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JPR reporters honored with journalism awardsJune 8, 2026 - 2:44 pm
SOU students win best poster at high speed computing symposiumJune 1, 2026 - 2:18 pm
Campus community’s student worker appreciationMay 29, 2026 - 9:15 am
SOU’s Kaiser releases book on Shakespeare’s canonMay 28, 2026 - 11:58 am
SOU’s 21st annual Student Film FestivalMay 26, 2026 - 12:42 pm
SOU hosts cybersecurity camp for high school studentsMay 22, 2026 - 9:00 am
SOU students sweep in Microsoft competitionMay 19, 2026 - 9:51 am
SOU’s Cherstin Lyon joins conversation with Pulitzer winner Rick AtkinsonMay 11, 2026 - 3:04 pm
Two SOU alumni author second book for educatorsApril 29, 2026 - 10:19 am
SOU-led “computational thinking” team presents papersApril 27, 2026 - 2:44 pm
SOU Digital Cinema alum directs “Crew Experience”April 15, 2026 - 2:20 pm
Student voices, river stories: Amy Bowers Cordalis at SOUApril 14, 2026 - 12:40 pm
SOU’s Boscoe awarded second “tacit knowledge” grant
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Bernadette Boscoe, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Southern Oregon University, has been awarded a second grant to fund her study of tacit knowledge in research settings – gathering, storing and retrieving the unspoken practices of academic teams that sometimes are lost when a project is disrupted or ends. […]
SOU student joins Board of Trustees
/in Press Releases, Student Life(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University student Michelle Fuentes, a Criminal Justice and Sociology major from Central Point, has been appointed by Gov. Tina Kotek and confirmed Wednesday by the Oregon Senate to serve on the university’s Board of Trustees. Fuentes, whose two-year term begins July 1, will succeed Garima Sharma as one of two undergraduate […]
Unorthodox path: recent SOU graduate bound for Oxford
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Achieving success wasn’t the issue for Taran Cross. He had risen to the position of vice president with a Medford-based healthcare technology company, despite dropping out of college soon after he began back in 2007. But he had unfinished business and higher ambitions. “I dreamed of going to Oxford as a kid […]
SOU’s Ruggerio receives Distinguished Teaching Award
/in Press Releases, Recognitions(Ashland, Ore.) — Alena Ruggerio, a professor of communication at Southern Oregon University, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award by the Western States Communication Association (WSCA), one of the leading academic organizations in the field of communication studies. The WSCA Distinguished Teaching Award is presented annually and honors educators who […]
Acclaimed Ashland director and screenwriter leads SOU students’ “Crew Experience”
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Ashland-based writer-director Gary Lundgren will guide student filmmakers at Southern Oregon University in bringing “An Extraordinary Year” to life this spring, when he mentors those in the Digital Cinema Department’s innovative “Crew Experience” course. “Crew Experience,” launched in 2022, has given SOU’s Digital Cinema students a chance each year to work on […]
Global Innovation Scholars unite to serve U.S. and Mexican businesses
/in Academics, Press Releases, Student Life(Ashland, Ore.) — Nine students and two faculty members from Southern Oregon University have been working for most of the past week with their Mexican counterparts at Universidad de Guanajuato on the annual Global Innovation Scholars program – a multicultural business development initiative to help organizations and businesses in both Guanajuato and Ashland while providing […]
Raider Education Day for new and prospective teachers
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Author, teacher and consultant Jay Schroder will deliver a keynote address, highlighting the third annual Raider Educator Day – an event on Saturday, April 5, that will allow new and prospective teachers to gain insights into the field. The forum, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Rogue River Room of […]
SOU student applies classroom experience to work on LA wildfires
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Bryan Cohee was juggling his usual responsibilities back in January – as a husband, father, battalion chief with Jackson County Fire District 3 and undergraduate student in Southern Oregon University’s Innovation and Leadership Program. A phone call resulted in yet another role, and both opportunities and challenges for Cohee: it was an […]
SOU to host official memorial service for William Thorndike, Jr.
/in Campus News, Leadership, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University will host a public gathering and celebration of the life of William Downie (Bill) Thorndike, Jr. – a prominent statewide civic servant, the university’s first board chair and recipient of SOU’s highest honor – on Sunday, April 27. Those who attend the event, at 1:30 p.m. in the SOU […]
SOU participants make a splash at regional sustainability conference
/in Campus News, Leadership, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University students, staff and faculty made their presence felt at last week’s Washington Oregon Cascadia Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) in Portland, where SOU participants shared the university’s stories of success in sustainability with peer institutions. The conference was hosted this year by Portland Community College and was attended by […]