Social Sciences News
CAS researchers won the vast majority of the thirty-four grants totaling $12.3 million awarded to the university under the federal government's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. ARRA funding for scientific research includes major increases from the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation, which are the primary focus of UO requests
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Picture this: Citizen activists documenting the best and worst of their communities — exquisite seasonal changes, local flora and fauna, and also man-made eyesores, hazards and environmental depredations. UO graduate student Shannon Elizabeth Bell has recruited ordinary women in coal-mining communities to do just that.
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A guest column by UO economist Mark Thoma, "Making Financial Regulation Work: 50 More Years," is featured by the
Washington Post series: The Hearing -- Decoding the Economic Policy Debate.
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