sport and wellness

UO professor helps Old Navy streamline women's sizes

Susan Sokolowski helped devise a sizing system that better matches clothes to bodies

How parents feed kids is linked to emotional eating, study says

Researchers also looked at the role parent gender plays in childhood food issues

Providing vitamins to SE Asian women can boost infant health

UO psychologists find providing thiamine to mothers helps infants’ cognitive development

Closing the vaccination gap will take new methods, study finds

Using incentives and more trusted messengers could help win over some doubters

UO experts: Olympian’s exit spotlights pressure on athletes

Fans can feel invested in their favorite athletes while missing their humanity, they say

Study will examine whether 'zooming out' helps smokers quit

High-level thinking may help smokers get past the immediate craving for a cigarette

Study: Rising heat plus strenuous jobs could hurt worker health

A UO-led study examines the toll heat takes in physically demanding occupations

Study looks at how the human microbiome varies with location

Work by a UO team shows home environment is a strong predictor of microbe similarity

New study probes the effects of opioid use during pregnancy

Adrianne Huxtable is examining how the drugs affect developing infants and their breathing

Hayward Field sensors to advance UO wildfire smoke initiative

Monitors will further research around wildfire smoke and aid both athletes and fans