The University of Oregon is a public, coeducational research university in Eugene, Oregon, United States. UO was founded in 1876 and graduated its first class two years later.
The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Oregon as a Tier 1 RU/VH (very high research activity) university. It is one of 108 universities to have such a designation. Additionally, the UO is one of only two Association of American Universities members in the Pacific Northwest.
As a flagship university of the Oregon University System, the UO is one of the nation’s many public teaching and research universities. As of Fall 2012, UO offers 269 degree programs, including highly nationally-ranked graduate programs in Biology, Business, Education, Environmental Law, Geological Sciences, Physics, Psychology, Sports Marketing, and Sustainable Design.
As of March 2012, University of Oregon faculty and alumni include two Nobel Prize recipients, 10 Pulitzer Prize winners, 19 Rhodes scholars, four Marshall scholars, 58 Guggenheim Fellows, and 129 Fulbright scholars.
South Africa’s history shows that anti-immigrant violence is neither an aberration nor the country’s only possible path.
The court’s ruling against Trump’s firing of Fed board member Lisa Cook came on the same day that it further cemented his sweeping powers to fire other senior government officials.
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With invalid driver’s licenses and birth certificates, transgender people are at risk for more than just steep fines and imprisonment.
Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook leaves the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 21, 2026, after oral arguments in Trump v. Cook.
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This is not a typical employment law case because Lisa Cook, a member of the Federal Reserve Board, has far more legal rights to her job than most American workers.
It may be possible to be too fit.
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The justices overruled a lower court that had paused the Trump administration’s plan to fire over 1,300 workers.
The Trump administration detained former Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian protest leader Mahmoud Khalil, center, for more than two months and is seeking to revoke his lawful permanent resident status.
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A 1952 law that President Harry S. Truman opposed, calling it a step backward, now underpins many actions by the Trump administration against noncitizens in the US.
Internally displaced people walk along a street in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb. 13, 2025.
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A federal judge had previously blocked the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants to third-country destinations, but some of them have remained detained in another African county, Djibouti.
Airline passengers wait at a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint before boarding to flights in Denver in 2022.
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Its actions are in keeping with Project 2025, which questions whether any public-sector unions should exist.
Prison guards transfer alleged Venezuelan gang members to a detention center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, on March 16, 2025.
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The Alien Enemies Act, first used in the late 1700s, was last invoked during World War II.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and fellow Democrats criticize President Donald Trump’s plan to shutter the Education Department on March 6, 2025.
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The layoffs further complicate staffing shortages at the Office for Civil Rights, which plays a vital role in promoting a fair education for public school students.
Food pantry staff members and volunteers hand out food in Chelsea, Mass., in November 2024.
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Federal grants and contracts are a major source of funding for nonprofit services in the US.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, meets with El Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele in El Congo, El Salvador, on Feb. 3, 2025.
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The 17 types of red colobus monkey living in Africa’s forests are among the first large mammals to be killed off by hunters. Protecting the red colobus could therefore protect the entire forest.
An archaeologist takes bog samples in Germany for analysis of past civilizations and what they cultivated.
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The majestic white shark that once drew many tourists to South Africa’s western and southern Cape regions has all but disappeared. The only explanation can be a sharp decline in the population.
Volkswagen workers celebrate in Chattanooga, Tenn., after their bid to join the UAW union prevailed.
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Despite making similar efforts for decades, the UAW union had never before managed to organize employees of foreign-based automakers in a Southern state like Tennessee.
A UAW supporter in 2017 outside a Nissan plant in Canton, Miss., ahead of a vote the union lost.
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Despite intermittent efforts over the past three decades, the UAW union has been unable to organize employees of foreign-based automakers in states such as Alabama and Tennessee.
A Thai foreign worker tends to an agriculture field in Beersheba, Israel.
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