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.
UO's Resource Assistance for Rural Environments is currently accepting applications for the 2025-26 service year.
Find out more about the program: https://rare.uoregon.edu/application-process/member-application-process/
Apply online: https://oregon.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_5auPRCllNSGHFau
Learn about UO's Resource Assistance for Rural Environments AmeriCorps program and how to become a Member.
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Learn about UO's Resource Assistance for Rural Environments AmeriCorps program and how to become a Member.
5:00 p.m.
What is Research? (2025) 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.
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Andrew Russo, Visiting Assistant Professor, PPPM | Lived Experiences and Critical Perspectives in Disaster Response and Recovery
4:00–5:20 p.m.
Japan is shrinking. How are its cities and towns responding?
Traditionally, Japanese local governments, encouraged by national policy, have sought to halt or reverse their decline by luring urban migrants, increasing birth rates, attracting businesses, and curbing outmigration. This obsession with growth threatens to exhaust already limited resources, closing windows of opportunity for managing a soft landing.
Eventually, continuous shrinkage will force local governments to abandon growth-focused planning and redesign their communities: they must learn to shrink gracefully. Some municipalities are already charting this different course. This presentation argues that shrinking municipalities must break free from pro-growth strategies, embracing more sustainable approaches. These cities are putting socio-environmental concerns at the centre of their strategies, identifying new ways to transition successfully into smaller, sustainable communities.
The event is sponsored by School of Planning, Public Policy and Management, Department of Geography, Ecological Design Center and Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.
4:00–7:00 p.m.
The Division of Graduate Studies invites you to a celebration of the research, scholarship, and creative expressions of UO graduate students. The forum regularly showcases the work of more than 100 students representing more than 35 disciplines. Join us for the popular poster and networking session !
To participate, all graduate-level students are invited to submit a proposal by April 16, 2025. All accepted posters will be judged. Posters are categorized by field; first place in each category will win $300.
For more information, go to https://graduatestudies.uoregon.edu/forum
4:00–5:00 p.m.
Amanda Stasiewicz, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies | Power off, adaptation on: differential needs of communities adapting to wildfire risk while also dealing with Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS)
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
It's time for the 4th Annual eRide (aka eBike) Expo.
Stop by to test ride electric bikes, scooters, and more from a variety of Eugene's bike shops in one place!
Also-- learn all about e-bike safety, laws, and financing. Experience for yourself how e-bikes aren't just the easiest way to reduce your carbon footprint, but the most fun!
Already have an e-bike? Ride on over and show off your e-bike to other folks who are curious about them. In addition to test rides, come for music, food, and free bike tune-ups!