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Looking for a part-time job this summer in Eugene? Looking ahead for fall job opportunities on campus? Or want to learn more about future work-study opportunities during your time at UO? Stop by the UO Part-Time Job & Work-Study Fair, Wednesday, May 13, from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. in the Tykeson Hall 1st Floor Commons area to meet local and on-campus employers hiring for seasonal employees! Bring your resume and apply on the spot, or just look around and learn more about the great ways you can get work experience and build career readiness skills during your time at the UO.
FYI: Work-Study is a specific type of part-time job available to students based on financial need. If a job says it requires Work-Study, you must have accepted an award on Duckweb. To learn more about the program and how to find your award, check out https://career.uoregon.edu/jobs-and-internships/work-study
There will still be LOTS of jobs at this event that do not require work-study in order to apply--something for everyone!
Register in Handshake to keep up to date on which employers are coming to the fair and what jobs you can be applying for!
Special thanks to Chick-Fil-A
1:00 p.m.
Please join us Wednesday afternoons for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
7:00 p.m.
The Creative Writing Program invites you to a poetry reading with V. Penelope Pelizzon.
Pelizzon’s A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye (Pitt Poetry Series), longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, is a TLS Book of the Year and one of LitHub “Favorite Poetry Collections” of 2024. Her first book, Nostos, won the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award; her second, Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time, was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize at The Waywiser Press. She is also coauthor of Tabloid, Inc., a critical study of film, photography, and crime narratives. Her recognitions include a Hawthornden Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation Award. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut. For more information, visit vpenelopepelizzon.com.
11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Dark matter shapes the universe on a grand scale – guiding the formation of stars, influencing galaxies, and playing a vital role in the cosmic structures we observe today. Join the UO Alumni Association for our springtime Quackademics lecture with associate professor of physics Tien-Tien Yu, as she unlocks the mysteries of the universe through the lens of particles.
In addition to her physics research, Professor Yu will share stories of her creative collaborations on campus, including a partnership with the UO’s Comics and Cartoon Studies Program through the Science and Comics Initiative.
As always, participants in our virtual lectures will have the opportunity to submit questions at the time of registration. Take advantage of this chance to have your most pressing questions answered by the UO’s leading dark matter expert.
1:00–2:30 p.m.
Xan Holt, Assistant Professor of German in the Department of German and Scandinavian Studies presents:
Transnational Trashscapes: Enframing Global Waste Management in Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Documentary Matter Out of Place (2022).
Join us for the spring installment of the Ring Lecture where Professor Holt will discuss the images of waste disposal sites from across the globe in Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s documentary Matter Out of Place. The film confronts the viewer with the unfamiliar scales and impacts of contemporary waste through its employment of three experimental techniques: 1) a discontinuous organization that disrupts traditional understandings of ‘waste flow’; 2) a single-point perspective that decenters the human gaze; and 3) a jarring editing practice that reveals the entanglement of manmade waste and the ‘natural’ world.
This presentation is part of Professor Holt’s book project that analyzes contemporary German-language texts and films laboring to depict newer forms of waste (e.g., micro- and nanoplastics, endocrine disrupting chemicals, and e-waste).
1:00–3:00 p.m.
The University of Oregon Women in Computer Science Club, sponsored by the Department of Computer Science, will be hosting our annual Tech Together event with this year’s theme, Tech for Good. This event celebrates women in the technology industry who are dedicated to creating positive impact on the world through their work.
The event will feature a fireside chat with three inspiring women in tech driving meaningful impact, including an opportunity for attendees to ask questions and engage directly with the speakers. Guests will also enjoy a catered lunch, opportunities for networking, and a raffle prize drawing at the conclusion of the program. All majors and identities are encouraged to attend.
Admission is free.
You can RSVP for the event at the following link to receive updates and reminder messages: https://forms.gle/JepnVYWh6nRSu5gP6. RSVP not required to attend.
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Please join the Department of History and the School of Law for a talk by Katrina Jagodinsky on “Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812–1924.”
Free and open to the public
Jagodinsky is Associate Professor of History at University of Nebraska Lincoln, where she is the founding director of the Digital Legal Research Lab and leads a Mellon-funded higher ed initiative in US Law and Race. She recently launched an award-winning database entitled Petitioning for Freedom: Habeas Corpus in the American West, 1812-1924 with support from the National Science Foundation and will complete her book based on the dataset with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the coming academic year.
Jagodinsky will share findings from the Petitioning for Freedom dataset, particularly those coming out of Oregon archives, in addition to trends across the American West. These cases represent histories of petitioners who challenged enslavement, colonialism, coverture, deportation, incarceration, and institutionalization, demonstrating a remarkable range of legal mobilization among the most vulnerable.
4:00–6:00 p.m.
Mark your calendars for the 2026 Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies and Latinx Studies Celebration and Mixer!
CLLAS and Latinx Studies invite you to a vibrant celebration honoring exceptional seniors and other undergraduate students who have completed outstanding coursework that sheds light on Latinx and Latin American issues around the world.
This is a free event. Enjoy music, delicious food, and drinks while learning about their remarkable work. This free event is open to everyone – we look forward to celebrating with you!
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Pint of Science is an international science communication festival which aims to connect academic researchers with their surrounding community in an informal, low stakes setting. Two talks will be held under the theme of "Atoms to Galaxies" and audience participation is encouraged!
From tiny materials to vast galaxies, this event explores our place in the universe. One talk looks at replacing “forever chemicals” found in everyday products with safer, earth‑friendly materials. The other zooms out to the cosmos, using images from powerful telescopes to explain the scale of the universe, our solar neighborhood, and the search for planets beyond our own.
UO chemistry graduate Alex Rosen and Prof. Scott Fisher will be sharing their insights into these topics.
Check out the May 18 presentation: The Amazing Science of How Bodies Work.
1:00 p.m.
Please join us Wednesday afternoons for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community! We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!