To limit the spread of COVID-19, some events are being held remotely. If you have questions about a specific event, please contact the event organizer or see the event description in the UO Calendar.
6:30–8:00 p.m.
Join us in-person in Knight Law Center Room 110, 1515 Agate St., Eugene or via livestream for a panel focused on Housing Solutions for Oregon's Rural Communities. This event is part of the Wayne Morse Center’s 2025-27 theme of inquiry Common Ground: Cities, Towns, and Counties Confronting Shared Challenges and is co-sponsored by UO's School of Planning, Public Policy and Management (PPPM).
Speakers include: Ben Clark - Professor; Director, UO School of Planning, Public Policy and Management Eric Mongan - Housing Production Manager for Lane County Rebecca Lewis - Associate Professor; Director, UO's Institute for Policy Research and Engagement Steve Adams - Policy Director for Lane County
In this discussion, panelists will share options for addressing Oregon's rural housing challenges, including ideas gleaned at the Oct. 29-30 Rural Housing Policy Incubator, a summit where policymakers, industry leaders, and experts will roll up their sleeves and develop a focused set of policy and funding recommendations for the 2026 Oregon Legislative Session.
The summit, organized by Inspire Oregon, is a collaborative effort between PPPM and the government of Lane County, Oregon. It aims to create a platform to gather leaders and doers from across Oregon to collaborate, innovate, and drive change.
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
Attend via livestream at https://www.youtube.com/live/1fHwqSAhQOM
5:00 p.m.
What is Research? (2026) will explore various natures, purposes, and roles of research across disciplines, fields, and areas. The event will consider frameworks of systematic and creative inquiry, including methods, designs, analyses, discoveries, collaborations, dissemination, ethics, integrity, diversity, media/technologies, and information environments.
This year delves into research in its many forms, including searching, critically investigating, and re-examining existing knowledge, as well as emerging functions and procedures in machine intelligence and computation. It will highlight pluralities of research pathways, examining time-honored approaches and new ways of knowing, precedents, issues, and futures. It considers challenges and possibilities that researchers face in today’s rapidly changing world, and ways to promote ethical, inclusive, and impactful research.
The event celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the Communication and Media Studies Doctoral Program in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon.