Six faculty have been named winners of the 2013 UO Research Excellence Awards, sponsored by the Office for Research, Innovation and Graduate Education

Climate change is a multi-faceted crisis, experts agree – and so is the University of Oregon’s response.For the second year running, the university on Wednesday, April 10, will host complementary events – free and open to the public – during which professors, students and visiting experts will present different facets of this important global challenge and drive the public discourse into new areas.

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

A new study by University of Oregon researchers has taken contact sport to a new – and very scientific – level.The researchers investigated how the skin microbiome – the microorganisms we can’t see, but help define who we are – is transmitted between players in a contact sport, using roller derby as their model system. The invisible microbes contribute to health in such ways as educating the immune system, protecting people from pathogens and mediating skin disorders.