Clark Honors College News

“I’m very grateful for scholarship support,” says Clark Honors College senior Xitlali Torres, recipient of the John and Betty Soreng Presidential Scholarship. No assistance, she says, would have meant no college (or crushing debt).
Dr. Erin Bradley’s passion for equity in public health was sparked when, as an undergraduate first-year, she thought she saw a mistake.
Throughout her “zig-zagging” career, one thing has consistently guided her: a passion for utilizing technology to spread the stories of marginalized groups. Her CHC thesis research, she said, helped her discover this north star.
Dr. George Barganier’s studies and research have addressed the social, racial, and political power structures that affect curricula and policies in education. This winter, he’s a part of CHC’s Visiting Fellowship in Equity, Justice, and Inclusion program.
On November 29, 1847, Presbyterian missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and 12 others near Walla Walla died in an attack that came to be known as the Whitman Massacre.
New Faculty-in-Residence Professor Lisa Wolverton describes her teaching goals at Clark Honors College as “working to make space for medieval stories.”
Fourth-year student Anna Pearl Johnson's article about care for the caregivers is published in Ms. Magazine
As research assistants to Acting Clark Honors College Dean Carol Stabile, Malia Mulligan and Morning Glory Ritchie got an opportunity that many undergraduates don’t—to contribute to the research and production of a digital book.
As a high school student in small-town Monmouth, Oregon, Robert Ousterhout ’73, felt unchallenged. But everything changed when he started attending Clark Honors College, and went in the opposite direction.
In fall of 2020, 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.
Take a look at the second-year reception for CHC students who finally arrived on UO grounds. 
Scenes from New Student Orientation, 2021, Photos by Jasper Zhou, CHC Communications. On September 21, Clark Honors College welcomed their newest incoming class. Welcome class of 2025!
Kate Mondloch is teaching contemporary art as a Clark Honors College Faculty in Residence Fall 2021.
Ian McNeely is teaching history as a Clark Honors College Faculty in Residence Fall 2021.
Two UO students have been awarded prestigious Udall Undergraduate Scholarships, a first for the university and all the more rare because it is the second award for one of the Ducks.
Anita Chari is teaching political science as a Clark Honors College Faculty in Residence Fall 2021.
CHC student Lauren Jin reflects on being a research assistant for professor Mai Lin Cheng.
Research faculty members and students from the UO’s first-in-the-nation comics studies minor, including CHC's Audra McNamee, bring complex concepts to life through illustrations.
When First-Year CHC Advisor Angela Rovak applied to college in 2005, she had no idea her FAFSA score meant that nearly all of her tuition would be paid for by federal financial aid. That was because she had no idea what a FAFSA score was.
“We drove down to Berkeley, I think, for a tournament last year. We sang Shakira, Taylor Swift and all the really popular ‘bop’ songs,” B-Team Mock Trial Captain and Clark Honors College sophomore Kat Finseth recounted with a grin. “That’s what brings you together as a team and what I love about mock trial.”
It was a cold January morning in Allen Hall, and a book was about to be written. Of course, it wasn’t a book from the beginning.