Junior Waverly Wilson is one of 11 CHC students who participated in the 2023 Knight Campus Undergraduate Scholars program. Her research experience helped her make critical connections around the world.
CHC senior Lynette Wotruba took up data science three years into her college career. Today, she’s using her skills to make information about the dangers of tsunamis accessible for communities along the Oregon Coast.
Evan Reynolds is editor-in-chief of the Daily Emerald. It's a job he approaches by combining a passion for politics with a love of news. His goal is to make a difference.
Clark Honors College student Kyle Trefny and two CHC alums are using basketball to help shape a future for Oregon where people live with fire, instead of fighting against it.
In The Sisterhood: How A Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture, Courtney Thorsson, faculty-in-residence at the Clark Honors College, tells their story in a critically acclaimed book that has been called a model for literary histories.
The senior from Portland is majoring in neuroscience and minoring in chemistry and global health. She is the first UO student to be named a Rhodes Scholar in more than 15 years.
Mia Owen is the only landscape architecture student in her cohort to also be in the Honors College. Her love for both has kept her involved, though she wasn’t sure it was possible at first.
Three current UO students, including two CHC students, have been selected as finalists for the prestigious Rhodes scholarship, the oldest international fellowship award in the world.
Through chemistry, Rebecca Altman saw the world in a new light, as well as resilience in times of self-doubt. Now, she leads a new generation to a love of science.
As a kid, he devoured Stephen King. After catching the writing bug, Ulrick Casimir is flourishing as a teacher who brings creativity into his CHC classroom.
Professor Nicole Dahmen explores how to improve the ways journalism and mass media serve the community, while also teaching students to consume them critically.
In courses on eclipses and black holes, Jesse Feddersen wants his students to be able to grasp the wonders of outer space the way he did growing up in Indiana.
Ellen Fitzpatrick, a Fulbright Scholar, brings solutions to the table and then listens. She encourages her students to be a force for good in their own ways.
Instructor Tobin Hansen found his educational passion when he left Gates, Oregon for the first time as a teen. But it was the Spanish he picked up in his hometown that eventually led him to discover anthropology.
Art professor Christopher Michlig’s version of teaching can be a bit messy, but in breaking down the professor-student relationship, learning becomes a two-way street.
Courtney Thorsson’s new book opens a window into the lives of Black women writers. It’s an expression of her efforts to celebrate the transformative power of this genre of American literature.
Lydia Van Dreel’s lifelong love of brass instruments makes a meaningful impression on CHC students, whom they invite to explore music through sense and emotion.
From astronomy to music to psychology to art, the academic fields represented in CHC’s newest faculty members further diversify the Honors College core curriculum. These instructors bring their unique experiences and passions to Chapman Hall.
Ruby Wool is the UO’s student representative on the Board of Trustees. The CHC junior sits down with The CHC Post to talk about her family ties to the university and how the CHC prepared her for this role.