sport and wellness

Inclusive sportswear designer joins academy of inventors

Professor Susan Sokolowski holds 106 patents and joins a class of 164 fellows

Chemists develop new blueprint for enzyme involved in cancer

The finding could boost efforts to build more-specific cancer therapeutics

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