Student Originated Studies (SOS)

Staff Bios

Application materials are available by request in WORD format. (sos@darkwing.uoregon.edu.)

Click on one of the following to access the associated materials.

 

Brief introductions:

Megan Smith
Managing Director, CSC
Program Director, RARE
Program Contact, PWAP
Office: 101 Hendricks Hall
Phone: 541.346.3881
Email: smith@uoregon.edu

Megan Smith, Director of the Resource Assistance for Rural Environments Program (RARE), focuses her efforts on assisting rural Oregon in addressing community development and natural resource issues. As Director of RARE, Megan is responsible for community and participant recruitment, training and the daily administration of the program. Her planning focus is on watershed management and the role of education and outreach in planning. Her teaching responsibilities include courses in Citizen Involvement (with Robert Choquette) and Watershed Planning.

Megan's recent projects include:

  • McKenzie Watershed Council Outreach
  • Blue River Downtown Revitalization

Nancy Owen Myers
Office Coordinator, CSC
Office: 111 Hendricks Hall
Phone: 541.346.3889
Email: nomyers@oregon.uoregon.edu
Nancy comes to the CSC with over 10 years experience in natural resource management and adult education. For the CSC she is providing clerical and administrative support in travel, supplies, telecommunications, and other fields, especially in administration of the RARE program. She will be working part-time in a job sharing arrangement with Julie Foster, who (upon her return from maternity leave) will continue in her role of grants administrator.

Julie Foster
Grants Administrator, CSC
Office: 111 Hendricks Hall
Phone: 541.346.2878
Email: jdfoster@oregon.uoregon.edu

Julie Foster serves as grants administrator for the Community Service Center (CSC). She is responsible for the financial record keeping for all CSC activities which includes managing grants from state and federal agencies as well as billing and accounting for grants with 30 RARE communities and six to eight CPW projects each year. Julie is responsible for developing, processing, and tracking paperwork on contracts, billings, expenditures, reimbursements, appointments and payroll as well as producing financial reports on a quarterly basis.

Skipper McFarlane
Graphic Designer, CSC
Office: 6C Hendricks Hall
Phone: 541.346.3873
Email: skipmcf@uoregon.edu

Skipper McFarlane is the Graphic Designer for the Community Service Center (CSC). With a background in Graphic Design, Skipper is in charge of all publications, marketing materials and Web publishing related to CSC and its components. Skipper provides assistance to faculty, staff, students and participants in regards to utilizing graphics, page layout, and Web publishing.
Skipper also teaches Digital Letterform and Communication Design in the Multi-Media Design Program at the University of Oregon and shortcourses in Photoshop, PageMaker and FreeHand for the CSC.

Skipper's recent projects include:

  • Page layout and design of Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development
    (DLCD): Planning for Natural Hazards Oregon Technical Resource Guide.
  • Oregon Futures - the CSC Newsletter
  • Enhancing the Image archive in both digital and hardcopy form
  • Updated websites for the RARE, SOS
  • New websites for CPW, ONHW and Grant Writing
 

Revised June 17, 2003
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