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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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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

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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

Building Community: Exploring Eugene’s Murals

8:00 a.m.

Celebrate the murals of Eugene with this exhibit featuring the City of Eugene's 20x21EUG Mural Project and Urban Canvas murals. The purpose of the exhibit is to...

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Building Community: Exploring Eugene’s Murals
September 15–December 3
8:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Erb Memorial Union (EMU) Adell McMillan Gallery

Celebrate the murals of Eugene with this exhibit featuring the City of Eugene's 20x21EUG Mural Project and Urban Canvas murals. The purpose of the exhibit is to create opportunities for UO students to learn about and engage with the city of Eugene and the greater Eugene community. https://www.eugene-or.gov/4636/Murals

The Ducks in Downtown section will of the display will be photos from you, out in town seeing the wonderful art.

Send in a photo with a Eugene mural to be a part of the exhibit and a chance to win a prize pack! Email a selfie of you with a Eugene mural to mcmillangallery@uoregon.edu. The submissions will be accepted starting September 15. Prizes drawing will be Friday of week 5 and week 10. To have your picture displayed in the gallery exhibit, you must sign a model release form. more information on our instagram https://www.instagram.com/uomcmillangallery/ or email us. Only photos on display at the date of the drawing will be entered into the raffle. All are welcome to submit photos for the gallery, but only UO students are eligible to be entered into the raffle. 

Reception October 13 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. free refreshments, open to all

Calendar entry image of mural by AIKO (Japan/USA) Reflection

Laboratory of Sound with Dr. Tom

8:00 a.m.

Join us every Wednesday at 8am for Laboratory of Sound with Dr. Tom. Electronic music, trance, drum and bass, ambient, experimental, minimal, instrumental, incidental....

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Laboratory of Sound with Dr. Tom
June 24–September 23
8:00–10:00 a.m.

Join us every Wednesday at 8am for Laboratory of Sound with Dr. Tom. Electronic music, trance, drum and bass, ambient, experimental, minimal, instrumental, incidental. Sometimes with guest MCs MC Tifflegrad, MC Mr Blue, and Maisy MC.

To see playlists from past shows: https://spinitron.com/KWVA/show/205239/Laboratory-of-Sound

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...

Sep

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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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