List of Sponsored Research Projects
Humanities
AEI |
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| Cheryl Ernst FY 2021 Online Professional English Network (OPEN) Program (Requested Letter of Support) $188,177, FHI 360 |
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English |
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| Helen Southworth Transatlantic Knowledge Production: Expanding Networks in The Modernist Archives Publishing Project $84,698, UK Research and Innovation |
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Linguistics |
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Melissa Baese-Berk Collaborative Research: A longitudinal approach to examining perception-production links in second language speech sound learning.$133,166, National Science Foundation |
Melissa Baese-Berk Context-specific speech perception and barriers to successful communication between healthcare providers and aging patients $250,000, James S. McDonnell Foundation |
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Don Daniels |
Jeff Magoto |
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Jeff Magoto |
Gabriela Perez Baez |
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Gabriela Perez Baez |
Janne Underriner |
Religious Studies |
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| David Hollenberg Modules to teach Arabic 101, 102, and 103 $36,787, Open Oregon Educational Resources |
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Natural Sciences
Biology |
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| Brendan Bohannan A unified theoretical framework for understanding symbiosis $564,000, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation |
Brendan Bohannan International partnership for advancing microbiome-informed aquaculture $393,680, Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
| Jeff Diez Collaborative research: BEE: Integrating evolutionary genetics and population ecology to detect contemporary adaptation to climate change across a species’ range $247,284, National Science Foundation |
Chris Doe Genetic and Molecular Studies of Neurogenesis $1,180,605, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Judith Eisen Decoding neural cell fate diversity [R21] $405,625, Cleveland State University |
Katie Fisher Genetic dissection of fluid flow signaling in Left-Right patterning of zebrafish[NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship- F31] $134,879, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
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David Garcia |
Daniel Grimes |
| Karen Guillemin Modulation of tissue iron by microbiota, inflammation, and environmental exposures $25,000, Oregon State University |
Lauren Hallett Restore into the future: post-fire rangeland restoration in the Great Basin $29,994, Montana State University |
| Zoe Irons Discovering Mechanisms Underlying the Formation of a Straight Body Axis $88,751, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Santiago Jaramillo Contributions of distinct auditory pathways to sound-driven choices $144,550, National Institutes of Health |
| Andrew Kern High-Performance Computing Cluster for Research and Innovation $575,000, University of Oregon Foundation |
Caitlin Kowalski Antimicrobial activity of skin-associated fungi alters pathogen adaptation $193,500, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation |
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Stilianos Louca |
Stilianos Louca Stochastic simulation of evolving planetary biospheres $55,000, Research Corporation for Science Advancement |
| Stilianos Louca Improving FAPROTAX, a popular tool for predicting metabolic phenotypes in microbiome surveys $387,240, National Science Foundation |
Stilianos Louca Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Award $666,000, Simons Foundation |
| Gabriel Luna-Arvizu How cells communicate through fluid flow signals $150,000, Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
Luca Mazzucato Causal power of cortical neural ensembles: mechanisms and utility for brain perturbations [NIMH R01 sub-award with NYU] $218,279, New York University |
| Cristopher Niell Cortical visual processing for navigation[R01 -BRAIN- UCSB] $652,816, University of California - Santa Barbara |
Lauren Ponisio MOA fixed price contract $15,000, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Inc. |
| Lauren Ponisio A holistic approach to determining the impact of an established exotic pollinator, Bombus impatiens, on bumble bee health in the Pacific Northwest. $119,951, State of Washington |
Bitty Roy Collaborative Proposal: MRA: Distributions of macrofungi: quantifying ecosystem and climate drivers of fungal reproduction $636,463, National Science Foundation |
| Alan Shanks The Annual Recruitment of Dungeness Crab Megalopae and the Prediction of the Future Commercial Catch; Funding for Spring/Summer 2021 $9,944, Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission |
Nadia Singh AGEP ACA: Engaging Leaders to Improve Diversity among STEM Faculty $100,501, National Science Foundation |
| Chris Smith Deep learning for spatial population genetics $67,174, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Melanie Spero CFF Transfer CIT to UO $15,069, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation |
| Melanie Spero Exploring Chlorate's Therapeutic Potential for Synergy with Conventional Antibiotics $30,000, Collins Medical Trust |
Kelly Sutherland Collaborative research: Plankton size spectra and trophic links in a dynamic ocean $349,438, National Science Foundation |
| George von Dassow Transient cytoskeletal arrays $67,849, University of Wisconsin System |
Monte Westerfield Semi-high throughput screen for drugs that prevent or slow retinal, auditory, and vestibular cell death in Usher syndrome $100,000, Usher Syndrome Society |
| Monte Westerfield Curation of Model Organism Phenotype and Disease Model data to Augment Gabriella Miller Kid's First Data Sets for Enhanced Discovery and Therapeutic Development $140,125, Jackson Laboratory |
Craig Young Born in the Abyss, a giant screen project $2,999,944, National Science Foundation |
Chemistry |
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| Shannon Boettcher Semiconductor-electrocatalyst contacts: theory, experiment, and applications to solar water photoelectrolysis $60,000, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
Shannon Boettcher Formate as an Energy Source to allow Sugar Fermentation with no net CO2 Generation: Integration of Electrochemistry with Fermentation $2,188,575, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
| Shannon Boettcher Commercialization of Advanced Bipolar Membranes $250,000, National Science Foundation |
Shannon Boettcher MRI: Acquisition of an Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometer for Quantitative Elemental Analysis of Natural and Engineered Materials $122,856, National Science Foundation |
| Shannon Boettcher Passivated anodes for electrolyzer applications $130,711, De Nora Tech LLC |
Carl Brozek Impacts of Dynamic Bonding on the Properties of Porous Materials $525,000, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
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Carl Brozek |
Carl Brozek |
| Marina Guenza Multi-scale modeling of macromolecular liquids, and macromolecules in solution $110,000, National Science Foundation |
Mike Harma |
| Christopher Hendon Hydrogen Atom Transfer Catalysis in Earth-Abundant Metal-Organic Frameworks $100,000, Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation |
David Johnson |
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Jim Prell |
Jim Prell |
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Julia Widom |
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Computer Science |
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| Zena Ariola Oregon Programming Languages Summer School 2022: Types, Semantics, and Program Reasoning $45,000, National Science Foundation |
Jee Choi Collaborative Research: PPoSS: Planning: Extreme-scale Sparse Data Analytics $75,000, National Science Foundation |
| Jee Choi 2nd Renewal: Optimizing Streaming Tensor Decomposition $158,699, Intel Federal LLC |
Ram Durairajan Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: ONSET: Optics-enabled Network Defenses for Extreme Terabit DDoS Attacks $400,000, National Science Foundation |
| Ram Durairajan CC* Integration-Large: Bringing Code to Data: A Collaborative Approach to Democratizing Internet Data Science $988,548, National Science Foundation |
Ram Durairajan CAREER: Argus: A Measurement-informed Learning Approach to Managing Multi-cloud Networks $529,090, National Science Foundation |
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Brittany Erickson |
Brittany Erickson |
| Allen Malony Sandia Chad Wood $52,498, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
Sameer Shende ECP Supercontainers $281,793, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
| Sameer Shende Exascale Compute Projecy (ECP) $173,380, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
Humphrey Shi Physics-driven Modeling and Learning for Person Recognition at a Distance and Altitude $1,133,396, Michigan State University |
| Michal Young Development of Open Educational Resources for CIS 210 & 211 $33,500, Open Oregon Educational Resources |
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Earth Sciences |
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| Edward Davis Collaborative Research: ABI Innovation: FuTRES, an Ontology-Based FunctionalTrait Resource for Paleo- and Neo-biologists $16,000, Howard University |
Diego Melgar Moctezuma Forecasting earthquake shaking intensity and tsunami amplitude from crustal deformation patterns with machine learning $550,195, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| Diego Melgar Moctezuma Rapid tsunami forecasts for New Zealand $86,086, Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Limited |
Diego Melgar Moctezuma Machine learning and GNSS displacements in ShakeAlert $95,609, U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) |
| Mark Reed IPA for James Palandri, USGS Volcanic gas studies $14,057, US. Geological Survey |
Josh Roering Geomorphic controls on soil organic carbon in fire-prone erosional landscapes $392,802, National Science Foundation |
| Josh Roering Actionable Natural Hazard Information for Coastal Alaska (ANHICA) $544,143, Sitka Sound Science Center |
Josh Roering Evaluating Landslide Debris Flow Impacts along ODOT Corridors $24,000, Oregon State University |
| Valerie Sahakian Seismic Generated Shaking and Sediment Mobilization: Collaborative Research with University of Oregon, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Oregon State University $38,031, U.S. Geological Survey |
Valerie Sahakian Validating synthetic ruptures for Earthquake Early Warning $29,349, Ocean Networks Canada |
| Dave Sutherland Characterizing environmental controls on ice melange distributions and associated ice-ocean feedbacks in Greenland $135,000, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
Amanda Thomas Large-scale carbon storage in saline volcanic basins [sub w/LBL] $20,002, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
| Amanda Thomas Towards a comprehensive earthquake catalog for the Pacific Northwest: Collaborative research with the University of Oregon and Boston University $79,763, U.S. Geological Survey |
Douglas Toomey Planning, Scoping and Preparing a sub-application for Multi-Hazards Monitoring and Alerting Networks and Resilient Communications Infrastructure that Mitigates Wildfire, Landslide, Flood, and Earthquake Risks in the Willamette Watershed Area, Supports Eme $588,070, Oregon Emergency Management |
| Douglas Toomey REVISED: Y1 Only, reduced: Support and Improvement of Shake Alert 2021-2023: Collaborative Research with Univ. of California Berkeley, Caltech, Univ. of Washington, and Univ. of Oregon $1,494,001, U.S. Geological Survey |
Douglas Toomey RVCOG ALERTWildfire: Phase 1, Revised $35,500, Rogue Valley Council of Governments |
| Meredith Townsend Collaborative Research: Ice Forcing in Arc Magma Plumbing Systems $303,508, National Science Foundation |
Meredith Townsend Collaborative Research: Investigating the role of topography and magma properties on dike pathways beneath stratovolcanoes using field data, analogue experiments, and modeling $308,426, National Science Foundation |
| James Watkins Ca and K isotopic study of igneous and metamorphic transport processes [sub with UC Berkeley] $25,000, University of California - Berkeley |
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Human Physiology |
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| Chris Chapman Exercise vs. heat therapy effects on kidney function in adults with untreated hypertension [F32 - NRSA] $137,384, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Ian Greenhouse Computational roles of inhibition in human action control $2,122,897, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Ian Greenhouse Reliability and regional specificity of glutathione and gamma-aminobutyric acid edited magnetic resonance spectroscopy in the human subcortex [R03] $147,500, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Mike Hahn Longitudinal estimation of injury risk and performance in community runners using wearable sensors $46,312, Casio, Inc. |
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Andrew Lovering |
Carrie McCurdy Metformin in Pregnancy: Fetal Consequences & Long-term Offspring Outcomes in an NHP Model $73,029, Baylor College of Medicine |
| Carrie McCurdy Lysine acetylation and skeletal muscle insulin action $36,859, University of California, San Diego |
Nicki Swann Morris K. Udall Centers of Excellence for Parkinson's Disease Research at Emory University $40,552, Emory University |
Mathematics |
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| Daniel Dugger RTG: Combinatorics, Geometry, Representation Theory, and Topology at University of Oregon $2,260,768, National Science Foundation |
Alexander Kleshchev Broué’s Conjecture, generalized Schur algebras, and quiver Hecke algebras $126,672, Simons Foundation |
| Robert Lipshitz Floer for Three: symplectic methods in low-dimensional topology $337,830, National Science Foundation |
Robert Lipshitz Refinements of Low-Dimensional Floer Homologies $111,139, Simons Foundation |
| N. Christopher Phillips NSF-BSF: Dynamics and operator algebras beyond the Elliott classification program $279,210, National Science Foundation |
Peter Ralph Scaling up computational genomics with tree sequences $556,834, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Yuan Xu Approximation and Localized Polynomial Frames on Conic Domains $42,000, Simons Foundation |
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Physics |
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| Ben Farr CAREER: Education and Discovery in Astrophysics with Gravitational Waves (revised budget) $400,000, National Science Foundation |
Raymond Frey LIGO Operations: R. Schofield $94,746, California Institute of Technology |
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| Laura Jeanty ITk TestBeam Collaboration with Argonne National Lab $6,300, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
Graham Kribs Theoretical Investigations in Particle Physics $1,265,000, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
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| Dean Livelybrooks Oregon Pathways to Industrial Research Careers: Diversifying STEM Research Talent with Community College, 4-Year, and Knight Campus Graduate Internship Scholarships $4,334,774, National Science Foundation |
Ben McMorran MRI Consortium: Development of Dynamic Multi-Modal, Multi-Dimensional HyperSpectral Imaging Capability for Soft/Hard Matter and Interfaces. $254,982, National Science Foundation |
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| Jayson Paulose CAREER: Non-Hermitian physics of spacetime-periodic soft matter $593,407, National Science Foundation |
Jayson Paulose Metamaterial design platform and dynamic building blocks for non-equilibrium, symmetry-violating manipulation of mechanical waves $646,563, National Science Foundation |
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| Josh Peterson Comparing calibration techniques of solar monitoring sensors $19,000, M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust |
Robert Schofield A Zinc-Histidine, Iron Phosphate, and Zinc Hydroxide Bio-Composite in Cutting and Puncturing Tools $550,000, National Science Foundation |
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| Robert Schofield Oregon Experimental Relativity Group: Monitoring, Measuring and Mitigating Environmental Influences on LIGO $100,000, National Science Foundation |
Brian Smith Temporal multimode transformations for quantum information science $400,000, National Science Foundation |
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| Brian Smith Quantum Communication Links using Coherent-Filter-Based Transmitter-Receiver Pairs $650,000, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
Brian Smith QuIC-TAQS: Implementation of a Neutral-Atom-Photonic-Cluster State $2,500,000, National Science Foundation |
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| Eric Torrence Collaborative Research: FASER and FASERnu at the Large Hadron Collider(non-lead) Budget revision $220,000, National Science Foundation |
Eric Torrence US ATLAS M&O Manager $61,336, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) |
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Psychology |
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| Nick Allen Early intervention for youth at high risk for bipolar disorder $359,587, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center |
Tyson Barker One Brooklyn Health Technical Assistance $100,000, One Brooklyn Health |
| Tyson Barker FUEL 1.5 Technical Assistance $550,000, Robin Hood Foundation |
Melynda Casement Mechanisms of Depression and Anhedonia in Adolescents: Linking Sleep Duration and Timing to Reward- and Stress-Related Brain Function $3,618,232, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Melynda Casement Mechanisms of Risky Alcohol Use in Young Adults: Linking Sleep Duration and Timing to Reward- and Stress-Related Brain Function $2,616,145, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Philip Fisher Alameda County RAPID survey planning $10,000, First 5 Alameda County |
| Philip Fisher RAPID-EC Employer Survey $75,000, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation |
Philip Fisher Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development-Early Childhood (RAPID EC) 2021: Schusterman Family Philanthropies $100,000, Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies |
| Philip Fisher Zero to Three RAPID $25,000, Zero to Three |
Philip Fisher RAPID for SF CYF (Walter and Elise Haas Fund) $25,000, Walter and Elise Haas Fund |
| Philip Fisher Coach Consultant Training $4,714, Children's Home Society of Washington |
Philip Fisher RAPID-EC (Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development - Early Childhood) 2021 Imaginable Futures $205,500, Imaginable Futures |
| Wanjia Guo Remapping of episodic memories in the human hippocampus [Resubmission of EPCS 30167] $108,975, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Gordon Hall Personal Relevance of Psychotherapy for Asian Americans: A mHealth problem-solving intervention to reduce stress[SBIR Fast-Track - Resubmission of EPCS 28736] $25,000, Trifoia (IRIS Media, Inc. dba Trifoia) |
| Cliff Kentros Circuits driving spatial coding deficits in epilepsy[R01 sub-award with Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai] $21,160, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai |
Kristen Lee Linking neuronal identity transcription factors to neural circuit establishment and maintenance [F32 - NRSA] $69,802, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Ulrich Mayr Calibrating the use of internal representations versus external information for the control of action $698,151, National Science Foundation |
Ulrich Mayr The organization of neural representations for flexible behavior in the human brain $2,437, Brown University |
| Melissa McCart Youth Brain Injury Screening and Support Project $159,750, State of Alaska |
Melissa McCart TBI Workshop and Education Programs [contract with the State of Washington] $506,000, State of Washington |
| Melissa McCart Understanding the Experience of People with TBI in Washington[Contract with the State of Washington DSHS] $467,500, State of Washington |
Shannon Peake FIND PCC Renewal $125,793, People's Community Clinic |
| Jennifer Pfeifer A prospective longitudinal study of transactional associations between social, neural, and hormonal changes and adolescent girls' mental health trajectories $3,633,001, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Jennifer Pfeifer Navigating Educational Trajectories in Neuroscience $1,294,071, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Michael Posner Toward Understanding Individuality $97,975, Office of Naval Research |
Matt Smear Ethologically relevant short-term memory in the olfactory bulb $1,076,370, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Nash Unsworth Variation in the intensity and consistency of attention during learning $455,666, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) |
Michael Wehr The interaction of cortical and subcortical processing in natural sensory behavior $1,690,659, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Michael Wehr Circuit mechanisms underlying network disruption and temporal processing deficits in Alzheimer's [R01] $3,298,420, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Victoria Williamson Longitudinal and Predictive Modeling to Relate Self-Evaluation and Depression in Adolescent Girls [F31] $156,564, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
| Janet Woodruff-Borden GEER Distance Learning[GEER Funding 20-075F: CARES Act] $103,107, State of Oregon |
Maureen Zalewski Regnier A longitudinal study of maternal self-injurious thoughts and behaviors at the perinatal transition $224,027, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention |
Social Sciences
Anthropology |
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| Alison Carter Power, Prasat and Periphery: Becoming Provincial Angkor $318,359, National Science Foundation |
Zachary DuBois Harnessing the power of text messaging to reduce HIV incidence in adolescent males across the United States $43,493, Center for Innovative Public Health Research |
| Stephen Frost Reconstructing the paleoecology of Woranso-Mille hominids using cercopithecoid taxonomy and dietary analysis. $14,841, Leakey Foundation |
Leah Lowthorp Deep Cosmopolitanism: Kutiyattam, Dynamic Tradition, and Globalizing Heritage in Kerala, India $40,000, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. |
| Josh Snodgrass World Health Survey Plus (WHS+) implementation and support $42,155, World Health Organization (WHO) |
Kirstin Sterner Development and comparison of multi-tissue and liver-specific epigenetic clock models to measure variation in biological aging in the rhesus macaque. $238,308, National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
Economics |
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| Alfredo Burlando A Second Chance at Financial Inclusion: The Impact of Repayment Plans and Incentives on Delinquent Digital Credit Borrowers $75,041, University of California - Berkeley |
Trudy Cameron Using Citizen Science to Understand the Non-market (Use) Values of Environmental Goods: An eBird and Wildfire Example $6,000, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) |
Environmental Studies |
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| Mark Carey Collaborative Research: NNA Research: Global changes, local impacts: Study of glacial fjords, ecosystems and communitiesin Greenland $301,374, National Science Foundation |
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Geography |
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| Sarah Cooley Evaluation of SmallSat Data for Mapping Surface Water Resources $64,945, University of Colorado |
Amy Lobben Doctoral Dissertation Research: Neurological Role of Cartographic Visual Contrast in Geospatial Cognition $29,500, National Science Foundation |
| Melissa Lucash Simulating forest management in the Elliott State Forest $96,155, Oregon State University |
James Meacham Phase 16: Cartographic support of Wyoming Migration Initiative Research and Outreach (KFF) $15,000, University of Wyoming |
| James Meacham Phase 17: Cartographic support of Wyoming Migration Initiative Research and Outreach (USGS) $18,818, University of Wyoming |
Johnny Ryan Role of clouds on the Greenland Ice Sheet's contribution to sea-level rise $290,152, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
| Johnny Ryan Towards global characterization of inland water reservoir use from space(Grant Transfer from Brown University) $231,283, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) |
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Global Studies |
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| Dennis Galvan Oregon Public Health Corps $1,000,000, Oregon Health Authority |
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History |
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| Julie Weise Teach in Spanglish: Latinx History $22,855, Open Oregon Educational Resources |
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Political Science |
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| Anita Chari Embodying DEI: Trauma-informed and Mindfulness-based Approaches to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Higher Education $15,000, Mind and Life Institute |
Tuong Vu Misinformation, Vaccination, and the Role of Community-Based Organizations in a Republican-Leaning Ethnic Minority Community $9,700, Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs |
Sociology |
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| Claire Herbert When Home is Illegal: Reducing the Harms of Unsheltered Homelessness $19,992, Sociological Initiatives Foundation |
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Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies |
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| Isabel Millan Queer of Color Children's Literature Across North America $31,500, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation |
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