Events

Feb 14
Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series – Third Year Talks 3:00 p.m.

Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series Third Year Graduate Student Talks – Winter 2025 3:00pm – Andrew Lee Crown Ether Self-Assemblies, and Aqueous Anion...
Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series – Third Year Talks
February 14
3:00 p.m.
Willamette Hall 110

Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series Third Year Graduate Student Talks – Winter 2025

3:00pm – Andrew Lee Crown Ether Self-Assemblies, and Aqueous Anion Supramolecular Chemistry

3:30pm – Victor Salpino Accessing Novel Carbon Materials using Post-Functional Transformations of [n]Cycloparaphenylenes Derivatives

 

Feb 14
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive 7:30 p.m.

by Selina Fillinger Directed by Tricia Rodley One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a...
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
February 7–23
7:30 p.m.
Miller Theatre Complex Hope Theatre

by Selina Fillinger

Directed by Tricia Rodley One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.

Selina Fillinger’s brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.

Synopsis courtesy of Concord Theatricals

Feb 15
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive 7:30 p.m.

by Selina Fillinger Directed by Tricia Rodley One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a...
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
February 7–23
7:30 p.m.
Miller Theatre Complex Hope Theatre

by Selina Fillinger

Directed by Tricia Rodley One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.

Selina Fillinger’s brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.

Synopsis courtesy of Concord Theatricals

Feb 16
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive 2:00 p.m.

by Selina Fillinger Directed by Tricia Rodley One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a...
POTUS or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive
February 7–23
2:00 p.m.
Miller Theatre Complex Hope Theatre

by Selina Fillinger

Directed by Tricia Rodley One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spins a PR nightmare into a global crisis, the seven brilliant and beleaguered women he relies upon most risk life, liberty, and the pursuit of sanity to keep the commander-in-chief out of trouble.

Selina Fillinger’s brilliant, all-female farce took Broadway by storm in a star-studded production that earned three 2022 Tony nominations.

Synopsis courtesy of Concord Theatricals

Feb 17
Black Studies Presents: "Black Pasts/Black Futures:  Lessons from Octavia E. Butler" noon

Join experts on Afrospeculation to discuss how the legacy of Octavia E. Butler allows us to reimagine new futures and view the past anew. In honor of Black History Month Lunch...
Black Studies Presents: "Black Pasts/Black Futures:  Lessons from Octavia E. Butler"
February 17
noon
Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center Multipurpose Room

Join experts on Afrospeculation to discuss how the legacy of Octavia E. Butler allows us to reimagine new futures and view the past anew. In honor of Black History Month

Lunch and refreshments will be served. Masks are highly recommended and will be provided at the event.

Walidah Imarisha is an educator and a writer. She is the co-editor of two anthologies, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movements and Another World is Possible. Imarisha is the author of Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison and Redemption, which won an Oregon Book Award, as well as the poetry collection Scars/Stars. She has received a Tiptree Fellowship for her science fiction writing. She is the writer and co-producer of Space to Breathe (2024), a documentary/science fiction hybrid film set in an abolitionist future. Imarisha currently teaches in Portland State University’s Black Studies Department and is the Director of the PSU’s Center for Black Studies. In the past, she has taught at Stanford University, Oregon State University, and Pacific Northwest College of the Arts.

John Jennings is a professor, author, graphic novelist, curator, Harvard Fellow, New York Times Bestseller, 2018 Eisner Winner, and winner of the Hugo Award for his co-adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s dystopian novel The Parable of the Sower. As Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside (UCR), Jennings examines the visual culture of race in various media forms including film, illustrated fiction, and comics and graphic novels. He is also the director of Abrams ComicArts imprint Megascope, which publishes graphic novels focused on the experiences of people of color. Jennings is co-editor of the 2016 Eisner Award-winning collection The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art (Rutgers) and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem. Jennings also created Marvel’s new AfroCaribbean cosmic superhero Ghost Light with artist Valentine Delandro. 

Dr. Stephanie Jones is Assistant Professor of English in Digital Rhetoric at the University of Oregon. Her PhD is from Syracuse University in Composition and Cultural Rhetoric and Women and Gender Studies. She was awarded the 2021 Geneva Smitherman Award for Research in Black Language, Literacies, Cultures, and Rhetorics from NCTE/CCCC Black Caucus, the 2023 Rhetoric Society of America Dissertation Award, and the 2023 NWSA/Routledge Book Series Prize on “Subversive Histories, Feminist Futures.” Her research explores Afrofuturist Feminisms, Black Feminist Rhetorical Studies, Black Digital Rhetorics, and Video Game Studies. She was born and raised in Southern California.

 

Feb 17
Physical Chemistry Seminar – Research in the Guenza Group 2:00 p.m.

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Physical Chemistry Seminar Series Professor Marina Guenza, University of Oregon Research in the Guenza group I will present an...
Physical Chemistry Seminar – Research in the Guenza Group
February 17
2:00 p.m.
Willie and Donald Tykeson Hall 140

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Physical Chemistry Seminar Series

Professor Marina Guenza, University of Oregon

Research in the Guenza group

I will present an overview of the research in the Guenza group. The goal of our research is the design and implementation of theoretical approaches that coarse-grain structure and dynamics of molecular liquids. Our theoretical models are based on statistical mechanics and liquid state theory, and are applied to study a number of key systems and related questions in material science and biophysics.

Feb 17
Composition Writing Lab Drop-In Hours 3:00 p.m.

Students taking WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to drop by the Tykeson 3rd floor Writing Lab (glass room, 351) for candy and quick writing support. Our GE Writing Support...
Composition Writing Lab Drop-In Hours
February 10–March 10
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Willie and Donald Tykeson Hall 351

Students taking WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to drop by the Tykeson 3rd floor Writing Lab (glass room, 351) for candy and quick writing support. Our GE Writing Support Specialists (tutors) are available to help you with any part of a WR assignment, from coming up with ideas to reading to revising to polishing up a final draft. Join us!

Mondays 3-4 and Thursdays 2-3, beginning week 4, for the rest of Winter quarter 2025.

Feb 18
Department of History Coffee Hour 10:00 a.m.

Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community. We’re excited to continue this tradition for...
Department of History Coffee Hour
January 14–March 11
10:00–11:00 a.m.
McKenzie Hall 335

Please join us Tuesday mornings 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!

Feb 18
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Open House noon

You’re Invited to Our WGSS Winter Term Open House! Meet other students Chat with faculty, staff, and advisors Learn about our WGSS major and minors Join our...
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Open House
February 18
noon
Hendricks Hall 315

You’re Invited to Our WGSS Winter Term Open House!

Meet other students Chat with faculty, staff, and advisors Learn about our WGSS major and minors Join our student club, The Gender Collective Grad students, meet others in the WGSS Grad Certificate

 

Feb 18
gradCONNECT: Disabled and Neurodivergent Graduate Student Time Together 4:00 p.m.

Enjoy stress-free time together online with disabled and neurodivergent graduate students from across campus. Share experiences, exchange resources, or consult with a GE from the...
gradCONNECT: Disabled and Neurodivergent Graduate Student Time Together
February 18
4:00–5:00 p.m.
This is a virtual event.

Enjoy stress-free time together online with disabled and neurodivergent graduate students from across campus. Share experiences, exchange resources, or consult with a GE from the Accessible Education Center.

RSVP