Kari Marie Norgaard, Professor of sociology and environmental studies, speaks with High Country News about dam removal on the Klamath River. In her interview, she says there's a direct link between these health disparities and settler colonialism, including the creation of the Klamath Dams.

The increase in wildfires started in or exacerbated by extreme wind events has grown, making electrical power shutoffs more common and making wildfires harder to predict, according to Amanda Stasiewicz, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies. Stasiewicz focuses on policy and human impacts of wildfire, as well as forest and rangeland management. Stasiewicz spoke to Government Technology about wildfires.

America can’t get enough protein. From whey smoothies to protein-packed pancakes, pasta, and ice cream, the muscle-building macronutrient has become the guaranteed solution to all health ills. “It’s this catchall,” Hannah Cutting-Jones, a food historian and director of food studies at the University of Oregon, tells Inverse. Want to gain muscle? Eat more protein. Lose weight? Focus on protein. Everybody, from your dog to your grandparents, needs more protein. But do they, really?

Courtney Cox, an assistant professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, provides expert commentary to KING-TV in Seattle. Cox, who is currently finishing a book on women's basketball around the world, researches identity, technology and labor through sports media.

Jennifer Phillips, a research associate at the Institution of Neuroscience, tells Nature that pranking co-workers in a lab often comes down to whether it’s “the right time, in the right place, with the right people.”

Researchers at the University of Oregon have created new artificial skin with L’Oréal that more accurately mimics real human skin and could be used for future health advancements. The team developed the skin through a novel 3D printing technique invented by Paul Danton, an associate professor at the University of Oregon’s Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact.

Martha Bayless, Director of the Department of Folklore and Public Culture at the UO, provides expert commentary on humans being scared of eclipses. She thinks this a Bible reference is one of the first written associations between eclipses and misfortune in Western literature.

Recent rains have submerged the salt flats of Badwater Basin in a foot of water—a temporary lake large enough for park visitors to even go out in kayaks. “It’s really special,” said Marli Miller, an earth scientist in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Recent polling for the November 2024 election shows that President Joe Biden is struggling with young voters, who have traditionally supported Democrats. A December 2023 poll showed that 49% of young people supported former President Donald Trump, while just 43% of 18- to 29-year-olds said they preferred Biden. Department of Political Science faculty members Neil O'Brien and Chandler James write about the general election in The Conversation.

Immigration is already a major polarizing issue in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico reached an all-time high in December 2023, and cities like New York and Chicago are struggling to provide housing and basic services for tens of thousands of migrants arriving from Texas. Dan Tichenor writes about immigration reform in The Conversation.

In a Valentine’s Day episode of the Museum of Modern Art's Magazine Podcast, Stephanie Cacioppo, courtesy assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, discusses her research and how love appears in the most unlikely places. “We all have the 12 brain areas that are critical for love,” she says.

Annelise Heinz, a history associate professor and the author of “Mahjong: A Chinese Game and the Making of Modern American Culture,” spoke to the New York Times about mahjong. “These tables massively increase the rate of play," said about automatic mahjong tables. "Whether or not you’re playing with money, you are getting way more rounds. You’re just cutting out that time.”

As a lab-based proof of concept, the new setup—reported this month in Nature Materials—is a long way from working at an industrial scale. But if successful, it could help heavy industries such as steelmaking and fertilizer production reduce their dependence on oil, coal and natural gas. “This is an innovative concept,” said Shannon Boettcher in Science Magazine. Boettcher is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.

In TIME Magazine's recently launched Made in History series, Department of History PhD student Adam Quinn writes that the US's semiconductor industry must look to the past when the country was a leader in semiconductor manufacturing.

Sarah Cooley, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, is studying how climate change is altering ice in places like coastal Alaska and has found that when you zoom in, the way it affects people can be quite complicated.