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A microscopy image of stained, cross-sectional view of human skeletal muscle tissue.
Ducks Discover
May 8, 2025
Muscle memory, fluorescent worms, sister mountains: Photo contest showcases undergraduate research
In collaboration with the Undergraduate Research Symposium, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation hosted the second annual Research Revealed photo contest.
Biology Environmental Studies Physiology
A fire burns a hillside at night beside a river, off the surface of which the light of the fire is reflected.
Research
May 7, 2025
Research Seed Grant program awards grants to six projects
Funding goes to projects studying anti-inflammatory neural probes, wildfire’s effects on toxic soil contaminants, and markers of stress over the lifespan.
Arts and Sciences Biology Earth sciences Environmental Studies Global health Knight Campus Psychology Wildfire
Mushrooms grow on the edge of a wood fiber substrate.
Ducks Discover
April 7, 2025
Acoustic mushrooms, memes, maps, and more: Humanists explore our connections to the environment
Researchers across the UO are investigating ways to simultaneously improve human and environmental well-being.
Architecture Arts and Sciences Climate Change Design Environment Environmental Studies Honors College Institute for Health in the Built Environment Interdisciplinary Journalism and Communication Undergraduate Research UO Portland
A large group of people pose together
Ducks Discover
November 8, 2024
How do you value nature?
Articulating the values of human-nature relationships is a University of Oregon professor’s core contribution to a UN report on biodiversity.
Arts and Sciences Environmental Studies philosophy
View looking across a subalpine meadow with yellow wildflowers in bloom. The meadow is flanked by trees. In the background, the sun sets behind a jagged mountain peak.
Research
October 9, 2023
Accounting for carbon from forest to estuary
A transdisciplinary research partnership between the University of Oregon and the Kō-Kwel/Coquille Indian Tribe will inform a land management plan and build relationships.
Arts and Sciences Biology Climate Change Community Engagement Data science Environmental Studies Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Interdisciplinary Land Management
Landscape of a high desert portion of the Warm Springs reservation showing rolling hills of dry grassland.
Research
October 4, 2023
New center will protect Indigenous data sovereignty
The Indigenous data sovereignty research center will prioritize building relationships and fixing a systemic problem with new approaches.
Arts and Sciences Community Engagement Environment Environmental Studies Indigenous Data Sovereignty Research Center Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Interdisciplinary
A panoramic, aerial view of the UO campus, with Spencer Butte in view in the distance.
Research
July 5, 2023
I3 awards fund immune system evolution, literacy, chronic stress research
Five interdisciplinary teams have been awarded seed funding through the joint support of the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation and the Environment Initiative to pursue interdisciplinary research projects.
Biology Communication Disorders and Sciences Environmental Studies Global studies Indigenous Data Sovereignty Research Center Institute of Ecology and Evolution Institute of Molecular Biology Internal funding Prevention Science Institute Special education and clinical science