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u B E H I N D T H E S C E N E S THE UNIVERSITY 4 2 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BASKETBALL u T H E U N I V E R S I T Y T H E U N I V E R S I T Y Celebrating its 128th anniversary, the University of A group of Lane County farmers and merchants Oregon has welcomed six generations of outstanding donated their crops and wares to erect Deady Hall, leaders since opening in 1876. Today’s students, the first UO structure, and to pay professors’ salaries. like the nearly 200,000 alumni before them, have Railroad magnate Henry Villard contributed funds Above: Gerlinger Hall, access to the most current knowledge in classes, to complete it. The second building on campus built in 1921, is listed on as well as laboratories and seminars conducted by was constructed with public funds and named in the National Register of Historic Places. leading researchers. Villard’s honor. Designated National Historic Land- Ranked 15th in the country among public universi- marks by the federal government, both still grace ties and sixth among “rising” public universities, the the campus. Today, the university’s physical plant university is regarded as one of the “best buys” in consists of 336 structures on and off campus and higher education for its high quality and affordability. is valued at more than $312 million. Two UO graduates are Nobel Prize honorees, nine have received Pulitzer Prizes, and 18 have been DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Ann Bancroft......First woman to cross North and South poles named Rhodes Scholars. Kelly Blair ....................................... 1996 Olympian, Heptathlon UO students select courses from departments Lee Bollinger............................. President, Columbia University and programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, Terrell Brandon ...................... Former NBA All-Star, Minnesota Ann Curry......................................................... NBC news anchor The $25 million William six professional schools and colleges and the Gradu- W. Knight Law Center Dan Fouts .................................Former NFL all-pro quarterback was completed in 1999. ate School. More than 1,500 teaching and research Ron Fraedrick.....................Founder of Taco Time International Dennis Gassner.....Academy award winner, best art direction faculty and 1,300 graduate teaching Joey Harrington ........................NFL quarterback, Detroit Lions and research assistants serve James Ivory .................... Academy award-winning film director as mentors, colleagues and Peter Jacobsen............................................... Professional golfer David Jeremiah ........................Vice Chair, Joint Chiefs of Staff friends to the more Ken Kesey..................................................Award-winning author than 20,000 un- Phil Knight......................................... CEO and co-founder, Nike Chris Miller ............................................Former NFL quarterback dergraduate and Ahmad Rashad ...........Former NFL all-pro, NBC sportscaster graduate students Charles Royer.................Director, Harvard Institute of Politics enrolled at UO. Alberto Salazar ......... Track and field American record-holder 4 4 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BASKETBALL 2005-06 MEDIA GUIDE 4 5 u T H E U N I V E R S I T Y T H E U N I V E R S I T Y UO IN PRESTIGIOUS COMPANY The Association of American Universities (AAU) is an organization of research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. It www.uoregon.edu consists of 60 U.S. and two Canadian universities. The primary purpose of the AAU is to provide a forum for the development and implementation of institutional and national policies promoting strong programs in academic research and scholarship and undergraduate, graduate, Deady Hall and professional education. Member institutions and year of admission: Brandeis University (1985) Brown University (1933) California Institute of Technology (1934) Carnegie Mellon University (1982) Case Western Reserve University (1969) Columbia University (1900) The 295-acre Eugene Cornell University (1900) Duke University (1938) campus is the state’s center Emory University (1995) of liberal arts and sciences Harvard University (1900) Indiana University (1909) education, as well as one of Iowa State University (1958) the nation’s best teaching and The Johns Hopkins University (1900) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1934) research institutions. Profes- McGill University (1926) sional schools in architecture, Michigan State University (1964) New York University (1950) business, education, journalism Northwestern University (1917) and communication, law and The Ohio State University (1916) The Pennsylvania State University (1958) music complete the broad Princeton University (1900) range of course offerings, with Purdue University (1958) Rice University (1985) degrees awarded in more than Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1989) 121 majors. Stanford University (1900) Stonybrook University-State University of New York (2001) University science Syracuse University (1966) departments are Texas A&M University (2001) Tulane University (1958) winning national The University of Arizona (1985) attention in bio- University at Buffalo-State University of New York (1989) University of California, Berkeley (1900) mechanics, com- University of California, Davis (1996) University of California, Irvine (1996) puters, genetics, lasers, neuroscience and nanotechnology. The Lundquist University of California, Los Angeles (1974) College of Business has developed a major new emphasis in entrepreneurship University of California, San Diego (1982) University of California, Santa Barbara (1995) and sports marketing, and the College of Education, one of the best such University of Chicago (1900) programs in the nation, is home to a nationally recognized Institute on Violence University of Colorado, Boulder (1966) University of Florida (1985) and Destructive Behavior. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1908) Among the Graduate School’s many institutes and research centers are the University of Iowa (1909) University of Kansas (1909) internationally recognized Institute of Molecular Biology, the Oregon Institute University of Maryland at College Park (1969) of Marine Biology on the southern Oregon coast and the International Institute University of Michigan (1900) University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (1908) for Sport and Human Performance. University of Missouri, Columbia (1908) Even as UO’s academic and research programs grow, so does the university’s University of Nebraska, Lincoln (1909) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1922) representation of and commitment to diversity. Students of color constitute University of Oregon (1969) about 13 percent of the student body, and the university promotes increased University of Pennsylvania (1900) University of Pittsburgh (1974) diversity through such programs as the Office of Multicultural Affairs, which University of Rochester (1941) provides academic and support services to minority students; the Associated University of Southern California (1969) The University of Texas at Austin (1929) Students of the University of Oregon Multicultural Center; and various initia- University of Toronto (1926) tives, such as establishment of the Ethnic Studies Program. About 1,400 University of Virginia (1904) University of Washington (1950) international students from nearly 80 countries represent about 7 percent of University of Wisconsin-Madison (1900) the student body. Vanderbilt University (1950) Washington University in St. Louis (1923) To learn more about the University of Oregon and how it is transforming Yale University (1900) lives, please visit http://www.uoregon.edu. 4 4 UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BASKETBALL 2005-06 MEDIA GUIDE 4 5 u D E G R E E S A N D D E P A R T M E N T S A C A D E M I C S E R V I C E S The University’s COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES LUNDQUIST COLLEGE OF BUSINESS seven professional The College of Arts and Sciences house the state’s only The Charles H. Lundquist College of Business under- schools and col- honors college, bringing together some of the most promising graduate program ranks 40th among all public universities in students and specially selected faculty members in a challenging the nation, and the Master’s programs in business (MBA) rank leges offer programs academic program with carefully designed small classes and in the top 10 percent of accredited programs in the U.S. that provide train- close advising. Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree Programs ing to meet spe- Many of the college’s departments enjoy national acclaim, Accounting Entreprenuership cific career goals. including high rankings for the psychology curriculum and the forensics program. The National Science Foundation desig- Finance However, all pro- nated UO as one of the three original centers of excellence Management Marketing grams require a sub- in Science. Sports Marketing stantial number of The College also offers preparatory programs for the ad- vanced study of engineering and law and health-related fields liberal arts courses College of Education in order to obtain a such as dentistry, medicine and pharmacology. Bachelor’s Degree Programs The College of Education offers primarily graduate-level well-balanced edu- training programs. Currently, educational studies and a fifth-year Anthropology History secondary school lincensee program are the only undergraduate cation in addition Asian Studies Humanities majors. Its special education and graduate programs are na-