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- SOU campus weathers snow stormFebruary 4, 2025 - 12:32 pm
- SOU seeks development proposals for senior livingJanuary 23, 2025 - 11:57 am
- SOU president receives contract extensionJanuary 21, 2025 - 10:15 am
- Demolition underway at SOU’s Cascade ComplexJanuary 16, 2025 - 1:10 pm
- Construction underway on SOU’s latest solar projectsJanuary 15, 2025 - 10:11 am
- Funding in place for wildlife crossing with key SOU roleJanuary 8, 2025 - 8:46 am
- Klamath dam removal workshop at SOU fosters collaborationJanuary 6, 2025 - 10:11 am
- SOU Scavenger Hunt teaches academic skills to pre-college youthJanuary 6, 2025 - 7:00 am
- SOU hires new Vice President for Finance and AdministrationDecember 9, 2024 - 9:24 am
- SOU’s TRIO-SSS program marks milestoneNovember 12, 2024 - 11:45 am
- SOU computer scientist receives Sloan grant for “tacit knowledge” researchOctober 29, 2024 - 8:04 am
- Sustainability conference at SOU builds regional collaborationOctober 14, 2024 - 4:31 pm
SOU’s student-produced “Jeffersonian” news magazine to air on public television
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — It’s a show with the feel of “Oregon Field Guide” and the personality of Charles Kuralt’s “On the Road” segments of the late 20th century. It features in-depth reporting and richly colorful subjects. And each segment of “The Jeffersonian” is conceived and produced by students at Southern Oregon University. “Life on the […]
Help change students’ lives; become an ASPIRE mentor
/in Academics, Press Releases(Salem, Ore.) – The Office of Student Access and Completion at Oregon’s Higher Education Coordinating commission is encouraging community members statewide to sign up as ASPIRE volunteer mentors at OregonStudentAid.gov/ASPIRE to help students find pathways to success. ASPIRE is the state’s mentoring program to help students access education and training beyond high school. The program matches trained and […]
Winners announced in SOU English Program’s scary story contest
/in AcademicsHow many words does it take to send shivers down a reader’s spine? For SOU student Peter Doolin and other entrants in the English Program’s “13-Word Scary Story Contest,” a baker’s dozen was plenty. “In the mirror, a set of eyes stare back that aren’t my own,” Doolin wrote in his winning entry. His eerie […]
SOU alumna to offer Friday Science Seminar on zebrafish study
/in Academics, AlumniSOU alumna and doctoral candidate Sarah Stednitz will offer a lecture from 3:30 to 5 p.m. on Friday that examines the social interactions of zebrafish and their implications on autism research and other deficits in humans’ social behavior. The Friday Science Seminar event will be in the Science Building Auditorium (Room 151). The lecture is […]
SOU summer field course to include Mayan Riviera trip
/in AcademicsSOU’s Environmental Science and Policy program will mix academics with vacation-type fun in a field course next summer that will focus on marine biology, sustainable development and tourism. The course, Ecoadventure: Mayan Riviera (ES 408), is worth six credits and will take place beginning in June on SOU’s campus, online and during an 11-day trip […]
SOU journalism student earns honor and experience
/in AcademicsAspiring journalist and SOU senior Caroline Cabral spent her summer break in southern Oregon chasing and reporting stories for the Herald and News, the daily newspaper in Klamath Falls. She earned the paid internship as part of the prestigious Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism program, administered by the University of Oregon and committed to […]
Ignorance and Wisdom: Presentation kicks off SOU’s Campus Theme
/in AcademicsThe 11th year of SOU’s Campus Theme will kick off at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30, with the presentation, “Ignorance, Wisdom and the Etymological Fallacy,” by English Professor Edwin Battistella. The talk, which is free and open to the public, will be in Room 319 of the Stevenson Union. This year’s Campus Theme – […]
SOU’s Green House freshman seminar sets out to save the world
/in AcademicsIt’s challenging enough to spend your freshman year studying the separation of powers in U.S. government, or the biology and function of cell structure. First-year students in SOU’s Green House have taken on the puzzle of how to feed the world in 2050, despite the complications of climate change and exponential population growth. Students in […]
SOU student sailing the South Pacific in Semester at Sea
/in AcademicsSOU student Fletcher Tague Shell, a junior in the Environmental Science and Policy program, is spending Fall Term sailing the South Pacific on board the tall ship ocean research vessel SSV Robert C. Seamans. Tague Shell is taking part in a study abroad program designed to explore the complex environmental challenges faced by remote Pacific […]
Event to advance tradition of SOU-Guanajuato exchanges
/in AcademicsThe 4th Annual Guanajuato Nights fundraiser will return to the Rogue River Room in SOU’s Stevenson Union on Nov. 10, and its organizers are on a mission to fuel more student exchanges between SOU and Universidad de Guanajuato. The evening begins at 5 p.m. and will include dinner, silent and live auctions, music and other entertainment. Tickets are […]