Southern Oregon University Extends Sustainability Leadership Position Through Partnership with Bonneville Environmental Foundation

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Student-led initiative makes SOU the first university to balance 100% of its water use
Ashland, Ore. – April 9, 2013 – Southern Oregon University (SOU) and the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) today announced SOU is the first campus in the nation to balance 100% of its water use through a five-year commitment to BEF’s Water Restoration Certificate® program. Funded through a student-led Green Fund, the university will restore approximately 80 million gallons of water per year to the Klamath River Basin. The announcement was made during a student rally held on campus.
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Friday Interpretive Performance by Trumpeter and Electronic Musician David Bithell at the Schneider Museum of Art

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(Ashland, OR) – The Schneider Museum of Art is presenting a performance by David Bithell, Associate Professor of Digital Art at Southern Oregon University, on Friday, April 5 at 11:00 AM. Bithell, a trumpeter and electronic musician, will engage in an interpretive performance of The Metaphysics of Notation, the exhibition of Mark Applebaum’s visually complex and engaging pictographic musical scores, which is on view in the Museum’s Heiter Gallery through April 27, 2013.
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Fighting Men and Sculpting Woman – Two New Exhibitions

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(Ashland, OR) – The Schneider Museum of Art is holding an opening reception for two new exhibitions on Thursday, April 4 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM. In the main galleries, the Museum is presenting Fighting Men: Golub, Voulkos, Kirby, featuring the paintings of Leon Golub, prints and ceramics by Peter Voulkos, and superhero comics by the illustrator who was at the forefront of this genre, Jack Kirby. Opening in the Museum’s Treehaven Gallery will be Recent Work by Vanessa Calvert, featuring sculptural work created during the artist’s month-long residency at Southern Oregon University. Read more

28th Annual Best of the Best Student Art Show

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Ashland: In 1985-86, members of the Southern Oregon Research and Development Committee (SORD) initiated the BEST OF THE BEST STUDENT ART SHOW to encourage artistically gifted high school students in the Rogue Valley. This activity, co-sponsored by Southern Oregon University’s Pre-college Youth Programs School Districts in Jackson, Josephine and Klamath counties and different local galleries, far exceeded expectations and has become an annual event each spring.
Now in its twenty-eighth year, the competition returns to the Southern Oregon University Center for the Visual Arts, Marion Ady Galleries as an event that has proven to be enriching and exciting for students, parents, and teachers, while bringing community recognition and support to the visual arts.
Artwork from 16 participating high schools has been submitted for in-district screening, and then brought to the gallery for jurying by professional artists. Nearly 160 individual entries of student art will be on display at the CVA Marion Ady Galleries beginning on Friday, April 5 with an opening reception beginning at 4:00 pm. The show runs through Thursday, April 18, 2013. The community is invited and encouraged to attend.

Gallery Hours are:

Monday through Friday, 8:00 am – 10:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm
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Electro/Acoustic Performance at the Schneider Museum of Art this Friday

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(Ashland, OR) – The Schneider Museum of Art is presenting a performance by the electro/acoustic duo Todd Barton and Bruce Bayard this Friday, March 22 at 11:00 AM. Barton and Bayard will engage in an interpretive performance of The Metaphysics of Notation, the exhibition of Mark Applebaum’s visually complex and engaging pictographic musical scores, which is on view in the Museum’s Heiter Gallery through April 27, 2013.
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SOU Names Marc Tramonte Executive Director of Marketing and Communications

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(Ashland, Ore.) Marc Tramonte has accepted the position of Executive Director of Marketing and Communications at Southern Oregon University (SOU). Tramonte will be responsible for assuring the brand image and culture of Southern Oregon University are effectively communicated and consistent in all publications and that the presentation in advertising, publications, and the website is relevant, accurate, engaging, and highly creative. Tramonte will begin in the position April 1.
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SOU Climatologist to Talk About the Effects of Climate Change on Producing Wine

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(Ashland, Ore.) – Dr. Gregory V. Jones, Southern Oregon University Professor of Environmental Studies, will present “Climate, Grapes and Wine: Understanding Terroir Influences in a Variable and Changing Climate,” on Tuesday, February 26, at 5:00 p.m. in the Meese Conference Room of the Hannon Library. The talk is free and open to the public.
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Exploring Happiness Series Continues with Stanford Scholar

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(Ashland, Ore.) – Are human beings primarily driven by self-interest and individualism? What role does social connection play in our well-being and happiness? Dr. Emma Seppala, Associate Director at Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, will address these questions when she visits Southern Oregon University this week as the next speaker in SOU’s Campus Theme series on Exploring Happiness.
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SOU Department of Performing Arts Hosts Over 100 Rogue Valley Student Musicians for High School Honor Band Weekend & Concert

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(Ashland, Ore.) – Southern Oregon University’s Department of Performing Arts presents the eighteenth annual High School Honor Band event on Saturday, Feb. 2 and Sunday, Feb. 3.  Held in the SOU Music Building and climaxing with a concert on Sunday, February 3 at 1:30 pm in the Recital Hall, over one hundred selected high school band students will come together under the direction of Dr. James Klein and Dr. Cynthia Hutton, Director of Bands at SOU. The concert is open to the public and admission is free of charge.
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Hannon Library Chinese New Year: “Unfinished Journey” Lecture with Tom Banse

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(Ashland, Ore.) – Play history detective alongside NPR correspondent Tom Banse as he retells the tale of a star-crossed campaign to repatriate the remains of pioneer Chinese immigrants in Oregon. Banse’s noon lecture and slideshow, “Unfinished Journey: A treasure box of documents and a long trip home” will be presented at Hannon Library on the Southern Oregon University Ashland campus on Feb. 15 in the Meese Meeting Room.  This free event is co-sponsored by the Southern Oregon Chinese Cultural Association in advance of their Feb. 16th Chinese New Year celebration in Jacksonville.
You’ll hear about emptied graves, embezzlement, restless souls, and a collision between age-old traditions and inopportune civil war. The story behind the making of an award-winning NPR radio feature also includes a mysterious anonymous source, photos of remote Northwest locations, and tips for doing your own research.
Based in Olympia, WA, Tom Banse covers a wide variety of news across the Northwest for National Public Radio, with stories heard on “Morning Edition,” “All Things Considered,” and locally on Jefferson Public Radio. His exploration of the Chinese immigration to the American West began with a chance donation to his network of long-lost archival documents. For further information on this free noon lecture, contact Hannon Library at (541) 552-6823 or visit <Hanlib.SOU.edu>.