News Archive

The sun sets behind the College of Education on a clear winter day.
Research
November 1, 2023
Research awards, seed grant funding now accepting proposals
The Faculty Research Awards and Research Seed Grant programs are accepting applications through January 14, 2024.
Internal funding Research Awards
Four children wearing backpacks and carrying books run up a staircase in a school.
Research
October 24, 2023
Children’s mental health development study receives $1.9M infusion
The landmark effort investigates how health outcomes are impacted by a range of exposures and experiences, as well as timing.
Child/youth Counseling Psychology and Human Services Education Mental Health Prevention Science Institute
The red brick College of Education buildings at the University of Oregon seen from above.
Research
October 17, 2023
Justice for bilingual children in speech-language pathology
Latinx children are more likely to be misdiagnosed with communications disorders. University of Oregon researchers are creating tools to advance equity in speech-language pathology.
Child/youth Communication Disorders and Sciences Community Engagement Education Internal funding Prevention Science Institute
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
Headshot of Christine Dixon Thiesing.
Innovation
October 5, 2023
Dixon Thiesing joins UO as innovation associate vice president
Christine Dixon Thiesing brings a deep knowledge of guiding intellectual property through the commercialization process.
Launch Oregon Translational Opportunity Program
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
Headshot of Michelle Jacob.
Research
October 4, 2023
Placing kinship traditions at the center of research with the Yakama Nation
Michelle Jacob has received a grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to create resources for researchers that honor traditional Indigenous storytelling as key to research, equitable evaluation, and learning.
Arts and Sciences Community Engagement Education Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies