The University of Oregon Office of Research, Innovation, and Graduate Education has announced recipients of Idea Awards, designed to stimulate discussion and development of new collaborative research projects that enhance the UO’s research strengths.
Funds are used to encourage collaborative research and engage faculty in projects to facilitate research excellence. Recipients include:
S. Michael Strain and Jolinda Smith, CAMCOR and the Lewis Center for Neuroimaging, for “Workshop on Diffusion Ordered NMR Spectroscopy and Imaging.”
This workshop will explore the basic science and applications of magnetic resonance techniques that exploit the diffusion of molecules in the presence of pulsed magnetic field gradients. Invited experts will help UO bolster expertise in this field and support ongoing UO research in chemistry on energy conversion and nano-materials, in neuroscience on brain development, and in human physiology on muscle function. The workshop will include students and researchers from regional institutions including Oregon State University and commercial partners and clients, and foster interaction across both departments and institutions.
Cecilia Enjuto Rangel and Pedro García-Caro, Department of Romance Languages, for “Iberian and Latin American Studies Symposium.”
The Transatlantic studies symposium in November will bring together a group of more than 30 contributors who have been invited to publish an article in the Iberian and Latin American Studies Reader. This collection of essays conceptualizes how post-colonial Latin American and Iberian studies consider the historical, aesthetic, economic, social and political factors that underlie the processes of cultural production. The conference will afford all contributors an opportunity to engage in creative academic conversation that will allow them to incorporate ongoing intellectual discussions and debates into the final version of their essays.
Reza Rejaie, Computer and Information Science, for “Understanding User Behavior and Information Exchange in the Information Society.”
Because of the flexibility they provide for information exchange, social computing systems have rapidly expanded as global tools of social engagement and interaction. This project brings together seven faculty members from five departments: Rejaie, Sanjay Srivastava (psychology), Harsha Gangadharbatla (journalism and communication), Rylan Light (sociology) and Lynn Kahle (Lundquist College of Business). Together, they will collaborate on interdisciplinary research projects that characterize user behavior, connectivity, information generation and propagation in the context of different types of social computing systems.
- from the UO Office of Strategic Communications