UO in the Spotlight

Attention Shoppers: UO Named a "Best Buy"

The University of Oregon is one of the best bargains around, according to The Fiske Guide to Colleges, a popular college guide for prospective students. In its "Best Buys" list of 43 public and private schools in the 1998 edition, the UO is one of only three universities on the West Coast and one of only four schools west of the Mississippi River to make the list. The Fiske Guide includes the editors' selection of public and private schools that "constitute the 'Best Buys'--where you can get the best possible education at the most reasonable cost."

UO Research Funding at Record Level

UO researchers are attracting record levels of support, with 567 individual research awards bringing in $54.7 million in external funding for fiscal year 1996-97. This total compares to 534 awards in FY 1995-96 which totaled $46.2 million.

The Next 'Net

UO researchers are playing a key role in developing technologies to replace today's Internet with the Next Generation Internet, a network of vastly increased power and capability. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, developers of the first Internet, has awarded UO computer scientists $1.2 million to conduct basic research for the project. UO researchers will address quality of service issues in the $300 million effort.

Genius Grant

UO biologist Russell S. Lande has received a $250,000 1997 MacArthur Fellowship, also known informally as a "genius grant." Lande's contributions in quantitative genetics have influenced the work of researchers in many areas of evolutionary biology, including animal and plant breeding systems, extinction processes and sexual selection.

Kudos for Entrepreneurship Program

The U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship has selected the University of Oregon's Charles H. Lundquist College of Business to receive its award for the 1997 Outstanding MBA in the Field of Entrepreneurship.

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