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Official profile of the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication. 100+ years of ethics, innovation & action.

Whether she’s teaching, mentoring her students, or cheering on the Ducks, SOJC advertising area director Christine Wise has left a powerful impression on students—so much so that she won our 2025 Jonathan Marshall Teaching Award for Innovative Teaching in Journalism and Communication!

A headshot of the Marshall Teaching Award winner, Professor Christine Wise.

From reporting from World Press Freedom Day in Chile to covering the Paris Olympics, journalism major Ruby Wool made the most of every opportunity during her time at the SOJC—which is why she’s the school’s 2025 Standard Bearer and Rianda Outstanding Student Award winner! Learn more: bit.ly/44g8iLt

Portrait of Ruby Wool, recipient of the Rianda Outstanding Student Award and Standard Bearer for the SOJC Commencement 2025, smiling in front of a sports field background. The image features decorative green and yellow elements with flying duck silhouettes.

Three members of the SOJC community have recently won awards for their dedication to our school, student success, and the UO community at large. Congratulations to Annie McVay, Annie Reiva, and Derek Brandow for this recognition of all their hard work 🏆 You earned it!

Annie McVay holding an award at the 2025 UO Senate Graduate Programs Classified Staff Leadership Award ceremony, posing with another individual, both smiling in a conference room.Congratulations to Annie Reiva for receiving the UO All-Campus Advising Assoc. Award for Outstanding Professional Advisor. Image features the award recipient standing outdoors with trees in the background, smiling, with hands on hips. They are wearing a multicolored sweater.Congratulations Derek Brandow for being awarded the UO Residence Life Academic Res. & Research Init. (ARRI) Partner of the Year, smiling in a plaid shirt with a blurred green foliage background.

#TBT to the first graduating class of the SOJC! This inaugural J-school class from 1916 had just four students (clockwise): Merlin Batley, Grace H. Edgington (an SOJC Hall of Achievement honoree), Wallace C. Eakin, and Henry Heidenreich. 🎉

Composite image of SOJC's first graduating class of 1916, featuring portraits of four individuals with a banner and date at the bottom. The four-person class included (clockwise): Merlin Batley, Grace H. Edgington (a Hall of Achievement honoree), Wallace C. Eakin, and Henry Heidenreich.

Grateful and humbled to receive a 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award from @uoregon.bsky.social . Huge thanks to my students and colleagues at @uosojc.bsky.social who make teaching so meaningful and rewarding. Read about all 8 awardees (all more worthy than me!): news.uoregon.edu/content/eigh...

Eight faculty members win Distinguished Teaching Awards

Recipients receive a crystal or Myrtlewood apple in celebration of their achievement

news.uoregon.edu

At the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology’s Coral Resilience Lab, members of the SOJC’s Science & Memory team dove headfirst (literally) into a project to document the institute’s coral research through immersive video, augmented reality, and visual storytelling. Learn more: sojc.link/coral

Image features a scuba diver photographing coral underwater on the left, and a close-up of vibrant coral on the right, with text overlay stating 'Telling Coral's Comeback Story with Immersive Media', highlighting SOJC Ph.D. student Beatriz Mira and Immersive Media Comm. Master's grad Sam Morrison.

Collage of three images showing various activities in Hawaii: people speeding in a motorboat, a person observing coral in a lab, and a nighttime scene of someone illuminating water from a dock. Text overlays indicate 7 days spent in Hawaii and 138 minutes of immersive footage captured.

Collage of three images showing various activities in Hawaii: people speeding in a motorboat, a person observing coral in a lab, and a nighttime scene of someone illuminating water from a dock. Text overlays indicate 7 days spent in Hawaii and 138 minutes of immersive footage captured.