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7 unusual facts about University of oregon


Brett Salisbury

Brett Jon Salisbury (born October 11, 1968 in Dayton, Ohio) is a former college football quarterback at University of Oregon, BYU, and Wayne State College.

Demetrius Williams

Williams attended the University of Oregon and became one the best receivers in Oregon history.

Nick Reed

Reed finished at the University of Oregon with a school-record 29.5 sacks, which ranks fourth in Pac-10 history.

Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League

lost in first round to
University of Oregon

Tuffy Leemans

What he saw was a sensational performance by Leemans who from 1933 to 1935 starred for George Washington, after a year at the University of Oregon.

Waffle iron

In 1971, Oregon track coach and Nike Co-founder Bill Bowerman used his wife's waffle iron to experiment with the idea of using waffle-ironed rubber to create a new sole for footwear that would grip but be lightweight.

Walker family

Walker received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Oregon.


1962 Dallas Cowboys season

Notable rookie free agents the Cowboys signed prior to the season included Pettis Norman, from Johnson C. Smith University, Mike Gaechter, a track and field athlete as well as a football player, from the University of Oregon, and Cornell Green, a basketball player from Utah State University.

Arcimoto

The company's founder, Mark Frohnmayer, is the son of politician and former Dean and President of the University of Oregon, David B. Frohnmayer.

Beijing Consensus

One critic of Ramo's plan is University of Oregon professor Arif Dirlik, a "notable specialist in Chinese and in intellectual history," who wrote the paper Beijing Consensus: Beijing "Gongshi."

Cathy Gordon Brown

The University of Oregon Oregon Daily Emerald noted that people disturbed by the spoiler effect in elections, particularly with respect to the close 2000 presidential election were singling out Ralph Nader for blame, but not "criticizing Cathy Gordon Brown" or other third party and independent candidates.

Charles Samuel Jackson

In 1917, Jackson donated 88 acres (356,000 m²) on Marquam Hill in Portland to the University of Oregon Medical School; the site, then known as Sam Jackson Park, is now the campus of the Oregon Health & Science University.

Chronicle Live

Haas Pavilion (UC Berkeley) - Filmed prior to the men's basketball game between Cal and Oregon, the television play-by-play being handled by Greg Papa.

Duncan Waite

He is an expert in qualitative methods who was trained by Harry Wolcott a pioneer in the field of educational anthropology( a student of George Spindler at Stanford University while at the University of Oregon.

Franklin Stahl

For one year, Stahl served on the zoology faculty at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri before accepting, in 1959, a position in the new Institute of Molecular Biology at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

George T. Gerlinger

George's wife, Irene Hazard Gerlinger, was the first woman on the University of Oregon's Board of Regents and an important fundraiser for the university, including for what was then known as the University of Oregon Museum of Art.

Gunther Barth

During two of those years he studied literature and art history at the University of Cologne; he also won a year-long fellowship, awarded by the U.S. State Department, which enabled him to study at the University of Oregon.

Harold Schnitzer

Schnitzer is best remembered for having made over $80 million in charitable gifts over the course of his lifetime, including the establishment of the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in Judaic Studies at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon and at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Josh Deutsch

He was on the faculty of the Oregon Festival of American Music's Summer Jazz Academy from 2007 through 2009 and of the University of Oregon Summer Jazz Camp from 2007 to the present.

K. M. Cherian

He worked as a Special Fellow in Paediatric Cardiac Surgery in Birmingham, Alabama under John W. Kirklin and in the University of Oregon under Albert Starr.

Louis Breger

He then taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California Medical School in San Francisco, and the University of Oregon.

MediaSentry

In late 2007 the University of Oregon, represented by Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers, refused to provide information on its students to the RIAA, questioning the tactics used by MediaSentry in one of its investigations.

Michael Julian Drake

Drake earned his B.S. degree in Geology with honors from Victoria University of Manchester in Manchester, England in 1967 and earned his Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Oregon in 1972.

Oregon Executive MBA

Formerly a partnership of Oregon State University, Portland State University, and University of Oregon, Oregon Executive MBA is now solely a program of the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business.

Pat Boas

2011 – Ford Family Foundation Connective Conversations Critic’s Studio Visit Award, School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon

Paul Brainerd

Born in Medford, Oregon, to Phil and VerNatta Brainerd, Paul Brainerd attended the University of Oregon where he was the editor for the school's paper, the Oregon Daily Emerald.

Pre's Trail

Pre's Trail, located on the north side of the Willamette River in Eugene, Oregon, United States, popularly referred to as "Track Town USA", is a four-mile-long running and walking trail named after heralded University of Oregon athlete Steve Prefontaine.

Randall W. Eberts

Prior to joining the Upjohn Institute in 1993 as its executive director, Eberts was associate professor of economics at the University of Oregon (1983–1987), senior staff economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors (1991–1992), and assistant vice president and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (1986–1993).

Richard L. Neuberger

He graduated from the University of Oregon in 1935, and served as editor of the student newspaper, the Oregon Daily Emerald.

Romeo Bandison

He played his Senior year of high school football at Tamalpais (Mill Valley, CA), college football at the University of Oregon and also played a season in his homeland for the Amsterdam Admirals of the (then) WLAF.

Rudy Chapa

After high school graduation he went out west to run for Bill Dellinger's famous University of Oregon track and field team at Hayward Field.

SLUG Queen

2006 Queen "Slugretha Latifah Uleafa Gastropodia Jackson", an Office Manager at the University of Oregon's Department of Philosophy and the only black queen so far, won by singing her version of Aretha Franklin's R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

The Oregon Duck

The Oregon Duck (also known as the Fighting Duck, Puddles, or simply The Duck) is the mascot of the University of Oregon Ducks athletic program, based on Disney's Donald Duck character through a special license agreement.

Thomas A. Livesley

Earlier, Livesley had commissioned Ellis F. Lawrence, later founder of the University of Oregon School of Architecture, to design and build a personal home.

Umpqua Research Company

URC is an industrial affiliate of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI), which brings together investigators from the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Portland State University, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and private industry.

Volcano, Hawaii

Garrett Hongo, (1951) poet, current professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon


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Dallas, Oregon

Irene Hazard Gerlinger - first female Regent of the University of Oregon

George Streisinger

He testified to successfully ban mutagenic herbicides in Douglas fir reforestation, and led and won a battle to exclude secret war department research from the University of Oregon campus.

Irene Hazard Gerlinger

She helped the University of Oregon secure the Women's Building (Gerlinger Hall), Prince Campbell Memorial Art Museum (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art), women's dormitories and other buildings on campus.

Jay Bowerman

Bill Bowerman became a well-known track and field coach at the University of Oregon, as well as coach of several U.S. Olympic teams, and co-founder of Nike, Inc.

Jed Weaver

He is a cousin of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim pitcher Jered Weaver and Los Angeles Dodger pitcher Jeff Weaver and his brother Dan Weaver was a 37 game starter at Center for the University of Oregon football program from 2000-2003.

Leo Harris

He was also known for his handshake deal with Walt Disney that permitted the University of Oregon to use the likeness of Donald Duck as the basis for its mascot, the Oregon Duck.

Lorry I. Lokey

As of 2007, he has donated $132 million to the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Matt LaBounty

He now lives in Eugene with his wife, Kelly Blair LaBounty (Assistant Track and Field coach for the University of Oregon & former Olympian) and sons, Jacob and Lucas.

Matthew Knight Arena

The floor was designed by Tinker Hatfield, Nike's VP of Creative Design, who intended to design an "iconic television presence possible for the University of Oregon" and honor the "Tall Firs", the nickname of the 1938–39 Oregon Ducks men's basketball team, winners of the inaugural NCAA basketball championship.

Music Building

MarAbel B. Frohnmayer Music Building, the home of the School of Music and Dance at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon

Patricia Hogan

She was also the Health and Fitness Director for the National Board of the YWCA of the USA in New York (now YWCA of the USA in Washington, D.C.) from 1983-85.Professor Hogan received graduate degrees (Ph.D. in '81 and M.S. in '78) from the University of Oregon in Eugene, and Bachelor Degrees (Bachelor of Human Kinetics and a Bachelor of Education) from the University of Windsor in Canada.

Pre's Trail

Situated to the north of, and across the Willamette River from, the University of Oregon, Pre's Trail is enjoyed by a variety of recreational users in Eugene's urban core.

Raymond Mikesell

Mikesell joined the University of Virginia department of Economics as professor in 1946 and accepted the W.E. Miner Chair at the University of Oregon in 1957, where he taught until 1993.

Stephen Gillett

He was a member of the University of Oregon Football team in the late 1990s and attended the 1996 Cotton Bowl Classic.

Thomas J. Autzen

His foundation's donation to the University of Oregon was linked to his son's attendance at University of Oregon, Thomas E., during the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Uncle Phil

Phil Knight, founder of Nike, Inc., who is often called "Uncle Phil" by students at the University of Oregon, due to his contributions to the university's athletic department