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Support Research and Innovation at the UO

What begins as a question at Oregon can open a new window on the world. UO researchers turn discoveries into new knowledge, solutions, and startups that strengthen Oregon’s communities and economy. Your support fuels foundational discoveries, inspires students, connects disciplines and nurtures new ones, and moves ideas from the lab into the world.

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For additional information, please contact:

Vidusha Devasthali
Executive Director of Central Development Research Programs

Email: vidusha@uoregon.edu

Ways You Can Make an Impact

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Enhance Undergraduate Student Success

Undergraduate research transforms lives with hands-on learning. Students who engage in research are more likely to graduate career-ready and on time. At the University of Oregon, undergraduate students across all disciplines are making discoveries by putting what they learn in the classroom into practice. Your gift can help ensure more UO undergraduates have access to transformative research experiences.

Undergraduate Research Fund

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Promote Graduate Students: Our Future Leaders

Graduate students are the lifeblood of the UO’s research ecosystem and our nation’s R&D efforts. Whether at the lab bench, in the field, or deep in the archives, your gift can help graduate students make discoveries that help improve the world around us. Trained by our experienced faculty, they amplify the UO’s research impact through careers in industry, academia, public service and beyond. We invite you to invest in these future leaders.

Graduate Student Support Fund

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Fortify Research Resilience

Breakthroughs don’t happen on a predictable schedule. Achieving them requires sustained, consistent investment in researchers and their projects. You can help safeguard and sustain the University of Oregon’s research impact from disruptions in public funding and economic turmoil. Support our unwavering commitment to advancing discoveries that serve the public good.

Research and Innovation Fund

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Invest in Research Infrastructure

The University of Oregon punches above its weight in research by making strategic investments in infrastructure to maximize collaborative impact. You can help us attract top faculty and train the next generation of scientists. Stewardship for research instrumentation cuts across disciplines, bringing state of the art technology to big challenges in areas such as materials science, environmental science, and human health.

Core Facility Fund

Accelerate Discovery into Action

UO researchers are transforming discoveries into solutions that strengthen communities, drive economic growth, and improve lives. Gifts support early-stage research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and entrepreneurial pathways that help move promising ideas from the lab, classroom, and field into the world via commercialization. University of Oregon innovators have raised nearly $100 million in follow-on funding for 32 startup companies, creating hundreds of jobs. Your investment helps the UO innovation ecosystem thrive and grow. Support the Research and Innovation Fund.

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468

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Stories of Support

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The Research Traineeship Program outcomes include R&D partnerships and entrepreneurial training for nearly 150 students. Grant funding from the National Science Foundation was supplemented by David and Nancy Petrone’s gift to the Materials Science Institute innovation fund and by Dennis and Janet Beetham’s endowed fellowships and research center.

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Purchase of the UO's new scanning transmission electron microscope could not have been possible without additional funding provided by the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.

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Innovators at the UO are maximizing a state tax credit program for entrepreneurial skill-building and reinvigorating an innovation hub. But you can pick up where state funding leaves off and keep the momentum going.

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Investing in research is investing in our shared future—the trajectory of benefits extends far beyond the initial gift.

Bethany Jenkins, vice president for research and innovation

Gifts to support research and innovation at the University of Oregon are processed through the University of Oregon Foundation. For information about planned gifts, stock transfers, employer matching gifts, IRA distributions, and other giving options, visit the University of Oregon Giving website.

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