In fall of 2020, on the heels of one hundred days of protests around the country and against police violence in Portland, Oregon following the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, Clark Honors College began to think about how to provide courses that would help CHC students deepen their engagement with the histories and contemporary manifestations of anti-Black racism.

CHC student Rachel Conner and Professor Melissa Graboyes were part of a professor/student collaboration that won the 2020 African Studies Prize for the book Africa Every Day.

This pragmatic but progressive approach to politics won over the people of Scranton. Her platform focused on the “non-sexy” aspects of politics like structural reform, economic equity and justice, and ensuring the city’s political leaders reflected the diversity of the city.

When Corinne Bayerl was a college student in Munich, a professor said something that she not only considered important, but was integral when she developed her teaching philosophy.

Brian McWhorter brings his talent, passion for music and love of teaching to CHC

Three CHC first-years land FYRE Scholarships for research

Political science texts litter her laptop, mock trial preparation occupies her mind and cappuccinos course through her system as Emily Fowler buzzes about Chapman Hall. Fowler, a CHC junior studying Political Science and Media Studies, rarely has time to eat lunch between her CHC coursework, involvement with Mock Trial, CHCSA, and the Wayne Morse Scholars Program and her demanding internship with Terrapin Data, a Eugene based technology start-up that works with civic data.

Dare Baldwin, Clark Honors College professor of psychology, has experienced a “powerful feeling of togetherness” after modifying her three spring term classes to be conducted remotely and having her students “zoom in” from Oregon, California, Tennessee, Minnesota, Massachusetts and Hawaii.

Effective Fall 2020, the Clark Honors College is adopting a new curriculum that is based on the evolving needs of our students and that addresses the changing interests and goals of our student population. 

“It’s about sex,” Professor Monique Balbuena whispered to her class. The students look around, half of them nervously laughing and the other half rolling their eyes.

By the time she was twelve years old, Rennie Kendrick already knew she wanted to be a scientist.​​​​​​

Every term, for Prof Barbara Mossberg's class, "Emerson & Einstein, Interdisciplinary Artist Activists: An Inquiry into Genius," the students act in, produce and perform Steve Martin’s comedy honoring Einstein as an artist, Picasso at the Lapin Agile in the Pocket Theater in Villard.

Even though journalism major Julia Mueller had participated in mock trial throughout high school, she was nervous about trying out for the team as a first-year student at the University of Oregon.

CHC was a "great prep" for the chaos of law school

Alumna Julie Tripp's best advice: “Be ready to jump at the chances and keep your passport current.” ​​​​​​

The first image is a silhouette of a deer, followed by a flash of lights, then the sound of tearing, grinding metal. 

Three professors will co-teach "Arctic Icebergs" in Spring 2020 that comprehensively examines climate change with aspects of environmental research, literature, and natural science

The recent success of Clark Honors College alum Jeff Whitty’s first screenplay couldn’t have come at a better time.

“The National Book Awards,” Associate Professor of Literature Mai-lin Cheng says, “are like the Oscars for American writers.” Cheng has helped to bring two of this year’s contenders to the University of Oregon for a series of events, including a reading, conversation with students, and a UO Today interview.

The energy inside Autzen Stadium was what most impressed Clark Honors College senior Sean Killpatrick on his first visit to the University of Oregon in 2015. 

Two-and-a half-hours from Antarctica by airplane is Punta Arenas, Chile, a small town on the tip of Patagonia. 

Students rush in and out of Erb Memorial Union as Helia Megowan—sitting on a couch across from the grand piano in Taylor Lounge—observes the swirl. She’s dressed in all black athletic wear, and her light brown hair is pulled back neatly in a bun. She grins widely as she talks about her first year at the University of Oregon.​​​​​​

In her junior year, Alex Boxberger did a dangerous thing: she changed her academic focus after joining a lab and abandoning her goal of becoming a doctor.

When Jason Lewis-Berry graduated from Clark Honors College, he thought he’d probably have an interesting but relatively normal life in Los Angeles making movies, and he dedicated his first year after graduation to working abroad to get international travel “out of his system” before embarking on his film career. 

Alum David Adams takes the resilience he learned at CHC and brings it to medical school

Emily Niebergall has been traveling to North East India since she was thirteen. Each visit, she goes to an orphanage in the state of Mizoram where the children are sick with diseases like AIDS and Hepatitis B. 

Squeak a ball in front of a baby’s face. Pop it up and catch it. Bounce it a few times and watch his eyes light up with joy. Big, round, happy eyes mean he is watching and assimilating these movements. By catching balls, playing with blocks, and banging on pots and pans, his parents and other caregivers are setting the foundation for healthy brain development.

We had been hiking for three hours, and I had finished all of the water. What was once a fun, scenic trek with the occasional climb over a boulder had turned into an endless staircase through the forest. I hauled one foot in front of the other, vision blurry as oxygen escaped my brain. A humble wooden sign to my right mercifully read 30 minutes to the top. It took an hour.

As Kevin Frazier sat through the rigorous interview process for the Truman scholarship in 2015, he was asked a question about civic duty that sent him “down the deepest rabbit hole you can imagine…it was me and Alice in Wonderland, exploring who knows what.”

For the fifth time in the Udall Foundation's 20-year history, a University of Oregon student has been awarded the highly competitive national Udall Undergraduate Scholarship.

In the small Italian town of Belluno in the Dolomite mountains, there is no noise. Silence lies over the town like a layer of smoke until it is interrupted by the sound of another ambulance.

Nelly Nouboussi was 13 and living in Cameroon when she learned she and her older sister Ruth were going to live in the United States, but her expectations were instantly dashed when they arrived in Springfield to live with their uncle. 

The small-group courses enable students to learn how to communicate academic knowledge to broader audiences, and become familiar with different genres of public writing, including op-eds, features, profiles, and blog posts. 

A typical day for Francesca Fontana begins around 7:30 a.m., when she enters The Wall Street Journal offices in New York, two hours before the stock market opens...

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Tucked inside the west side of the Knight Library on the second floor is the Special Collections and University Archives, or SCUA. There, an intimate Clark Honors College course, Touching Archives, gathers to dive into the collections and archive that reportedly holds more than a million items...

Interdisciplinary research is a hallmark of the Clark Honors College and a value that Dr. Melissa Graboyes exemplifies in her work...

When nominations were being accepted for the Faculty Research Mentor Award, Clark Honors College student Mackenzie Myers decided to organize a submission for his mentor, Professor Mark Carey.  Myers, a sophomore and the only undergraduate on Carey's Glacier Lab research team, assembled the other members — PhD and graduate students — to write a paragraph each earlier this year to nominate Carey for the coveted honor...

Alex Ross has a job most people will only dream about, listening to music for a living...

In downtown Eugene, on the second floor of a faded brick building, lives Nulia, a problem-solving enterprise disguised as a tech company, joining a growing hub of tech-industry start-ups such as Palo Alto, InterVision Media and Emberex...

Every year, the University of Oregon Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics recognizes 25 UO students for their interest in politics and public service, their experience, and their leadership potential. These students take seminars on democratic dilemmas and democracy in practice, attend monthly luncheons with distinguished guest speakers, go on trips to watch politics in action and participate in hands-on in workshops...

Think of Kim Stafford, Oregon’s ninth poet laureate, as a host. Not to a party or event, but as an ambassador to civic duties.​​​​​​..

Clark Honors College professor Melissa Graboyes has been awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her on-going research on malaria elimination attempts in sub-Saharan Africa and on the island of Zanzibar...