This story first appeared in UO's Cascade magazine Spring 2014 edition. Cascade is a produciton of the UO College of Arts and Sciences.

Will transformations in food production destabilize China?

China now has 20 percent of the world’s population of seven billion people, but less than 10 percent of the world’s arable land. This lopsided equation is of special interest to Dan Buck, an associate professor of geography.

AHA Study Abroad student Molly Lazaron snapshot of the Cathedral of Segoiva has become more than a memento, it has been featured in CNN's iReport Travel Photo of the Day.

Professor Motoyuki Shibata is Japan's leading translator of contemporary American literature and the founder of a Tokyo-based literary magazine, Monkey Business. He has translated the works of Paul Auster, Steven Millhauser, Stuart Dybek, and Richard Powers, among others. In 2010, Professor Shibata has received the Japan Translation Cultural Prize for his translation of Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon.

EUGENE, Oregon (May 1, 2014) – A total of 18 students from the University of Oregon have been selected as Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship recipients for summer 2014—the highest number of recipients the UO has ever had in one application cycle. The UO now ranks fourth nationally in the highly competitive scholarship that helps students cover the costs of their study abroad program, research or internship.

Steve Huter director for the Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) and a Research Associate at the University of Oregon, has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. 

The Internet Society selected a total of 24 inductees, representing 13 countries as part of 2014 Internet Hall of Fame. Inductees were recognized for their commitment to creating new technologies and standards that were foundational to the Internet’s development and expansion, pushing the boundaries of technological and social innovation to connect the world.

The University of Oregon’s AHA International is partnering with professor Janis Weeks to offer a new study abroad program in Accra, Ghana, for students interested in global health and development issues.

The Savage Endowment is hosting the lecture Rwandan Genocide Twenty Years Later: Its Origins, Its Legacy, and Its Lessons for the Prevention of Genocide, led by former U.S. Ambassador Joyce Leader, on Wednesday, April 16 at the Knight Law Center Duncan Campbell Auditorium, 7:30 pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Leader is the current Carlton and Wilberta Ripley Savage Professor for International Relations and Peace.

EUGENE, Ore. – (April 2, 2014) – The fifth annual University of Oregon Cinema Pacific film festival returns April 23 to April 27,  with a wide array of films, exhibitions, receptions and performances in both Eugene and Portland.

Mandy M Gettler, associate director of the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) has been selected as a recipient of the 2014 Officer of Administration Recognition Award.

Gettler will be honored, along with five other UO employees during the 2014 Outstanding Employee Recognition Awards Ceremony on Tuesday, April 8, at Gerlinger Alumni Lounge, 3:30-5 pm.

The honorees will receive their respective awards from UO President Michael Gottfredson.

Editorial Note: This article first appeared in the New York Times on Monday, March 31, 2014.

Using the Arts to Teach How to Prepare for Climate Crisis