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Job and internship fairs this weekApril 9, 2024 - 9:45 am
SOU offers study-abroad opportunity to Costa Rican “Blue Zone”April 8, 2024 - 9:09 am
La Clinica partners with SOU to operate student health centerApril 8, 2024 - 8:34 am
SOU offers “Brain Bowl” for local studentsApril 2, 2024 - 10:28 am
SOU Laboratory of Anthropology project rewarded by CongressMarch 29, 2024 - 12:30 pm
SOU earns 10th Tree Campus designationMarch 25, 2024 - 1:02 pm
SOU receives support from legislatureMarch 12, 2024 - 9:10 am
SOU Raiders make a big splash for Special OlympicsMarch 5, 2024 - 12:36 pm
Four SOU actors take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare FestivalMarch 4, 2024 - 2:59 pm
Former University of Portland administrator to become SOU’s top academic leaderFebruary 26, 2024 - 2:35 pm
Raider Educator Day with SOU’s School of EducationFebruary 20, 2024 - 8:54 am
Xanadu: Greek Gods, scrunchies, roller skatesFebruary 13, 2024 - 1:30 pm
SOU Digital Cinema accepted as Green Film School Alliance member
/in Academics, Press Releases, Recognitions(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University’s Communication, Media & Cinema program is one of 16 higher education programs accepted for new membership in the Green Film School Alliance – a collaboration of leading film schools that have committed to industry-level sustainable production practices in their programs. The GFSA announced its new member institutions on Wednesday, […]
McNair Scholars: Nominate potential grad students
/in AcademicsThere is a reason why the coordinators of SOU’s McNair Scholars Program reach out to faculty members at about this time each year, seeking nominations of promising students to fill out the university’s next cohort of potential graduate school candidates. Most participants since the McNair program began at SOU in 2003 have stood out in […]
SOU Native American Studies receives grant from Banyan Botanicals
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Dragonfly’s Garden, located in Southern Oregon University’s community garden and a project of the Native American Studies Program, has been awarded a grant for $3,000 from Banyan Botanicals – a product and lifestyle company that focuses on the Ayurvedic alternative medicine system that is common in India and Nepal. Banyan Botanicals’ mission […]
SOU awarded National Science Foundation grant for cutting-edge equipment
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University’s nationally-accredited Department of Chemistry has been awarded a prestigious, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The NSF funding – part of the agency’s “Major Research Instrumentation Grant”’ program – provides for the acquisition of a 400 MHz nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer. The instrument will advance research and research […]
SOU students enjoying EcoAdventure in Ecuador
/in AcademicsStudents and faculty from SOU’s Environmental Science and Policy program are currently in Ecuador, wrapping up the field course “EcoAdventure: Andes to Amazon,” which focuses on tourism’s impact on the culture, environment and biodiversity of that South American country and the region surrounding it. The trip is led by Vincent Smith, director of the university’s Division of […]
North Carolina educator accepts SOU director position
/in Academics, Leadership(Ashland, Ore.) — Vance Durrington, currently a program coordinator at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, has accepted an offer to become director of Southern Oregon University’s Division of Education, Health and Leadership. He will begin work at SOU on Sept. 12. “We had an excellent group of finalists for this key position, and I […]
SOU News Podcast: Digital Cinema professor receives UFVA teaching award
/in Academics, RecognitionsSOU McNair Scholars program awarded nearly $1.4 million from U.S. Education Department
/in Academics(Ashland, Ore.) — The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Southern Oregon University its fifth Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement grant. The award of $274,983 annually will total $1,374,915 over the five-year grant cycle, from 2022 through 2027. The grant helps underrepresented and first-generation undergraduate students from low-income backgrounds to prepare for research-intensive doctoral programs. […]
SOU News Podcast: Faculty spotlight on Margaret Perrow
/in AcademicsSOU team gets NSF grant to work on “computational thinking” curriculum
/in Academics, Press Releases, Recognitions(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University has been awarded a three-year grant totaling nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation to help K-5 teachers develop “computational thinking” skills in the Ashland and Phoenix-Talent school districts. The work will build upon a $299,000 grant SOU was awarded in September 2019 to launch the collaborative research […]