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Winter 2023
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Politics & SocietyDuck Life
UO Students Experience Black History and Culture in DC
Fourteen visit Washington, DC as part of a trip sponsored by the UO Lyllye Reynolds-Parker Black Cultural Center
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Art, Design & Literature
Eye for Architecture
Prize-winning photography became a second calling for Michael Wilkes, a College of Design alumnus and devoted Duck
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Art, Design & Literature
Mat Johnson Gains Visibility with Invisible Things
With his latest novel, the UO faculty member is getting critical notice while inspiring his creative writing students
Environment & Sustainability
Digital Collage Inspires Architecture Ideas
Associate professor specializes in architectural visualization and the role of digital collage in the student design process
Viewpoints
Letters: Wildfire inaccuracies and OIMB kudos
Criticism of “inaccurate” feature on wildfire filmmaker and praise for the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
Media & CommunicationsViewpoints
Four ways to avoid polluting the social media ecosystem
Students in Whitney Phillips’s J-397 Media Ethics class explore ethical problems in media such as privacy and violence