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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 in the News: Nov. 15 to Nov. 21
/in SOU in the NewsSOU student, alumni, faculty and staff news and features Chinook Observer of Long Beach, Wash. (Nov. 15) – Weather patterns in the Western U.S. have been a month ahead of the calendar for most of 2016, with the amount of rain and snow that fell during October anywhere from 150 percent to 400 percent of […]
Record number expected for SOU Preview Day
/in SOU News(Ashland, Ore.) — About 600 high school students are expected to be on the Southern Oregon University campus on Friday (Nov. 18) for Preview Day, the institution’s main Fall Term college visitation event for prospective students. Currently, the record number of Preview Day attendees is the 469 who visited during last year’s event. Preview Day […]
SOU in the News: Nov. 8 to Nov. 14
/in SOU in the NewsSOU student, alumni, faculty and staff news and features KDRV-TV 12 and similar story on KOBI-TV 5 (Nov. 7) – Counseling services through the SOU Student Health and Wellness Center are available for students who were affected by the murder of 20-year-old Avi Feldman at a house party early Sunday morning in Ashland. https://kobi5.com/news/remembering-avi-feldman-39599/ The […]
Veterans and the SOU Community
/in SOU NewsNEWS BRIEF (Ashland, Ore.) — On Veterans Day, some pertinent notes about veterans and Southern Oregon University: SOU’s Veterans Resource Office will host a Veterans Day Reception at noon today in the Rogue River Room of the Stevenson Union. Speakers will include SOU President Linda Schott. A total of 247 of the 6,200 students at […]
SOU Students to Harvest, Reuse OSF Bricks
/in SOU NewsMEDIA ALERT Who: Students from SOU’s Center for Sustainability What: Harvesting bricks from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Green Show plaza When: 9 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12, and again on Saturday, Nov. 19 Where: Oregon Shakespeare Festival (brick plaza off Pioneer Street, between the Bowmer and Elizabethan theaters) Why: The bricks will be reused, which […]
SOU Grants Include Work at Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (Ashland, Ore.) — An emeritus professor of geology at Southern Oregon University has been awarded a pair of two-year grants for geologic work in Oregon – including one to help create special-purpose maps that show geologic features of the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Jad D’Allura, Ph.D., a retired faculty member from the former geology […]
SOU in the News: Nov. 1 to Nov. 7
/in SOU in the NewsSOU student, alumni, faculty and staff news and features Oregon Wine Press (Nov. 1) – The current year will represent the third in a string of warm vintages for Oregon wine grapes, which were harvested beginning in August rather than the traditional September time period (interview with SOU’s Greg Jones, who studies the dynamic between […]
SOU’s Francie Bostwick honored by OCTM – Nov. 4
/in SOU NewsNEWS BRIEF (Ashland, Ore.) — Francie Bostwick, an associate professor of mathematics at SOU, has been awarded the Oregon Council of Teachers of Mathematics Area Recognition Award for her leadership and service in the mathematics education community. Bostwick teaches both lower-division and upper-division courses for SOU students who are studying to become mathematics teachers, and […]
Renowned Theoretical Physicist and Author to Speak at SOU on Nov. 9-10
/in SOU NewsNEWS RELEASE (Ashland, Ore.) — Lawrence Krauss, director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University and an internationally known physicist and author, will take participants on a pair of intellectual adventures when he offers public lectures next Wednesday and Thursday nights (Nov. 9 and 10) at Southern Oregon University. Wednesday’s talk, “Journey to the […]
SOU in the News: Oct. 25 to Oct. 31
/in SOU in the NewsSOU student, alumni, faculty and staff news and features Great Northwest Wine website (Oct. 24) – Climate change presents possibilities and challenges for Washington wine industry – vineyard acreage in the Puget Sound area could grow from the current 80 acres to 2,000 in the next 20 years. (SOU Professor Greg Jones featured.) https://www.greatnorthwestwine.com/2016/10/24/climate-change-presents-possibilities-challenges-for-washington-wine-industry/ Business […]