Awards & Honors

June 17, 2013

College of Arts and Sciences

Faculty:

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

$100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant
Janis Weeks and Shawn Lockery

American Association for the Advancement of Science fellowship

June 17, 2013

FACULTY:

Noah Greenberg Award, American Musicological Society

June 17, 2013

Faculty:

Thomas C. Stewart Distinguished Professorship

Jennifer Howard-Grenville, management

Harry R. Jacobs, Jr. Professional Service Award, Faculty

Nagesh Murthy, decision sciences

Dean’s College Service Award, Non-Tenure Track Faculty

June 17, 2013

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Relationship Dynamics and Young Adult Drug Use and Abuse

June 17, 2013

Faculty:

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers Distinguished Service Award

Alison G. Kwok, architecture

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

2012 Faculty Sustainability Leadership Award

Dewey received a $50,000 award from RIGE for a position in medical anthropology
June 14, 2013

Research by Associate Professor and Director Patricia Dewey, of the Arts and Administration Program, has been recognized with a $50,000 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives (I3) Award from the University of Oregon Office of Research, Innovation, and Graduate Education (RIGE).

The Community Service Center was recognized for achievement in planning
June 11, 2013

The University of Oregon’s Community Service Center received the 2013 Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association’s Special Achievement in Planning Award at the OAPA conference in Portland on May 30.

(photo by Jack Liu)
June 7, 2013

The breadth and depth of discovery at the University of Oregon was highlighted at a recent ceremony celebrating the 2013 Research Excellence Awards. Honors were handed out to six UO faculty members in history, biology, chemistry, architecture, English and linguistics. The event took place at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

June 5, 2013

For three exceptional faculty members, receiving an apple for teaching may never have been so sweet. Last week, University of Oregon President Michael Gottfredson paid surprise visits to a trio of educators and presented them with Crystal Apple awards.

June 3, 2013

Molly Kennedy, assistant director for marketing and resource development in the UO's Department of Physical Education and Recreation, has been inducted into the alumni honor academy of Western Michigan University’s Department of Human Performance and Health Education.

May 30, 2013

Three alumni from the Oregon Executive MBA program were honored at the Portland Business Journal’s annual CFO Awards luncheon on May 16 at the Governor Hotel in Portland.

May 29, 2013

Ed Madison, a visiting assistant professor in the UO's School of Journalism and Communication, has been named to the Apple Distinguished Educator program for the Class of 2013.

He is the only current Apple Distinguished Educator in the state of Oregon.

Dejing Dou's team won a 3-year, $1.5 million grant from NIH
May 29, 2013

There is a critical need for tools to understand the influence of healthcare social networks on sustained weight loss.

Fortunately, professor Dejing Dou has just such a tool – it’s called SMASH.

Corwin's exploration of disordered particulate systems was recognized
May 28, 2013

Physicist Eric Corwin is earning national plaudits for his efforts to create order from disorderly particulate systems.

Corwin, an assistant professor of physics, has won a 2012 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award.