Research, Innovation & Graduate Education

There was extra foot traffic and mingling crowds all day on Thursday, May 16, in the Erb Memorial Union as students gathered to share their research efforts during the third annual Undergraduate Symposium.

A busy month of research-themed events got under way on Monday, with an Innovation Luncheon, featuring a speaker from a venture capital firm, and an Innovation Open House, highlighting companies and programs with ties to University of Oregon research.

Both events were presented by the office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education.

Geri Richmond, the University of Oregon’s Richard M. and Patricia H. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, will deliver the Presidential Research Lecture at 7 p.m. on May 7, in the Lillis Business Complex Auditorium, Room 182. 

University of Oregon archaeologist Jon Erlandson, whose research has found some of the earliest evidence of seafaring societies contributing to the peopling of the Americas, is a newly elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Nominations or self-nominations are due no later than Wednesday, April 17, for the UO Research Excellence awards, which recognize outstanding career work and other accomplishments.

Sponsored by Research, Innovation and Graduate Education, the awards are:

University of Oregon chemists have synthesized organic molecular structures that move both positive and negative electrical charges -- a highly desired but often difficult-to-achieve combination in current efforts to create highly flexible electronic devices and other new-age technologies.

UO researches have discovered a way to predict how a child will respond to stressful situations in the future by examining the child at five months of age.

A biological mechanism already considered a barometer for emotional regulation can be tapped in infants to make the stress-response prediction.