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SOU’s new Office of Student Belonging and Engagement (BE)December 4, 2023 - 4:01 pm
SOU to help lead research initiative for undergraduate institutionsNovember 28, 2023 - 10:32 am
SOU Digital Cinema taps crowdfunding for supportNovember 21, 2023 - 8:36 am
Students in SOU’s OAL program visit Nepal and Turkey/GreeceNovember 14, 2023 - 1:43 pm
SOULA receives national recognitionNovember 13, 2023 - 3:04 pm
Innovation Jam draws 30-plus studentsNovember 7, 2023 - 1:24 pm
SOU fall enrollment expands on recent upturnNovember 3, 2023 - 10:00 am
Internal candidate hired for SOU director positionNovember 2, 2023 - 8:14 am
SOU takes steps in sustainable vehicle useOctober 31, 2023 - 12:43 pm
SOU two months from core information system transitionOctober 20, 2023 - 9:29 am
Invigorating choral arts: bringing lyric theatre to SOUOctober 19, 2023 - 10:08 am
Four receive SOU alumni awards for work and serviceOctober 16, 2023 - 3:14 pm
Faculty Spotlight Podcast: SOU’s Precious Yamaguchi
/in AcademicsRecent SOU business grad earns tourism award
/in Academics, AlumniNicole Waehner, who earned her bachelor’s degree in business with a concentration in tourism management last June from Southern Oregon University, was awarded the Rising Star Award at this month’s Oregon Governor’s Conference on Tourism in Portland. The Rising Star Award recognizes an individual who is new to the tourism industry within the past five […]
SOU’s ROTC program honors WWII Bataan marchers
/in Academics, Student LifeSouthern Oregon University’s ROTC program paid respect to – and drew inspiration from – one of the most notorious incidents of World War II’s Pacific Theater when 19 cadets and cadre participated recently in the Bataan Memorial Death March 2023 – a 26.2-mile “ruck” with 35-pound backpacks from Central Point to the SOU campus. SOU’s […]
Faculty Spotlight Podcast: SOU’s Alena Ruggerio
/in Academics, Student LifeFriday Science Seminar: What can we learn from a fish?
/in AcademicsMichael Johnson, Ph.D., an associate professor of chemistry at the University of Kansas and developer of electroanalytical methods for the study of Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases, will be the guest speaker on March 10 for SOU’s Friday Science Seminar. The lecture, at 3:30 p.m. in Room 151 of the SOU Science Building, is titled, […]
SOU to begin relationship with Yale School of Art
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University’s Creative Arts program and Schneider Museum of Art have entered into a new partnership with the prestigious Yale University School of Art. The agreement marks the first time the Yale School of Art has entered into a partnership with a public institution. Yale alumni and graduating master of fine […]
SOU grad recognized for higher education research
/in Academics, RecognitionsSabrina Klein, a 2013 SOU graduate with a bachelor’s degree in communication, has earned recognition for her exceptional work in higher education research. Klein received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 2022, and has been named the second-place winner in this year’s American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Rural Education Special Interest Group (SIG) awards for her […]
New book on archaeology of war from SOU professor
/in AcademicsSOU anthropology professor Mark Tveskov has a new book about the archaeology of war and battlefields, and how war and conflict are remembered and commemorated. The volume includes a chapter on Tveskov’s research on the archaeology of the Rogue River War and a discussion of the experiences of African Americans and the Indigenous Metis people […]
Recent SOU grad hired at outdoor school
/in AcademicsNatalie DiNenno, a fall 2022 graduate of SOU’s Master of Science in Environmental Education Program, has accepted a position as executive director of Klamath Outdoor Science School (KOSS.) KOSS has a camp in Sun Pass State Forest, near Ft. Klamath and Jackson Kimball State Park, and provides outdoor school, summer camps and a wide range […]
SOU adds first exchange partner in Southern Hemisphere
/in AcademicsSouthern Oregon University in Ashland and the Universidad Católica del Uruguay (Catholic University of Uraguay) in Montevideo are launching a new student exchange partnership in 2023 that will be SOU’s first such arrangement in South America and the Southern Hemisphere. Bilateral exchange programs, like the one developed between SOU and UCU, function as affordable study-abroad […]