University of Oregon - Eugene Oregon
In the 2007 edition of U.S. News and World Report's America's Best Colleges, the University of Oregon ranked highest in academics among national universities in the state of Oregon. The University is one of 60 elected members of the Association of American Universities. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Oregon as "Doctoral/Research Universities-Extensive" one of four such universities in the Pacific Northwest region.
Former Oregon Attorney General David B. Frohnmayer is the president of the university. UO receives much of its funding from the UO Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organization.
The University of Oregon is organized around six professional Schools and Colleges in addition to an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College
The University of Oregon has around 80 buildings and facilities, including athletics sites such as Hayward Field, which is the site for the 2008 Olympic Trials, and McArthur Court, and off-campus sites such as nearby Autzen Stadium and the Riverfront Research Park.
In part because of the popularity of the University's journalism program, the U of O has a vibrant and diverse array of student-run and student-created media.
The mascot of the University of Oregon is the duck; popular Disney character Donald Duck has been the mascot for decades, thanks to an agreement made by The Walt Disney Company. UO is a member of the Pacific Ten Conference and Division I for athletics (Division I-A for football). Home football games are played in Autzen Stadium. The university intends to build a larger arena to replace McArthur Court, where basketball games are played.
The University of Oregon's 280 acre, park-like campus is home to more than 500 varieties of trees. Campus legends state that a botanist, who was researching trees that could survive in the Willamette Valley, planted at least one of every kind of survivable tree on the campus. Nearly all of the original trees have survived, though some have been destroyed by natural causes such as windstorms.
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