There are three things to remember about Africa: Africa is huge, Africa is diverse and Africa is full of hope and promise. So says Janis Weeks, interim director of the African Studies Program at the UO.
Neuroscientist Janis Weeks with a child from Mariele Children's Home, an orphanage in Zimbabwe.
Join history professor Ian McNeely in an entertaining and enlightening survey of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West, from the classical period onward.
In January 2006, a group of women in Oaxaca, Mexico took over television and radio stations in support of striking teachers who were being brutalized by state police and paramilitary groups. And now UO faculty and graduate students have developed a website called “Making Rights a Reality,” which gives a direct voice to those who participated in and observed this protest.
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Latin America is a region characterized by a rich mixture of peoples, cultures, languages and traditions — and an increasing influence on the world stage. Consider Mexico, Brazil, Cuba and Venezuela and their political and/or economic reach.
UO Sociologist Jim Elliott knows just how devastating Hurricane Katrina was; he was there.
Read about a UO alum's provocative book, plus his further explorations into cognition.
Find out why Mark Thoma's economics blog is a must-read.
Read the Q&A from our lively humanities roundtable and/or listen to the entire discussion.
Add your own remembrance and learn about the reinstated dollar check-off (a Klonoski point of pride).
The last two years have been turbulent, even by Pakistan's standards.
Watch Ian McNeely's talk at Google, Inc. and read a chapter from his book, Reinventing Knowledge.
Check out the dazzling "math windows" in Deady Hall.
A while back, in a city that shall remain nameless, lived a media mogul, his trophy wife, and their daughter...
Watch video interviews with engineers who came to the UO for a computer networking workshop.
