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Nancy Cheng, professor emerita in the School of Architecture and Environment, spent six weeks last winter sharing her expertise in timber building design and architectural education as a Fulbright Specialist at Universidad Cientifica del Sur in Lima, Peru.

This year's Lawrence Medalist is artist Brad Miller, BFA '74 and MFA '77. He returns to Eugene in June to deliver the College of Design commencement speech.

PPPM Faculty, Nicole Ngo, recently published research observing the negative outcomes related to aggressive policing and racial profiling. Aggressive policing tactics like stop-and-frisk are linked to worse newborn health outcomes in neighborhoods where such tactics are most pervasive. Babies of non-Hispanic Black mothers had lower birth weights in New York City neighborhoods where police made more on-the-street stops, even when controlling for variables like income and education, according to the research, which analyzed data from 2006 to 2013.

For more than 30 years, the University of Oregon professor and HAA emerita professor, Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, has studied prehistoric Mongolian rock art, illuminating the lives of people who lived 3,000 to 12,000 years ago through the imagery they left behind. She is one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject.

Over the centuries, karuta game play and card designs evolved to reflect historical and cultural shifts. Like a detective, HAA PhD candidate, Mew Lingjun Jiang searches karuta art for clues to Japan’s past.

Last term, a partnership with Bora Architecture & Interiors put students at the center of one of civic architecture’s most complex design challenges. This special partnership between the Library Design Studio with Bora Architecture and Interiors, a prominent Portland-based firm working to reimagine community-centered civic design, challenged graduate and upper-level bachelor students to design community libraries from the inside out, working alongside industry professionals on questions that go far beyond aesthetics.

Today’s performance sports gear is made from spandex, polyester and even Kevlar. But UO students have been developing new ideas for an old-school staple: wool.

Davis's latest book meditates on his personal insights that have come visiting one hundred places over several decades. Davis writes poetically about everything from the mundane to the famous, with some of the sights emblematic of beauty, some the product of fine craftsmanship, some active, and some quiet, but all memorable.

PPPM Professor, Diana Mason, talked alongside other volunteer experts to KLCC about the new trends in volunteering, where volunteers are engaging in shorter terms of engagement instead of long, multiyear engagements with hundreds of hours of service dedicated to a single organization in a year.

The Department of Art at the School of Art + Design is celebrating Ava Murakami's, Art '27, well-deserved recognition as the 2026 Cornelia Hoppe Art Exhibit artist.