Stories

Listen to Thomas, a graduate of Lundquist College of Business, share the story of coming up with the idea for Townshend’s Tea Company as an undergraduate class project.

Steve and Kasey Holwerda hope their gift for capital improvements to the UO Portland campus will inspire others to give.

Donors Chris MA ’70 (Music) and Fred Johnson are no strangers to giving. When they learned more about The Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, they decided to direct 100% of their estate to the Knight Undergraduate Scholars and Bioengineering PhD Student Fellows program.

Former UO professor Roger Chickering and Alison Baker (JD ’85), have a reverence for history.

The UO GlobalWorks Internship Program launched in 2015, sending 15 students to China and Japan in the summer of 2016.

Andrew Berwick, Jr., an esteemed alumnus of the University of Oregon and an unwavering champion of the arts, passed away on November 25, 2023, at the age of 89.

From welcoming the first cohort of students, to hiring faculty and staff, to accolades and awards -there was much to celebrate in 2023 at the Ballmer Institute for Children's Behavioral Health at the University of Oregon in Portland. 

A popular program since its inception, the ALI has connected more than 35 students with University Advancement staff for a range of skill-building, professional development, and development-focused experiential opportunities.

Over more than five decades, the Sandstroms have given, year-after-year, to support causes across campus at the University of Oregon.

Over eight decades after the University of Oregon was founded, the Clark Honors College was established in 1960, becoming the first four-year public honors college west of the Mississippi.