Academics and Research

Five University of Oregon faculty members received prestigious National Science Foundation Career Awards this academic year.The awards fund research and education activities for five consecutive years and help identify early career faculty members poised to become leaders in their fields. The foundation grants the awards once a year and they are among the most competitive grants awarded by the agency.This year’s awardees include:
A UO-led study finds mammals, turtles and birds caught by mistake would benefit from reforms
Journalism instructors Lisa Heyamoto and Todd Milbourn look behind the low approval numbers
UO's Nicole Swann says family needs too often derail professional visibility of women scientists
Diego Melgar experienced the 1985 quake and is now helping Mexico track a new fault line
The Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies will host the March 8 event
Work by Jeanne McLaughlin, Pat O’Grady and their students will help preserve the nation’s history
Two existing master's-level programs have been combined under the Knight Campus banner
UO prof T. Bettina Cornwell probes how consumers remember, right or wrong, who sponsored an event
UO psychologist Nick Allen takes the lead on a call for investments in adolescents to support teens