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SOU awarded grant to create historic plastics databaseJuly 8, 2025 - 9:49 am
SOU considers partners for older adult housing and education facilityJuly 1, 2025 - 2:14 pm
SOU maintains “Gold” in prestigious sustainability ratingJune 24, 2025 - 9:29 am
Commencement surprise: Gov. Kotek addresses SOU graduatesJune 16, 2025 - 7:19 am
SOU’s Havniear receives Outstanding Graduate Student awardJune 10, 2025 - 8:44 am
Highlights from SOU’s Spring Wellness EventJune 9, 2025 - 4:55 pm
SOU faculty member co-authors book on mindfulness and compassionJune 2, 2025 - 9:34 am
SOU and faculty union agree to extend contractMay 29, 2025 - 1:55 pm
SOU MBA student places on top percentile in nationwide testMay 27, 2025 - 8:40 am
SOU faculty members take lead role in open textbook projectMay 22, 2025 - 10:46 am
SOU Business Venture Tournament: $4k in prizes, plus “Wildcard”May 20, 2025 - 8:22 am
New SOU pathway program reaches into elementary schoolsMay 19, 2025 - 8:12 am
César E. Chávez Leadership Conference returns to SOU
/in Academics, SOU NewsSouthern Oregon University’s Youth Programs department brought local high school students to the university campus recently for the César E. Chávez Leadership Conference, which began at SOU in 2012 to celebrates the late civil rights leader’s heritage and teach young people to carry on his legacy of leadership. Last month’s 14th annual César E. Chávez […]
Acclaimed Ashland director and screenwriter leads SOU students’ “Crew Experience”
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Ashland-based writer-director Gary Lundgren will guide student filmmakers at Southern Oregon University in bringing “An Extraordinary Year” to life this spring, when he mentors those in the Digital Cinema Department’s innovative “Crew Experience” course. “Crew Experience,” launched in 2022, has given SOU’s Digital Cinema students a chance each year to work on […]
Global Innovation Scholars unite to serve U.S. and Mexican businesses
/in Academics, Press Releases, Student Life(Ashland, Ore.) — Nine students and two faculty members from Southern Oregon University have been working for most of the past week with their Mexican counterparts at Universidad de Guanajuato on the annual Global Innovation Scholars program – a multicultural business development initiative to help organizations and businesses in both Guanajuato and Ashland while providing […]
Raider Education Day for new and prospective teachers
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Author, teacher and consultant Jay Schroder will deliver a keynote address, highlighting the third annual Raider Educator Day – an event on Saturday, April 5, that will allow new and prospective teachers to gain insights into the field. The forum, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rogue River Room of […]
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 […]