Everything just seems to happen faster for Chris Banek. He was a dedicated researcher before he'd finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. At 22, he was the senior graduate student in a human physiology laboratory at the University of Oregon. By 23, he had co-authored 10 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and a book chapter on sex differences in the developmental programming of adult disease.

It’s trite but true: The family that plays together, stays together. You and your family are invited to the annual University of Oregon Family Recreation Open House, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27 in the UO Student Recreation Center. Your family can join other UO families in celebrating the Student Recreation Center family hours, in an event that is free for all students and employees with your UO identification. Special Activities include:

UO Vice President for Equity and Inclusion Yvette Alex-Assensoh held the second of three town hall meetings on Thursday to receive input from students, faculty, staff and the greater community on issues relating to a new strategic action plan for the Office of Equity and Inclusion. The third meeting will be from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Friday in Room 184 of the Knight Law Center.

A law that went into effect Jan. 1 requires University of Oregon employees to report incidents of child abuse and prohibited discrimination, including sexual harassment and sexual assault, Provost James Bean said, in a recent message to the campus community. “The duty to report child abuse is new,” Bean said. “The duty to report prohibited discrimination is ongoing.”

The future is unknowable, but Information Services and UO Libraries will be ready for it. The University of Oregon departments have launched a collaborative “Listening Tour” to better understand what faculty, researchers, administrators, staff, GTFs and students across campus have to say about goals, pending initiatives and projects relating to technology.