The University of Oregon in the Spotlight

We're Wired

When Yahoo Internet Life magazine compiled the "Top 100 'Most Wired' Colleges" in its May 1997 issue, the UO ranked number one in the category of public state universities and number six overall.

The UO has also won two national awards for innovative use of computer networks and other technology in education:

The National Science Foundation named the UO one of only ten universities to receive a Recognition Award for the Integration of Research and Education for outstanding use of technology in education.

CAUSE, an association for managing and using information resources in higher education, bestowed its 1996 Award of Excellence (the "Oscar of the campus networking world") on the UO for having the nation's best university computer network.

A Rising Academic Star

A new, hard-data analysis of U.S. research universities ranks the University of Oregon fifteenth in the nation among public institutions and sixth nationally among "rising" public universities. The study is presented in the new Johns Hopkins Press book, The Rise of American Research Universities: Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era, by Hugh Davis Graham and Nancy Diamond. The authors use research grants, fellowships, and scholarly publications to gauge faculty research.

Little Fish, Big Splash

To support zebra fish research and improve aquarium facilities, the UO has received a series of grants totaling $2.5 million--the latest is $470,000 from the Murdock Trust. Zebra fish, first cloned at the UO in the early 1980s, are increasingly important tools in biomedical research, especially in the study of genetics and development.

Get Ready for Internet II

In light of the explosive growth of the Internet, a second-generation Web is being developed. The University of Oregon is one of thirty-six research universities creating the high-speed, high-bandwidth Internet II.

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