July 2026 New Awards

Everyday Scientists

PI: Victoria A. Allen
Amount: $3,190
Sponsor: Research Amer!ca (Research America)

Mechanisms of Light Regulated Translation in Chloroplasts

PI: Alice Barkan
Amount: $1,000,000
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

US 101: Jim Creek Culvert Project

PI: Andrew R. Boehm
Amount: $19,440
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Interior (DOI)

BizOR Task Order #9: Business Oregon Program Review

PI: Joshua D. Bruce
Amount: $250,000
Sponsor: Business Oregon

Single-Cell Resolution of The Genetic Basis of Regulatory Evolution in Threespine Stickleback

PI: William A. Cresko
Amount: $1,051,508
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

APOE, arterial stiffness, and cerebrovascular function [APS Porter Fellowship]

PI: Skylyn J. Ferguson
Amount: $28,300
Sponsor: American Physiological Society

Mechanisms controlling Ect2 and Cyk4-mediated activation of Rho1

PI: Scott D. Hansen
Amount: $1,129,328
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Graduate Training in Molecular Biology and Biophysics

PI: Michael J. Harms
Amount: $200,997
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

National Academy of Education/Spencer Research Fellowship

PI: Sage T. Hatch
Amount: $100,000
Sponsor: Spencer Foundation

ES: Modulating Protein Activity in Tissue Repair using Engineered Affinity-based Biomaterials [MIRA R35 Equipment Supplement][ASSIST: 2102430]

PI: Marian H. Hettiaratchi
Amount: $51,431
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

The Rosetta Commons Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalureates (RaMP)

PI: Parisa Hosseinzadeh
Amount: $67,655
Sponsor: Rosetta Commons

Exploration of Radial Conjugation Pathways in PI-Electron Materials

PI: Ramesh Jasti
Amount: $881,770
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Extraordinary Electronic Switching of Thermal Transport

PI: David C. Johnson
Amount: $127,177
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

PNNL-UO Distinguished Graduate Research Program (Casey Mezerkor)

PI: Paul A. Kempler
Amount: $61,311
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Suzanne Arlie Parking Area Monitoring

PI: Jaime L. Kennedy
Amount: $13,475
Sponsor: City of Eugene

Youth-Generated Research and Its Pathways to Change [William T. Grant Foundation Mentoring Grant]

PI: Mariah Kornbluh
Amount: $60,000
Sponsor: William T. Grant Foundation

Measuring the Impact of Youth-Generated Research on Research Use and Youth Outcomes: A School Climate Youth-Participatory Action Research Intervention

PI: Mariah Kornbluh
Amount: $959,000
Sponsor: William T. Grant Foundation

Child Care Infrastructure Program

PI: Suzanne Lamoureux
Amount: $92,347
Sponsor: Business Oregon

Partially wrapped contact Fukaya categories and microlocal sheaf categories

PI: Hanming Liu
Amount: $38,400
Sponsor: Simons Foundation

Structure and Relations of Proteins and Nucleic Acids (equipment supplement)

PI: Andrew Marcus
Amount: $112,970
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Larval dispersal capacity and realized connectivity: integration of physical transport models, larval plasticity, and gene flow in the north central Pacific [NSF sub from Hawaii]

PI: Peter Marko
Amount: $130,414
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Motor planning under haptic uncertainty in older adults [OCTRI KL2]

PI: Michelle Marneweck
Amount: $99,148
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Nemerteans of Southern California and Curacao - Species Discovery

PI: Svetlana Maslakova
Amount: $5,000
Sponsor: The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census

RI: Factorial state space models to disentangle multiscale dynamics in cortex-wide activity

PI: Luca Mazzucato
Amount: $897,184
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Miles de Manos: Testing the Efficacy of a School-based Youth Violence Preventive Intervention in a High Risk International Context (formerly e25590)[Year 5]

PI: Heather McClure
Amount: $14,437
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Unmasking neuromodulatory control of locomotion

PI: James Murray
Amount: $82,151
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Neural mechanisms underlying novelty-driven foraging and long-term memory

PI: Vishnu Murty
Amount: $765,147
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

The influence of mesolimbic-hippocampal interactions on episodic memory during active information seeking [Transfer: NIH R01DA055259]

PI: Vishnu Murty
Amount: $443,787
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Mid Columbia Economic Development District CEDS Data Update

PI: Robert Parker
Amount: $6,000
Sponsor: Mid-Columbia Economic Development District

Supporting At-Risk Fathers: Examining Multilevel Forms of Social Support for Fathers With Substance Misuse Across the Transition to Parenthood

PI: Kristin Perry
Amount: $25,000
Sponsor: Mental Research Institute

Estrogen and Mechanisms of Psychotic-like Experiences in the Transition to Adolescence

PI: Jennifer Pfeifer
Amount: $56,970
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

EE Wilson Electric Gate Damage Assessment

PI: Christopher Ruiz
Amount: $40,274
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Interior (DOI)

West Bank Path Extension (Eugene)

PI: Christopher Ruiz
Amount: $25,308
Sponsor: City of Eugene

US 101 at Market Ave Enhanced Crossing

PI: Christopher Ruiz
Amount: $26,053
Sponsor: Oregon Department of Transportation

Creswell Clay Target Sports New Skeet Field

PI: Christopher Ruiz
Amount: $16,161
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Interior (DOI)

Comprehensive Documentation of Four Peripheral and Undocumented Rma Languages

PI: Nathaniel Sims
Amount: $343,095
Sponsor: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

NSF FF: Planning: Promoting Success in Algebra by Integrating Best Practices in Small-Group Learning with AI

PI: Mark Van Ryzin
Amount: $49,967
Sponsor: National Science Foundation

Establishing an Integrated Platform for Diploid Germplasm Conservation in Zebrafish (Danio rerio)

PI: Zoltan Varga
Amount: $24,775
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Prototype Nike Hyperslides Testing

PI: Bradley Wilkins
Amount: $41,549
Sponsor: Nike, Inc.

Preclinical Evaluation of Anti-IL-11R and TNFa/TL1A Blockade in Osteoarthritis Models[Absci Industry Services Agreement - Testing Services]

PI: Nick Willett
Amount: $163,000
Sponsor: Absci

Civil War Prisons and the Persistence of Confederate Memory [Visiting Scholar Fellowship Program]

PI: Timothy Williams
Amount: $95,000
Sponsor: Pennsylvania State University, The