inside oregon for december 2, 2005: special editon update on <i>Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives</i> for the university of oregon community december 2, 2005: special editon update on Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives It’s Our Oregon All Oregon Citizens Benefit from Campaign < By Dave Frohnmayer, president, University of Oregon < Anthropology students explore the new exhibit hall at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History. The $1 million exhibit, "Oregon-Where Past is Present," was made I hope you will take a moment to read the stories and possible with private gifts. highlights in this special edition of Inside Oregon. They The University of Oregon serves its students and all citizens represent an extraordinary effort that involves and affects of Oregon and beyond. From the UO Libraries’ vast all of us—Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives. resources to the renowned Oregon Bach Festival, from the museums of art and natural history to the 16 Full Story... intercollegiate sports teams, the university provides knowledge, entertainment, and cultural enrichment to the community, the state, the nation and the world. Campaign Status Report Full Story... < Campaign Oregon is transforming lives. Tawnee Ivens, the first woman in her family to graduate from college, received a Staton Scholarship. Gift Brings Early English Books Online The campaign began with a “silent phase” on Jan. 1, 2001, < Example of an Early English book from and is scheduled to conclude at the end of 2008. At the 1806. halfway point, the campaign has already had considerable impact on campus. Full Story... Campaign Oregon gifts to the University of Oregon Libraries are instrumental in helping purchase valuable new research tools that would otherwise be difficult to acquire. How Private Gifts Are Used Campaign Oregon has raised $373 million. Here’s a list of Full Story... fund-raising priorities developed by faculty and staff members before the launch of the campaign. Expanding Cultural Connections Full Story... < The Oregon Bach Festival is a world-class celebration of Bach’s music and influence. It is also a community performance and Precision Castparts Award educational event, offering classes for 'Opens' the Door to Everything conductors and musicians, programs for children and free community events. < Jamil Berry, at left, has a paid internship Art lovers have a spacious, world-class museum where every summer at Precision Castparts in Portland in addition to a University of they can view important exhibitions such as Andy Warhol’s Oregon scholarship. Dream America, and classical music lovers can rest assured Jamil Berry grew up in northeast Portland. When he was that the annual Oregon Bach Festival will be thriving for six, his dad was incarcerated for drug trafficking. When he decades to come. was ten, his mother died of multiple sclerosis and his Full Story... grandmother took him in. Thanks to her—and a scholarship —this fall he started his junior year at Oregon with big plans for the future. For Donor Couple, Marriage Full Story... Matters < Professor Emeritus Robert Weiss and his wife, Barbara Perry. Endowed Positions Boost Faculty Excellence Gifts have created a number of new endowed faculty positions and provided support for research and faculty For this couple, marriage matters—on many levels. Robert http://duckhenge.uoregon.edu/io/issue.php?date=2005-12-02 (1 of 3)12/2/2005 4:16:54 AM inside oregon for december 2, 2005: special editon update on <i>Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives</i> instruction. Following are just a few examples: Weiss, a professor emeritus of psychology, and Barbara Full Story... Perry have been married for 30 years. Full Story... Research Has Extraordinary Implications Transforming Lives with Scholarships As of August 2005, the university had raised more than < Students guided by Dave Johnson, professor of chemistry, in background, $56 million toward its goal of $100 million for student examine equipment used in nanoscience scholarships and fellowships. research. Full Story... Campaign Oregon gifts are supporting faculty and student research that could have extraordinary implications for human health, economic vitality, education, the Donors Help Retain Top Educators environment, and countless other fields. < Endowed professorships help the university retain Full Story... top professors such as Gerry Tindal in the College of Education. Small Science, Big Discoveries U.S. News and World Report has ranked the College of Education one of the top five public colleges of education for four years in a row. Thousands of schools in 38 states The creation of the Oregon Nanoscience and use the research and outreach services of the college’s Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) will mean big faculty. discoveries in small science. Nanoscience and microscales Full Story... research—manipulating units of matter a thousand times smaller than a human hair—is transforming electronics, medicine, and manufacturing. It will also transform Campus Briefs Oregon’s economy. Senior Wins Marshall Scholarship Full Story... < Aletta Sue Brenner is the first University of Oregon student to earn a Marshall Scholarship. Gift Propels Program to Top Ranks < Jenni McCord, a doctoral student in human physiology, runs on a treadmill in the new environmental chamber while fellow student, Tom Pellinger, measures her oxygen and exertion levels. A University of Oregon student with a deep interest in human rights has been awarded a prestigious Marshall Scholarship from the British government. More Campus Briefs... Private gifts can profoundly affect the quality and national stature of an academic program. Case in point: a gift helped propel the university's environmental physiology studies to one of the top such programs in the country. Full Story... http://duckhenge.uoregon.edu/io/issue.php?date=2005-12-02 (2 of 3)12/2/2005 4:16:54 AM inside oregon for december 2, 2005: special editon update on <i>Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives</i> Each issue of Inside Oregon is archived on the web at http://duckhenge.uoregon.edu/inside/archive.php . Inside Oregon is the official newsletter for employees of the University of Oregon and is published biweekly during the academic year and monthly in June, July and August. Inside Oregon Staff: Editor: Paul Omundson | Web Developer: Taper Wickel Published by Public and Media Relations, Johnson Hall, 1098 E. 13th Ave. Senior Director of Public and Media Relations: Mary Stanik Mailing Address: Inside Oregon, Public and Media Relations, 1281 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403- 1281 Telephone (541) 346-3247; FAX (541) 346-3117 Email: [email protected] Call for contributions and schedule The University of Oregon is an equal-opportunity, affirmative-action institution committed to cultural diversity and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. http://duckhenge.uoregon.edu/io/issue.php?date=2005-12-02 (3 of 3)12/2/2005 4:16:54 AM Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives Only with gifts from friends and alumni can we preserve excellence at the University of Oregon. Our $600 million fundraising campaign will help the University of Oregon attract top students and professors, maintain premier facilities and continue groundbreaking research. The future is our choice. We choose distinction. New exhibit, and Oregon's history, unveiled thanks to private gift The UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History unveiled a million-dollar set of exhibits that allows visitors to walk through 15,000 years of Northwest cultural history and 100 million years of geologic history: Music Building to be Named for MarAbel Frohnmayer Farwest Steel gives $1 million to Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Washington Family Gives $1.5 Million http://campaign.uoregon.edu/12/2/2005 4:16:57 AM inside oregon for the university of oregon community It’s Our Oregon By Dave Frohnmayer, president, University of Oregon I hope you will take a moment to read the stories and highlights in this special edition of Inside Oregon. They represent an extraordinary effort that involves and affects all of us— Campaign Oregon: Transforming Lives. The campaign is providing the vital resources we need to bring our financial base, our facilities and programs, and our national reputation up to the level of our outstanding faculty and staff members. In recent years, your resourcefulness and your willingness to collaborate and innovate have helped keep the university moving forward in the face of reductions in state financial support. The other important factor in moving forward has been—and will continue to be— private gifts. It is increasingly clear that, in the years to come, philanthropy will be the source of investment capital that will take us to new levels of distinction. In addition to the service you give the university every day, I know that many of you helped develop the goals and priorities for the campaign and helped promote the initiative to our alumni and friends. A good many of you have also dug into your own pocketbooks to make gifts. http://duckhenge.uoregon.edu/io/article.php?id=490 (1 of 2)12/2/2005 4:16:57 AM inside oregon With your help, we have passed the halfway mark of Campaign Oregon. As of the end of October, we raised more than $373 million toward the $600-million campaign goal. We still have a long way to go in meeting the overall goal, the sub-goals, and your specific priorities. But campaign gifts are already having a considerable impact on campus: new student scholarships, new endowed faculty chairs and professorships, new buildings, new support for teaching and research. This is only the beginning of what we can all accomplish together. I thank you for what you have already done and what you do every day to transform lives on this campus. I entreat you to imagine how much farther we can go and how you can help us get there. It’s our Oregon, and through our actions today, we will determine the university’s future.