Adam Quinn, JFI/CEF Dissertation Fellow has been published in TIME Magazine. Read the article, titled To ‘Win the Future,’ the U.S. Needs a Semiconductor Industry That Learns From the Past here.
Our Director, Alaí Reyes-Santos’ work has been featured in the most recent version of the National Academies Sciences, Engineering, Medicine publication titled “Integrating the Human Sciences to Scale Societal Responses to Environmental Change.
In late Spring 2023, Dr. Reyes-Santos took a trip to Hermiston to conduct well water testing and community science with Euvalcree community members led by Willamette Partnership with funding from Oregon Health Authority. She was joined by Lynny Brown from Willamette Partnership, CRES alumn and Euvalcree Coordinator Rose Poton, Todd Jarvis from OSU, and OHA Representative Cheyenne Holliday.
Learn more about Oregon Water Futures well water testing here.
Recently, Dr. Reyes-Santos took a trip to Maxville Heritage Site on its 100-year anniversary honoring a historically Black town. She was joined by Prof. Ana-Maurine Lara (WGSS), Rachael Sol Lee (JFI Healers Project GE, English and ENVS PhD student), Zoe Gamell Brown (JFI Coordination GE, IRES PhD student), Lisa Arkin (Beyond Toxics), Eunice Blavascunas (Whitman College professor, lead of JFI experiential learning/field school in the PNW, podcast and storytelling project with students Land, Water, Justice), and her Whitman College students traveling to meet BIPOC rural communities in the Columbia River Gorge and documenting with JFI funding.
Learn more about Maxville here.
The State of Immigrants Conference was a success with over 100 attendees from all across the State of Oregon. Our panelists and breakout rooms discussed advocacy, work and labor, civil rights, and the state of immigration in Oregon, among other topics. We are thankful to everyone who attended and made this possible, especially the Labor Education and Research Center and Multnomah County Commissioner Susheela Jayapal.
The Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice, part of the UO’s Environment Initiative, has received a national award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.
The Just Futures Institute is the second winner of the association’s Racial Equity and Sustainability Collaborations Award. It selected for successfully integrating racial equity and social justice with sustainability and by fostering community-based collaborations that advance racial equity and social justice.
During the virtual international awards ceremony in December, the institute was acknowledged as a seedbed for applied, publicly engaged research that addresses the intertwined issues of racial inequality and climate crisis in innovative ways.
UO professors Alai Reyes-Santos and John Arroyo were present to accept the award. They acknowledged the Kalapuya lands, the institute team and the Mellon Foundation for sustaining their work. They thanked the faculty members, staff, students and community partners across eight core themes at UO, noting that the institute is a partnership between the UO, Whitman College, University of Idaho and Heritage University.
“Our team’s strength in teaching and community initiatives is essential for sustainable futures,” Reyes-Santos said.
Full article on Around the O can be found here.
The UO’s Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute will host a symposium this month bringing together community partners and faculty members, staff, students from Whitman College, the University of Idaho-Moscow, Heritage University and the University of Oregon […]
Clark, dead. Pizol, dead. Okjökull, dead. A recent string of mountaintop deaths has inspired a new ceremony: glacier funerals. The Clark, Pizol, and Okjökull glaciers are only a few of many to disappear in recent decades, but they have been prominently mourned under international spotlight. The spectacle of glacier funerals provokes an important question: do they actually inspire action, accountability, and justice […]
John Arroyo and the Casa y Comunidad team will create a series of short documentary films on the history and housing of migrant Latinx workers in Oregon—a rapidly growing population in the Pacific Northwest—in close collaboration with the workers themselves. Drawing on testimonios (oral histories) of multiple generations of families as well as the work of historians, policymakers, and other experts, the project will trace how new waves of both documented and undocumented migration has affected the area’s culture and economy, including a growing housing shortage with dire consequences for the workers and the region. Specific segments of the series will highlight topics ranging from wildfire recovery to inter-generational housing to land use challenges […]
This spring University of Oregon honored the work of individuals and teams across campus and in the community during the annual UO Sustainability Awards. These awards celebrate work in sustainability across a range of institutional activities.
Each winner receives recognition at the annual awards ceremony, a physical award sustainably made by a local business, and a video overview of their winning work. This year’s winners are:
Originally published in Around the O. View full original article here.