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"There’s No Place Like Home!" Homecoming 2009 features a weeklong slate of campus-wide activities, with all roads leading to Autzen Stadium for the Oregon vs. Arizona State match up. For more information and details click here.
Campus News
Student’s “Project Tomato” a Big Success
 Incoming freshmen at the University of Oregon are learning just how much work goes into making pizza. In September, as part of "Project Tomato," students picked tomatoes at local organic farms that would be turned into pizza sauce. In two days, they picked 900 pounds of tomatoes, or roughly 16,423. That's enough to make a week's worth of tomato sauce just for students who live on campus.
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 Marching Band Energizes Crowds
The rows of fold-out tables and a sea of green and yellow uniforms create an illusion of tightly packed sardines, the smell of deli sandwiches permeates from the cement walls of the Moshofsky Sports Center, and the energy of game day buzzes among the musicians who help define the Autzen Stadium experience.
» Read more from the Oregon Daily Emerald’s September 30 article…
 Forensic Debate and Speech Team Excels in Big Tournaments
The University of Oregon debate team likes to brag about how good it is. In fact, its members will tell you about it any chance they get, complete with flourish, hard facts and rhetorical grace. But given the team’s long list of awards and accolades, the braggadocio seems both justified and rather foolish to get in an argument over.
» Read more from Oregon Daily Emerald October 19th story…
Student Product Design Wins National Competition
 Jessica Richards says she doesn’t play the music video game Rock Band. But the interior design undergraduate student recently won a national competition by proposing an improved microphone for the game, a kind of expanded karaoke with players singing and playing simulated instruments along with annotated onscreen songs. Jessica earned $2,000 for her design, primarily of die-cast zinc, and the University of Oregon’s product design program netted another $1,000.
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 Are you Duck Enough?
The Student Alumni Association and the Oregon Daily Emerald are teaming up to pick the best fight song video featuring you! Click here to find out how to enter.
 Students Look Forward to Thanksgiving
As William Shakespeare once said, "small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast." This year marks the 388th celebration of the authentic autumn holiday that everyone begins looking forward to when the temperatures start to drop and the leaves change colors.
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Hoffman Construction Gift Sponsors Construction Management Courses
 The building boom on the University of Oregon campus and a set of new courses gives architecture students a good reason to dust off their hard hats and learn the fundamentals of construction management. Made possible with a gift from Hoffman Construction, the Department of Architecture is sponsoring a series of advanced courses to educate students about the elements and issues involved in construction management. The first course of the series started Sept. 29 and is taught by adjunct instructor William G. Ramroth, Jr.
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Featured Alumni
 Florence King Douglas ’31 Celebrates 100th Birthday
Born on Oct. 22, 1909 in Baker City, Florence King Douglas got a birthday present with two webbed feet courtesy of family and friends who invited the mascot to surprise her at the south Eugene assisted living facility.
Not that Douglas wanted anyone to make a fuss about her milestone birthday. After all, it’s just another day, she said. Even if it was day No. 36,525 for her.
» Find out more about Florence from the October 23 Register Guard article…
Stephen Kantor ’71 Inducted into  Ronald McDonald House Charities Hall of Fame
Stephen Kantor will be one of four inductees into the Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Oregon and Southwest Washington (RMHC®) Hall of Fame. Kantor, along with Stephen Abouaf, Beth Irish and Joe Graziano, was honored at this year's Hearts & Hands Auction, held on October 2. The Hall of Fame honors those whose generous contributions and abiding commitment have an enduring impact on the children and families served by RMHC.
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In Memoriam
Renowned UO Theater Icon Horace Robinson
 Robinson was the namesake of the University of Oregon’s Robinson Theatre and had been its guiding light since it was built in 1949. He remained closely connected to the building and the UO theater program and was a main consultant in the expansion and remodeling of the Robinson Theatre that was completed last year.
» Learn more from the October 14th Register-Guard article…
Ducks Giving
Building Futures
 "A life-changing opportunity like no other" – that’s how Morgan Law views being chosen for the highly coveted UO graduate fellowship funded by gifts from Oregon's most famous architect, Pietro Belluschi, and his wife Marjorie.
"I got my first real glimpse into what we all dream about and what's involved in terms of sacrifice and devotion," Law said of working with Belluschi Visiting Professor Will Bruder during winter term.
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Venture Development Fund Donors Enjoy Tax Advantages
 If you are a Duck, and especially if you live in Oregon, you have a remarkable opportunity to support entrepreneurship education and new business creation based on UO innovations at a very small cost to you. By donating to the University Venture Development Fund, you will enjoy a 60% State income tax credit, as well as being able to deduct the full amount from your Federal taxes. The net effect is that for every $1000 you give, and assuming a 28% bracket, you would get $600 in State credits, taken over three years, and $1000 deduction on your Federal taxes, saving $280. The net cost is only $120. That’s being a smart Duck!
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 My DuckStory: Adam Ryding
To see confident senior Adam Ryding, you’d never know he once faced a crisis in deciding where to attend college. As a high school student from Damascus, Oregon, Adam initially had his sights set on attending a small highly-selective private college and even applied to an Ivy League school. But the UO soon won him over with a blend of affordable tuition, scholarship funding, and diverse campus resources.
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Athletics
 Club Hockey Looking for Three-Peat as Pac-8 Champs
The Oregon Ducks club hockey team opened its season in victorious fashion, defeating the UCLA Bruins 10-0 on October 9th and 4-1 on October 10th. The team is trying to become the Pac-8 Hockey Conference champions for the third consecutive year.
» Read more from the October 12th Oregon Daily Emerald…
 PK Park Construction Ahead of the Game
University of Oregon baseball coach George Horton looked on proudly as the final beam for the PK Park roof was hoisted into place Thursday, nearly 48 feet up to the highest point of the facility, a U.S. flag dangling from its side. “I got chills when I saw that go up with the flag,” Horton said.
» Read more from October 9 Register-Guard article…
 College Game Day
Chip Kelly sneaks in to the Game Day set, secretly dons the head of Oregon’s Duck mascot for the cameras, then removes it for the cameras to reveal his identity, sending the crowd into a frenzy…
» Click here and scroll down to see the unveiling…
» Click here to learn more about Coach Kelly’s “Coach of the Year” watch list…
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Coming Soon! Check back at our Football page!
 Favorite Football Uniform Poll Winner
New uniforms received the most votes in our October Poll.
» Click here to view the final results…
Oregon News
 City of Gresham and UO Students to Look at a More Sustainable Future
Gresham's development will get help from University of Oregon students and professors.
The city was chosen as the subject for the first "Sustainable Cities Year," a collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of 250 students and 14 professors, working toward a more sustainable, livable city.
» Read more from the October 27 Oregonian article…
 Springfield Chamber and UOAA Collaborate for 13th Annual Tailgate Auction
For the 13th year, the education and business worlds in Springfield and Eugene are coming together to celebrate education, business and football under the event umbrella of the Tailgate Auction. This year’s auction will be held before the Civil War game on December 2nd at the Eugene Hilton. The annual event is coordinated by the Springfield Chamber of Commerce and the UO Alumni Association to raise funds for scholarships and programs in Springfield schools. Each year, the event brings back past scholarship recipients to remind attendees how important this opportunity is to our young people and features live and silent auctions and raffles. This year, the event supports the development of the Cheryl Ramberg Ford and Allyn Ford Alumni Center as well as Springfield Chamber Student Education, Scholarships and Business Programs.
» Click here for more information and registration…
Faculty News
 Dennis Jenkins Wins 2009 Chiles Award
The High Desert Museum recently named Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History archaeologist Dr. Dennis Jenkins the winner of the twenty-sixth Earle A. Chiles Award, recognizing his more than two decades of research into the deep human history and ecology of eastern Oregon and the Great Basin.
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 Assistant Professor John Fenn Selected for UO Sony Faculty Scholar Award
John Fenn was selected as one of two UO Sony Faculty Scholars in a new academic technology program initiated this year. Fenn, assistant professor in the Arts and Administration Program, will use the equipment and software grant to boost his investigation into music, digital media, and culture. His specialization in new media and its effects on community and culture will come together with his new course, Media Management Praxis.
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 Theatre Prof and UO Student Veterans Travel to D.C. for Special Performance
In celebration of Veterans Day, UO theater professor John Schmor and three UO student veterans traveled to Washington, D.C. for a production of the play, "Telling". The play was part of an event called "Mission Serve: Forging a Continuum of Service," which also featured First Lady Michelle Obama, Dr. Jill Biden and Alma Powell. Schmor directed the performance of "Telling," and the UO student veterans acted in the play, along with three other veterans and a UO graduate who is a military spouse.
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Duck Photo Gallery
Some of our guys in Iraq-2/162 A CO-Oregon Army National Guard- showing their Duck spirit.
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University of Oregon psychologist Michael Posner was among nine researchers named as winners of the 2008 National Medal of Science, the highest honor given by the U.S. government to scientists, engineers and inventors.
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See a list of Life Members who joined in October!
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Did you attend or graduate from the Clark Honors College? Then get prepared to join in activities to celebrate the 50th anniversary in 2010 – 2011. Events are planned for UO campus locations, and select cities nationwide. The anniversary website, scheduled to launch later this fall, will have the latest information on events, short profiles of some of our alumni, and photographs to take you down memory lane. Whether you remember the basement of Friendly Hall, or the third floor of Chapman, the Turbots or the Platypus, come join us in the celebration!
The Associated Students of the University of Oregon (ASUO) Farmer's Market will run for four consecutive Thursdays on the UO campus, starting October 29. Farmers will display their offerings at the corner of 13th and University Streets, near the top of the EMU Amphitheatre, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
When the Ford Alumni Center opens, it will be a place for former University of Oregon students to congregate and for prospective students to get to know the university and serve as the front door of campus.
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