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The University of Oregon (UO) is located in Eugene. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class (five students) two years later.
The school colors are green and yellow.
Former Oregon attorney general Dave Frohnmayer is the president of the university administration. UO receives much of its funding from the UO Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organization. Foundation members include executives from Intel and the Pape company, a Eugene-based manufacturer of tractors and forklifts.
The university maintains the Riverfront Research Park on the other side of Franklin Blvd. from the main campus, next to the Willamette River. The Park is used for creating new technologies (including projects funded by the US military), such as research about artificial intelligence at the Computational Intelligence Research Lab, and genetic engineering research on zebrafish.
Oregon Fighting Ducks
Athletics
Its athletes are known as the Fighting Ducks. UO is a member of the Pacific Ten Conference conference and Division I-A for athletics. Home football games are played in Autzen Stadium. The university intends to build a larger arena to replace McArthur Court, where basketball games are played.
UO track and field coach Bill Bowerman revolutionized the athletic shoe by pouring melted rubber into a waffle iron, creating a prototype rubber sole. Bowerman went on to co-found the Nike corporation with UO alumnus Phil Knight. Nike has maintained a close relationship with UO ever since, manufacturing all university logo clothing and uniforms for the football team, including research prototypes for high-tech "smart clothes", such as jerseys with cooling systems. Controversy surrounding Nike's labor practice precipatated protests led by Students Against Sweatshops, including a tent city occupation of the lawns in front of Johnson Hall, the main administration building. Protesting students demanded independent human rights oversight in Nike's overseas factories.
In 2003, the Oregon Ducks mascot, usually a green-and-yellow wearing Donald Duck, was replaced by a Nike-designed futuristic rubber-suit wearing duck, nicknamed "Mandrake" or "RoboDuck" by the student body. The mascot's public appearances were seriously diminished after it was found to be unpopular with students and football fans.
Facilities
The University of Oregon has around 80 buildings and facilities, including athletics sites, such as Autzen Stadium, Hayward Field, and off-campus sites such as Pioneer Cemetary, Westmoorland Housing and the Riverfront Research Park.
Willamette Hall is home to the university's hard sciences. The construction of the $45.3 million complex was completed in 1989.
Lillis Business Complex is home to the Lundquist College of Business. The complex has a capacity of 196,500 square feet and has the largest array of architectural solar glass installed in the Northwest.
Oregon Hall is the university's main administrative heart. This building includes the Registrar's Office and Office of Admissions.Deady Hall is the university's oldest building. Errected on October 16, 1876 it was the only building on campus with an enrollment of 177 students. Deady Hall is now home to the Department of Mathematics. In 1977, Deady Hall was designated a National Historic Landmark.
Villard Hall is home to Theatre Arts. This building was also designated a National History Landmark in 1977.Knight Library was originally errected in 1937. There were additions to the building in 1950, 1966, and a renovation in 1994. By the time of the third addition, the library had increased in size by 132,000 square feet.Pioneer Statue created by sculptor Alexander Proctor in 1919, the statue sits inbetween Fenton and Friendly hall. It is rumored to be Jebediah Springfield from the Simpsons.
Trivia
The University of Oregon's 280 acre (1.1 km²), park-like campus is home to more than 500 varieties of trees.
The university was, and continues to be, the site of many major protests against the Vietnam war.
Confrontations between students living in the West University neighborhood and the Eugene Police Department's Party Patrol have escalated into riots a number of times in the past few years.
The film Animal House was filmed on the University campus and the surrounding area.
There is a campus rumour that the "Pioneer Mother," a statue on campus of an elderly settler woman sitting in a chair, will stand when the first student remaining a virgin graduates.
Colleges and Professional Schools
College of Arts and Sciences (Departments and Programs)
- American English Institute (AEI)
- Anthropology
- Asian Studies
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Classics
- Comparative Literature
- Comparative Literature Journal
- Computer and Information Science
- Creative Writing
- East Asian Languages & Literatures
- Economics
- English
- Environmental Studies
- Ethnic Studies
- European Studies
- Folklore
- General Science
- Geography
- Geological Sciences
- Germanic Languages and Literatures
- History
- Humanities
- Human Physiology
- International Inst. for Sport and Human Performance (IISHP)
- International Studies
- Judaic Studies
- Latin American Studies
- Linguistics
- Mathematics
- Medieval Studies
- Northwest Review
- Oregon Inst. of Marine Biology (OIMB)
- Oregon Survey Research Lab (OSRL)
- Philosophy
- Physics
- Pine Mountain Observatory
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Romance Languages
- Russian and East European Studies Center
- Social Science Instructional Lab (SSIL)
- Sociology
- Theatre Arts
- Women and Gender Studies
- Yamada Language Center
- Affiliated Centers and Institutes
- Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS)
- Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS)
- Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences
- Institute of Molecular Biology
- Institute of Neuroscience
- Institute of Theoretical Science
- Materials Science Institute
- Oregon Humanities Center
Charles H. Lundquist School of Business
School of Architecture and Allied Arts
- Department of Architecture
- Portland Architecture Site
- Department of Art
- Digital Arts (formerly Multimedia Design)
- Department of Art History
- Department of Landscape Architecture
- Department of Planning, Public Policy & Management
School of Journalism and Communication
- Advertising
- Communication Studies
- Electronic Media
- Magazine
- News/Editorial
- Public Relations
- College of Education
- Robert D. Clark Honors College
- Graduate School
- UO in Portland
- Continuing Education
- Special Studies
- Research Institutes and Centers
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