UO Today

Alex Segrè Cohen is an assistant professor of Science and Risk Communication in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. She also serves as a research associate in the Center for Science Communication Research. She talks about how people make decisions about their behavior as it relates to risks such as COVID-19 and climate change.

Adriana Miramontes Olivas is the new curator of Academic Programs and Latin American and Caribbean Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art. Miramontes Olivas oversees the JSMA’s Latinx collection, which has been one of the fastest growing areas of art in the museum. She talks about some upcoming exhibits.

Ka’ila Farrell-Smith is a Klamath Modoc visual artist, writer, and activist. Utilizing painting and traditional Indigenous art practices, her work explores space in between the Indigenous and western paradigms. Her painting Enrollment is featured in the exhibition Many Wests: Artists Shape an American Idea on view at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art through December 18, 2022.

Writer Betsy Bonner is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Oregon. Bonner is the author of the poetry collection Round Lake (2016) and the memoir The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing, an NPR Best Book of 2020. She reads from Round Lake and discusses her writing.

Juliet Schor is an Economist and a professor of Sociology at Boston College. She discusses her research on consumer society and consumer culture, working hours and lifestyles, environmental degradation, the sharing economy. Schor is the 2022 Wayne Morse Chair in Law and Politics. She gave a talk "Gig Economy: Predatory Platforms, Precarious Work" as part of the Morse Center’s two-year focus on Making Work Work.

Sarah Wald, Environmental Studies and English, and 2022–23 Oregon Humanities Center Faculty Research Fellow at the University of Oregon.

This project examines the movement to diversify public lands access, outdoor recreation, and employment in the US. It focuses on organizations, social media accounts, and cultural productions (films, graphic novels, creative non-fiction) that counter the whiteness of outdoor recreation, public lands advocacy, and conservation. I use an environmental justice lens to analyze the stories told about race, nature, and nation in the movement. These stories offer new ways to imagine environmental belonging and political action for just futures.

Sister Helen Prejean is the founder of the Ministry Against the Death Penalty and the author of "Deadman Walking: The Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate." She discusses her work with death row inmates and talks about why the death penalty should be abolished. Sister Helen will speak at the UO on October 27, 2022 as a guest of the UO's Prison Education Program.

Damian Radcliffe, is the Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism at the University of Oregon. He discusses how the media and the practice of journalism have evolved in recent decades. He also talks about the decline of the publics' trust in journalism, the effect of social media, and the importance of local media.

Anshuman Razdan (AR), Vice President for Research and Innovation at the University of Oregon, discusses his work in spatial modeling and computer engineering. He also talks about his goals as the newly-appointed VP for Research and Innovation.

Patrick Phillips is the Interim President of the University of Oregon and Professor of Biology. He discusses the acquisition of the old Concordia campus in Northeast Portland and how the Ballmer Institute and other UO Portland programs will be occupying that campus. Phillips also talks about his goals for this academic year and issues surrounding diversity.