2:00–3:00 p.m.
Students taking WR 121z, 122z, or 123 are invited to drop by the Tykeson 3rd floor Writing Lab (glass room, 351) for candy and quick writing support. Our GE Writing Support Specialists (tutors) are available to help you with any part of a WR assignment, from coming up with ideas to reading to revising to polishing up a final draft. Join us!
Mondays 3-4 and Thursdays 2-3, beginning week 4, for the rest of Winter quarter 2025.
2:00–5:00 p.m.
Join us on March 13 (Thurs) from 2:00- 5:00pm at the UO Ford Alumni Center. This Educator Career Fair is open to all UO students and alumni interested in pursuing careers in education. Come meet with local and regional school district representatives looking to recruit you to entry level classifed, licensed teacher, and or professional licensed positions. Practice marketing yourself and hopefully get some valuable interviews!
Register via Handshake Today!
Log onto the UO's Handshake, the UO Career Centers networking site, with your UO Student ID# Search “Events / Career Fairs hosted at your School” for the “2025 UO Educator Career Fair,” Click here to "+JOIN EVENT" Complete the short registration surveyContact Amy Harter (aharter@uoregon.edu), Field Services Coordinator with questions or accommodation requests.
7:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
The free and virtual eighth annual Mentoring and Advising Summit, aims to cultivate a strong culture of student success and inclusion, convening mentors, advisors, coaches, and administrators from around the globe to discuss new trends and best practices in mentoring and advising.
During this virtual summit hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, participants will engage with and learn about specific tools, techniques, theories, and concepts to support undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs as they chart goals, develop enduring networks, and sustain their pursuit of success after graduation. These aims are important as together, we work to make our institutions of higher education more dynamic and inclusive places for everyone, most especially for at-promise student populations including first-generation, income-eligible, underrepresented minority, exploratory, transfer, rural, international, and those in need of academic intervention.
Register at https://www.accelevents.com/e/2025summit
3:00 p.m.
Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series 3rd Year Talks – Winter 2025
3:00pm – Dwaipayan Roychowdhury Proton Intercalation Kinetics Near Solid-Electrolyte Interface
3:30pm – Vi Baird 2,2’-bipyridine-Containing Cycloparaphenylenes as Nanohoop Ligands
4:00pm – Faiqa Khaliq Size Dependent Optical Properties of Nanoscale Metal-Organic Frameworks
3:00 p.m.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series
Professor Matthias Wuttig, RWTH Aachen University of Technology
Hosted by Matthias Agne and David Johnson
Chalcogenides by Design: Developing Treasure Maps with Quantum Chemistry
Scientists and practitioners have long dreamt of designing materials with novel properties. Yet, a hundred years after quantum mechanics lay the foundations for a systematic description of the properties of solids, it is still not possible to predict the best material in applications such as photovoltaics, superconductivity or thermoelectric energy conversion. This is a sign of the complexity of the problem, which is often exacerbated by the need to optimize conflicting material properties. Hence, one can ponder if design routes for materials can be devised. In recent years, the focus of our work has been on designing advanced functional materials based on semiconducting chalcogenides with attractive opto-electronic properties, including phase change materials, thermoelectrics, photonic switches and materials for photovoltaics. To reach this goal, one can try to establish close links between material properties and chemical bonding. However, until recently it was quite difficult to adequately quantify chemical bonds. Some developments in the last decades, such as the quantum theory of atoms in molecules have provided the necessary tools to describe bonds in solids quantitatively. Using these tools, it has been possible to devise a map which separates different bonding mechanisms [1]. This map can now be employed to correlate chemical bonding with material properties. Machine learning and property classification demonstrate the potential of this approach. These insights are subsequently employed to design phase change as well as thermoelectric materials. Yet, the discoveries presented here also force us to revisit the concept of chemical bonds and bring back a history of vivid scientific disputes about ‘the nature of the chemical bond’.
[1] M. Wuttig, C.-F. Schön, J. Lötfering, P. Golub, C. Gatti, J.-Y. Raty, Revisiting the nature of chemical bonding in solids to design chalcogenides, Advanced Materials 2208485 (2023)
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Join the Department of History and April Haynes, University of Wisconsin - Madison, for a talk on "They Know their Value and Take Advantage of It: Household Workers' Organizing at the Dawn of an American Service Economy."
In this talk, Haynes traces the simultaneous emergence of a waged service sector and the first stirrings of today's domestic workers' movement in the early US republic. Both trends are documented through the rise and fall of female intelligence offices, employment agencies which placed wage workers in employers' households across the North and West. The number of these offices exploded as demand for paid service rose in the era of northern abolition and the "pastoralization" of married women's housework. Drawing on data on 700 intelligence offices that operated between 1750 and 1850, Haynes finds that Black and female "intelligencers" kept a significant proportion of all offices beginning in the 1810s and that service workers increasingly used these spaces for mutual aid and proto-unionization. By midcentury, employer-class women regained the upper hand in domestic labor negotiations by launching a reform crusade that represented working-class female intelligence offices as sites of sex trafficking, demanding license laws, and organizing employer-run labor brokerages. Their actions both contributed to and obscured the racialization of domestic service, ultimately giving rise to the late nineteenth-century panic over "white slavery." Haynes argues that the class conflict over who could sell domestic labor power reveals its value within the development of American capitalism.
Haynes is professor and director of diversity, equity and inclusion in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research priorities include racialized gender, intimate labor, and women in social movements. Her first book, Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-century America, unearths the surprising origins of a sex panic that prepared many Americans to accept heteronormativity. Her most recent article recovers the earliest known movement for sex workers' rights in US history and was published by Gender & History this fall. Her work has been recognized with awards from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
The Department of History Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about the seminar series.
5:00 p.m.
What is Research? (2025) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.
This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.
The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
What is Research? (2025) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.
This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.
The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
What is Research? (2025) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.
This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.
The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.
3:00–4:00 p.m.
Graduate students! Perfect your skills in creating captivating and concise posters tailored for the Graduate Research Forum and any upcoming conference. This webinar will equip you with the essential principles of modern poster design, enabling you to simplify complex ideas, integrate visuals effectively, and deliver your message within the strict space confines of a poster. Whether you're a novice or an experienced presenter, don't miss this opportunity to learn the art of creating impactful poster that reinforce your research narrative and engage your audience. Register at https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/b75dada44ac6432e9100b9271193c184