About the Program

Sony Electronics recognizes deserving students and faculty through this scholarship program.

Information Services is pleased to partner with Sony Electronics to offer the UO Sony Scholars award. The program aims to recognize outstanding scholarship and research. The University of Oregon’s participation is part of a larger initiative of Sony Electronics that has established scholarship programs at select universities across the United States, including the California State University system, the University of Southern California, the University of California at San Diego, and Indiana University at Bloomington.

Award Criteria

Faculty eligibility:

  • New (within first 2 years), full-time, tenure-track (non-tenured) faculty.
  • Faculty must be nominated by the dean or, if the nominee is from a center or institute not affiliated with a school, by the VP of Research.
  • Each dean may nominate up to two (2) faculty members.

Faculty selection criteria:

  • Promise or demonstrated achievement in instruction, research or both.
  • Potential impact of award on the faculty member’s, and therefore institution’s ability to demonstrate (further) achievement in instruction, research or both. (Faculty without other awards, grants, sources of funding, etc. will be given higher priority.)
  • Likelihood that the faculty member will be able to demonstrate and exhibit work achieved at next year’s award ceremony.
Student eligibility and selection:
  • Students who participate in PathwayOregon are eligible to be selected.
  • Students are selected by an anonymous committee comprised of PathwayOregon staff.

Award Background

Sony Corporation and the University of Oregon agreed to general award criteria. The university then created a Faculty Selection Committee to solicit and select faculty. Student winners from the university are selected from the PathwayOregon program.

Each year, for five years, the university will recognize five students and two new faculty as UO Sony Scholars.

The five year program began in 2009 and runs through 2013.

Special thanks to:

  • Steve Zimmer, Sony Corporation
  • Hanna Budan and Curtis Smith, The Duck Store
  • The Faculty Selection Committee
  • Carla Bower, UO PathwayOregon
  • Helen Chu, Director of Academic Technology
  • Patrick Chinn, Interim Communications Manager, Information Services
  • Randy Geller, Legal Counsel
  • Kim Lilley, UO PathwayOregon
  • Catherine Susman, Director of Purchasing & Contracting Services

More Information about the UO Sony Scholars Program:

Patrick Chinn, Director of Strategic Communications (Information Services) & UO Sony Scholars Program Coordinator: pchinn@uoregon.edu