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SOU offers 48th “Brain Bowl” for local studentsMarch 24, 2025 - 3:15 pm
SOU student applies classroom experience to work on LA wildfiresMarch 21, 2025 - 4:38 pm
SOU to host official memorial service for William Thorndike, Jr.March 12, 2025 - 3:02 pm
SOU participants make a splash at regional sustainability conferenceMarch 11, 2025 - 9:05 am
SOU alum returns to screen Klamath River filmMarch 11, 2025 - 8:19 am
SOU enters partnership to support survivors of gender-based violenceMarch 10, 2025 - 2:08 pm
Look and feel of Inside SOU website to changeMarch 3, 2025 - 2:36 pm
SOU embraces Behavioral Health InitiativeFebruary 28, 2025 - 8:20 am
Rogue Buzzway gardens grow with SOU partnershipFebruary 25, 2025 - 1:01 pm
SOU freshman joins Board of TrusteesFebruary 18, 2025 - 1:51 pm- SOU loses friend and mentor with passing of Bill ThorndikeFebruary 18, 2025 - 9:26 am
SOU’s Saigo Multicultural Alcove rededicatedFebruary 11, 2025 - 10:59 am
SOU offers 48th “Brain Bowl” for local students
/in Academics, Campus NewsMiddle and high school students from throughout the Rogue Valley came together recently to participate in the 48th annual Southern Oregon Brain Bowl, a quizbowl tournament organized by the Youth Programs Office at Southern Oregon University. The annual Brain Bowl tournament is a fast-paced quiz competition in which teams from local schools compete to answer questions […]
SOU student applies classroom experience to work on LA wildfires
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Bryan Cohee was juggling his usual responsibilities back in January – as a husband, father, battalion chief with Jackson County Fire District 3 and undergraduate student in Southern Oregon University’s Innovation and Leadership Program. A phone call resulted in yet another role, and both opportunities and challenges for Cohee: it was an […]
Funding in place for wildlife crossing with key SOU role
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — A total of $37 million in federal and state funding has been secured to build a wildlife crossing over Interstate 5 south of Ashland, in a project that Southern Oregon University faculty and students have supported by monitoring wildlife patterns in the area. Oregon recently was awarded a federal grant of $33.2 […]
SOU Scavenger Hunt teaches academic skills to pre-college youth
/in AcademicsMiddle and high school students from across the southern Oregon region recently competed in the annual Scavenger Hunt event held by SOU’s Office of Youth Programs. Scavenger Hunt is a three-day academic “hunt,” in which students search for answers to clues provided by the hunt’s director, Jim Impara. Answers to the dozens of questions provided […]
SOU computer scientist receives Sloan grant for “tacit knowledge” research
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Bernadette Boscoe, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Southern Oregon University, recognizes a shared need in fields as dissimilar as astronomy, environmental science and violin acoustics, and a new grant will pay for research that may benefit those and other academic disciplines. Boscoe has received a $250,000 grant from […]
SOU class to host candidate forum for local political races
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Political Science students in Southern Oregon University’s upper division course on political campaigns will partner with SOU’s Office of Government Affairs to host a forum for candidates in all contested races for the Ashland City Council and the Jackson County Board of Commissioners. The forum, which is free and open to the […]
Seminar to show benefits of a virtual reality and real-world teaching combination
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Two biologists and academic administrators from Arizona State University will present a new method of teaching biology that combines immersive virtual reality with highly structured classroom activities when the Southern Oregon University Biology Department hosts this year’s inaugural Friday Science Seminar on Oct. 11. The presentation, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. in […]
SOU faculty member publishes book on consequences of discrimination
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Shanell Sanchez, an associate professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Southern Oregon University, is co-editor of a new book on the causes and consequences of discrimination against vulnerable populations. “Exploitation and Criminalization at the Margins: The Hidden Toll on Unvalued Lives” was published by Rowman & Littlefield, a well- […]
SOU receives behavioral health care grant
/in Academics, RecognitionsSouthern Oregon University has been awarded a $110,000 grant from the Ashland Community Health Foundation to fund a faculty position for the 2024-25 academic year in SOU’s master’s degree program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. The SOU grant is the first undertaking by the ACHF that will be paid for with a $1 million grant […]
SOU and Mexican sister institution establish new agreement
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — The leaders of Southern Oregon University and its Mexican sister institution, the Universidad de Guanajuato, officially renewed the schools’ 55-year relationship on Wednesday by pledging in a new memorandum of understanding to “strengthen institutional collaboration in the areas of teaching, research and extension.” The new agreement – which builds upon a commitment […]