Academics and Research

The plan will allow honors students to earn both degrees in six years instead of the usual seven.
UO's Leslie Leve is part of a multi-institutional look at behaviors where emotions are lacking and may point to later antisocial activities.
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation presents Jennifer Freyd with its lifetime achievement award.
This year the Dissertation Research Fellowships expanded 12 awards from just one, including new fellowship supported by a bequest from UO alumnus Eric Englund.
Kyr, a professor of composition, recently received the prestigious Arts and Letters Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Study of Greenland's ice sheet provides a new tool to measure glacial response to climate change, says a UO geologist.
In all, 12 UO graduate students will receive awards ranging from $1,700 to more than $12,000. Four faculty scholars will receive awards ranging from $5,000 to $8,000 each.
Gina Herrmann reveals how working-class Spanish women coped with life-threatening experiences resulting from political resistance during the Spanish Civil War.
The fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies will provide Bayless and a colleague $200,000 to continue research on bread and culture.
A gift from longtime UO researchers Chris Holzapfel and Bill Bradshaw will create the Bradshaw and Holzapfel Research Professorship in Transformational Science and Mathematics.