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| Wednesday, May 16, 2012 |
 | Pacific Northwest Art Annual
7:00 AM - 11:30 PM
Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Please join us for the 2012 Pacific Northwest Art Annual, a juried art competition between artists from the pacific Northwest. The winning piece will be purchased for the EMU's permanent art collection. The image pictured here is last year's winner, "Sirens of Decline" by Brett Anderson. |
| Smarter Living for a Better Future: Traveling Exhibition
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
White Stag Block Buildings (PDX)
Generating a New Understanding of Energy Efficiency as a Key to Sustainable Development.
The traveling exhibition Smarter Living: The 2,000-Watt Society is brought to the United States by the U.S.-wide program ThinkSwiss – Brainstorm the Future in collaboration with Cleantech Switzerland and the City of Zurich. ThinkSwiss is an official program of the Swiss Confederation under the auspices of Presence Switzerland, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research. As a leader in science, research, and technology, Switzerland works with its U.S. counterparts to address the challenges of sustainability and find solutions that benefit our world.
Special thanks to Mr. Umberto Dindo, AIA who brought this opportunity to us. |
| The Equity Challenge: How to Balance Your Triple Bottom Line
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
White Stag Block Buildings (PDX)
Efforts to address environmental and economic well-being in the Pacific Northwest are some of the most innovative in the country. Recent reports indicate, however, a growing "green divide," where the environmental and economic benefits of sustainability efforts are unevenly distributed along race and class lines, replicating unsustainable systems of inequity and that ultimately lead to destabilization -- coupled with a rapidly diversifying population, addressing equity is essential to the success of sustainability efforts.
See http://sustain.uoregon.edu/workshops/course_desc.php?CourseKey=633653 for more information and to register. |
| Free Admission Wednesdays
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Museum of Natural and Cultural History
The Museum of Natural and Cultural History offers free admission every Wednesday. Visit our website for a current list of exhibits and events: http://natural-history.uoregon.edu. |
 | Out in Space, Back in Time: Images from the Hubble Space Telescope
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Museum of Natural and Cultural History
Telescopes on Earth have always faced an obstacle when looking to the sky: the Earth’s atmosphere. Even with the clearest skies, clouds, dust, water vapor and air currents distort our view from the ground. The best way to avoid these distortions is to place a telescope beyond the atmosphere -- or, in the Hubble Telescope's case, 353 miles above the surface of Earth.
In the vacuum of space, the Hubble Telescope takes amazingly clear pictures of objects beyond Earth -- from our close neighbor in space the Helix Nebula (.65 million light-years away) to the distant Rose Galaxies (340 million light-years away). Discover Earth's "habitat" in this striking exhibit of photographs. |
 | The Art of Nature by Becky Uhler
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Museum of Natural and Cultural History
As an artist and natural science illustrator, Becky Uhler strives to bridge the gap between what we see with our eyes and the intricate systems in nature. Her goal is "to accurately represent the unique features of a species and, especially, to bring out the essence of the being." The exhibit includes watercolor originals and prints of native plant and animal life. This exhibit runs through June 24. |
 | 2012 SCI Expert in Residence Jarrett Walker Lecture and Workshop
12:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Lawrence Hall
Lillis Hall
"Eugene-Springfield Transit: What are the real questions?"
6 p.m.: Social hour and lecture. Lillis, Rm. 182
Other events:
Noon: Lunch with Students and community members -- bring your lunch (cookies provided) and join the conversation in Room 249 Lawrence Hall.
2 - 4:30 p.m.: Network Planning Workshop in Room 383 Lawrence Hall.
In this interactive, hands-on session, attendees will learn to network planning principles and their application. Attendance limited to first 30 people. Please RSVP to sci@uoregon.edu by May 15.
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| Challenging Patriarchy, Gender Binaries and Heteronormativity through Poetry
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Erb Memorial Union (EMU)
Join us for our weekly lunch talk. This week's topic is "Challenging Patriarchy, Gender Binaries and Heteronormativity through Poetry: May Swenson, Mormons, and Me" with Maure Smith-Benanti, assistant director of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Educational Support Services Program. |
| Julia Flanders, Making Digital Humanities Count
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Knight Library
Julia Flanders is president of the Association for Computers in the Humanities and editor-in-chief of the Digital Humanities Quarterly, an open-access, peer-reviewed digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. She serves on the board of directors for the Text Encoding Initiative, an international consortium that establishes standards for encoding machine-readable texts for the broad sharing and mining of data. |
 | Chamber Music on Campus
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Student chamber ensembles will give a free "Chamber Music on Campus" concert. |
 | Andrew Bacevich: "A Decade of War"
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
_Other/Off-campus
Andrew Bacevich, author of Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, will address several urgently important questions: "More than a decade into the 'Global War on Terror,' where has that conflict taken us? What has it achieved? What has it cost?" Although, Bacevich notes, the inclination to turn away from these questions may be strong, Americans should resist that temptation. |
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