A story in the current Men’s Journal features research by a UO Product Design Program class on how to design a next-generation condom.

The first student-built house in the OregonBILDS (Building Integrated Livable Designs Sustainably) project is on the Home Builder’s Association of Lane County’s 2014 Tour of Homes through July 27.

Zander Eckblad, BS ’14, materials and product studies, is among six entrepreneurs accepted into the Regional Accelerator and Innovation Network (RAIN) to work with the City of Eugene to grow innovative technology businesses.

Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM) undergraduate Erik Thorbeck has been awarded

Kathrin “Kat” Walsch is the new Senior Dir

The UO's Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) has been mentioned again in the Chronicle of Higher Education in a story entitled “Want a College Experience That Matters? Get to Work”.

A helmet that integrates computing elements to reduce time in avalanche search and rescue has won an international prize for Product Design Program Assistant Professor Jason O. Germany.

“Marking the Forest,” a ten-day summer workshop offered by the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture in London, England, returns to Oregon for a third year this summer.

Oxide, a new book by Craig Hickman, a professor in the UO Digital Arts Program, was featured in a recent issue of

The George Washington University recently featured Professor Emerita Judith Hibbard in a blog post recapping her TEDMED #Great

Robert Gamblin, ’70, received the school’s highest honor, the Ellis F. Lawrence Medal, at commencement June 16. Artist and owner of Gamblin Artist Colors and Gamblin Conservation Colors, his paint has been used to restore van Goghs and other masterpieces.

Associate Professor Carla Bengtson has accepted a three-year term as head of the Department of Art effective July 16, Dean Frances Bronet announced Monday, June 16. 

Lucas Gray, who co-founded the start-up firm Propel Studio Architecture in Portland, has traveled the world learning first-hand about design and sustainability.

A selection of work by graduating senior art students will be shown June 9-16 in the Best of 2014 Spring Storm exhibition in the LaVerne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall.