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Photo  America in Context
 Eduardo Dawson
Major: Political Science & History
Hometown: Eugene, OR
Plans after graduation: Hopefully make it into Teach for America. After this, attend law school.


 

Photo  Animal Behavior
 Caitlin Turnbull
Major: Anthropology
Hometown: Portland, OR
Favorite UO Course: Monkeys and Apes or any dance class
Plans after graduation: I hope to go on to graduate school and hopefully someday become a primatologist. My ultimate goal is to study apes in Africa.


 

Photo  Animal Planet
 Madeline Dickerson
Major: Journalism & Environmental Studies
Minor: Non-profit Management
Hometown: Long Beach, WA
Favorite UO Course: Geography of Film
Plans after graduation: Something that combine enviro studies and Journalism or probably open my own bakery! I would also like to study film as a grad student at Chapman University


 

Photo  Antquité-Modernité
 Rachel Jensen
Major: Business Administration and French Language
Hometown: Eugene, OR
Favorite UO Course: Any of the French Language classes, but if I had to pick only ONE I would say Classics 201 Greek Life and Culture!
Favorite Eugene Activity: Getting ice cream from Prince Pucklers and walking to University Park to play frisbee. I also enjoy going to the Allan Bros. coffee shop on 5th street, because there is free internet and good food!


 

Photo  Art of Expression
 Sean Dinno
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Photo  As the World Shrinks
 Alisha Bachelder
Major: International Studies & family and Human Services
Minor: African Studies
Hometown: Palmer, Alaska
Favorite UO Course: INTL 240: Perspectives on International Development
Plans after graduation: Work in Human Services with women and children in West Africa. Later, get my Masters in counseling


 

Photo  Back Story
 Tristen Knight
Major: Journalism: Magazine
Hometown: Tualatin, IR
Favorite UO Course: Magazine Layout and Production or Newspaper Design
Plans after graduation: It would be nice to travel around a bit before getting my career job. Then after that, finding a newspaper or magazine to work at doing layout design and hopefully making my way up as an Art Director.


 

Photo  Bella Italia!
 Amy Claridge
Major: Psychology
Minor:
Hometown: Redmond, OR
Favorite UO Course: Educational Studies 212 and Italian!
Plans after graduation: I plan on becoming a family counselor which may/may not require me to attend graduate school. I would also love to travel around the world.


 

Photo  Big Issues, Small World
 Andrea Valderrama
Major: Political Science
Minor: Philosophy
Hometown: San Leandro/Hayward, California
Favorite UO Course: Ethnic Studies 101 (Professor Reyes-Santos)
Plans after graduation: traveling, graduate school (law school)


 

Photo  Breaking the Wall
 Nicole Miller
Major: Undeclared
Hometown: Beaverton, OR
Favorite UO Course: Classics 201
Plans after graduation: High school History teacher (best-case scenario to teach at my old high school in Beaverton)


 

Photo  Camels and Cowboys
 Emma Kallaway
Major: Business
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Favorite UO Course: ASUO Internship
Plans after graduation: I hope to look at how business finance affects research in global health.


 

Photo  Carved From Conflict
 Nash Reilly
Major: Economics
Minor: maybe Music
Hometown: Bozeman, MT
Favorite UO Course: Clues Guitar with Don Latarski
Plans after graduation: Skydive, play a gig at a blues club in Detroit, conquer a nation, earn a PhD and subject numerous generations of future college students to intellectual torment.


 

Photo  Corporate Mind
 Holly Kimball
Major: Business
Hometown: Stayton, OR
Favorite UO Course: Marketing 311
Plans after graduation: travel somewhere warm for a while, then start real estate business


 

Photo  Dark Self
 Amélie Rousseau
Major: English & French
Minor: Honors College
Hometown: Portland, OR
Favorite UO Course: French renaissance Poetry 330
Plans after graduation: Internship for a year in France, teaching English. After that, I’d like to teach in a developing francophone country. If I return to the US, I’d like to teach or work in some type of publications or political journalism.


 

Photo  Digging Up History
 Casey Billings
Major: Anthropology
Hometown: Spokane, WA
Favorite UO Course: Mass Media and Society J201
Plans after graduation: Travel the world THEN get a job that pertains to my major and attempt to get myself out of debt


 

Photo  Ecopoetry
 Robert Dyck
Major: Pre-Journalism
Minor: Business
Hometown: Gresham, OR
Favorite UO Course: Existentialism
Plans after graduation: travel, climb, write.


 

Photo  Education and Social Services
 Jeremy Swanburg
Major: Psychology
Hometown: Grants Pass, OR
Favorite UO Course: Psychology 202
Plans after graduation: Lots of travel and pursuing a career in some form of psychology.


 

Photo  Footprints We Leave
 Emily Smallwood
Major: undeclared
Hometown: Waco, TX
Favorite UO Course: INTL 199
Plans after graduation: Peace Corps and graduate school


 

Photo  Forensic Science
 Dorey Olsen
Major: Human Physiology
Hometown: Liberty Lake, WA
Favorite UO Course: J201 with Stravinsky
Plans after graduation: Attend Medical School, be an M.D.


 

Photo  Freedom of Thought
 Thea Samson
Major: German
Minor: History
Hometown: Grants Pass
Favorite UO Course: German
Plans after graduation: Travel and then come back to US for grad school (but some place warmer)


 

Photo  Get the Picture
 Stephanie Van Dellen
Major: Business Administration
Minor: Psychology
Hometown: Westlake Village, CA
Plans after graduation: To obtain a job as an event planner!


 

Photo  Hidden History
 Betsy Jean Selander
Major: Psychology
Minor: maybe Dance
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Favorite UO Course: Tap 1 was fun but Reinventing Yourself seems very promising
Plans after graduation: anything that gets me near clothing—clothing design/production/internships with companies or designers would be ideal


 

Photo  Honors Science
 Helen Tauc
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Photo  Inside Architecture
 Kody D. Nathe
Major: Architecture
Minor: Japanese, Landscape Architecture
Hometown: Great Falls, MT
Favorite UO Course: Rock Climbing
Plans after graduation: I plan to internship with a respected architecture firm in the Northwest and eventually become a partner and learn how to manage a firm and build a great team.


 

Photo  International Outlook
 Stacie Overton
Major:International Studies and Planning Public Policy and Management
Hometown:St. Helens, Oregon
Favorite UO Course:Swahili (LING 199)
Plans after graduation:Join the Peace Corp and get my Master’s degree


 

Photo  Intersections of Expression
 Luke Norman
Major: English
Minor: Spanish
Hometown: Sandy, OR
Favorite UO Course: ENG 399: African Folklore
Plans after graduation: I plan to participate in the Teach for America program, after which I hope to find a full-time position teaching English at a high-school in the Portland area.


 

Photo  Lore of Medicine
 Jacqueline Poston
Major:Japanese
Minor:Business, Chemistry
Hometown:Portland, OR
Favorite UO Course:4th year speaking (Japanese) and genetics (anything w/Professor Capaldi!!)
Plans after graduation:After this fall, I will (hopefully) be working in a microbiology lab and waiting to hear back from medical school. If I'm lucky, I will get some traveling in as well.


 

Photo  Meeting Human Needs
 Boris Bourget
Major: Political Science & International Studies
Hometown: Elko,NV
Favorite UO Course: PS 205: Intro to International Relations
Plans after graduation: Law School


 

Photo  Molecules and Medicine
 Kofi Sarfo-Kantanka
Major:Biology and Business Administration
Hometown:Ghana (born and raised)
Favorite UO Course:Writing and Chemistry Lab
Plans after graduation:Medical school to be a surgeon


 

Photo  Money and Power
 Jodi Meyerowitz
Major: Economics
Minor: Human Physiology
Hometown: Johannesburg/Portland, OR
Favorite UO Course: Multinational Corporations
Plans after graduation: Not sure yet


 

Photo  Moving to MTV
 Leonor Colbert
Major: Dance
Minor: Music
Hometown: Morgantown, WV
Favorite UO Course: Jazz History 1900-1950
Plans after graduation: Study ethnomusicology in grad school, become a professor &hopefully move abroad


 

Photo  My Planet
 Leslie O’Neil
Major: Anthropology and General Science
Minor: History
Hometown: Salem, OR
Favorite UO Course: Either World Archaeology w/ Dr. Kennet or Earth Resources and the Environment w/ Mark Reed.
Plans after graduation: A year or two teaching English to kids in Thailand, then a summer working with Antarctic support services.


 

Photo  Nature of Business
 Jeff Tan
Major: Philosophy & Political Science
Hometown: Salem, OR
Favorite UO Course: Ethics, Marxism & Radical Thought
Plans after graduation: Go to film school to get my Masters in Film &Art. I then plan to go into editing, directing, or cinematography


 

Photo  Nomads and Empires
 Melanie Broome
Major: Political Science and International Studies
Hometown: Tualatin, OR
Favorite UO Course: Perspectives on International Development
Plans after graduation: Eventually I will probably end up in law school on the east coast but I might take a couple years off and work for the government, hopefully in diplomatic affairs.


 

Photo  Not Your Grandma's World
 Rachel Modica
Major: Double Majoring in Spanish and Family and Human Services
Hometown: Tigard, Oregon
Favorite UO Course: Spanish 327 with Tania Triana
Plans after graduation: I'd like to get involved with some kind of international volunteer project in Central or South America and then go to Law school or get my masters in social work


 

Photo  On Location: Asia
 Talia Schmidt
Major: Journalism News Editorial
Minor: English
Hometown: Seattle, WA
Favorite UO Course: J462 Reporting II: Adv. Public Affairs
Plans after graduation: Dominating the news world at TIME


 

Photo  Overseas Report
 Krista Harper
Major: Journalism: News-Ed & Religious Studies
Hometown: Spokane, WA
Favorite UO Course: REL 101 with Mark Uno
Plans after graduation: I love the Northwest , but I’m excited to explore other places—after graduation I hope to find a job on the East Coast


 

Photo  Pen The Extreme!
 Alicia Inns
Major: Journalism: Electronic Media
Hometown: Gresham, OR
Favorite UO Course: J201 Mass Media and Society
Plans after graduation: Find and work for a local/national news station…Possibly in or out of Oregon and work my way towards head news anchor. Then way down the line-get married to a hunk and have a little Alicia family.


 

Photo  Planetary Atmospheres
 Meghan Perez
Major: Human Physiology
Minor: Spanish
Hometown: Orinda, CA
Favorite UO Course: Spanish
Plans after graduation: Hopefully attend Med-School to become a pediatrician and to be happy in general


 

Photo  Plastics and the Environment
 Zac Jacobs
Major: Biology and Psychology
Minor: Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry
Hometown:Gresham, ORG
Favorite UO Course:Biochemistry, Biopsychology
Plans after graduation:Hopefully get into medical school. If not, then do research or travel the world.


 

Photo  Political Spin
 Elizabeth Aldrich
Major: Magazine Journalism & Economics
Hometown: Beaverton, OR
Favorite UO Course: PHIL 110
Plans after graduation: travel, go to grad school, and do freelance journalism


 

Photo  Real Life Drama
 Felicia Rogers
Major: Comparative Literature
Minor: Business
Hometown: Bozeman, MT
Favorite UO Course: Impossible to discern
Plans after graduation: see where life takes me but probably graduate school


 

Photo  Rock ‘n’ Science
 Martin Tauc
Hometown: Clackamas, OR
Favorite UO Course: HC History
Plans after graduation: graduate school


 

Photo  Seven Deadly Sins A
 Anna Dennis
Major:Psychology
Minor:Biology & O-Chem
Hometown: Corvallis, OR
Favorite UO Course: HC History
Plans after graduation: Grad school, working in a psychology lab, traveling


 

Photo  Seven Deadly Sins B
 Kathryn Lundquist
Major: Journalism: magazine
Hometown: Jacksonville, OR
Favorite UO Course: J204-Visual Media OR any of the dance classes I have taken
Plans after graduation: Hopefully work for a major fashion magazine in NYC, LA, or aboard. If not, then join Teach for America


 

Photo  Shakespeare's Stage
 Naomi Todd
Major: Theatre Arts
Minor: Literature and Romance Languages
Hometown: Welches, OR
Favorite UO Course: HC World Literature w/ Louise Bishop
Plans after graduation: Grad school, job as a Shakespeare professor, travel the world and dance the salsa.


 

Photo  Silk Road
 Maddy Ramuglia
Major: History and Japanese
Minor: Anchorage, Alaska
Hometown:
Favorite UO Course: Professor Lachman`s Chinese Art History
Plans after graduation: I want to be a history professors, so graduate school for me!


 

Photo  Sorting Hat
 Stephanie Prichard
Major: Communication Disorders & Spanish
Hometown: Fairfield, CA
Favorite UO Course: Communication Disorders in Society and Media
Plans after graduation: Graduate School for Speech Therapy then I hope to work with Spanish-speaking children in schools, eventually opening up my own clinic


 

Photo  Stories We Tell
 Camille Green
Major: Undeclared
Hometown: Ashland, OR
Favorite UO Course: Creative Writing 240, African dance, Geology 102 with D. Wlackwell, Philosophy classes in general
Plans after graduation: Live in tree in a forest on a mountain for some time. Then I want to gallivant about, meeting good people, reading good books and doing good deeds. Eventually, I’ll put my shoes on and do something worthwhile


 

Photo  Tales and Traditions
 Lilli Tichinin
Major: Anthropology
Minor: Dance
Hometown: Fort Bragg, California
Favorite UO Course: Australia through Autobiography
Favorite Eugene Activity: Saturday Market!


 

Photo  The Examined Life