"These races could determine who controls the House of Representatives in the next Congress,” said Chandler James, assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon. “The Pacific Northwest is kind of where the center of a lot of action is.” More than 150 media outlets—including ABC News, US News and World Report, Yahoo!, The (Toronto) Star and SFGate—covered a Media Forum held by the University Communications News and Content team on Oct. 4.

Leilani Sabzalian and Michelle M. Jacob, Indigenous faculty who lead the Sapsik’ʷałá Education Program at the University of Oregon, a collaboration between the University and the nine federally recognized Native nations in the state, are working to clear a path for the abundance of possible Indigenous educators. The two faculty members write an essay published in American Indian magazine.

Romance Languages Professor and Italian fascism expert Diana Garvin speaks with USA Today about far-right wing politics of pronatalism during fascist Italy, and how today's pronatalism from Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance echoes the flapper panic of the 1920s.

If the strike continues for a while, exporters will probably start looking for other options, said Woan Foong Wong, an economics professor at the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences. Wong studies transport networks. “Maybe some of these goods could get moved over to the rail network, and then on to the West Coast ports,” she told Marketplace.

The Wall Street Journal reports that low-skilled migrants are less fiscally advantageous than high-skilled, but still bring economic benefits. The ripple effects on wages and labor supply ranging between $700 to $2,100 annually. The WSJ references research co-authored by University of Oregon economist Mark Colas.

Alison Gash, professor and department head of political science, tells The 19th that she expects to see former President Donald Trump spread more anti-trans rhetoric in the coming weeks. She expects him to reach for that rhetoric as he tries to hold on to the segments of his base who may be angry about his disavowal of Project 2025, the blueprint for a second Trump administration offered by the conservative Heritage Foundation.

"She throws a lot of red meat to her supporters,” Diana Garvin tells Sentient Media. Garvin is a professor of food and politics at the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences. She adds that the anti-abortion, anti-gay and anti-immigration Italian Prime Minister uses meat to represent larger cultural issues and gain the vote of the country’s livestock farmers.

On August 25, a violent landslide raced down a forested hillside in Ketchikan, Alaska, killing one person and injuring three. The natural disaster followed a period of unusually heavy rain known as an atmospheric river. Scientists said that intensifying rainfall, driven by climate change, could increase the risk of landslides in the area of Southeast Alaska that includes Ketchikan. “There’s no single factor that seems to underline each of these events apart from a lot of moisture,” said Josh Roering, professor of earth sciences at University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences.

Richard Taylor, a physics researcher and professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, wrote for the American Physical Society about how biomechanics of running, art and science converge.

Physiologically, miscarriage and medication abortion are near-identical experiences. The New York Times spoke with history professor James Mohr. “Doctors in the 1850s couldn’t do much that the Romans couldn’t do,” he said. Mohr is the author of “Abortion in America: Origins and Evolution of National Policy." “That’s one of the dirty little secrets of the whole thing,” he added.

According to an article in Nature Communications, researchers say the Global South’s workforce provides a staggering 90% of the labor to power the world economy, yet gets only 21% of global income. “The Global South is carrying out all the production, but getting the worse deal,” said John Bellamy Foster, a sociology professor emeritus at the University of Oregon who wasn’t involved in the study.

When a celebrity dies by suicide, sometimes a "suicide spike" occurs, as it did when comedian Robin Williams died in 2014. A new study published today in Science Advances explores those questions by modeling suicide much like a pathogen, such as flu or COVID-19. Science Magazine spoke with Nick Allen, a clinical psychologist who studies adolescent suicide prevention in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oregon but was not involved in the study. Allen is keen for more granular detail—for example, saying, it “would be great … to understand more about different patterns in the community, whether there are certain groups who are more susceptible to this kind of contagion.”

Emily Karolidis, a PhD candidate and lead researcher in the study, and Mike Hahn, professor of human physiology at UO, are currently studying the relationships between soccer cleat composition and risk of injury in female versus male athletes. The CAS researchers spoke with Oregon Public Broadcasting about their work.

Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics, human physiology professor Brad Wilkins spoke with the Washington Post about advances in training and breaking records. “It’s part of who we are as a species to push limits and to push beyond what we think we’re capable of doing,” Wilkins said. “It’s probably part of why our species survived as a species — because we were driven to go further and build things and do things our Neanderthal counterparts weren’t able to do. I do believe a human is limited. But humans are not.”

Kevin Dicus, an archaeologist in the College of Arts and Sciences's Classics and Humanities Program, spoke to the New York Times about recent research published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science that offers proof that Pompeii was simultaneously wrecked by a massive earthquake. “The evidence is always there — it just takes new questions, and new eyes, to look for it,” he said. “Archaeology shouldn’t be an entirely insular profession.”