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Why YOU should come to this Expo...
You're curious about your future. Explore different career paths and job roles across industries. EXPOse yourself to unique career pathways that can use your career readiness skills and passions to make an impact in the world. You want to make connections. These organizations LOVE to hire Ducks and want to help you find your career fit. You might even meet UO alumni recruiting for them at the expo. Ask a recruiter what career readiness skills you can be building now to make you a top candidate in the present or future (and add them to your Linkedin network for future connections!). You want to find a job, internship, year of service, volunteer opportunity, and more! If you're actively job searching, have your resume ready to hand out and a short and sweet synopsis about yourself and your professional interests ready to go! If you're just exploring options, collect contact info, do some additional research, and do an informational interview to learn more before you apply. You want to build your confidence! Practice asking questions of employers AND sharing about who you are and what you're passionate about. Every expo you attend and each time you approach a recruiter, you get more and more comfortable presenting yourself in a professional manner.WHO'S COMING? Find your career fit with over 70+ employers comprised of private industry; public, educational, and non-profit organizations; local government, the federal government, law enforcement, and military--ALL on campus and excited to share more with you about their organization and early career talent opportunities. Open to students from ALL majors, classifications, and identities. Every expo looks a little different so come each term to keep exploring and expanding your career opportunities!
WHAT NEXT? Register for the Expo on Handshake today to learn about all the companies coming, and positions of interest you can be researching. We'll also send you tips and advice for how to make the most of the expo, including Career Readiness Week workshops like our Resume Extravaganza so you can have a great resume to hand to potential employers!
The University Career Center thanks Enterprise Mobility, and Sherwin Williams for sponsoring all of our Winter Career Readiness Week events and workshops, and Techtronic Industries (TTI) & AlphaSights for sponsoring the Expo!
For a full list of Winter Career Readiness Week (January 24-31) events and workshops, check out http://career.uoregon.edu/events
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Join Caitlin Tyler-Richards, Acquisitions Editor University of Washington Press, to learn more about the life cycle of book publishing, and get your questions answered.
Register at https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5iFmMhMqWdSQEWG
3:00 p.m.
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Organic/Inorganic/Materials Seminar Series
Professor Jonathan Kuo, Penn State Hosted by ADSE
Comparing Metalloenzymatic Active Sites to Synthetic Model Complexes: Expanding Views on Supporting Ligands
Organic ligands alter the electronic structure and properties of the transition metals that they bind to. But what other functions can be programmed into metal/ligand complexes? In this talk, we will discuss how dynamic ligand features “unlock” key steps in (a) aerobic oxygenation and (b) electrophilic olefin activation. These dynamic features replicate dynamics present in enzymatic active sites. Recently, comparisons to enzymatic active sites have drawn us to host-guest-type ligand-metalate complexes – where the supporting ligand is designed to bind polyatomic metal anions [MO4]2– or [MCl4]2– via hydrogen bonding.
3:00–4:30 p.m.
This roundtable delves into the significance of Han Kang’s works, her Nobel Prize recognition, and her impact on global literature. The event is open to the public.
Roundtable Participants:
Rachel DiNitto - Professor of Japanese Literature, UO
Anders Karlsson - Associate Professor of Korean, SOAS University of London
Dong Hoon Kim - Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, UO
Jina Kim - Associate Professor of Korean Literature and Culture, UO
Lee Moore - Adjunct Professor of Chinese, UO
Okkyoung Park - Independent Translator (Korean to Swedish), London
Glynne Walley - Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, UO
The event is sponsored by the School of Global Studies and Languages, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Oregon Humanities Center, and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
2:00–4:00 p.m.
A story of lesbian world-builders, Outliers and Outlaws uncovers the fabulous history of a large and vibrant lesbian community in Eugene, Oregon. Women who migrated to this small town in the 1960s-80s candidly share stories about the power of courageous and creative world-building. Through intimate portraits—both then and now—they show us how to live in hard times with hope, humor, and commitment to social change.
A Q&A with Director Courtney Hermann, Producer Judith Raiskin, and film subjects will follow the documentary. Cosponsored by the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies and the Center for the Study of Women in Society.
10:00–11:00 a.m.
Please join us Tuesday mornings for a free cup of coffee, pastries, and conversation with your history department community. We’re excited to continue this tradition for our history undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. We hope to see you there!
4:00 p.m.
Presented by the Oregon Humanities Center
Our world has become rife with peril and uncertainty. Indigenous writer Patty Krawec asks, “How do we survive everything that is happening? From climate change to polarizing politics to a seemingly endless cycle of displacement and erasure for modern-day land grabs, we live in a world that profits from instability and precarity. How do we survive? We survive not by drawing boundaries around ourselves and hoarding resources that must be expended to protect what will inevitably slip through our fingers. We survive by becoming kin. By remembering what it means to be related not only to each other but to the worlds around us. Revisiting our traditional stories, whatever those traditions may be, and re-imagining them in our contemporary world, can help us find new ways to see each other and forge the solidarities we need to survive.”
As the 2024–25 Robert D. Clark lecturer Patty Krawec will give a talk titled “Surviving Together.”
Krawec is an Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer and speaker belonging to the Lac Seul First Nation in Treaty 3 territory Canada.
She is a founding director of the Nii’kinaaganaa (we are all related) Foundation which challenges settlers to pay rent for living on Indigenous land and disburses those funds to Indigenous people, meeting immediate survival needs as well as supporting the organizing and community building needed to address the structural issues that create those needs.
In her book, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (2022) Krawec critiques the harmful impact of European Christian settler colonialism on Indigenous Americans. She details Indigenous American history from the first humans to populate the Americas through the present and outlines ways in which descendants of European colonizers and Indigenous people can become ‘good relatives’.
Krawec’s talk, part of this year’s “Re-imagine” series, is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed and recorded. Please register.
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Join Global Education Oregon for an information session on our Summer 2025 Cinema Studies in Dublin program! This summer program is a fantastic opportunity to work both critically and creatively, taking courses on contemporary Irish cinema and digital filmmaking, as well as attending Ireland’s largest film festival held every year in Galway, the Film Fleadh. Weekly excursions and local outings in and around Dublin and the Irish countryside allow you to learn on location about the country’s rich film history and explore the sites where important historical events, and films about those events, took place.
This program has received high interest, and students are encouraged to apply early. The Cinema Studies in Dublin program is on a rolling admission application process, and the final deadline to apply in March 15.
4:30 p.m.
The Creative Writing Program invites you to a poetry reading with Peter Vertacnik.
Peter Vertacnik is the author of The Nature of Things Fragile (Criterion Books, 2024), winner of the 2023 New Criterion Poetry Prize. His poetry, translations, and criticism have appeared in journals such as 32 Poems, Bad Lilies, The Cortland Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Hopkins Review, Literary Matters, Poet Lore, and THINK, among others. With Chase Dearinger, Vertacnik is the co-director of the Cow Creek Chapbook Prize at Pittsburg State University. Currently he resides in northeast Florida where he teaches at Episcopal School of Jacksonville.
Free and open to the public.
For more information about the Creative Writing Reading Series, please visit https://humanities.uoregon.edu/creative-writing/reading-series
6:30 p.m.
The University of Oregon is hosting an immigration information and support session for our international, undocumented, and Dreamer students, faculty, and staff.
Essential Information: Gain up-to-date knowledge on immigration policies, and available resources for UO students. Expert Perspectives: Hear from legal professionals and university representatives on the evolving rules and policies. Community Building: Connect with fellow members of our diverse community and find support from peers and allies.Panelists:
Victor Essien, Immigration Attorney based in New York Betsy Boyd, senior associate vice president for federal affairs, UO Government and Community Relations Jessica Price, special counsel for research, ethics & international affairs, UO General Counsel’s Office Kristin Yarris, associate professor, Global Studies and Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, department head, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, College of Arts and Sciences Eric Garcia, assistant director, training director, UO Counseling ServicesRepresentatives from the Dean of Students, Division of Global Engagement, and Division of Graduate Studies will be available for questions and support.