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On stands Wednesday, February 23rd
Call for Nominations
Faculty Distinguished Teaching Awards
Nominations due: MONDAY, MARCH 1, 2005
Faculty, staff, students, and alumni are invited to nominate any current faculty members appointed
at .50 FTE or greater, tenure or non-tenure related, who have taught at the University of Oregon for a
minimum of two (2) years for distinguished teaching awards. The Ersted Award and Thomas F.
Herman Award for distinguished teaching are presented annually to award winners at Spring
Commencement. Each award is accompanied by a recurring monetary reward for the recipients.
(Please note: Graduate Teaching Fellows have their own competition and are ineligible for these teaching awards.)
Eligibility for Awards
Ersted Award for
Distinguished Teaching
The late Mr. A. J. Ersted established the
Ersted Award for Distinguished Teaching
so the University of Oregon could
annually honor faculty members “who
have taught comparatively short periods
and have demonstrated exceptional
abilities to induce students to reason and
not merely memorize.” The Ersted
Award is presented only to faculty who
are early in their teaching careers (and
who have taught at the UO at least two
years). This teaching may occur at the
undergraduate or graduate level.
Thomas F. Herman Faculty
Achievement Award for
Distinguished Teaching
This award honors senior faculty
members who have achieved outstanding
records as teachers. The Thomas F.
Herman Award is presented only to
faculty members who have had academic
rank at the University of Oregon for at
least seven years, and who have
demonstrated long-standing excellence in
teaching and have contributed
significantly to student learning at the
undergraduate or graduate level.
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SUBMIT NOMINATIONS online at http://academicaffairs.uoregon.edu/Awards/
Nomination.html. Names of nominees and the eventual award winners are kept confidential
until announced by President Frohnmayer in mid-May. See http://academicaffairs.uoregon.
edu/Awards/pastwinners.pdf for a list of previous award winners. For questions or more
information, contact Gwen Steigelman, Academic Affairs, at gwens @ uoregon.edu.
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UO health center
offers new form
of birth control
University pharmacy manager says products similar
to Seasonale have been on the market ‘'forever'
BY KARA HANSEN
NEWS REPORTER
Female students found a new option
for birth control at the University
Health Center starting this term.
The health center pharmacy
added Seasonale, a birth control pill
that reduces the frequency of men
struation from once a month to
about once every three months, to
an already extensive lineup of birth
control options, pharmacy7 manager
Julie Dewsnup said.
Seasonale was approved by the
Food and Drug Administration in
2003, but the con
cept of using
birth control pills
to set a quarterly
menstrual cycle is
not new, according to
Dewsnup. She said
before the health cen
ter had Seasonale,
staff prescribed
birth control
pills such as
Nordette. The
two products have
the same active in
gredients, and i
Nordette can work *
the same as Sea
sonal if a person
eunmidies me weeK s
worth of placebo pills
included in the month-long regimen
for a woman to menstruate, she said.
“We had an equivalent for people
who wanted the same thing,” Dews
nup said. “It’s been around forever. It’s
just marketed differently.”
The pharmacy added Seasonale on
Jan. 7 when it was approved for cover
age by the Family Planning Expansion
Project, a government-funded program
providing free birth control and access
to low-cost reproductive health care,
Dewsnup said.
If not covered by FPEP, students
would have to pay $83 for three
months worth of Seasonale, compared
to about $30 for a three-month supply
of birth control pills such as Nordette,
Dewsnup said.
Nurse practitioner Colleen Jones
agreed that taking birth control pills
steadily, without the week of placebo
pills in conventional birth control regi
mens, helps Seasonale to be effective.
“Unintended pregnancies related
to missed periods are more likely to
occur in the couple days on either
side of the week without hormones,”
Jones said. When taken correctly,
birth control pills are more than 99
percent effective, she said.
The risks of using Seasonale are
similar to the risks of other conven
tional oral contracep
tives, including in
creased risk of
heart attack,
blood clots and
stroke, according to
the FDA.
Because Sea
sonale users have
fewer periods, the
product’s label ad
vises women to
consider whether
they coula he preg
nant if they miss
one of their
quarterly periods.
In addition, it
takes time for a per
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to not having a menstru
al cycle as often, potentially leading to
bleeding between periods for Sea
sonal users, Dewsnup said.
Jones said there is no health risk
associated with reduced menstrual
cycles. She said research has shown
that extended use of birth control
pills can decrease a woman’s risk
for several types of cancer. But
which method of birth control is
best ultimately depends on the per
son, she said.
“Everyone’s body is different,”
Jones said. “If women are conscien
tious, they can figure out a system that
works for them.”
karahansen@ daily emerald, com
Law: Resolution program to
promote cultural competence
Continued from page 1A
Appropriate Dispute Resolution pro
gram director, said one of the things
that makes the program unique is the
interdisciplinary focus.
“It’s based on the premise that
there’s not one single discipline that
has all the answers when under
standing conflict and dispute resolu
tion,” Gordon said.
The first year of study will require
full-time participation from students
and will consist of nine core courses.
In the second year, students will take
elective courses and a practicum. A
professional project or thesis will also
be required during the second year.
“Our hope is that the students that
come out of this program will have
the awareness, knowledge and skills
that are associated with being cultur
ally competent,” Shuford said.
“There’s a lot of work that’s built into
the courses that we’re developing
that tries to develop mindfulness
about who you are and what you
bring to a situation.”
Gordon said she originally thought
about a program in conflict resolution
about 10 years ago, but didn’t believe
she had the right mix of resources
and people until recently. Planning
for the immediate program began
about three years ago.
She hopes by introducing the de
gree, she can raise awareness of con
flict and dispute resolution practices
in academia and in the state.
“There isn’t enough work done in
higher education to equip future de
cision makers, leaders and citizens
in understanding these important
matters,” Gordon said. “The Univer
sity is very strongly supporting
this (program).”
The priority application deadline
for the new master’s is set for April 1.
Prospective students can visit
www.law.uoregon.edu/org/adr/ or
call 346-3042 for more information.
adamcherry@ daily emerald, com