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Demolition underway at SOU’s Cascade ComplexJanuary 16, 2025 - 1:10 pm
Construction underway on SOU’s latest solar projectsJanuary 15, 2025 - 10:11 am
Funding in place for wildlife crossing with key SOU roleJanuary 8, 2025 - 8:46 am
Klamath dam removal workshop at SOU fosters collaborationJanuary 6, 2025 - 10:11 am
SOU Scavenger Hunt teaches academic skills to pre-college youthJanuary 6, 2025 - 7:00 am
SOU hires new Vice President for Finance and AdministrationDecember 9, 2024 - 9:24 am
SOU’s TRIO-SSS program marks milestoneNovember 12, 2024 - 11:45 am
SOU computer scientist receives Sloan grant for “tacit knowledge” researchOctober 29, 2024 - 8:04 am
Sustainability conference at SOU builds regional collaborationOctober 14, 2024 - 4:31 pm
SOU class to host candidate forum for local political racesOctober 14, 2024 - 12:23 pm
Indigenous Peoples Day to be celebrated over two days at SOUOctober 11, 2024 - 1:13 pm
Seminar to show benefits of a virtual reality and real-world teaching combinationOctober 8, 2024 - 10:28 am
Demolition underway at SOU’s Cascade Complex
/in Campus News(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University’s Cascade Complex, an obsolete cluster of nine residence halls and a cafeteria that have been largely unused since 2013, is being demolished over the next three months to make room for the anticipated development of a senior living center on the five-acre site at the southwest corner of campus. […]
Construction underway on SOU’s latest solar projects
/in Campus News, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University is making headway in its march toward becoming the first public university in the U.S. to produce all of the daytime electricity used on its campus, with more than $5 million in recent state, federal and student funding and multiple solar projects underway. SOU completed a rooftop solar installation […]
Funding in place for wildlife crossing with key SOU role
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — A total of $37 million in federal and state funding has been secured to build a wildlife crossing over Interstate 5 south of Ashland, in a project that Southern Oregon University faculty and students have supported by monitoring wildlife patterns in the area. Oregon recently was awarded a federal grant of $33.2 […]
Klamath dam removal workshop at SOU fosters collaboration
/in Campus News, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Southern Oregon University recently hosted the Klamath Dam Removal Research Collaboration Workshop, a follow-up seminar for the numerous groups and agencies working together on the world’s largest-ever dam removal and river restoration project. The November workshop brought together nearly 150 researchers, Tribal leaders and agency representatives to share information about ecological and […]
SOU Scavenger Hunt teaches academic skills to pre-college youth
/in AcademicsMiddle and high school students from across the southern Oregon region recently competed in the annual Scavenger Hunt event held by SOU’s Office of Youth Programs. Scavenger Hunt is a three-day academic “hunt,” in which students search for answers to clues provided by the hunt’s director, Jim Impara. Answers to the dozens of questions provided […]
SOU hires new Vice President for Finance and Administration
/in SOU News(Ashland, Ore.) — Dr. Carson Howell, currently the Vice President for Finance and Administrative Services at 6,000-student Snow College in Utah, has been hired to join the leadership team at Southern Oregon University. Howell will begin work as SOU’s Vice President for Finance and Administration (VPFA) on Feb. 18. “I am impressed with the dedicated […]
SOU’s TRIO-SSS program marks milestone
/in Campus NewsThe TRIO-Student Support Services (SSS) program at SOU, which helps non-traditional students succeed and graduate, celebrated its 30th anniversary this fall. The federally supported program marked the landmark with a “birthday party” last month at its office in Room 322 of the Stevenson Union. The SOU program helps students who are low-income, first-generation and/or have […]
SOU computer scientist receives Sloan grant for “tacit knowledge” research
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Bernadette Boscoe, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Southern Oregon University, recognizes a shared need in fields as dissimilar as astronomy, environmental science and violin acoustics, and a new grant will pay for research that may benefit those and other academic disciplines. Boscoe has received a $250,000 grant from […]
Sustainability conference at SOU builds regional collaboration
/in Campus News, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — The initial conference of Southern Oregon University’s Institute for Applied Sustainability attracted about 85 sustainability professionals from southern Oregon and northern California this month for two days of hands-on learning, actionable insights and connection-building in Ashland and nearby venues. The invitation-only conference on Oct. 3 and 4 was open to those in […]
SOU class to host candidate forum for local political races
/in Academics, Press Releases(Ashland, Ore.) — Political Science students in Southern Oregon University’s upper division course on political campaigns will partner with SOU’s Office of Government Affairs to host a forum for candidates in all contested races for the Ashland City Council and the Jackson County Board of Commissioners. The forum, which is free and open to the […]