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News you can use: Your questions about COVID-19 vaccines, answeredFebruary 22, 2021 - 3:39 pm
Local Innovation Lab prepares SOU interns to address disaster issuesFebruary 19, 2021 - 4:35 pm
Family: SOU’s connection with former Hawai’i mayorFebruary 15, 2021 - 3:50 pm
SOU opts out of spring football seasonFebruary 12, 2021 - 2:00 pm
New SOU storage facility is doubly greenFebruary 11, 2021 - 8:55 am
Indigenous Gardens Network receives Oregon Cultural Trust grantFebruary 8, 2021 - 12:28 pm
Employees and others urged to help SOU students by participating in governor’s food driveFebruary 8, 2021 - 8:00 am
SOU’s 2021 Campus Theme takes on “Thinking Uncertainty” and “Justified Untrue Belief”February 5, 2021 - 9:49 am
Sound Design: SOU alum’s journey from college radio to global music agencyJanuary 28, 2021 - 3:52 pm
SOU Honors College director leads the Democracy Project and moreJanuary 22, 2021 - 8:45 am
Notes on a day of insurrection: SOU’s Dustin WalcherJanuary 7, 2021 - 4:18 pm
SOU retreat for Native American youth spins off multigenerational programDecember 28, 2020 - 2:49 pm
SOU Honors College director leads the Democracy Project and more
/in Academics, Leadership /by mosleyjCherstin Lyon is the director of Southern Oregon University’s Honors College, organizes the Democracy Project with Philosophy Department chair Prakash Chenjeri and mentors students. And she has been at SOU for just a year. “Coming to SOU I was immediately impressed by how welcoming the campus is, and by all of the people who reached […]
Notes on a day of insurrection: SOU’s Dustin Walcher
/in Academics, Leadership /by mosleyj“Yesterday the President of the United States incited an armed insurrection against America,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explained on the afternoon of Jan. 7, calling for President Donald Trump’s removal from office for sedition either through the 25th Amendment or by way of impeachment. On Jan. 6, the president had called on his supporters to […]
SOU’s Enrique Chacón researches representations of violence in Mexican music
/in Academics, Leadership /by mosleyjSOU Assistant Professor Enrique Chacón enjoys teaching Spanish language classes, but his focus is on teaching how violence is represented in Latin culture – and how those representations have changed. “I’m teaching this course on the representations of violence in Latin America and I think those kinds of topics are quite interesting, because they’re directly […]
Student Sustainability Center director, McNair Scholar wins Scholastic Achievement Award
/in Academics, Leadership /by mosleyjLuis Berrios-Hayden – an SOU Environmental Science & Policy major, director of the Student Sustainability Center and McNair Scholar – has received the Northwest Association of Educational Opportunity Program’s Scholastic Achievement Award. The NAEOP Scholastic Achievement Award is a $1,500 scholarship given annually to students in the federal TRIO programs who exhibit outstanding scholastic achievement […]
Pavlina McGrady’s journey to teaching sustainable tourism
/in Academics, Leadership /by mosleyjPavlina McGrady, an assistant professor of business at SOU, has practiced what she teaches. Sustainable tourism first caught McGrady’s attention as she worked on her master’s degree program at the University of Hawaii. “I have always loved the outdoors and traveling, but I was introduced to the field of sustainable tourism, specifically, during my studies […]
Peter Wu has found his calling: to teach physics and do research at SOU
/in Academics, Leadership /by mosleyjPeter Ka-Chai Wu has worked in factories and mailrooms, and has held positions ranging from security guard to researcher. But the opportunity to teach physics is what brought him to SOU as a young academic and it’s what has kept him on the STEM faculty for 25 years. “(Teaching) is rewarding and challenging,” Wu said. […]
SOU’s Sean O’Skea: from historic preservation to theatrical scene design
/in Academics, Leadership /by mosleyjAfter moving back-and-forth – between the East and West coasts, and between theater stage design and historic preservation – Sean O’Skea has settled into his role at SOU as a professor of scenic design, which he’s held for the past 13 years. O’Skea became interested in scene design after taking drama classes in high school […]