The Judaic Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences recently acquired some important materials in Yiddish, including a complete and pristine set of the Soviet Yiddish journal, “Sovetish Heymland." Yiddish is a language originally spoken by Jews from Central and Eastern Europe and their descendants and combines elements of German, Hebrew, Aramaic and various Slavic and Romance languages.

THEATRE ARTS – At the North Pole, Victor Frankenstein has finally caught up with his Creature with the intent of killing him to right his wrong of creating him in the first place. Before he can, the Creature asks, “Why did you make me?” This simple question is the premise of the University Theatre's production of "Frankenstein: Playing with Fire," which opens Nov. 8 and plays for three weekends.

LINGUISTICS – A group of students in the University of Oregon's Department of Linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences spent nine months in 2024 developing a unique set of open educational resources for language learning, available to the public for free. The book is in use in Linguistics 144 Learning How to Learn.