Are Women Safer When They Learn Self-Defense?
A UO sociologist finds that women who took a ten-week self-defense training were significantly less likely to experience unwanted sexual contact than those who didn't.
Social Sciences
Taking Students to 'The Wire'
A geography professor uses a popular HBO series as an urban geography text.
Mock Cholera Outbreak Provides Online Mapping Lesson
Students use social media to discover the source of water contamination.
Political Science Celebrates 100 Years
June 2013 marks the centennial of the Department of Political Science at the UO.
Online Extras
Mail Bag: Readers Respond
The "Paper or Plastic?" story in the Fall 2012 Cascade inspired several readers to write.
Tiny Tour
Take a video tour of April Anson's 114-square-foot sustainably built home.
Germ of An Idea
"You are your microbes" is the message from UO biologists in a TED Ed video and TEDx talk.
African Acoustics
Biologist Janis Weeks and Marilyn Mohr of the UO Libraries play an African instrument called the mbira.
Geological Splendor
A geologist shares some of her favorite photos of Oregon's geological wonders —and destinations beyond.
DUKTalks Videos
Check out the College of Arts and Sciences variation on the TED Talks theme.