Academics and Research

Biologist Kelly Sutherland and mathematician Benjamin Elias will use the Sloan awards to help their research, travel and grad students.

UO-led research in Ecuador unravels how a rare plant species lures pollinators with a mushroom-like part.

More than $5,000 in prizes will be awarded through poster and panel presentations and, for the first time, five-minute 'blitz talk' competitions.

A UO researcher's decision to get some sleep gave a super-sensitive detector a chance to confirm Einstein's theory on gravity and space-time.

Research in Colombia, Ecuador and Robert Schofield's UO lab shows how these ants use their legs and divide their leaf-processing duties.

Ricardo Valencia wants people to be more aware of how the American media has covered the surge of unaccompanied children entering the U.S. from Central America.

The award from the W.M. Keck Foundation will support an interdisciplinary research team led by physicist Richard Taylor.

Emilie Hooft and Doug Toomey charted the course of a month-long journey to provide the clearest detail yet of volcanic plumbing deep under the seafloor.

UO-led group proposes that an evolutionary change of protein interactions in cells some 600 million years ago changed life on Earth.

Basic research in Chris Doe's lab uncovers protein changes that someday could be targeted for new therapies for some human cancers.