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Janet Meyer, BS PPPM ’85, serves as chief executive officer of Health Share of Oregon, the state’s largest coordinated care organization. “It’s worth getting up in the morning when you know you’re helping people’s lives that are tough,” she says. Meyer aims to move health care transformation forward and to...
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Think Nike in Beaverton. Google in Palo Alto. Urban Outfitters in Philadelphia. Corporate campuses aren’t unique, but having one downtown is. Helping design such a campus in a dynamic city like Portland is an even rarer opportunity, but that’s precisely what a cadre of University of Oregon graduate students are doing. Corporate...
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This month marks the 40th anniversary Oregon Senate Bill 100, which created the most progressive land use program in the nation. The law’s success has required an army of advocates, including three UO graduates. Read more on the A&AA blog.
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While many Oregonians read about the work being done by the 77th Oregon Legislative Assembly trying to balance the budget, debate tax credits, and Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) reform, or address education funding, PPPM graduate students Joe McAndrew and David McKay are immersed in the legislative process through internships with...
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Community and Regional Planning master's student and LiveMove President Joe McAndrew is among just 20 graduate students nationwide selected as Eno Fellows for the 21st annual Eno Leadership Development Conference June 2-6 in Washington, D.C. The goal is to cultivate the next generation of leaders in all modes of transportation. Each year...
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UO and the city of Medford will team up for a year-long partnership starting next fall, where students and faculty will work with the city on sustainability projects. "We’re thrilled to match the passion of city officials for making Medford a more livable community with the fresh thinking and energy of students,” said Marc...
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Steven Wright, MS '81 Public Affairs, never expected while a graduate student in the School for Community Service and Public Affairs (later PPPM) that he would become CEO of a $3 billion annual revenue organization. “Going to UO changed the arc of my life in really powerful and beneficial ways,” says Wright, who retired as...
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Speakers at this year’s annual Holistic Options for Planet Earth Sustainability (HOPES) conference April 4-6 include TED speaker and author Carolyn Steel, Nike, Inc.’s Wilson Smith, MIT designer Neri Oxman, architect Lola Sheppard of Lateral Office, and landscape architect, sociologist, and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Randy Hester,...
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Today’s college graduates must be prepared to enter a far more diverse workforce than that of their parents or even those who graduated just 10 years prior. An interdisciplinary two-year pilot program at UO that combines intercultural competency training with professional development is designed to address the increasing need for diversity...
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"The program recognizes that the majority of us now live in cities and asks how can we make those cities sustainable in the long run?" says Manly Norris, a current OLIS participant who studied Spanish and international trade at Clemson University as an undergraduate. "I believe sustainability, as a broader concept, is an entirely...
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