Editor's note: Tykeson Teaching Award winner Lynn Fujiwara is a CSWS Advisory Board member, faculty affiliate, and co-convenor of the Women of Color Project. The Tykeson Teaching Award is an annual prize given to one outstanding faculty member in each division of the College of Arts and Sciences who goes above and beyond in the classroom. Story from Around the O.

Providing individual feedback to each student ended up being the best way for Lynn Fujiwara, associate professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies, to learn how to connect with students.

Congratulations to CSWS faculty affiliates who received 2023-24 awards and opportunities from the Office of the Provost!

Williams Instructional Grants were awarded to Assistant Professor Abigail Fine, Musicology, for “Writing Musically,” and to Assistant Professor Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive, Architecture, for “Hostile Design in Eugene.”

An award for Distinguished Teaching Professor went to Senior Instructor II Julie Voelker-Morris, Career Services Director for the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management.

From the College of Design — A proposed book exploring the recent phenomena of immersive art experiences is getting support from National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

Several CSWS faculty affiliates are recipients of 2023 University of Oregon faculty research awards and the Tykeson Teaching Award.

The CLLAS Faculty Research Series presents Creating Californios: Masculinity and Localized Liberalism in Mexican California, 1800-1850, with Yvette Saavedra, assistant professor of women's, gender, and sexuality studies. She is also a CSWS faculty affiliate. Please join us for this exciting in-person event on Thursday, March 9, 3:30-4:30pm in the Diamond Lake Room, EMU. 

On Friday, Jan. 27, and Tuesday, Jan. 31, the IPRIG will be reading together and discussing "Enacting Rhetorical Listening: A Process to Support Students’ Engagement with Challenging Course Readings," by Jessica Rivera-Mueller (Journal on Empowering Teaching Excellence, vol. 4, no. 2, Fall 2020). Below is the article's abstract: