Student Honors
- Pema Chhophyel is a business major from the country of Bhutan who documented his village’s language while working with linguistics faculty member Spike Gildea
- Anna Cavender developed EyeDraw, software that allows children with severe mobility limitations to draw using only eye movement
- UO graduate Andrew Shipley is one of only 32 Americans to be awarded a 2007 Rhodes Scholarship
- Alletta Brenner was awarded a Marshall Scholarship from the British government, one of only 40 awarded to U.S. students each year.
- In 2006-07, 10 UO students received the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship to study or intern in China, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Mexico, Senegal, and Taiwan. The UO ranks sixth among all American colleges and universities for the number of Gilman scholars
- High-achieving students in the Society of College Scholars match four years of course offerings with specialized research and related learning opportunities, and graduate with honors in their chosen majors
- Business Week ranks the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship’s student business plan competition in the top three worldwide. Entrepreneur Magazine ranks the Center first in alumni satisfaction and second in reputation by peer school program directors, one of only two universities ranked in the top 10 by both groups. It is in the top four percent of the 700 entrepreneurship programs
- Student quality ranking at the UO College of Education, as measured by total GRE scores, is on par with Harvard, Stanford, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern and better than UCLA and UC Berkeley
- Two UO students, Aaron Donaldson and Jason Lear, placed among the top eight teams at the World Universities Debating Championship. The Oregon victory was the first time any U.S. public university reached the elimination rounds of this renowned competition