EUGENE, Ore. — (May 13, 2013) — Your brain often works on autopilot when it comes to grammar. That theory has been around for years, but University of Oregon neuroscientists have captured elusive hard evidence

EUGENE, Ore. — (May 10, 2013) — "Oregon Archaeology," written by three archaeologists at the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History, earned a 2013 Oregon Heritage Excellence Award from the Oregon Heritage Commission.

EUGENE, Ore. -- (May 7, 2013) -- A new University of Oregon commuter survey shows that students, faculty and staff are increasingly getting to campus by methods other than the single-person car trip.The finding comes as the UO community gears up for the annual Business Commute Challenge, a weeklong promotion of active and healthy transportation options.

EUGENE, Ore. -- (May 2, 2013) -- A surprisingly large number of women 18 or older choose to delay or skip monthly menstruation by deviating from the instructions of birth-control pills and other hormonal contraceptives, a team of UO researchers and others found, in a study of female students at the university.

EUGENE, Ore. -- (April 29, 2013) -- More children than ever are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders. Is that proof of an epidemic – or a change in how we define and diagnose this developmental disability?An international expert and a team of specialists from the University of Oregon invite the public to get the facts on autism – and the latest developments – at a seminar and panel.

EUGENE, Ore. — (April 24, 2013) — University of Oregon archaeologist Jon M. Erlandson, whose research has found some of the earliest evidence of seafaring societies being part of the peopling of the Americas, is among newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

EUGENE, Ore. — (April 23, 2013) — A specific region of the brain is in play when children consider their identity and social status as they transition into adolescence

EUGENE, Ore. — (April 18, 2013) — Using spinning disk microscopy on barely day-old zebra fish embryos, University of Oregon scientists have gained a new window on how synapse-building components move to worksites in the central nervous system.

EUGENE, Ore. — (April 11, 2013) — University of Oregon biologist Jessica Green is among 175 U.S. and Canadian scholars, artists and scientists named as 2013 Guggenheim Fellows

EUGENE, Ore. — (April 9, 2013) — Animals have helped sculpt human societies throughout history, but they are not getting proper credit for their influence

EUGENE, Ore. — (March 25, 2013) — Being exposed to arguing parents is associated with the way babies' brains process emotional tone of voice, according to a newly published study