![Oregon Tribes at a ceremony in the ampitheater at Erb Memorial Union](/sites/default/files/2021-03/amphitheatre-flags.png)
Honoring Native Peoples and Lands
The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional homelands of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon. Today, Kalapuya descendants are primarily citizens of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, and they continue to make important contributions to their communities, to the UO, to Oregon, and to the world.
Ducks Expand Horizons
1900s
![Esther Pohl Lovejoy](/sites/default/files/2021-03/1-Esther_Pohl_Lovejoy_0.png)
1907
Esther Pohl Lovejoy is appointed the first woman to direct a department of health in a major US city.
![Lila Acheson Wallace](/sites/default/files/2021-03/2-the-wallaces_0.png)
1922
Lila Acheson Wallace cofounds Reader's Digest
![Minoru Yasui](/sites/default/files/2021-03/3-Minoru_Yasui2_0.png)
1942
Minoru Yasui protests wartime curfews. His activism leads to reparations for Japanese-Americans in 1988.
![Edwin Coleman](/sites/default/files/2021-03/4-Edwin-Coleman5_0.png)
1962
Edwin Coleman II is hired. His work leads to the creation of the ethnic studies department.
![Bill Bowerman](/sites/default/files/2021-03/5-Bill-Bowerman2_0.png)
1970
Bill Bowerman uses a waffle iron to fashion the first prototype of the Nike Waffle Trainer.
![George Streisinger](/sites/default/files/2021-03/6-George-Streisinger2_0.png)
1981
Biologist George Streisinger clones the first vertebrate: a zebrafish.
2000s
![Tinker Hatfield](/sites/default/files/2021-03/7-Tinker-Hatfield2_0.png)
2002
Tinker Hatfield's iconic "O" design is adopted as the official UO logo.
![Ann Curry](/sites/default/files/2021-03/8-Ann-Curry2_0.png)
2007
Ann Curry wins an Emmy for her reporting on the Darfur crisis with NBC Nightly News.
![Prof. Robert Schofield](/sites/default/files/2021-03/9-GravitationalWave-Robert-Schofield_0.png)
2015
A team of physicists including UO researchers detect a gravitational wave for the first time.
![Mustafa Kasubhai](/sites/default/files/2021-03/10-Mustafa-Kasubhai_0.png)
2018
Mustafa Kasubhai becomes the first Muslim-American seated on a US federal court.
Plus So Much More
Image
![Students walking in front of the landscaped entrance for a large brick building with large ornate windows in the early morning sunlight.](/sites/default/files/2023-08/KnightLibrary-beauty.jpg)