July 2019 New Awards

K3 surfaces, derived categories, and cubic fourfolds

PI: Nicholas Addington
Amount: $150,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Yr5 ORI Subaward: Depressed Mothers' Parenting of Adolescents: Social-cognitive & Neural Mechanisms [Amendment #5]

PI: Nick Allen
Amount: $306,788
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)(Oregon Research Institute)

Urbanism, Environment, and Household Ecology at Angkor

PI: Alison Carter
Amount: $5,000
Sponsor: Earthwatch Institute

An Investigation of Direct Instruction Spoken English for At-Risk English Learners (Year 3)

PI: Erin Chaparro
Amount: $87,917
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (USDE)(Oregon Research Institute)

Museum Science Adventures: Increasing Family Learning in Rural Oregon

PI: Ann Craig
Amount: $23,265
Sponsor: Ford Family Foundation(University of Oregon Foundation)

Implementing a brief mindfulness-based group intervention to reduce harmful drinking and promote well-being among college students

PI: Jessica Cronce
Amount: $2,500
Sponsor: Pacific Coast College Health Association

Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program (Year 2)

PI: Danley Danley
Amount: $266,199
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (USDE)

Conserving Oregon's Fossil Heritage through Fossil Preparation

PI: Edward Davis
Amount: $50,505
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Interior (DOI)

Twentieth Century Children's Literature: Exploring the Past, Understanding the Present

PI: David de Lorenzo
Amount: $59,758
Sponsor: National Archives and Records Administration

SMART Optimization of a Parenting Program for Active-Duty Families

PI: Dave DeGarmo
Amount: $101,425
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)(University of Minnesota)

Collaborative Research: Testing Evolutionary Pseudocongruence Along the Baja California Peninsula Through Integration of Geologic and Genomic Data

PI: Rebecca Dorsey
Amount: $645,706
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

NSF Student Travel Support for the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2019)

PI: Dejing Dou
Amount: $24,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Collaborative research:Mapping bed forces to granular flow properties (non-lead)

PI: Josef Dufek
Amount: $240,280
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

TRIBOELECTRIC CHARGING OF PARTICLES ON TITAN: ASSESSING THE ROLE OF CHARGING AND AGGREGATION ON THE GEOMORPHOLOGY OF TITAN

PI: Josef Dufek
Amount: $301,327
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

QuarkNet Summer 2019 Workshop - MOU Year 7

PI: Raymond Frey
Amount: $2,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation(University of Notre Dame)

Cellular memories of a stressful past: encoding by epigenetic regulation of RNA

PI: David Garcia
Amount: $40,000
Sponsor: Medical Research Foundation

Sibling Techniques for Enhancing Play and Support (STEPS) for a Sibling Bond for Children with ASD (fellowship)

PI: Lindsay Glugatch
Amount: $1,971
Sponsor: Organization for Autism Research

Using Zebrafish to Understand Spine Growth and Disease

PI: Daniel Grimes
Amount: $100,000
Sponsor: Donald and Delia Baxter Foundation(University of Oregon Foundation)

Porter Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award - Emily Larson [Renewal]

PI: John Halliwill
Amount: $28,300
Sponsor: American Physiological Society

Using zebrafish to understand and treat myotonic dystrophy digestive phenotypes

PI: Melissa Hinman
Amount: $210,000
Sponsor: Muscular Dystrophy Association

Lincoln County Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan Update

PI: Michael Howard
Amount: $45,000
Sponsor: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)(Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development)

Leveraging Deep Probabilistic Models to Understand the Neural Bases of Subjective Experience

PI: Ben Hutchinson
Amount: $9,270
Sponsor: National Science Foundation(Northeastern University)

Katherine Zarn Sequencing Project

PI: Melodi Jayne
Amount: $24,255
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

AlOx coating of high temperature materials

PI: Darren Johnson
Amount: $134,085
Sponsor: Minteq International Inc.

A Mechanistic Approach to Solid State Synthesis by Controlling Interfacial Reactions

PI: David Johnson
Amount: $450,000
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Multiple-choice Online Causal Comprehension Assessment for Adults: Measuring Individual Differences in Reading Comprehension Ability of Struggling Adult Learners by Text Type (MOCCA-College)

PI: Patrick Kennedy
Amount: $50,151
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (USDE)(University of California)

Mechanisms of age- and experience-dependent neural plasticity and behavior

PI: Cliff Kentros
Amount: $76,531
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)(University of Chicago, The)

Collaborative Research: ARTS: Understanding Tropical Invertebrate Diversity Through Integrative Revisionary Systematics and Training

PI: Svetlana Maslakova
Amount: $99,468
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Youth Violence Prevention Interventions that Incorporate Racism/Discrimination Prevention (Subaward from University of Alabama)

PI: Kent McIntosh
Amount: $14,000
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)(University of Alabama)

Targeting Hypertension and Insulin Resistance with Heat Therapy

PI: Christopher Minson
Amount: $300,000
Sponsor: American Heart Association

Code Quality Research

PI: Boyana Norria
Amount: $114,987
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing: 2019/2020

PI: Gabe Paquette
Amount: $141,440
Sponsor: Calderwood Charitable Foundation(Wellesley College)

University of Oregon Economic Development Center (EDAUC) 2019-20

PI: Robert Parker
Amount: $143,025
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)

SparkNW USDA REDA (Renewable Energy Development Assistance)

PI: Robert Parker
Amount: $100,000
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Oregon21 Car-free Access

PI: Robert Parker
Amount: $20,001
Sponsor: Travel Oregon

Characterizing the Influence of ICMES at Mercury Using MESSENGER Observations and Multifluid Simulations[NASA Grant Transfer]

PI: Carol Paty
Amount: $251,280
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Ubiquitous biosensing through engineered histidine kinases

PI: Calin Plesa
Amount: $430,000
Sponsor: Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Downtown Riverfront Redevelopment Project, Eugene, Lane County

PI: Chris Ruiz
Amount: $117,145
Sponsor: City of Eugene

Old Highway 99N Winchester Bridge to Pleasant Ave Improvements Project, Douglas County; Monitoring

PI: Chris Ruiz
Amount: $46,341
Sponsor: David Evans and Associates, Inc.

Market District Commons Affordable Housing Project

PI: Chris Ruiz
Amount: $26,814
Sponsor: Homes for Good

Bay Area Site Effects: Exploring Site Spectral Physical Parameters

PI: Valerie Sahakian
Amount: $91,712
Sponsor: U.S. Geological Survey

Educate the Educators: Diffusing the SCYP University-Community Partnership Model (Year 3)

PI: Marc Schlossberg
Amount: $23,250
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)(Portland State University)

NITC UO Student Scholars Program (year 8)

PI: Marc Schlossberg
Amount: $45,000
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)(Portland State University)

NITC LiveMove Student Group & Visiting Scholar Support (Year 8)

PI: Marc Schlossberg
Amount: $30,000
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)(Portland State University)

NITC UO Executive Committee Member (year 8)

PI: Marc Schlossberg
Amount: $25,000
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)(Portland State University)

Unpredictable Scheduling Practices in Oregon - Second Phase

PI: Ellen Scott
Amount: $20,000
Sponsor: United Food and Commercial Workers Union

CAREER: The Evolution of fine-scale recombination landscapes

PI: Nadia Singh
Amount: $259,523
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Rural Opportunities Initiative

PI: Jo Smith
Amount: $56,726
Sponsor: Meyer Memorial Trust(Business Oregon)

Doctoral Dissertation Research: Investigating the effects of diet on biological age through a rhesus macaque epigenetic clock.

PI: Kristin Sterner
Amount: $29,379
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

U.S. ATLAS SUPER2019 Undergraduate Research

PI: David Strom
Amount: $5,226
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Rapid Magnitude Assessment of Large Earthquakes from Machine Learning [fellowship]

PI: Amanda Thomas
Amount: $44,946
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Oregon Extended Assessment Subcontract - by invitation

PI: Gerald Tindal
Amount: $510,250
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (USDE)(Oregon Department of Education)

Acceptability of Behavioral Treatment for Challenging Behavior Among Chinese Parents (fellowship)

PI: Qi Wei
Amount: $1,007
Sponsor: Organization for Autism Research

[OVPRI Innovation Fund - Ksana Health] Development of study specific web portals for the EARS tool

PI: Chuck Williams
Amount: $45,000
Sponsor: University of Oregon Foundation(University of Oregon OVPRI Innovation Fund)