The 25,000-plus University of Oregon students, faculty and staff play a significant and important role in the larger Eugene community. UO employees and students are invited to participate in Eugene Counts, a partnership between city government and Eugene constituents to give input on how the city focuses its efforts when providing services.  Opportunities to participate include an online survey and community workshop.

Make your voice count:

• Take part in the Eugene Counts Community Workshop; Oct. 14, 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the City Council Chamber at City Hall
• Take an online survey: Click here to take the full-length survey
• Only have a few minutes? Click here to take the quick version
• Become a fan on Facebook

For more information, visit http://www.eugene-or.gov/EugeneCounts, e-mail EugeneCounts@ci.eugene.or.us<mailto:EugeneCounts@ci.eugene.or.us>, or call Terrie Monroe at 682-5412.

The Clark Honors College celebrates its 50th anniversary during 2010 – 2011.  Numerous events are planned for the Eugene campus, as well as the White Stag building in Portland and select cities nationwide.  Event information, profiles of CHC alumni, and some memorable photographs can be found on the anniversary website, scheduled to launch later this fall.

Are you a CHC graduate working on campus?  Or, a professor with a great story of teaching an honors college class in the basement of Friendly Hall or on the third floor of Chapman?  We’d like to hear from you.  Please contact Renee Dorjahn, Clark Honors College 50th Anniversary Coordinator at CHC50@uoregon.edu.

The Jazz Café
Saturday, Oct. 17 – 7:30 p.m.
Room 190 Music
$5 general admission
New and returning graduate students in the Jazz Studies program perform a variety of jazz standards and originals in a cabaret setting.

Guest Artists: The Benvenue Fortepiano Trio
Sunday, Oct. 18 – 7:30 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Violinist Monica Huggett, pianist Eric Zivian, and cellist Tanya Tomkins will perform an all-Mendelssohn program on period instruments, including “Sonata for Cello and Fortepiano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58”; selections from “Lieder Ohne Worte” for solo fortepiano; and “Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66.” Pianist Zivian uses a rarely-heard fortepiano from Vienna, 1841 by Franz Rausch.

Guest Artist: Eileen Russell, trombone
Tuesday, Oct. 20 — 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Russell’s program, with pianist Kiyoshi Tamagawa, includes “Lyric Fanfare” by David R. Gaines; “Sonata for Trombone and Piano” by Paul Hindemith; “Lyric Suite” by Donald White; “Fantasy for Euphonium and Piano” by Hiroshi Hoshina; “Postcards for Trombone Alone” by Anthony Plog; and “Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen” by Franz Schubert.

Franz Liszt’s Transcendental Etudes
Thursday, Oct. 22 — 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$7 general admission; $5 students and seniors
UO graduate piano students perform Liszt’s famous (and fiendishly difficult) “Transcendental Etudes.” The Transcendental Etudes are a series of twelve compositions written for solo piano by Franz Liszt in 1852. They are revisions and simplifications of a set of pieces published in 1837 called “Douze Grandes Etudes” (S.137). These were, in turn, a hugely expanded reworking of a youthful set of etudes which Liszt had composed in 1826, called “Etude en douze exercises” (S.136). The third and final version (S.139 - the most often recorded version) was published in 1852 and dedicated to Carl Czerny, Liszt’s piano teacher, and himself a prolific composer of etudes. The etudes, particularly in their 1837 version (S.137), are among the most difficult pieces for piano ever written. Robert Schumann declared that they were playable by “at the most, ten or twelve players in the world.” Liszt’s revisions of the etudes in their final form are less difficult, but still pose incredible physical and technical demands for the performer

Guest Artist: Shannon Thompson, clarinet
Friday, Oct. 23 – 6:30 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Free admission
UO alumna Shannon Thompson, accompanied by pianist Bradley Martin, will give a free recital that includes “Three Romances” by Clara Schumann; “Sonata in C minor” by J. S. Bach; “Constructs “(2001) by Bruce Frazier; and “Sonata, Op. 167”by Camille Saint-Saëns.
Thompson received her graduate degrees from Boston University School for the Arts and the University of Texas at Austin. She is Associate Professor of Music at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. She is also principal clarinetist of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra and bass clarinetist of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. Other orchestras in which she has performed include the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, Spartanburg Philharmonic, and Brevard Chamber Orchestra. Dr. Thompson maintains an active performing career as a solo and chamber musician.

Kate Petak, harp
Saturday, Oct. 24 – 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
The concluding event of Harp Day; also featuring harpists Laura Zaerr and Jeff Parsons.
For more information on Harp Day, contact UO harp instructor Laura Zaerr at 346-3709.

University Symphony
Sunday, Oct. 25 — 3 p.m.
EMU Ballroom
$7 general admission; $5 students and seniors
The University Symphony, directed by Professor Wayne Bennett, will perform “Andante Festivo” and “Karelia Suite” by Jean Sibelius, and excerpts from the ballet “Sleeping Beauty” by Tchaikovsky.

The Belcea String Quartet  (see photo)
Sunday, Oct. 25 – 3 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Reserved seat tickets, $16 to $33, from the Hult Center (682-5000) or the EMU (346-4363)
The UO Chamber Music@Beall Series continues its 42nd season with the Belcea String Quartet performing Beethoven’s “String Quartet in B-flat Major”; Britten’s “String Quartet, No. 3”; and Mozart’s “String Quartet in C Major (Dissonance).” UO Assistant Professor Tim S. Pack will give a free “Musical Insights” talk at 2:15 p.m. The Belcea Quartet has gained an enviable reputation as one of the leading quartets of the new generation. It continues to take the British and international chamber music circuit by storm, consistently receiving critical acclaim for its performances. The Quartet was established at the Royal College of Music in 1994. It is the Associate Ensemble at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and are Quartet-in-Residence at the Atheneum Concert Hall in Bucharest. The Belcea Quartet was nominated for a 2008 Gramophone Award, and was awarded the title Chamber Music Ensemble of the Year by Germany’s prestigious Echo Klassik Awards for its recording of the complete Bartók quartets.

Guest Artist: Donald George, tenor
Monday, Oct. 26 – 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Guest tenor Donald George and pianist Lucy Mauro will perform “The Old Wicked Songs of Heinrich Heine.” Donald George is an associate professor of vocal music at the Crane School of Music – SUNY Potsdam, and an honored professor at Shenyang Conservatory in China. He has also taught at the Bavarian Theater Academy in Munich and sung at the Paris Opera, La Scala , Royal Opera of Brussels, Kennedy Center, the State Operas of Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna, the Festivals of Salzburg, Buenos Aires, Jerusalem, and Istanbul. He has sung with Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Masur, Yehudi Menuhin, and Jeffry Tate.

Lecture-Performance: Vladimir Chaloupka
Thursday, Oct. 29 – 7:30 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Free admission
Vladimir Chaloupka, professor physics from the University of Washington, will give a lecture-performance titled “From Bach to Einstein and Beyond.”

Oregon Wind Ensemble
Tuesday, Nov. 3 — 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$7 general admission; $5 students and seniors

OcTUBAfest
Wednesday, Nov. 4 – 7:30 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$7 general admission; $5 students and seniors
A High-Class, Low-Brass event, featuring the UO Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble and others.

The Jazz Café
Saturday, Nov. 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Room 190 Music
$5 general admission
UO student jazz combos in a cabaret setting.

Faculty Artist Series: The Columbia Piano Trio
Sunday, Nov. 8 – 3 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Pianist David Riley, violinist Fritz Gearhart, and cellist Randy Kolb perform Mendelssohn’s “Piano Trio in C Minor.”

The Frohnmayer Music Building and Beall Concert Hall are located at 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets are available at the door, unless otherwise noted.

For more information on the School of Music and Dance, or to receive a complete calendar of events, call the university music school weekdays, 541-346-5678, or visit music.uoregon.edu.

Beginning Sept. 23, the University Health Center will offer seasonal flu vaccinations for faculty, staff and students.  Vaccination clinics for faculty, staff and eligible dependents between 13 and 17 years old are Wednesday through Fridays during fall term from 8 to 9 a.m. Faculty and staff must bring their UO identification card and Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon PEBB insurance card. Cost for participants not covered by Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon PEBB insurance is $30 (payable by cash or check only).  For specific date and time information, visit  http://healthcenter.uoregon.edu/ or call 346-2737.

The vaccinations are starting earlier this year to encourage more participation and to meet the needs for vaccinations before H1N1 (formerly referred to as swine flu) vaccinations become available in October.  The University Health Center will provide information about H1N1 vaccinations as it becomes available.

H1N1 influenza is expected to have impacts on campus with as many as 20 to 30 percent of faculty, staff, and students becoming ill from the virus this fall.  Infection rates this high have the potential to significantly disrupt teaching, research and other operations at the UO.

While the H1N1 flu does not pose the extreme threat to life that public health officials originally feared, it is still a serious concern.  Persons with certain medical conditions are at increased risk of severe complications from H1N1 influenza.

To reduce the spread of H1N1 influenza and the common seasonal flu, the following are strongly encouraged:

• Practice good hygiene by washing your hands with soap and water, especially after coughing or sneezing. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective when soap and running water are not available.

• Cover your mouth and nose when you cough or sneeze.

• Know the signs and symptoms of the flu. These include fever along with a cough or sore throat. Other flu symptoms may include runny nose, body aches, headache, tiredness, diarrhea, or vomiting.  A fever is defined as a temperature taken with a thermometer that is equal to or greater than 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Look for possible signs of fever.  These may include feeling very warm, having a flushed appearance, or sweating or shivering.

• Stay home if you have flu or flu-like illness.  Do not return to campus until at least 24 hours after you no longer have a fever (100 degrees Fahrenheit) or signs of a fever (chills, feeling very warm, having a flushed appearance, or sweating). This should be determined without the use of fever-reducing medications (any medicine that contains ibuprofen, aspirin, or acetaminophen).

For details about the university’s preparation for flu prevention and the latest CDC guidance, visit http://em.uoregon.edu/info/h1n1.

The Campus Duck Store Duck Stop! is now offering a special discount for staff, faculty and graduate teaching fellows.

Through Oct. 9, show your university ID at the customer service desk at the back of the main floor and receive 15 percent off Duck Stop! Coffee Cards. With the free drink included with the purchase of a coffee card, the discount equals a 25 percent discount. Limit of one card per person.

Incoming UO President Richard Lariviere urges humanists to better communicate the timeless value of the humanities. The New York Times states, “In tough economic times, the humanities must justify their worth.”

What’s the relevance of the humanities in an age of technological transformation and economic uncertainty? Why study them? Why teach them? Why tend the flame?

A panel discussion will be at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 14, in the Gerlinger Lounge.

Panelists:

Barbara Altmann — director of the Oregon Humanities Center and Professor of French
Daniel Falk — department head and professor of Religious Studies
Lisa Freinkel — director of the Comparative Literature Program and professor of English

Moderated by Scott Coltrane, Tykeson Dean of Arts and Sciences

–Submitted by Lisa Raleigh

University of Oregon’s Child and Family Center and the Oregon Research Institute are recent recipients of a five-year, $6,598,994 grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to fund a study to evaluate the effectiveness of a family-centered intervention for middle school students.

The collaborative study will involve 44 Oregon urban, suburban and rural public middle schools and approximately 880 teachers, 13,200 students and 3,300 parents. The schools will be recruited in two waves, with half randomly assigned to the CFC’s Family Check-Up (FCU) model and the remaining half to a control group.

Previous studies have shown that middle schools are critical intervention sites for improving academic performance, reducing problem behaviors and improving overall success as adults. The FCU intervention is assessment driven and tailored to individual youth and family needs. The study will evaluate the effectiveness of having a family resource center and parent consultant in each school providing FCUs and related family-based services known to promote the success and adjustment of students.

The newly funded trial will assess the extent to which parents/caregivers engage in the family-centered services and the effectiveness of the services for promoting school attendance, academic performance and decreased critical incidents of student problem behavior. A three-tier implementation plan includes engaging parents in each school’s existing positive behavior support (PBS) system, a program developed at the University of Oregon that promotes behavior management at school and at home; teachers’ rating of students on attendance, academic performance and PBS behavioral expectations; and engaging parents in a collaborative relationship with the school and participation in the FCU.

–Submitted by Cher Mikkola

The University of Oregon has secured a $1 million endowment to support the Osher Reentry Scholarship. Laura Blake Jones, Gretchen Jewett and John Manotti worked for three years to permanently secure this scholarship.

The scholarship is funded by The Bernard Osher Foundation, and is designed to provide financial assistance to eligible UO students in completing their first undergraduate degrees. The foundation seeks to recognize the commitment, efforts and financial hardships of reentry students who have experienced a gap of five years or more in the pursuit of their education and who can look forward to a significant number of years of workforce participation after graduation.

Proposals for Osher Reentry Scholarship grants are accepted by invitation only. The foundation only supports four-year institutions that serve reentry students for this program.

The University of Oregon and Office Max are teaming up to help the environment by reducing carbon emissions. Currently Office Max makes deliveries to campus every day of the work week, but starting April 20, they will only deliver Tuesday-Friday. UO departments are encouraged to honor the “Green Mondays Initiative” by not scheduling deliveries for that day of the week. Emergency Monday deliveries can still be made via UPS or another carrier at no additional charge.

The Duck Store is currently accepting submissions for the 2009 Oregon Spirit Tee slogan contest. Participants are asked to craft an original slogan and turn it into any Duck Store location by May 1. In addition to having the featured design on the official spirit tee, the winner will receive 2009 football season tickets and a $200 shopping spree at any Duck Store. UO students are given the choice between football season tickets and a $400 credit towards Fall 2009 textbooks.

The Spirit Tee was introduced in 2003 and has been a valuable annual fundraiser for the Oregon Band and Cheerleaders. The band and cheerleaders receive $1 of every $7 Spirit Tee sale. The money allows the groups to participate in competitions and events.

Past slogans are: “Lightning Strikes”; “All Ducked Out!”; “InDUCKed!”; “Yell O”; “Feel the Earth QUACK”; and “Live Green, Yell O.”

Entry forms are available at all Duck Store locations and online at UODuckStore.com.

We’ve changed things up a bit, with a new design and publication schedule. But we’re still committed to sharing the news around campus. Inside Oregon is now a monthly online magazine and the place to find out about what your fellow colleagues and departments are up to.

Each issue will be published the second Monday of the month, with submissions due by the first Monday. With our new format, we’ll be able to better handle photos, video and audio files. Stories are sorted by categories, such as campus news, people, awards, events and research. We’ve even added a Twitter feed, so you can follow our updates in between each issue.

This magazine is about you, as part of the community of the University of Oregon. We welcome submissions that people throughout campus will find interesting and give them a better insight into the parts and pieces that make the UO great.

Have a question or want to send something in for consideration, email uonews@uoregon.edu or call 541-346-3134.

Happy reading.

President Dave Frohnmayer announced that “Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives” raised a record $853 million dollars during a ceremony on Friday, Jan. 30, in front of Johnson Hall.

Other speakers at the event were Jim Bean, UO provost and senior vice president; Michael Redding, vice president of university advancement; Susie Papé, member of the Campaign Oregon leadership team; W. Andrew Marcus, geography professor and recipient of the Faculty Excellence Award; and Rhea Cramer, 2008 alumnus and Oregon Community Credit Union Scholar.

Thanks to more than 90,000 individual donors, “Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives” raised $99.8 million for student scholarships and fellowships, $106.1 million for faculty support, $186.1 million for academic and program support, and $138.2 million for improving academic campus facilities. The campaign, which started counting contributions on Jan. 1, 2001, officially ended Dec. 31, 2008.

The campaign’s success extends the university’s ability to fulfill its mission to serve the state of Oregon by increasing student access to higher education; by supporting faculty members whose research benefits business, government and social services; and by enhancing direct social and cultural services for Oregon citizens. It also represents how private giving and state and federal support can be used together to achieve greater results. Examples include the HEDCO Education Building, which will open in June 2009, and the Lorry I. Lokey Laboratories, which opened in spring 2008. Both projects and others received private donations as well as federal and state funding.

For more information about Campaign Oregon, visit http://giving.uoregon.edu/z/achievements.php.

“It will be impossible for us to find a replacement for Dave Frohnmayer,” George Pernsteiner, chancellor of the Oregon University System, told a group gathered at the White Stag Block in Portland on Friday, Sept. 19. “Instead we are searching for a successor to Dave Frohnmayer.” (Read more…)

Jazz Lab Bands II and III
Monday, Feb. 2 — 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Free admission
Jazz Lab Bands II and III will present an evening of instrumental jazz, including “Crackdown,” “Consummation” and “Ahunk Ahunk” by Thad Jones, as well as music by Wayne Shorter, Astor Piazzolla and Count Basie. Directors are Josh Deutsch and Charlie Gurke.

Fritz Gearhart, violin
Victor Steinhardt, piano
Tuesday, Feb. 3 — 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Gearhart and Steinhardt will give a Faculty Artist Series recital program that includes “Sonata in A Minor” by Beethoven; “Sonata in A Major” by Gabriel Fauré; “Ein Heldentango for Violin and Piano” by Steinhardt; and “Opus 3 (for Emily)” by Gearhart. The Steinhardt-Gearhart duo has been performing for 10 years. They were featured on a 2002 Koch release: “OFAM Presents William Grant Still.” Gearhart has been on the UO string faculty since 1998 and Steinhardt is UO professor emeritus of piano.

The Jazz Café
Friday, Feb. 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Room 190 Music
$5 general admission
An evening of jazz combos in a cabaret setting. Light refreshments will be available for purchase during the evening. The program will feature five student jazz combos performing works by Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Charles Mingus and Cole Porter, among others.

UO Symphony and Oregon Wind Ensemble
Sunday, Feb. 8 – 3 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$7 general admission; $5 students and seniors
The performance is a “preview” concert for the symphony, which will be featured at the Northwest Music Educators Conference in Washington later in February. Their program includes “Roman Carnival Overture” by Hector Berlioz; “Variations on a Theme of Haydn” by Johannes Brahms; and Tarantella from “Gazebo Dances” by John Corigliano. The Oregon Wind Ensemble will perform “New Morning for the World” by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Joseph Schwantner. The piece is a work for narrator and orchestra using the speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. as text. Edwin Coleman II, UO professor emeritus of English, will be the narrator.

Eun Soo Son, piano
Thursday, Feb. 12 — 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Juilliard-trained guest artist Eun Soo Son from Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, will perform piano music by Bach, Bartok, and Chopin.

DANCE 2009: UO Faculty Dance Concert
Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 12-14 – 8 p.m.
Dougherty Dance Theatre
$10 general admission; $5 students and seniors

Da Capo Chamber Players
Sunday, Feb. 15 — 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$8 general admission; $5 students and seniors
The Da Capo Chamber Players open the UO Music Today Festival with a program of music by Olivier Messiaen, Chinary Ung, Dai Fujikura, and UO professor Robert Kyr.

The Frohnmayer Music Building and Beall Concert Hall are located at 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets are available at the door, unless otherwise noted.

For more information on the School of Music and Dance, or to receive a complete calendar of events, call the university music school weekdays, 541-346-5678, or visit music.uoregon.edu.

“Teaching across Boundaries: Videoconferencing and Instruction over Distances,” a University of Oregon workshop that explores the popularity of using videoconferencing as a teaching component, will take place on Thursday, Feb. 12, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.”

All UO teaching faculty and graduate teaching fellows are invited to attend, free of cost. The workshop, which will take place in Eugene at the Knight Library and in Portland at the White Stag Block, will include a panel discussion and hands-on tutorial session.

Videoconferencing gives instructors and students new ways to approach the challenges of teaching and learning at a distance, but it also presents some challenges of its own. The workshop will explore what this means for course development at the UO and what types of support are available for faculty and students who use videoconferencing.

Panelists include: Kevin Hatfield, adjunct assistant professor of the department of history, Eugene and Bend campuses; Nancy Heapes, professional educational programs coordinator of the department of educational leadership, Eugene campus; Zara Logue, adjunct instructor and curriculum coordinator of the department of art, Portland campus; and Susan Verscheure, director of the graduate athletic training program and instructor of human anatomy, Eugene campus.

Panel moderators are Andrew Bonamici, associate university librarian for instructional services at the UO Libraries, and Karen Munro, head of the UO Portland Library and Learning Commons.

To register in Eugene, contact Robert Voelker-Morris, 541-346-1934. Portland participants can register by contacting Karen Munro, 503-412-3673.

The workshop is sponsored by the UO’s Teaching Effectiveness Program, the UO Libraries’ Center for Media and Educational Technologies, and the UO Portland Library and Learning Commons.

The Medieval Studies Program at the University of Oregon will host a one-day symposium, “Dante’s Traditions in the New Millenium,” on Feb. 7, featuring new work on Dante Alighieri. Speakers will focus on new projects in Dante studies: major new books; new technologies and online resources; new translations and adaptations; and new ways of approaching evidence from manuscripts and from the visual arts.

Guest speakers include Albert Russell Ascoli, UC-Berkeley (”The Making of a Modern Author,” Cambridge UP, 2008); Winthrop Wetherbee, Cornell (”The Ancient Flame: Dante and the Poets,” Notre Dame, 2008); and Olivia Holmes, Dartmouth (”Dante’s Two Beloveds: Ethics as Erotic Choice,” Yale UP, 2008). Invited speakers also include Thomas C. Stillinger and Disa Gambera (University of Utah); Teresa Kennedy (Mary Washington); Benjamin David (Lewis and Clark); and Warren Ginsberg and Gina Psaki (University of Oregon). The talks will examine Dante in terms of both the tradition he inherited, and the tradition he shaped.

The symposium, which is free and open to the public, is from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., in room 111 of the Lillis Business Complex. For more information, contact Gina Psaki, 346-4042, or Warren Ginsberg, 346-3958.

The event is sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program; the Giustina Family Professorship in Italian Language and Literature; the departments of romance languages and English; the Office of Research and Graduate Studies; the College of Arts and Sciences; and the Oregon Humanities Center.

Robert Hill Long has been hired as assistant director of faculty development for the Office of Research and Faculty Development. He will work with researchers to develop research plans, perform funding searches and providing feedback on specific research proposals.

He comes from Penn State, where he worked in the College of the Liberal Arts Research Office. He taught in the UO’s Creative Writing Program from 1991-2006. Educated at Davidson College and the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, he has published two books of poetry and a book of flash fictions. He has twice been awarded National Endowment for the Arts fellowships.

Lori Howard, John Crosiar and Oregon Quarterly have been awarded a Grand Gold district awards by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The CASE District VIII Communication Awards is a yearly program designed to recognize institutional excellence in marketing and communications.

Howard, publications designer, and Crosiar, senior editor, won for the Museum of Natural and Cultural History brochure, “Oregon, Where Past is Present.”

Oregon Quarterly was recognized for the story “Intertwining Ovals,” which was written by Todd Schwartz and appeared in the Summer 2008 issue. Guy Maynard is the editor and Ross West is the managing editor of the magazine.

The Grand Gold is the highest honor in each category and competes for the Virginia Carter Smith Grand Crystal Award at the district conference Feb. 18 to 20 in Seattle.

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art has been at the center of art, culture and diversity at the University of Oregon since 1933. For 75 years, as its collections and donors grew, the museum continued to preserve and share masterpieces of the past, while providing educational and cross-cultural opportunities to students and community members.

The works, people and history of JSMA will be celebrated with the exhibition “Lasting Legacies: The First 75 Years.” The show opens with a reception at 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24 and continues through April 12. In addition to showcasing significant works in the museum’s collection, new acquisitions will premiere during the exhibition.

Gertrude Bass Warner was the founding director of what was originally the Museum of Oriental Art and later known as the University of Oregon Museum of Art. Her donation of the Murray Warner Collection of Oriental Art, in honor of her late husband, is still at the core of the museum’s holdings. The original collection of 3,769 Asian objects has grown to nearly 13,000 works.

JSMA’s collection of Pacific Northwest art was the influence of Virginia Haseltine, who came to Oregon in the 1940s and was committed to supporting artists of her time and place. By 1963, she had assembled a collection of several hundred pieces. She later negotiated the acquisition of the largest public collection of works by Morris Graves, a “mystic” artist. In addition to works by Graves, the Virginia Haseltine Collection includes pieces by Mark Tobey, Carl Morris, Robert Colescott and C.S. Price.

Through the support of collectors and friends, the JSMA collections expanded to include photography by Walker Evans, Imogene Cunningham and Andy Warhol, prints by Rembrandt and Rauschenberg, and sculpture and ceramics by Archipenko and Voulkos. Contemporary works by American, Cuban, Chinese, Korean and Latin American artists continue to be added for generations to come.

The collections are only part of the museum story. The museum was designed by Ellis F. Lawrence, then dean of the School of Architecture and Allied Arts and opened in June 1933. The Prince Lucien Campbell Memorial Courtyard was designed as a quiet and contemplative space. It cost $300,000 to build the museum and its brickwork, decorative moldings and iron grillwork made it a distinctive architectural structure for the region. It was added to the National Register of Historic Sites in 1986.

As the collections and visitors to the museum grew, it was time for the building to undergo an expansion and renovation. A $14.2 million project broke ground in 2002 and the museum reopened as the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in 2005. While respecting the historic elements, the renovated museum has significantly expanded gallery space, state-of-the-art collections store, climate control systems and security and gathering and educational spaces.

The “Lasting Legacies” exhibition allows visitors a chance to look back at the past 75 years. But the museum has many exhibitions and events planned for the year. For more information, visit jsma.uoregon.edu.

Emily Boyd, assistant director for alumni relations has been awarded a Jerry F. Tardy Internship from the Council of Alumni Association Executives (CAAE). Two internships are given each year to applicants employed by a CAAE member institution. The award allows junior alumni professionals to explore topics in alumni relations.

Boyd will have the opportunity to visit other CAAE member alumni associations and attend a CAAE institute. She will research outreach to “young” alumni and student alumni associations. Her research will be shared with UO staff and at the CAAE institute this summer.

“With the University of Oregon having a large number of graduates over the past 15 years, this information will be critical to our future planning,” said Uri Farkas, associate executive director of the UO Alumni Association. “As we look to revamp our Student Alumni Association, Emily’s work will be extremely useful and timely.”

To be eligible for the Tardy award, applicants must have one to five years of professional experience working in alumni relations and program responsibilities in student relations, clubs, special events, membership and marketing, constituent relations or communications. Boyd will receive up to $2,500 to reimburse travel, lodging, site visits, report preparation and other research-related expenses.

Martin Neary, organ
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 10:30 a.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Free admission
Internationally-acclaimed organist Martin Neary will give a free recital and master class from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Beall Hall. Neary’s recital will open with selections performed with UO faculty oboist Amy Goeser Kolb. The organ master class will follow, featuring UO organ students of Barbara Baird working with Neary.

Dance Africa
Thursday, Jan. 22 to Saturday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m. (also at 2 p.m. on Saturday)
Dougherty Dance Theatre, Gerlinger Annex
$10 general admission; $5 students and seniors
Dance Africa, the UO Department of Dance’s resident African dance ensemble, will present a concert with special guests Mondjou and Salif Koné, a sister-brother team born into the Griot tradition of West Africa. The Griots are world renowned for their unique ability to record events carefully and accurately, using dance, music and song. On campus to celebrate Martin Luther King Day, the duo will teach a series of dance and drum classes as well as set a new piece of repertory on the Dance Africa company.

Oregon Jazz Festival
Friday, Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m.
Lane Community College Performance Hall
$10 general admission; $7 students
The UO’s Oregon Jazz Ensemble and Lane Jazz Ensemble will perform with festival clinicians Dan Gailey, saxophone; Vern Sielert, trumpet; Dave Glenn, trombone; and Oregon Jazz Festival featured guest artist Don Braden on tenor sax.

Oregon Jazz Festival
Saturday, Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m.
Lane Community College Performance Hall
$18 general admission; $12 students
Oregon Jazz Festival featured guest artist Don Braden, tenor sax, joins the Oregon Jazz Festival Trio: Randy Porter on piano, Dave Captein on bass and Gary Hobbs on drums. Tickets are available at the door one hour before the concert. Braden has worked, recorded and performed with jazz greats Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, the Mingus Big Band, the Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars and the Carnegie Hall Jazz band.

World Music Series: Tyva Kyzy
Saturday, Jan. 24, 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$12 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Tyva Kyzy, an all-female group of throat-singers and folk musicians from the Tuva Republic in Central Asia, is the first and only women’s group that performs all styles of Tuvan throat-singing. This form of multiple-tone harmonic singing has been practiced primarily by men and is generally prohibited for women. These women have also mastered a wide range of traditional folk instruments such as igil (horse-head fiddle), cha-khomus (large-mouth harp) and their signature instrument, chadagan (hammered dulcimer).

Chamber Music@Beall: The Borodin String Quartet
Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
Reserved seats range from $16 to $33 from the Hult Center (541-682-5000) or the EMU (541-346-4363)
The UO Chamber Music@Beall Series continues its 41st season with the award-winning Borodin String Quartet, performing Beethoven’s String Quartet in F Major, “Razumovsky”; Borodin’s String Quartet No. 1 in A Major; and Vissarion Shebalin’s String Quartet No. 5, “The Slavonian.” Professor Stephen Rodgers will give a free “Musical Insights” talk at 2 p.m.

For more than 60 years, the Borodin Quartet has been celebrated for its insight and authority in the chamber music repertoire. Revered for its searching performances of Beethoven and Shostakovich, the Quartet is equally at home in music ranging from Mozart to Stravinsky. The Borodin Quartet’s particular affinity with Russian repertoire was stimulated by a close relationship with Shostakovich, who personally supervised its study of each of his quartets.

Faculty Artist Series: Molly Barth, flute
Thursday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m.
Beall Concert Hall
$10 general admission; $8 students and seniors
Faculty flutist Molly Barth will be joined by colleagues in a program that includes music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Theobald Boehm and Sigfrid Karg-Elert. Barth is an active solo, chamber and orchestral musician, specializing in the music of today. As a founding member of the new music sextet Eighth Blackbird, Barth toured extensively throughout the world, recorded four CDs with Cedille Record, and was granted the 2000 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, first prize at the 1998 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and the 1998, 2000 and 2002 CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming.

The Frohnmayer Music Building and Beall Concert Hall are located at 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets are available at the door, unless otherwise noted.

For more information on the School of Music and Dance, or to receive a complete calendar of events, call the university music school weekdays, 541-346-5678, or visit music.uoregon.edu.