University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences

University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences
Friendly Hall, the location of CAS offices
Type	Public
Dean	W. Andrew Marcus (interim)
Location	Eugene, Oregon, US
Website	cas.uoregon.edu

The University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is a public school of science and liberal arts at the University of Oregon (UO) in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The main offices of the college are located in Friendly Hall on the UO campus. The college serves an estimated 11,000 undergraduates at any given time.^[1]

Programs

The most popular majors administered by CAS include psychology, human physiology, economics, biology, general social sciences, political science, environmental studies, sociology, romance languages, and computer science.

Facilities

Robert and Beverly Lewis Integrative Science Building

The College of Arts and Sciences operates departments in numerous buildings and laboritories on the UO campus such as Willamette Hall, Deschutes Hall, and the Robert and Beverly Lewis Integrative Science Building.

People

Notable alumni

Main article: List of University of Oregon alumni

Kent Beck, B.S., M.S. (1987), software engineer, creator of Extreme Programming, Test Driven Development, and pioneer of agile software development
Pamela J. Bjorkman, B.A. (1971), pioneer in x-ray crystallography, Max Delbruck Professor of Biology at California Institute of Technology
Walter Houser Brattain, M.A. (1926), co-winner of 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics
Douglas Hofstadter, M.S. (1972) and PhD (1975), Professor of cognitive science, Pulitzer Prize winner for general non-fiction (1980), author of Gödel, Escher, Bach
Daniel Levitin, M.S. (1993) and PhD (1996), cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, best-selling author, musician and record producer
William Murphy, B.A. (1914), co-winner of 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
PZ Myers, PhD (1985), biologist and noted science blogger
Raemer Schreiber, M.A. (1932) physicist and staff of the Manhattan Project
Joseph Takahashi, PhD (1981), discovered the genetic basis for the mammalian circadian clock in 1994 and identified the CLOCK gene

Notable faculty and staff

Main article: List of University of Oregon faculty and staff

Ray Hyman, professor emeritus of Psychology, one of the founder's of the modern skeptical movement
Eugene Luks, known for research on the graph isomorphism problem and on algorithms for computational group theory

References

↑ "Fast Facts". The College of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 11, 2014.

External links

Official website

University of Oregon

Schools	Robert D. Clark Honors College School of Architecture and Allied Arts College of Arts and Sciences College of Business College of Education School of Journalism and Communication School of Law School of Music and Dance

Research	Center for the Study of Women in Society Oregon Institute of Marine Biology Pacific Northwest Seismic Network Project STAR Wearable Computing Group Zebrafish Information Network

Publications	Daily Emerald Environmental Philosophy Ethos Magazine Oregon Quarterly University of Oregon Press Media

Athletics	Oregon Ducks Baseball team Men's basketball team Football team Track and field team Athletic directors The Oregon Duck Civil War (football game)

Campus	Campus List of buildings The Oregon Experiment Pioneer Cemetery Bill Bowerman The Pioneer The Pioneer Mother

Culture	Big "O" The Duck Store Green Garter Band KWAX KWVA "Mighty Oregon" O (gesture) Oregon Bach Festival Oregon Marching Band

People	Students and alumni Faculty and staff Board of Trustees Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation

Coordinates: 44°2′45.4″N 123°4′30.7″W / 44.045944°N 123.075194°W / 44.045944; -123.075194

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