Investors’ report 2012–13 It was a very good year. For the Uo, the 2012–13 fiscal year meant a new president, another record-breaking freshman class, and some impressive accomplishments. Your support made it all possible. Ducks excelled in 2012–13—both on and off the field. our victory at the tostitos Fiesta Bowl marked our fourth consecutive BCs bowl game. And we reached the nCAA “sweet sixteen” for the first time since 2007. Women’s track and field won a fourth consecutive indoor championship. our women’s cross-country team won the national championship for the first time in twenty-five years and our volleyball team played in the Thanks to generous national championship. donors and loyal friends, our 2012 incoming freshman class was the largest, most diverse, and most You Make It All possible academically prepared to date. to help continue the trend, the university it was an A+ year for announced two remarkable new scholarships, the Apex and the summit. the University of Oregon. the Dalai Lama visited campus. our chamber choir visited Ireland—and brought back a trophy from one of europe’s most prestigious choral events. We celebrated the grand opening of the Lewis Integrative science Building, the Global scholars Hall, a newly renovated Allen Hall, and the student veterans Center. our excellent faculty was recognized with another Guggenheim Fellowship and an appointment to the national science Board. We also received a $10.3 million grant from the national Institutes of Health for our center for systems biology. the Uo was ranked eighth in the nation for peace Corps volunteers, among the top 8 percent of national universities by U.S. News and World Report, and one of the nation’s best research universities by Forbes. these are just some of oregon’s achievements for 2012–13—the list goes on. But we didn’t accomplish it all on our own. You contributed more than $200 million in private gifts during the fiscal year, topping the annual $100 million benchmark for the sixth time in a row. We can also celebrate the second time in Uo history that private gifts exceeded $200 million for the year. Thank you for making it all possible. Inspiring students Uo soPHomore Hayley Pratt-stIbIcH hopes one day making that quantum leap soon, considering how much Uo physicists are to conduct research at the world’s biggest and most powerful particle involved with AtLAs and the search for the elusive Higgs boson particle. accelerator. the way things are going, her wish just might come true. Hayley spent her summer working in a lab run by stephanie Majewski, While she was in high school, the physics major participated in the Uo’s an assistant professor specializing in experimental particle physics. summer Academy to Inspire Learning (sAIL) program, a camp that shows Hayley helped write a program to gather data from the Large Hadron Scholarships help the low-income students what college life is like. Collider. next stop, switzerland! “sAIL made it more reasonable that I could be in college and go to the University of Oregon Uo,” she said. “It was just so fun to actually meet the professors.” recruit the best and now she’s conducting physics research with one of them. brightest. A pathwayoregon student, Hayley received the Gates Millennium scholarship for talented, low-income minority students. the Gates scholarship covers tuition, housing, and living expenses for up to ten years. After earning her bachelor’s degree, Hayley plans to continue My education is my future. It’s an pursuing her passion at the graduate level. ‘‘ “I love physics because it’s a way to understand the basics of everything,” investment in who I want to be. she said. “the way we see how light reflects off of things. Down to the very tiniest particles of being! —Hayley Pratt-stIbIcH “My dream job would be working at the Large Hadron Collider in ‘‘ UO sOphOmOre, switzerland, working with the AtLAs project,” she said. she could be pathwayOregOn stUdent, and gates millenniUm schOlar 2 Barracks to Backpacks For veterans, the transition from military service to student life can costs and programs. Lease Crutcher Lewis provided in-kind construction be daunting. the new student veterans Center in the eMU is helping to services valued at more than $20,000. office World donated nearly all of bridge that adjustment gap. the furnishings. “It’s much easier for someone to go from high school to college than to go the center is just one way the Uo supports student veterans. For example, from high school to the military for four years and then to college,” said we are one of sixteen universities nationwide to formally partner with the A gift from navy veteran Jonathan Brunton ’13. “veterans feel very comfortable with pat tillman Foundation, a national organization that provides resources other vets because they know someone’s not going to judge them by the and educational scholarship support to veterans, active service members, the late Jean and stories they have.” and their spouses. Alan Pedersen the center is a one-stop shop for veterans and active duty service helped create the members and their families. It’s a place where student vets can EMU’s new Student meet and socialize, eat lunch, do homework, and access services to All these people and businesses played Veterans Center. ‘‘ help them successfully navigate campus life. It also serves as a part in helping the student veterans headquarters for the veterans and of the UO get a space we now can call Family student Association. A gift from the late Jean and Alan ‘‘our very own. pedersen, both members of the —JonatHan brUnton ’13 class of ’43, helped with startup U.s. navy veteran, veterans and Family stUdent assOciatiOn cOdirect Or 4 Better than a Gold Watch two Uo deans served as leaders during times of change, initiated though he plans to step down as dean, Gleason will continue working at Donors and volunteers historic building renovations, and forever transformed the university. the university. What’s an appropriate gift? A named room, of course! celebrated the legacies of robert Donald Clark Honors College supporters surprised their outgoing Advisory board members and other donors chipped in to surprise dean with a new addition to Chapman Hall—the David A. Frank thesis two remarkable deans tim Gleason, edwin L. Artzt Dean of the school of Journalism and Defense room. Communication, naming a classroom after him in the newly transformed Frank served as director of the honors college and became its first dean in with rooms named Allen Hall. A member of the faculty since 1987 and dean since 1997, 2008. He led the transition of the honors college from a program to its own Gleason led the school through tremendous changes in the industries in their honor. college, greatly enhancing its faculty, student body, and reputation. Frank it serves. will continue serving the university as a faculty member. Tim Gleason united the diverse disciplines at the School of Journalism As the first dean of the Robert D. Clark Honors College, David Frank and Communication to move the whole school forward. He’s fair. He ‘‘ provided the leadership and vision to transform the CHC into a true ‘‘ challenges you. And you respect him so much you want to follow him. residential liberal arts college, providing students with an opportunity to pursue academic excellence in a collegial and supportive environment. He’s also all about innovation, which has been exactly what the school needed. Nothing is a better example of this than the transformation of It is appropriate that future generations of honors college graduates Allen Hall. At his heart, Tim’s still a professor. The reason he got into will be reminded of these accomplishments when it is their time to ‘‘this is because of education, so it’s fitting that we named a classroom ‘‘showcase their academic achievements in the David A. Frank Thesis after him. Defense Room. —steve o’leary ’69 —JIm sHePHard ’80 JOUrnalism advancement cOUncil chair OF the rObert d. clark hOnOrs cOllege advisOry cOUncil Unburied treasure This is a gold mine for students, faculty Instead oF a wooden cHest, this treasure was packed in of Duckvision, utilizing fiber optic technology from the Chambers Media members, and anyone cardboard boxes—437 of them, to be precise. Chambers Communications Center to the big screen in Autzen stadium. Corp. recently donated their archive of KeZI-tv news and Uo sports who wants to research the corporation provides student internships and partners with the broadcasts to the university, along with the intellectual property rights ‘‘local history. This university in many ways. For instance, Chambers collaborates with faculty to more than 5,000 hours of footage from 1960 to 2008. members in the soJC to give students real-world production experience in comprehensive video so what’s on all those tapes? steve prefontaine, Bill Bowerman, and broadcast news, promotions, and commercial production. Chambers the Kamikaze Kids. tom McCall, Wayne Morse, and Mark Hatfield. archive spans several Chambers Communications Corp. Ceo scott Chambers ’82 is a member Jack nicholson shooting Five Easy Pieces and the Animal House crew Communications Corp. of the soJC’s Journalism Advancement Council and serves on the advisory decades, and it’s a filming a horse in Johnson Hall. Campus sit-ins, millrace high jinks, and board of the Uo’s Cinema pacific Film Festival. He was also executive donates nearly fifty 13th Avenue in the 1960s. And much more. vibrant record of our producer of Fire on the Track: The Steve Prefontaine Story—a project region’s stories.