Student workers perform vital work

This year two undergraduate student assistants worked at the OHC. Eleanor Hudson, second-year Honors College student, and Alisha Acireno, senior Asian Studies student, created human-edited transcripts for our lecture videos, Work-in-Progress and Books-in-Print talks, and UO Today interviews. This is a vital task because transcripts automatically produced by YouTube are rife with misspellings and lack punctuation and capitalization. It’s also a legal requirement for transcripts to be edited by a person.

In addition, Eleanor and Alisha created our weekly UO cultural events emails that are delivered each Sunday evening during the school year.

Eleanor will return to work at the OHC next academic year.

Alisha graduated in June and hopes to teach English in Japan. In addition to her major in Asian Studies, Alisha minored in Creative Writing. She writes poetry and participated in the UO Poetry Society, a student poetry group. She won Creative Writing’s 2025 Walter and Nancy Kidd Memorial Writing Prize in Poetry and two of her poems were published in Unbound Journal, UO’s student-run literary arts journal. Alisha says, “Learning something new every day was my favorite part about working at the OHC!”