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Notes on a day of insurrection: SOU’s Dustin WalcherJanuary 7, 2021 - 4:18 pm
SOU retreat for Native American youth spins off multigenerational programDecember 28, 2020 - 2:49 pm
Finding her voice: Addressing race with creativity and compassionDecember 22, 2020 - 3:47 pm
SOU anthropologist’s book: Black South Africans wary of apartheid reformsDecember 18, 2020 - 10:07 am
SOU’s Enrique Chacón researches representations of violence in Mexican musicDecember 15, 2020 - 3:40 pm
Student Sustainability Center director, McNair Scholar wins Scholastic Achievement AwardNovember 24, 2020 - 10:08 am
Pavlina McGrady’s journey to teaching sustainable tourismNovember 19, 2020 - 3:56 pm
Everything esports: new SOU website covers academic minor and esports gamingOctober 16, 2020 - 2:19 pm
SOU rated at the top for eighth year in a row by Campus PrideOctober 13, 2020 - 3:03 pm
SOU’s University Coaching and Academic Mentoring program brings resultsOctober 6, 2020 - 12:05 pm
SOU’s first-year cohort: diverse, smart and persistentSeptember 30, 2020 - 9:44 am
SOU Veterans Resource Center awarded grant to enhance servicesSeptember 23, 2020 - 12:55 pm
Finding her voice: Addressing race with creativity and compassion
/in Alumni /by mosleyjShannon Luders-Manuel (2007 alumna) wasn’t sure what a thesis statement was when she came to SOU as an English major. She now makes her living as a writer, essayist and critical mixed-race scholar who has been published in a number of academic, news and creative publications. Luders-Manuel garnered national attention in 2017, when the New […]
SOU alum and football coach team up on face masks for virus protection
/in Alumni /by mosleyjSOU alum Crystal Clarity and her mother Betty Camner have pulled together to produce homemade face masks to help battle the COVID-19 pandemic. “Homemade masks are great for people in the system, not around patients, so that we can control the spread of the virus,” said SOU football coach Charlie Hall. Hall has organized a […]
SOU alumna and distiller helps to make hand sanitizer
/in Alumni /by mosleyjSOU chemistry graduate Molly Troupe (2012), the master distiller at Portland’s Freeland Spirits, is setting aside drinks and helping to make hand sanitizer in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The SOU alumna is using her academic training and a World Health Organization-recommended formula to help her community in a time of crisis. “Spirits are about […]
SOU alumnus premieres first documentary, “Illegal,” at film festivals
/in Alumni /by mosleyjSouthern Oregon University alumnus Nick Alexander premiered his documentary film, “Illegal the Project,” on Sunday at New York City’s 9th Annual Winter Film Awards International Film Festival. It will be shown locally in April during the Ashland Independent Film Festival. The feature-length documentary – which focuses on Salvadoran immigrant and successful Rogue Valley entrepreneur Laz […]
SOU to present Distinguished Alumni Awards
/in Alumni, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — An arts graduate with a 30-year career as a museum curator and a regional education leader who has championed the underrepresented will be honored Friday when Southern Oregon University presents its annual Distinguished Alumni Awards during a luncheon on campus. Bruce Guenther, who earned a bachelor’s degree in applied design from SOU […]
Van Delden: Returning kindness with compassion
/in Alumni /by mosleyjService has been a way of life for Dr. James Van Delden (’70). He has delivered babies in war-torn nations, cared for children on Native American reservations of the Great Plains and served on medical missions in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. “I was a family doctor; I wanted to help wherever families and kids […]
SOU alumna Rosewood returns to read from her novel
/in Alumni /by mosleyjSOU alumna and current best-selling author Abbigail Rosewood will return to her alma mater on Friday (May 24) as part of a cross-country book tour for her novel, “If I Had Two Lives.” She will discuss and read from her book at 5 p.m. in the SOU Art Building’s Meese Auditorium. The event is free […]
SOU alumna helping to reinvent the distilling world
/in Alumni /by mosleyjSOU chemistry graduate Molly Troupe (2012) and her business partner are being portrayed by Oregon’s tourism marketing agency as “the women changing the distilling world” at their craft distillery in Portland. Troupe and Jill Kuehler opened Freeland Spirits in northwest Portland two years ago. Kuehler serves as the CEO and Troupe is the master distiller – […]
Bridging cultures, changing lives: International exchange and lasting friendships
/in Alumni /by mosleyjAngelica Ruppe, (masters ’86) did not speak English when she arrived at Southern Oregon University from Mexico in 1984 to participate in the Amistad student exchange program. Ruppe had earned a degree in accounting at Universidad de Guanajuato and was taking part in the exchange program to earn a graduate degree from SOU. “I took […]
Alumnus Daniel Breaux: Love at first sight
/in Alumni /by mosleyjSOU graduate Daniel Breaux (‘14) says the school’s character-driven athletics philosophy stays with him every day, and he applies those values in his career as a police officer in Berkeley, California, as well as in his personal life. Breaux came to SOU for football and its well-regarded criminal justice program. “I wanted a school and […]