Moving Towards Sustainable Cities: Linking Climate Action and VLRs
PPPM's Yizhao Yang is a coauthor of this guest article linking Voluntary Local Reviews (VLRs) to climate action.
College of Design
Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project Acquires New A+D Assistant Professor's Work
New School of Art + Design Assistant Professor in Photography, Tarrah Krajnak, will see their cyanotypes from their performance, 1979: Contact Negative, form the first Parasol Foundation Women in Photography acquisition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Their work will be on display at the start of 2023.
Biden Names Longtime Friend to the UO, Mary Boyle, to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts
RARE Profiles from the College of Design
At the College of Design, there is a "rare" opportunity for graduating students and alumni looking to gain professional experience and make a difference in Oregon's rural communities. The Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) Program, an AmeriCorps program administered through the Institute for Policy Research and Engagement (IPRE), has been engaging and working alongside rural communities since 1994 to improve their economic, social, and environmental conditions.
IPRE Publishes A New Study that Gives Oregon Communities an "Upper" Hand
In the midst of the state’s housing crisis, the University of Oregon’s Institute for Policy Research & Engagement (IPRE) is urging Oregon communities to turn their attention upwards: the upper floors of historic and downtown buildings.
Sustainable City Year Program heads to Sisters for its latest project
A new year means a new partner for our Sustainable City Year Program (SCYP) learn how PPPM students will work with this year’s partner, the city of Sisters.
"Ghost Forests" Finds New Haunt in Boston
College of Design Visiting Professor David Buckley Borden's exhibition, Ghosts Forests, is currently running at the Trustman Art Gallery through Friday, October 21, 2022. Features work from UO BLA and MLA students and is funded by Simmons University’s Trustman Art Gallery, the Fuller Initiative for Productive Landscape at the University of Oregon, Oregon State University Foundation’s Andrews Forest Fund, and the Bullard Fellowship in Forest Research at the Harvard Forest.
UO programs bolstered by $16M in Build Back Better funds
Researchers at the University of Oregon will receive more than $16 million in federal funds as part of a major government grant to the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition from the Build Back Better Regional Challenge.