Academics and Research

The UO held a celebration at CAMCOR marking the center’s acquisition of a new FEI Helios 600i Dual Beam FIB instrument.
The Office of Research, Innovation and Graduate Education has created a new web page that links to stories about the Regional Accelerator and Innovation Network
Research by UO biochemists provide new windows into the complexities of cellular structure.
University of Oregon biologist Joe Thornton’s long-running study of protein mutations and cancer has yielded another breakthrough. Thornton, of the Institute of Ecology and Evolution, and Mike Harms, a postdoctoral scientist who will join the UO chemistry faculty in September, found that two tiny mutations in a single protein 500 million years ago caused steroid hormones to take on their crucial present-day roles.
A new study led by Gregory Retallack makes a case for earthly life having existed on land four times as long as was previously believed.