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University of Oregon Staffers Spin Off Company to Sell Software Innovation.

By Sherri Buri McDonald, The Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 23--Two University of Oregon staff members have designed software that eliminates the mountain of paperwork needed to track graduate students' progress from admission through application for their degree.

Toby Deemer, assistant dean of the UO graduate school, and Asif Suria, a software developer, teamed up to create GradWeb, a Web-based system that has simplified recordkeeping and saved the school thousands of dollars in printing and staff costs. The unive

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