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![A diagram of cats shows how small RNA pathways contribute to gene expression in offspring](/sites/default/files/styles/article_image_16_9/public/2024-10/Screenshot%202024-10-14%20at%205.02.29%E2%80%AFPM.png?h=c86274b7&itok=Q0M1n2Ya)
October 14, 2024
Undergraduate research experiences help students explore interests and consider career options.
Arts and Sciences
Biology
Undergraduate Research
![Research participant sits in a chair and has an electroencephalogram (EEG) cap placed on their head.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_image_16_9/public/2024-07/cap.jpg?h=02cb7f90&itok=3wVHCgHA)
September 27, 2024
UO researchers are studying if certain emotions have the same neurological effects as psychedelic drugs.
Arts and Sciences
Human physiology
Institute of Neuroscience
Mental Health
![any small arrows form an image of a swirling vortex and lines along a flat plane. The arrows are colored in red and blue to represent the direction of travel.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_image_16_9/public/2024-08/computerskyromions.png?h=80e32630&itok=yDqGtd85)
September 26, 2024
A UO physicist is investigating unique magnetic field patterns and their possible connection to hurricanes and black holes.
Arts and Sciences
Center for Advanced Materials Characterization in Oregon
Physics
![Man holds a small metal sensor in between his fingers to demonstrate the technology.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_image_16_9/public/2024-08/ongsensors.png?h=35494a46&itok=m6KIraVL)
September 13, 2024
Keat Ghee Ong’s lab is developing sensors that measure the amount of force applied to an area on the body.
Arts and Sciences
Biosensors
engineering for human performance
Knight Campus
Startup
![Lazar Isakharov uses a pipette to transfer material in a lab.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_image_16_9/public/2024-08/lazar%20in%20lab.jpeg?h=a8dd9f99&itok=AMOpHXj7)
September 11, 2024
VPRI Undergraduate Summer Fellow Lazar Isakharov is researching the potential of dietary zinc to prevent the increasingly common disease.
Arts and Sciences
Honors College
Human physiology
Undergraduate Research
![A scan of graphene trampoline and drum arrays is shown in black and white.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_image_16_9/public/2024-08/banner.png?h=cbfb0b2e&itok=cpKb1pk3)
September 4, 2024
A UO physicist celebrates happy accidents and the power of creativity in the scientific process.
Arts and Sciences
Physics
![Melissa Redford posing next to a wall of colorful worksheets that children use to keep track of their progress in the study.](/sites/default/files/styles/article_image_16_9/public/2024-08/redford%201.jpg?h=831345b6&itok=unbn26tO)
August 29, 2024
UO linguists are researching how children coordinate their breathing while speaking.
Arts and Sciences
Child/youth
Linguistics