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The Graduate Education Excellence Awards recognize the faculty, graduate students, and staff whose work helps graduate students flourish at the University of Oregon.

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26%
Students of Color
16%
International Students
57%
Master's Students
43%
Doctoral Students
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3,390
students enrolled in graduate and law programs
83%
doctoral students funded with Graduate Employee appointments
$2M+
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News

The 2026 Graduate Education Excellence Awards recognize the faculty, graduate students, and staff who create mentorship, community, and student support systems across the UO.
Five graduating graduate students reflect on their time at the UO.
For Waterleaf founder and CEO Adam DeHeer, MLA '19, the seeds of sustainable entrepreneurship were first planted as a UO graduate student researching public sanitation in South America.

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Events for Graduate Students

Events
Aug 25
Latent 80s with Spidersound 8:00 a.m.

Join us every Tuesday at 8am for Latent 80s with Spidersound. Obscure and semi-obscure music the 1980s and thereabouts — new wave, alternative, synthpop, punk, etc. To...
Latent 80s with Spidersound
June 23–September 22
8:00–10:00 a.m.

Join us every Tuesday at 8am for Latent 80s with Spidersound. Obscure and semi-obscure music the 1980s and thereabouts — new wave, alternative, synthpop, punk, etc.

To see playlists from past shows: https://spinitron.com/KWVA/show/140922/Latent-80s

Aug 25
ABC's of Music with Uncle Manny 10:00 a.m.

Join us every Tuesday at 10am for ABC's of Music with Uncle Manny. An eclectic blend of music, presented in alphabetical order (by artist/band name). The goal is for...
ABC's of Music with Uncle Manny
June 23–September 22
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Join us every Tuesday at 10am for ABC's of Music with Uncle Manny. An eclectic blend of music, presented in alphabetical order (by artist/band name). The goal is for every episode to contain music from at least five different genres, and at least eight recently released songs (within the past six months).

To see playlists from past shows: https://spinitron.com/KWVA/show/291176/ABC-s-of-Music

Aug 25
High Drama: Japanese Prints of Theater, Heroes and History 11:00 a.m.

This thematic exhibition incorporates student research from History of Art and Architecture Professor Akiko Walley’s spring 2026 Japanese print course that focused on...
High Drama: Japanese Prints of Theater, Heroes and History
August 22–October 10
11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) Fay Boyer Preble and Virginia Cooke Murphy Wing

This thematic exhibition incorporates student research from History of Art and Architecture Professor Akiko Walley’s spring 2026 Japanese print course that focused on “the dramatic,” including dynamic prints of Kabuki theaters and actors, changing expressions of human bodies, and dramatizations of historical events and legends. Featuring recent gifts by Lee and Mary Jean Michels and Irwin Lavenberg, the undergraduate and graduate students in the course examined woodblock prints of the 18th-20th centuries that showcased action and powerful emotion with compelling graphic design. The exhibition is complemented by a selection of Japanese modern and contemporary prints, paintings, textiles, decorative arts, addressing the theme of “drama,” and includes a number of recent acquisitions. This exhibition was coorganized by chief curator Anne Rose Kitagawa.

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