Top composition prize goes to UO's Robert Kyr
Kyr, a professor of composition, recently received the prestigious Arts and Letters Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Academics and Research
Oregon's rivers and glacial melt carve similar landscapes
Study of Greenland's ice sheet provides a new tool to measure glacial response to climate change, says a UO geologist.
CSWS awards $66,000 for faculty, student research
In all, 12 UO graduate students will receive awards ranging from $1,700 to more than $12,000. Four faculty scholars will receive awards ranging from $5,000 to $8,000 each.
Research gives voice to women activists jailed in wartime
Gina Herrmann reveals how working-class Spanish women coped with life-threatening experiences resulting from political resistance during the Spanish Civil War.
UO professor awarded prestigious fellowship
The fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies will provide Bayless and a colleague $200,000 to continue research on bread and culture.
Faculty members foster a community of scholars
A gift from longtime UO researchers Chris Holzapfel and Bill Bradshaw will create the Bradshaw and Holzapfel Research Professorship in Transformational Science and Mathematics.
UO educator earns lifetime achievement award
Over the course of 30-year career, Feekin won widespread acclaim as a trusted educator and mentor who both challenged and inspired her students.
Gillem and team win 7 of 17 awards for federal projects
The awards honored Gillem and his firm, The Urban Collaborative, for projects focused on American military installations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
A way toward unlocking the teenage brain?
UO scientists develop a live imaging system for mice that could help identify mechanisms of information processing and subsequent behavior.
Researchers get lathered up over Shea butter's history
University of Oregon anthropologists find evidence of production in layers of households built atop of each other for 1,600 years.