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The socialsciences.uoregon.edu site carries three kinds of community content: a news feed of alumni and faculty stories, a faculty showcase, and a giving section tied to the College of Arts and Sciences. If you are a prospective student, alum, or donor checking what the college is talking about right now, the news items and the giving page are the two places to start. The site presents these as highlights rather than a full archive; the news feed links out to "All news" for more.
News from Social Sciences
The homepage surfaces a short, rotating set of stories. The examples below show the range of what appears there.
| Story | Date shown | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Avery Daubert: Recent grad is going big on the trails, and in life | October 12, 2026 | A College of Arts and Sciences alum and mountain biker working to make sports sustainable and accessible; now in a geography master's program at Université Paris Cité in France |
| Alum Manju Bangalore visits UO to talk making most of career | October 5, 2026 | A reproductive health scientist, astronautical engineer, nonprofit founder, actor, and 2027 astronaut candidate speaking at the University of Oregon, 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, at Allen Hall 221 |
| Six ways to practice solidarity for environmental justice | August 28, 2026 | Professors Sarah D. Wald and Ashley Cordes contributing concrete steps for inclusive, intersectional environmentalism in "Resilience" |
Two patterns are worth noting. First, the feed mixes alumni profiles with faculty-authored practical pieces, so it functions as both a community bulletin and a light public-engagement channel. Second, the stories are tagged by department or program (for example, French and Geography on the Daubert piece; English, IRES, and Environmental Studies on the environmental justice piece), which makes it easy to scan for your own field.
The "All news »" link at the end of the feed is the entry point for older items. The page evidence does not describe how far back that archive goes or whether it can be filtered by department, so treat the homepage as a sample rather than a complete index.
Faculty and School Highlights
Alongside the news, the site calls out "World-Class Faculty in the Social Sciences" and a section for the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages. These are promotional anchors rather than news items: they point visitors toward the people and the named school that the college wants to foreground. If your interest is in who teaches and researches in the social sciences, these sections are the natural next click after the news feed.
Giving and Support
The page closes with a giving appeal: "We Love Our Supporters — Your Gift Changes Lives." It states that gifts to the College of Arts and Sciences help students make the most of their college careers. This is the community-facing counterpart to the news: alumni stories show outcomes, and the giving section explains how supporters are asked to contribute to them. The page evidence does not list specific funds, amounts, or tax details, so use the giving link itself for those specifics rather than assuming them from the homepage text.
How to Use the Page
- Following a person or department: scan the news cards for the department tags, then use "All news" to look for related coverage.
- Checking upcoming events: the Bangalore item includes a specific public talk (date, time, building and room), which is the level of detail to expect when an event is promoted through the feed.
- Deciding whether to give: read the giving section for the stated purpose, then follow its link for the actual mechanics.
- Looking for a program rather than news: the homepage also lists majors, minors, concentrations, and programs (from African Studies to Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies) and links to CAS graduate programs and affiliated centers and institutes — those lists, not the news feed, are where academic planning starts.
One caveat: the dates shown on the news items are future-dated relative to typical browsing, so treat them as the site's own timestamps rather than a guarantee of when an event or story will be live.