Stephanie Craig is a seventh-generation traditional basket weaver and is a Chinook, Kalapuya, Rogue River, Umpqua, and enrolled Grand Ronde Tribal member.

University of Oregon student Kali Bissanti discovered this in summer 2023, as an outreach educator with the university’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History. Bissanti was in Union, a small town in northeast Oregon, when this predicament emerged, just 40 minutes before Bissanti was scheduled to give a talk at the Union Carnegie Public Library.

Ronan Donovan had seen plenty of wolves...but no wolf pups. And he really wanted some pictures of wolf pups. Ronan was on a project documenting the wildlife of Yellowstone National Park. Ronan is a National Geographic wildlife photographer, which means his job is to take pictures of animals behaving naturally.

Created by the University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History, the traveling exhibit celebrates “the first innovators, scientists and engineers in Oregon”

The documentary “Outliers and Outlaws” tells the story of lesbians in Eugene: Why they came. What they did. A showing of the nearly-finished film takes place this week at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

The oldest shoes that researchers have directly dated are a pair of 10,400-year-old sandals recovered from Fort Rock Cave in central Oregon, according to Thomas Connolly. Fossilized footprints suggest our ancestors may have worn them much earlier than that.

The University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History took its shows on the road this summer. It’s offering hands-on learning through its Oregon Rocks! program, which teaches kids and families about geology.

Oregon sits atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone and all University of Oregon campuses could be impacted by a major earthquake on this 620-mile fault. The Great Oregon ShakeOut, a statewide earthquake drill, takes place Oct. 16 and is an opportunity to practice how to protect yourself during an earthquake and prepare for what to do after.

Understanding Imperiled Earth is a unique introduction to how understanding archaeology can support modern-day sustainability efforts, from restoring forested land to developing fire management strategies. The world faces an uncertain future with the rise of climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, overfishing, and other threats.

Oregon's dark history of racism and Black exclusion laws mean many of the stories of Black People and their contributions to the state have been forgotten, hidden or completely erased.