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SOU Veterans Resource Center awarded grant to improve servicesSeptember 23, 2020 - 12:55 pm
SOU exploring all options to help students, employees and community through wildfiresSeptember 15, 2020 - 3:29 pm
SOU awarded $1.6 million to help first-generation and non-traditional studentsAugust 27, 2020 - 8:00 am
Peter Wu has found his calling: to teach physics and do research at SOUAugust 21, 2020 - 4:08 pm
Essential workers in SOU’s MBA Program share their storiesAugust 10, 2020 - 4:05 pm
SOU’s Sean O’Skea: from historic preservation to theatrical scene designAugust 4, 2020 - 9:58 am
SOU recognized by niche.com for doing well in conversion to remote courseworkJuly 27, 2020 - 3:36 pm
SOU remains flexible in pandemic, pivots toward remote coursesJuly 27, 2020 - 11:34 am
Cascade Conference delays fall sports for SOU and other member schoolsJuly 17, 2020 - 12:35 pm
Increased to-go options at The Landing to serve as model for fall termJuly 10, 2020 - 3:41 pm
With campus access limited, Raider Receptions and Registrations go onlineJuly 3, 2020 - 4:54 pm
SOU Small Business Development Center helps local businesses weather COVID-19June 30, 2020 - 7:50 am
SOU professor to co-direct $1 million NSF grant to advance women in STEM
/in Academics, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University chemistry professor Hala Schepmann will co-direct a five-year, $999,899 National Science Foundation project to support mid-career women faculty members nationwide in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The project – Advancing STEM Careers by Empowering Network Development (ASCEND) – will focus in two directions. It will help individual faculty […]
Thirteen words to haunt and terrify in English Program’s spooky writing contest
/in Academics /by mosleyjHow scary can a sentence be? Participants in this year’s 13-Word Scary Story Contest are trying to find out. Students, faculty, staff and members of the Ashland community are encouraged to submit up to two entries each in the English Program’s challenge. The rules are simple; the entries must be exactly 13 words, and must […]
Digital Cinema promo makes it to silver screen
/in Academics /by mosleyjA video created by SOU students to promote the university’s new Digital Cinema degree program will screen before films at Coming Attractions Theatre locations across Oregon, northern California, Washington and Alaska. “You’re always excited when your students’ work gets screened,” said Professor Andrew Gay, the program coordinator of Digital Cinema. “Usually that’s in film festivals […]
SOU-led team receives NSF grant to develop “computational thinking” model
/in Academics, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has been awarded a two-year, $299,000 National Science Foundation grant to develop the “computational thinking” skills of kindergarten-through-fifth-grade students in the Ashland and Phoenix-Talent school districts. The grant is part of the NSF’s Computer Science for All program, which is intended to extend computer science and computational thinking opportunities […]
SOU Laboratory of Anthropology receives grant to complete Britt project
/in Academics, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — The Southern Oregon University Laboratory of Anthropology has received a grant of about $15,000 from a division of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department to analyze and report on artifacts unearthed during 2010-11 digs at Jacksonville’s Peter Britt Gardens. The excavations by SOULA were conducted as the city of Jacksonville prepared for […]
Second annual Creativity Conference at SOU sets new benchmark
/in Academics /by mosleyjThis summer’s second annual Creativity Conference at SOU attracted leaders of the academic field and working professionals looking for ways to bring creativity into their work, and set a high-water mark in the process. Last month’s four-day conference got kudos from participants for the breadth, depth and structure of its presentations. “The first conference at […]
SOU introduces 100 percent online master’s programs in education
/in Academics /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has expanded its selection of online advanced degrees with this month’s launch of a master of science in education program with three areas of concentration. The program, designed primarily for working adult learners, provides pathways for career advancement and leadership roles in schools, corporations and nonprofit agencies. Students choose […]
SOU to host 100th annual meeting of the AAAS Pacific Division
/in Academics, Press Releases /by mosleyj(Ashland, Ore.) — Leading West Coast scientists with gather in Ashland Tuesday through Saturday, June 18 to 22, when Southern Oregon University hosts the 100th annual Pacific Division Meeting of the prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Organizers are putting a unique, grassroots spin on the conference by encouraging visiting scientists to […]
SOU faculty member presents competency-based findings at aviation conference
/in Academics /by mosleyjLatoya Gibbs, an affiliate professor in SOU’s Sociology and Anthropology (SOAN) department, recently shared her findings on competency-based training at The World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) in Orlando, Florida. WATS is billed as the world’s largest gathering of aviation training professionals who serve airlines, regulators, training providers and the training industry. Gibbs’ presentation, “Competency-Based Training: […]
New Native American Studies faculty member to begin at SOU this fall
/in Academics /by mosleyjChance White Eyes, who has worked most recently as a post-secondary consultant on educational and diversity issues, has accepted an offer to join the SOU faculty as a tenure-track assistant professor of Native American Studies. White Eyes, an enrolled member of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin, will begin teaching at SOU this fall. He served […]