Academics and Research

Four professors were recognized by Research, Innovation and Graduate Education as recipients of the 2013 Incubating Interdisciplinary Initiatives Award.

Zena Ariola is spending the 2012-13 academic year at the French institute INRIA, where she will work on research in computer programming languages.

Wendy Machalicek has new and exciting uses for iPads and Skype: quick, direct distance consulting for parents of children who engage in challenging behavior.

A review of Brown v. Board of Education reveals “a lack of consensus among blacks over the message and method of civil rights activism,” Charise Cheney found.

University of Oregon chemists have synthesized organic molecular structures that move both positive and negative electrical charges.

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.

Joshua Roering's study of the Umpqua River basin in the Oregon Coast Range helps explain natural processes behind the width of valleys.

Poor impulse control, drug use and risky sexual behaviors in teenagers can be the result of weakness in working memory, according studies by Atika Khurana.

SmartUps and Research, Innovation & Graduate Education partnered to offer a workshop tailored to faculty members and graduate students/post docs.

When it comes to "return on innovation," it looks like another banner year for the University of Oregon.