University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences
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Friendly Hall, the location of CAS offices
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| Type | Public |
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| Dean | W. Andrew Marcus (interim) |
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The University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) is a public school of science and liberal arts at the University of Oregon (UO) in Eugene, Oregon, United States. The main offices of the college are located in Friendly Hall on the UO campus. The college serves an estimated 11,000 undergraduates at any given time.[1]
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Programs
The most popular majors administered by CAS include psychology, human physiology, economics, biology, general social sciences, political science, environmental studies, sociology, romance languages, and computer science.
Facilities
The College of Arts and Sciences operates departments in numerous buildings and laboritories on the UO campus such as Willamette Hall, Deschutes Hall, and the Robert and Beverly Lewis Integrative Science Building.
People
Notable alumni
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- Kent Beck, B.S., M.S. (1987), software engineer, creator of Extreme Programming, Test Driven Development, and pioneer of agile software development
- Pamela J. Bjorkman, B.A. (1971), pioneer in x-ray crystallography, Max Delbruck Professor of Biology at California Institute of Technology
- Walter Houser Brattain, M.A. (1926), co-winner of 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics
- Douglas Hofstadter, M.S. (1972) and PhD (1975), Professor of cognitive science, Pulitzer Prize winner for general non-fiction (1980), author of Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Daniel Levitin, M.S. (1993) and PhD (1996), cognitive psychologist, neuroscientist, best-selling author, musician and record producer
- William Murphy, B.A. (1914), co-winner of 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- PZ Myers, PhD (1985), biologist and noted science blogger
- Raemer Schreiber, M.A. (1932) physicist and staff of the Manhattan Project
- Joseph Takahashi, PhD (1981), discovered the genetic basis for the mammalian circadian clock in 1994 and identified the CLOCK gene
Notable faculty and staff
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- Ray Hyman, professor emeritus of Psychology, one of the founder's of the modern skeptical movement
- Eugene Luks, known for research on the graph isomorphism problem and on algorithms for computational group theory
See also
References
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External links
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