Ten Ways t oTransform Lives
Following are just a few of the many ways you can
transform lives by contributing to the University of Oregon.
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1 ICE AGE FOR KIDS
Can you imagine life in the Ice Age, when you could run into camels, giant ground sloths, and saber-toothed cats? Help school kids learn about Oregon’s unique past. Your donation will support school visits to the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History, where an expert leads age-appropriate tours and hands-on activities ($500).
Contact Patricia Krier
(541) 346-5089
pkrier@uoregon.edu.
2 PICTURE THIS
Help prepare journalism students for careers that require an increasing knowledge of communicating with images in addition to words. Support the Visual Communication Initiative, which will create an integrated curriculum in visual communication to complement the School of Journalism and Communication’s strong emphasis on writing ($2 million endowment).
Contact Tara McMahon
(541) 346-2358
tmcmahon@uoregon.edu.
3 STOP DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Help reduce the level of domestic violence in Oregon. Support an endowment that will ensure continuation of the UO School of Law’s Domestic Violence Clinic, which provides free legal help to some 350 domestic violence victims a year ($5 million endowment or $200,000 per year).
Contact Matt Roberts
(541) 346-2125
mroberts@law.uoregon.edu.
4 PORTLAND ARCHITECTURE
Enhance the opportunity for UO architecture majors to pursue advanced study focusing on urban architecture. Help purchase materials for the UO Portland Architecture Library ($25,000).
Contact Lisa Manotti
(541) 346-1823
lmanotti@uoregon.edu.
5 CENTENNIAL MURALS
Help provide public access, for the first time in almost fifty years, to nine extraordinary murals depicting “The History of Religions” by noted Oregon artist Carl Morris. The murals, commissioned for the 1959 Oregon Centennial Exhibition in Portland, will be displayed at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art this summer ($7,500 to fund the exhibit brochure).
Contact Karen Shaw
(541) 346-0765
kjshaw@uoregon.edu.
6 RESEARCH FOR KIDS
Open the worlds of natural science and archaeology to middle and high school students. Help purchase laptop computers for development of after-school courses such as “Exploration Odyssey” and “Artifacts and Evidence: Solving an Archaeological Mystery” offered by the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History to Lane County students ($1,000–$5,000).
Contact Patricia Krier
(541) 346-5089
pkrier@uoregon.edu.
7 DANCE DEMONSTRATIONS
Expose UO dance students to top talent. Provide funds for a half-week guest artist residency for the Department of Dance ($5,000).
Contact DeNel Stoltz
(541) 346-5687
denel@uoregon.edu.
8 NEW SPACE FOR OLD WINGS
Help create a learning environment that advances educational excellence at the UO Lundquist College of Business by contributing to renovation of the historic wings of the Lillis Business Complex. Sponsor a state-of-the-art faculty space in Gilbert or Peterson hall ($25,000).
Contact Gary Cordova
(541) 346-3401
gcordova@uoregon.edu.
9 BROADENING THE CONVERSATION
Sponsorship of research interest groups in the Oregon Humanities Center allows UO scholars to integrate historical, artistic, literary, and philosophical perspectives into broader campus conversations ($1,000 annually).
Contact Julia Heydon
(541) 346-5695
jheydon@uoregon.edu.
10 MORE KEYS, PLEASE
A significant need for the MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building project is equipping the new addition with thirty new pianos for teaching, practice, and performance. $15,000 will buy one new upright piano; $80,000 will buy one Steinway grand piano.
Contact DeNel Stoltz
(541) 346-5687
denel@uoregon.edu.
