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Are you interested in community building, natural resources, food security, natural hazard planning, economic development or land use planning? Continue reading “Make a Difference in Oregon Communities – Apply for RARE Today”
A team of Planning, Public Policy and Management students won the second place award in the 2015 Policy Solutions Challenge Western Regional Competition. The Challenge was hosted by the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, on February 23-26, 2015. Continue reading “PPPM Students Win Second Place in National Water Policy Challenge”
Economic struggles. Decreasing public safety services. Failing infrastructure. Aging medical buildings. These issues plague many rural communities, but they are especially difficult on the southern coast of Oregon. For the past year, in Coos, Continue reading “CSC Provides Assistance to Oregon’s South Coast”
Three outstanding graduate students in the Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management were selected for the highly competitive 2014 Oregon Fellows Program, which attracts students from major universities across the country. Continue reading “Three graduate students selected for 2014 Oregon Fellows Program”
A.J. Bernhardt, MCRP ‘14, was recently selected as a real estate services representative at CBRE in Portland. He will be the representative at the OHSU Center for Health and Healing. Continue reading “Alumni News”
January 26, 2015 marked the 315th year anniversary of the last Cascadia subduction zone earthquake; 105 years before Lewis and Clark first set eyes on the Continue reading “315th Year Anniversary”
Oregon Sea Grant has selected Sarah Allison, CSC Research Assistant, as the recipient of the 2014-2016 Resilience and Adaptation Graduate Fellowship. The $16,000 award will support research for her final project, “Keeping Local Continue reading “MCRP Student Wins $16,000 Sea Grant Award”
The Community Planning Workshop (CPW) is embarking on a dramatic journey, the Oregon Historic Theatres Inventory Project. CPW will explore these incredible cultural gems, once cornerstones of social and economic life, to understand their continued value as community assets. The project will Continue reading “The Romance and Nostalgia of Oregon’s Historic Theatres”
At the University of Oregon, we get to experience the holiday traditions and foods of many lands. Cheers to our culturally diverse community! With so many winter holidays to celebrate, including Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, Boxing Continue reading “Warm Winter Wishes from the Community Service Center Staff”
In July 2014, the RARE-Resource Assistance for Rural Environments-AmeriCorps Program celebrated its twentieth anniversary of service to rural Oregon communities. Having taken the lead on a variety of city, community and regional Continue reading “RARE AmeriCorps Program Turns Twenty!”