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Celebrating Pride

Celebrating Pride

June 10, 2024

This June, we celebrate Pride Month and the diverse identities of alumni identifying as LGBTQ+. Discover the stories of eight Ducks and meet our UO Pride Alumni Network.

Travel with fellow Ducks to Big Ten football games

Travel with fellow Ducks to Big Ten football games

June 10, 2024
The UOAA is excited to offer travel packages to Michigan and Wisconsin, as the Ducks prepare to take on the Wolverines and Badgers in their first Big Ten season. Travel with us and experience the excitement with fellow UO alumni!
Reflecting on a career of public service

Reflecting on a career of public service

June 7, 2024

Mustafa T. Kasubhai, JD ’96, is a US magistrate judge for the District of Oregon and Oregon Law's 2024 recipient of the Frohnmayer Award for Public Service. Follow his journey from law student to first Muslim American federal judge.

Soak up the sun with a good book

Soak up the sun with a good book

June 7, 2024
The Alumni Book Club is ready to make your summer reading unforgettable with Things Past Telling by Sheila Williams. Sign up today and dive into summer reading with the UOAA and your alumni friends.
Media Mentions
Alabama authors featured at Wednesday Night Poetry

Alabama authors featured at Wednesday Night Poetry

March 10, 2022
Tina Mozelle Braziel, MFA '13, a prizewinning poet and author from Birmingham, Alabama, and her husband, fiction novelist James Braziel, will be featured at Wednesday Night Poetry tonight at Kollective Coffee+Tea, 110 Central Ave.
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Blue River locals rebuild their historic park

March 10, 2022
KLCC: The project is being designed by Audrey Rycewicz, a Master of Landscape Architecture Student at the University of Oregon. Rycewicz says the team's goal is to build the park better than it was before the fire.
Career News
An elemental approach to wildfire

An elemental approach to wildfire

October 4, 2022
Trip Jennings, BA ’06 (Spanish), spent five years visiting burned landscapes and communities devastated by wildfire. In his new film Elemental with producer and editor Sara Quinn, BA ’11 (Clark Honors College, anthropology), he explores the complexities of wildfires and solutions.
The Voices of Frisco Sports

The Voices of Frisco Sports

September 21, 2022
Zach Bigley, BS '17, is in his second season as the Frisco RoughRiders’ radio play-by-play announcer. He has enjoyed his time with the Rangers’ Double-A affiliate thus far because he’s already seen several players reach the big leagues
Adult art classes offered at VAC

Adult art classes offered at VAC

September 21, 2022
One class is “Beginning Drawing: Drawing from Life,” with Carol Shenk, BA '92, which begins on Thursday, Oct. 6. Shenk is a mixed-media artist and illustrator living on the Oregon coast.
Samaritan Welcomes Austin Loranger, MD

Samaritan Welcomes Austin Loranger, MD

September 21, 2022
Austin Loranger, BS '11, MD, has joined Samaritan Medical Group Pulmonology – Corvallis where he specializes in treating respiratory conditions. He is also an intensivist at Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, caring for critically ill and injured patients.
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