University of Oregon students are champions in academic and athletics. The stories below highlight some of the UO's recent news-making students.
There's not likely to be any MTV footage of Cody Wollitz's spring break, but he and 49 other University of Oregon students are still expecting it to be one to remember.
The students, divided into four groups, will leave Saturday for separate community-based, service-learning experiences in rural southeastern Oregon, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. The Alternative Spring Break - sponsored by the UO Service Learning Program (SLP) - is in its third year of building awareness...
University of Oregon junior Benjamin Eckstein has been selected as a finalist for the nationally prestigious Harry S. Truman Scholarship.
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is an award for students who wish to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in government or other areas in public service. Seventy-five Truman Scholarships can be awarded each year. Last year 53 were awarded, one from each state and the District of Columbia, with the exception of California, which had...
Singing “Hotel California” and “Country Roads,” both American music classics, wasn’t what Miriam Lipton expected from a summer study program in Kaliningrad, Russia. The University of Oregon general science major was a recipient of a Critical Language Scholarship from the U.S. Department of State. She spent two months in summer 2009 as one of...
Fourth-grade teacher Donna DuBois, who earned her master’s degree in educational leadership at the UO, has reached the championship level in Oregon. She is the state’s 2009-2010 Teacher of the Year.
DuBois teaches at Camas Ridge Community School in Eugene. Her preparation for teaching began in Utah, where she studied elementary education, child development and literacy. It was her master’s program in the UO College of Education that opened her eyes.
“My classes in educational...
Tamela Maciel, a University of Oregon student from Grants Pass, has been selected as a prestigious Marshall Scholar. Maciel is the third Marshall Scholar from the University of Oregon in the scholarship program's 55-year history.
"We are very proud of Tamela Maciel and couldn't be happier that she was selected as a Marshall Scholar," said Richard Lariviere, UO president. "She is one of Oregon's brightest students who will go on to accomplish great things in the area of astrophysics,...
University of Oregon tight end David Paulson and guard Carson York have been named to the Pac-10 all-academic first team, conference officials announced Wednesday.
Pauslon, a sophomore from Auburn, Wash., carries a 3.68 grade point average in Business Administration. He has made five starts this season and is averaging a team-high 15.9 yards per reception.
York, an 11-game starter at left guard as a redshirt freshman, is majoring in Journalism and has a 3.70...
Jenni Sirchuk dreams of graduating from the University of Oregon and going straight to work doing public relations and event planning in the surfing business.
It didn’t take long for Jenni to find an ideal balance between work and play. She’s one of twenty-five or thirty students who regularly head to the Oregon coast together for surfing.
“Surfing is the one thing I love,” she says. “It rejuvenates me and gets me ready for another week.”
Jenni, who in June...
UO cross country legend Galen Rupp earlier this tear was named ESPN the Magazine Academic All-American of the Year for Men’s Track and Field/Cross Country, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Rupp, from Portland, was one of twelve finalists, including Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Tim Tebow of the University of Florida, on the ballot for the national...
Santiago Lorenzo, now within months of earning a doctoral degree in human physiology from the University of Oregon, had a choice to make: sports or academics? In his home country Argentina, he said, you couldn’t do both.
He chose both and moved to Eugene to attend the UO. His name already has appeared on some interesting research papers, but along the way he has worn a Ducks track and field uniform, soaring to a success that also put him in an Argentina uniform as a competitor in the...
