Launched last year as part of the UO's diversity initiative, the Building Business Leaders project welcomes its second group of incoming students. Catch up with the first cohort in this video. Competing in the elite Venture Labs Investment Competition (formerly Moot Corp.), UO start-up teams won honors in their respective tracks: Sonas for Best Written Plan and Best Presentation, and VisiRay for Best Written Plan.
Let's break it down by numbers: 67 pledges, $37,534 donated (15 percent of UO total), $560.21 average gift. Those figures represent the contributions by Lundquist College of Business faculty and staff to the annual Oregon Charitable Fund Drive. More than half of the college's employees participated, giving part of their paychecks to charities throughout the state. Each year, the Oregon Charitable Fund Drive asks state employees to give to their choice of more than 800 local non-profits. Oh, and for the record, total UO pledges were $248,065.00-$120,000 more than OSU and PSU combined.
Cornelis "Kees" de Kluyver officially assumed leadership of the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business on September 1, but he has already been hard at work getting to know students and faculty while outlining his vision for the college. Watch this video to get to know Kees (he owns 150 suspenders and plays the Banjo), and you'll see why the college is thrilled to welcome him as our new dean.
It's been busier than usual around the Lundquist College, with the first significant renovation to Gilbert Hall (to be reborn Anstett Hall) since 1920 beginning this week and the Chiles Center set for a remodel this summer. Find out what's in store in this video with Dean Dennis Howard.
Michele Henney receives the James E. Reinmuth MBA Teaching Excellence Award, UO MAcc program graduates ranked fourth best in the country for CPA exam results, and more.
Celebrating the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center's fifteenth anniversary, remembering Jim Warsaw, taking on the business plan for a unique new startup, and more.
How Dennis Howard became dean of the Lundquist College; introducing a brand new MBA curriculum, John Chalmers conducts the "study of the decade," and more.
