August 2025 New Awards
Task Order #2 (M0387): Lane County Policy Lab 2025-26
PI: Joshua Bruce
Amount: $100,000
Sponsor: Lane County
American Psychological Association (APA) Dissertation Research Award
PI: Christopher Capron
Amount: $4,950
Sponsor: American Psychological Association
In Situ Data Analysis Through Physics-constrained and Goal-oriented Tensor Decompositions
PI: Jee Choi
Amount: $15,000
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
PI: Krista Chronister
Amount: $1,289,942
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
POSE: Phase I: MEW Ecosystem for Transformative Research (METR)
PI: Paul Dalton
Amount: $299,590
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
The Role of Nuclear Factor Erythroid 2-related factor 2 in Sarcopenic Obesity
PI: Wagner Dantas
Amount: $742,020
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Oregon Heritage Task Order#1 (M0399): Continuity of Operations Plan
PI: Aniko Drlik-Muehleck
Amount: $25,000
Sponsor: Oregon Parks & Recreation Department
CAREER: Physics-Informed Deep Learning for Understanding Earthquake Slip Complexity
PI: Brittany Erickson
Amount: $193,936
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
BCSER: What motivates general educational science students? A mixed methods approach
PI: Andrea Goering
Amount: $350,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Characterizing individual responsiveness to engineered mito-stimulatory probiotics
PI: Karen Guillemin
Amount: $1,025,888
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Homological Mirror Symmetry and Fukaya Categories from a Toric Perspective
PI: Andrew Hanlon
Amount: $111,345
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
RaMP: Rosetta Commons Post-baccalaureate Research and Mentoring Program Fellowship
PI: Parisa Hosseinzadeh
Amount: $92,118
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Klamath County NHMP Update
PI: Michael Howard
Amount: $81,000
Sponsor: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
ODOE Energy Resilience Plan - Clatsop County
PI: Michael Howard
Amount: $50,000
Sponsor: Oregon Department of Energy
Improving Community Decision-Making to Protect Vulnerable Populations from Compound Wildfire Hazards
PI: Heidi Huber-Stearns
Amount: $61,127
Sponsor: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Expanding the supramolecular chemistry of carbon nanohoops
PI: Ramesh Jasti
Amount: $320,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Adapting the 'Red Light, Purple Light' Intervention for Young Autistic Children: A Single-Case Design Study on Enhancing Self-Regulation Skills
PI: Yitong Jiang
Amount: $2,000
Sponsor: Organization for Autism Research
CCI Phase I: NSF Center for Aqueous Supramolecular Chemistry
PI: Darren Johnson
Amount: $244,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Dynamic covalent self-assembly and self-sorting of 2D and 3D nanohoops and cages
PI: Darren Johnson
Amount: $588,783
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
OR99E Willamette R (Harrisburg) Bridge
PI: Jaime Kennedy
Amount: $14,427
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
North Fork Klaskanine Intake Intensive Level Survey
PI: Jaime Kennedy
Amount: $18,711
Sponsor: Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife
Scobert Gardens Park Project
PI: Jaime Kennedy
Amount: $22,005
Sponsor: City of Eugene
Shifting Spaces: Understanding Land Use and Zoning Adaptations for the Autonomous and Shared Mobility Era
PI: Nicolas Larco
Amount: $100,000
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
DLCD Task Order #3: Housing Production Strategy Review (Phase 2)
PI: Rebecca Lewis
Amount: $50,000
Sponsor: Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development
Evaluating stem cell therapy derived from uterine tissues for OA disease modification
PI: Angela Lin
Amount: $64,553
Sponsor: Gallant Therapeutics
Self-assembled VH spheroids for matrix-assisted cartilage implantation in elderly and obese osteoarthritis patients
PI: Gabriella Lindberg
Amount: $100,000
Sponsor: Orthopaedic Research & Education Foundation
Theme 6A: INVITE: Inclusive and Innovative Intelligent Technologies for Education
PI: Daniel Lowd
Amount: $110,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Collaborative Research: IUSC: Using the past, present, and future to investigate the effects of global change agents on tree reproduction across the boreal forest
PI: Melissa Lucash
Amount: $469,943
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
CMLC Internships – Aquarium Care and Animal Husbandry
PI: Patricia Mace
Amount: $12,300
Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Trigger Global Event Processor R&D (Dudley/Research Tech)
PI: Stephanie Majewski
Amount: $68,184
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
US ATLAS Trigger and Data Acquisition System Upgrade, Event Filter Tracking
PI: Stephanie Majewski
Amount: $59,536
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Trigger Global Event Processor R&D (Dudley/Research Tech)
PI: Stephanie Majewski
Amount: $88,584
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Interaction of age-associated sensory and motor changes on cognitive aspects of human function
PI: Michelle Marneweck
Amount: $35,000
Sponsor: Oregon Health and Science University
Data-driven control of primate prefrontal neural activity using patterned microstimulation
PI: Luca Mazzucato
Amount: $1,219,864
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Implementation and Evaluation of the TBI System of Support for Kids (TBI SOS 4 Kids) Model
PI: Melissa McCart
Amount: $700,000
Sponsor: Toyota
Family Re-union: facilitation of healthy student - parent dialogue
PI: David McCormick
Amount: $25,388
Sponsor: Unlikely Collaborators, Inc
Developing and Testing a Coordinated Knowledge System for Improving the Use of Research Evidence in Clinical Decisions around Cultural Adaptations
PI: Alayna Park
Amount: $550,000
Sponsor: William T. Grant Foundation
Virtual Risks and Hero Projects: Activating Transformative Community Actions for Climate Resilience Against Extreme Weather Events
PI: Daniel Pimentel
Amount: $108,040
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC)
Mechanisms of Sex Determination in Zebrafish
PI: John Postlethwait
Amount: $36,875
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Categorical Invariants of Matroids
PI: Nicholas Proudfoot
Amount: $214,687
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
PNW Hydrogen Hub
PI: Alai Reyes-Santos
Amount: $39,287
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
CAREER: Inviting all 21st century problem-solvers: Building equity by de-tracking middle school mathematics instruction
PI: Jennifer Ruef
Amount: $474,309
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
US101: MP 304.6–304.8 Retz Creek Landslide - Geotech Monitoring
PI: Christopher Ruiz
Amount: $44,014
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
South Fork Molalla River Bridge Determination of Eligibility Documentation, Clackamas County
PI: Christopher Ruiz
Amount: $16,137
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
Collaborative Research: Estimating shallow shear-wave velocity in basins throughout the Pacific Northwest: an imperative for accurate ground motion prediction
PI: Valerie Sahakian
Amount: $282,492
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Tools and Methodologies to Transition DTRA High Fidelity Codes to Leverage Heterogeneous Accelerated Processing Units
PI: Sameer Shende
Amount: $74,074
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
Fostering Student Motivation [3 sections] - Fall 2025
PI: Beth Sheppard
Amount: $53,340
Sponsor: U.S. Department of State (DOS)
Successful Classrooms [2 sections] - Fall 2025
PI: Beth Sheppard
Amount: $35,560
Sponsor: U.S. Department of State (DOS)
Giro Hardgoods Design
PI: Susan Sokolowski
Amount: $12,500
Sponsor: Giro Hardgoods
Ion signaling, cell transitions, and organ scaling during fin regeneration
PI: Kryn Stankunas
Amount: $41,079
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Collaborative Research: Developmental Selection During Reproduction Contributes to Plant Evolution and Adaptation
PI: Matthew Streisfeld
Amount: $507,077
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
A New Opportunity for Protecting Zebrafish Genetic Resources: Development of a Reproducible Repository System for Community-driven Cryopreservation
PI: Zoltan Varga
Amount: $722,774
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Quantum spin mechanics with diamond color centers
PI: Hailin Wang
Amount: $375,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Engineering the Immune and Fibrotic Response in Volumetric Muscle Loss
PI: Nick Willett
Amount: $89,294
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Collaborative Research: Energizing New Pathways to STEM Careers
PI: Katherine Wright
Amount: $66,027
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
A Study in Equity: Oregon's Ninth Grade Transition
PI: Keith Zvoch
Amount: $118,063
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education (USDE)