Research Innovation Awards

Research Innovation Award recipients and presenters (left to right) Michael Haley, Scott Coltrane, George Sprague, Richard Linton, Dietrich Belitz, Shawn Lockery, David Tyler, Ray Weldon II, Jennifer J. Freyd, Gregory Bothun, Eugene Humphreys, Raymond E. Frey, Hal Sadofsky, Lou Moses and Kathy Cashman.

Research on display from Shawn Lockery’s lab. Using a combination of electrophysiology, brain imaging, microfluidics, and mathematics, his team investigates the neuronal basis of chemotaxis, a form of spatial orientation behavior in the roundworm.

Vice President Richard Linton introduces the fourth annual Research Innovation Awards that recognize this year’s eight exemplars of UO research excellence in the Natural and Physical Sciences.

Scott Coltrane, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, emphasizes that all of the recipients have gone well beyond the normal expectations for research achievements, and are truly scientific innovators.

Kathy Cashman, Department Head of Geological Sciences congratulates award recipient Eugene Humphreys.

In addition to $1,000 in research support funding, all Research Innovation Award recipients receive engraved handmade glass trays from the local artisan studio Chris Paulson Glass.

Dean Coltrane congratulates award recipient David Tyler.

Before and after the event, guests view research posters and materials of honored faculty award recipients.

Award recipient Raymond Frey studies the area of elementary particle physics, also known as high-energy physics, and his Research Innovation Award.

The Research Innovation Awards are made possible in part by funding from our sponsors TIAA-CREF and Klarquist Sparkman , LLC. Presenter Joseph Bauman, of TIAA-CREF, congratulates the 2009 Research Innovation Award recipients.

photographs by Jack Liu