws meant to ensure equal educational opportunities are instead blocking universities' efforts to give victims options and confidentiality in sexual assault investigations.

The course is designed for those whose loss has occurred at least three months before the start of the class.

In 2012, Rose, an adjunct faculty member with Southern Oregon University's Laboratory of Anthropology, was at a bison kill site in Badger Hole, Okla., where she and a small team of veteran archaeologists, excavators and geophysicists joined local researchers to uncover the historical secrets buried there.

Volunteer opportunities are available at the Drop-In Center, Crisis Shelter and Solano Family Justice Center.

The Ashland university said last week Roy Hirofumi Saigo will replace Mary Cullinan , who resigned to became president of Eastern Washington University, effective July 1. Southern Oregon is in the middle of a "retrenchment" process that will result in the loss of some academic programs.

A large mural depicting the seasons, nature and a sense of community will be painted over the next three weeks on a 52-by-18-foot outside wall of the Ashland Emergency Food Bank.

Southern Oregon University is selling its bookstore inventory and handing over store management to Barnes & Noble College, a division of the national chain.