University of Oregon News

Sandra Colton, a top finalist on Season 1 of FOX's "So You Think You Can Dance" and author or "Book Me," now calls Portland her home.

Three strong candidates appeared before the St. Paul School Board last week to make a final pitch for the job of superintendent.

A University of Oregon student from Grants Pass has been selected for a 2010 Marshall Scholarship.

It centers around a rap music video featuring the school's mascot; a duck that looks just like Donald Duck.

Every year, Scott Maier, an associate professor of journalism at the University of Oregon, asks his students to raise their hands if they went into journalism because they love writing.

"The Toreador," oil on bond, and other artwork by Eugene Bennett will be featured at the Rogue Gallery & Art Center for the Third Friday art walk.

Former UO President Dave Frohnmayer lays out a smart, powerful case for allowing Oregon's three research universities to act as public corporations Inside Oregon's beleaguered university system, the biennial let-down that is the legislative budget process is known as waiting for the arrival of the Great Pumpkin.

Dave Frohnmayer, former president of the University of Oregon, recommends in a report today that Oregon convert its three largest universities into public corporations so they have more freedom to raise money and manage their operations.

A city street car rolls across the Portland State University campus where educators will gather on Thursday to discuss ways to improve the Oregon University System's student retention rate.

Bob was born in Portland to Gilbert and Irma Schachtsick. In 1937 Gilbert married Mae Duffy and in 1939 the family moved to Stayton.

The five-member team reports that pentamidine, when tested in genetically altered mice, counters genetic splicing defects in RNA that lead to type 1 myotonic dystrophy -- one of nine types of muscular dystrophy -- also known as DM1 and Steinart's disease.

With Kathy Merchant at the helm, the Lafayette Library and Learning Center Foundation has raised more than $14 million for the impressive new facility that opened to the public Saturday.

Take 250 University of Oregon students and their 14 teachers, then turn them loose on the state's fourth largest city and you have a project that might be called Gresham 101.

Eugene, A newly released police report sheds light on a tasering incident involving two chinese speaking University of Oregon Students.

Researchers report that a drug used to treat pneumonia might serve as an effective treatment against a type of muscular dystrophy.

A man has been charged for threatening to bomb a Planned Parenthood clinic in Eugene.

Enrollment at Oregon's seven public universities has reached a record high growing nearly 6 percent from last year.

" A high-profile investigation into the use of a Taser by a Eugene police officer during a downtown anti-pesticide demonstration has been closed.

Oregon real estate brokers, mortgage bankers and home builders cheered Congress' decision Thursday to dole out another $11 billion in tax credits to prop up the housing market.

There's a pair of interesting news stories, each of which pushes back the date of human habitation of the North American continent.