Academics and Research

Geri Richmond spoke before an audience of faculty members, students and community members at the Spring 2013 Presidential Research Lecture.
Six faculty have been named winners of the 2013 UO Research Excellence Awards, sponsored by the Office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education
Ingo Braasch and John Postlethwait identified more than 50 genes still present in fish but potentially "left in the water" when fish began to walk on land.
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.