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Research

Sponsored Projects 2019-2021

women lying together on grass reading Women's Press newspaper
The Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project funded by the Oregon Cultural Trust Foundation
PI: Judith Raiskin of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

For the first time, Eugene’s lesbian history is preserved and publicly accessible through a digital exhibit of archived interviews and documents: The Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project. Students, educators, or anyone with internet access can listen to individuals discuss the LGBTQ history they’ve lived, offering curated paths of exploration for research and teaching projects.

Humanities

June 2021

Jeff Magoto, Yamada Language Institute
IIE 2021 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Summer Orientation
$41,360, Institute of International Education

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Chinese Domestic Undergraduate Flagship Program
$375,000, Operational Grant (student support to be received in April 2022)

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May 2021

Analisa Taylor, Romance Languages
Inclusive Methodologies and Pedagogies for Critical Sociocultural Linguistic Literacy
$13,7431, University of California
 

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April 2021

Kaori Idemaru, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Acoustic factors predicting foreign accent in second language Japanese and its social and affective consequences
$19,950, Hakuhodo Foundation 
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Oregon Chinese Flagship Program 2020-2024 Student Support Scholarships
$419,672, Institute of International Education

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March 2021

Gabriela Pérez Báez, Linguistics
REU Site: Increasing Native American perspectives in field and experimental linguistics
$342,051, National Science Foundation
 

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February 2021

Cheryl Ernst, American English Institute
Russia Youth Camps: Online Training for Counselors (Camp-FYRE Russia)
$56,878, U.S. Department of State
Cheryl Ernst, American English Institute
Pakistan ELT Certification U.S. Exchange Program
$159,697, U.S. Department of State
Cheryl Ernst, American English Institute
Fostering Student Motivation and Engagement - Delivery
$101,370, FHI 360
Tara Fickle, English
Behind Aiiieeeee! A New History of Asian American Literature
$60,000, National Endowment for the Humanities
Nayoung Kwon, East Asian Languages & Literatures
When words sound small and happy: Investigation of sound symbolism in Korean
$19,125, The Academy of Korean Studies
 

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December 2020

Jeff Magoto, Yamada Language Center
IIE 2020 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Summer Orientation
$22,321, Institute of International Education
 

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November 2020

Melissa Baese-Berk, Lingustics
How does improved speech perception impact higher-level processing?
$38,874, New York University
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, East Asian Languages & Literatures
Chinese Domestic Undergraduate Flagship Program 2020-2024
$308,858, Institute of International Education

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October 2020

Cheryl Ernst, American English Institute
Fostering Student Motivation and Engagement - Course Adaptation (like 2418V0)
$21,768, FHI 360
Jeff Magoto, Yamada Language Center
Fulbright U.S. Program Pre-Departure Orientation Europe and Eurasia
$58,427, Institute of International Education

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September 2020

Maram Epstein, East Asian Languages & Literatures
The Early Modern Vernacular Novel in China and Japan Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers
$139,652, 1 Year: National Endowment for the Humanities
 

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August 2020

Scott Delancey, Linguistics
Triggers for Differential Markings: Testing Definition and Predictions through Native-Speaker Input
$12,489, 3 Years: National Science Foundation (University of North Texas)
Tyler Kendall, Linguistics
NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Act Assignment
$155,649, 1 Year: National Science Foundation

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July 2020

Melissa Baese-Berk, Linguistics
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Factors affecting incidental formation of novel suprasegmental categories
$12,235, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
 

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June 2020

Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, East Asian Languages & Literatures
Oregon Chinese Flagship Program 2020-2024 Student Support Scholarships
$370,629 operational grant, $198,648 student support, 1 Year: Security Education Program (Institute of International Education)
Anne Kreps, Religious Studies
The Dead Sea Scrolls in the American Religious Imagination
$40,000, 1 Year: American Council of Learned Societies
Gabriela Pérez Báez, Linguistics
Language of Origin Code Updates Mesoamerican languages diversity training
$12,000, 1 Year: Oregon Department of Education
 

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April 2020

Stephen Shoemaker, Religious Studies
Qurân and Canon: The Contours of Scripture at the End of Antiquity
$57,000, 1 Year: University of Wisconsin System
 

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March 2020

Stephen Shoemaker, Religious Studies
Qurân and Canon: The Contours of Scripture at the End of Antiquity
$60,000, 1 Year: National Endowment for the Humanities
Julie Sykes, Linguistics
STARTALK Catalyst & Pulsar 2020 Revision with Contractor
$92,221, 1 Year: National Security Agency (University of Maryland)

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February 2020

Melissa Baese-Berk, Linguistics
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Production and perception of native and non-native speech enhancement
$10,303, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
 

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January 2020

Andy Halvorsen, American English Institute
Pakistan Online Critical Thinking Professional Development Course 2019-20
$33,573, 1 Year: U.S. Department of State (Evolution)
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, East Asian Languages & Literatures
Oregon Chinese Flagship Program 2016-2020
$831,935, 1 Year: National Security Education Program (Institute of International Education)

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December 2019

Cheryl Ernst, American English Institute
Building Educational Leadership for Change Cohort 3
$884,856, 1 Year: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Education
Nicolae Morrar, Environmental Studies, Philosophy 
Translation of the Seminars of Gilles Deleuze
$18,800, 3 Years: National Endowment for the Humanities (Purdue University)
Leslie Opp-Beckman, American English Institute
FSME Turkey - Delivery Only
$21,851, 1 Year: U.S. Department of State (FHI 360)
 

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October 2019

Leslie Opp-Beckman, American English Institute
FSME Turkey - Development Only
$10,208, 1 Year: U.S. Department of State (FHI 360)
 

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September 2019

Sonja Boos, German & Scandinavian, European Studies
Campus Weeks 2019 - Wunderbar Together
$4,820, 1 Year: Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany
David Hollenberg, Religious Studies
Recovering early Nusayri Shiism: A critical edition and translation of the Manhaj al-'ilm (The Method of Knowledge)
$132,266, 3 Years: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)

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August 2019

Maram Epstein, East Asian Languages & Literatures
Freeman International Internship Program
$400,000, 2 Years: The Freeman Foundation
Scott Delancey, Linguistics
Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Grammar of Chepang
$22,125, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
Tyler Kendall, Linguistics
NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Act Assignment
$150,470, 1 Year: National Science Foundation
Jeff Magoto, Yamada Language Center
IIE 2019 Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant Summer Orientation
$62,090, 1 Year: Institute of International Education

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people reading book on asian-american literature
Behind Aiiieeeee! A New History of Asian American Literature
PI: Tara Fickle of English 

Published in 1974, Aiiieeeee! was a controversial Asian American Literary anthology whose title refers to the stereotypical expression of Asian characters in early American films, radio, and comic books. This digital humanities project will make the anthology Behind Aiiieeeee! A New History of Asian American Literature more accessible to the wider public. Fickle’s research contributes to understanding when and how literary fiction became a powerful medium for political and aesthetic aspirations of the first generation of self-proclaimed Asian Americans.

Natural Sciences

June 2021

Zena Ariola, Computer and Information Sciences
Software Verification in the Coq Proof Assistant
$57,071, U.S. Department of Energy
Tyson Barker, Psychology
Brady Education Foundation Technical Assistance
$49,859, Brady Education Foundation
Tyson Barker, Psychology
FUEL 1.5 Technical Assistance
$150,000, Robin Hood Foundation
Lina Batas, Biology
Restore into the future: post-fire rangeland restoration in the Great Basin
$180,000, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Vickie De-Rose, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Use of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statements and Rubrics in Faculty Hiring
$5,000, Cleveland State University
Ram Durairajan, Computer and Information Sciences
Enhancing the Resiliency of Internet Infrastructures to Climate Change-induced Multi-Hazard Risks
$199,861, Internet Society Foundation 

Philip Fisher, Psychology
Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development-Early Childhood (RAPID EC) 2021
$50,000, Buffett Foundation

Philip Fisher, Psychology
Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development-Early Childhood (RAPID EC) 2021
$150,000, Bainum Foundation

Scott Hansen, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Deciphering the mechanism of SHIP1 regulation in human neutrophils
$295,399, National Institutes of Health 
Emily Larson, Human Physiology,
Sympathetic Vascular Regulation following Heat Stress in Young and Aged Humans [NRSA Predoc F31 Emily Larson]
$40,580, National Institutes of Health 
Victor Lewis, Biology
Identifying mechanisms of coordinated outgrowth during zebrafish fin regeneration
$66,390, National Institutes of Health 
Stilianos Louca, Biology
Alfred Sloan Fellowship
$75,000, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 
Andrew Lovering, Human Physiology
University of Oregon Co-Investigator Support of Sleep Study Data Analysis [Change Order Nine]
$47,210, National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
Allen Malony, Computer and Information ScienceHEP-CCE Srinivasan Ramesh$24,366, U.S. Department of Energy 

Luca Mazzucato, BiologyCRCNS: A mechanistic theory of serotonergic modulation of cortical processing [NIH-NIDA]$318,135, National Institutes of Health 

Marli Miller, Earth SciencesDeformation and kinematics of the Chilliwack Terrane and Bell Pass Mélange, Shuksan Arm, Washington$19,489, U.S. Department of Interior 
Thien Nguyen, Computer and Information SciencesBoosting and Extending Event Extraction using Interaction Structures from Texts$65,000, U.S. Department of Defense  Cristopher Niell, BiologyA naturalistic visual task for studying distance estimation in the mouse [R21]$50,000, National Institutes of Health 
Nicholas Proudfoot, MathematicsFRG: Collaborative Research: Matroids, Graphs, and Algebraic Geometry$295,664, National Science Foundation   

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May 2021

Tyson Barker, Psychology
Fuel for 50: Early Childhood Innovation Initiative Technical Assistance for Robin Hood
$50,000, Robin Hood Foundation
Vickie DeRose, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Interactions of Transition Metal Ions with RNA: Structure and Function
$499,500, National Science Foundation
Jeff Diez, Biology
Climate and competition interact to determine species' phenology and coexistence
$713,464, National Science Foundation
Ben Farr, Physics
Know Your Noise: Discovery in Gravitational Wave Astronomy through Parametric Noise Modeling
$60,000, National Science Foundation
Michael Haley, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Fluorescent PN-Heterocycles in Supramolecular Chemistry and Recognition
$414,178, National Science Foundation
Ramesh Jasti, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Chemistry of strained molecules with radially conjugated pi systems
$500,000, National Science Foundation

Boyana Norris, Computer and Information Science
Collaborative Research: Framework Implementation: CSSI: CANDY: Cyberinfrastructure for Accelerating Innovation of Network Dynamics
$121,4001, National Science Foundation

Mike Pluth, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Molecular Recognition of Anionic Sulfur, Oxygen, and Nitrogen Species
$380,000, National Science Foundation

Eric Torrence, Physics
Simons Collaboration in Dark Matter Physics
$65,241, University of California, Irvine
 

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April 2021

Brendan Bohannan, Biology
Senior Fellow: Microbiome mediated responses of ecosystems to anthropogenic change
$45,100, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Jon Brundan, Mathematics
Graphical and categorical methods in representation theory.
$26,0633, National Science Foundation
Jeffrey Cina, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Quantum dynamical studies of time-resolved nonlinear optical signals from spatially oriented electronic energy transfer complexes
$450,000, National Science Foundation
David Condon, Psychology
Concept Paper: The International Cognitive Ability Resource for large scale international mobile applications
$96,866, Schmidt Futures
Josef Dufek, Earth Sciences
Atmospheric Electricity on Earth and Mars
$27,300, Florida Institute of Technology
Ellen Eischen, Mathematics
Research Innovations and Diverse Collaborations: A Pair of Workshops in Algebraic Number Theory
$25,000, National Security Agency (NSA)

Ben Farr, Physics
Finding Gravitational Wave Needles in a Noisy Haystack (Full of Pins)
$19,000, M. J. Murdock Charitable Trust

Philip Fisher, Psychology
FIND-The Primary School
$4,000, The Primary School

Philip Fisher, Psychology
FIND PCC Renewal
$147,559, People's Community Clinic
Philip Fisher, Psychology
RAPID-EC (Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development - Early Childhood) 2021 H-S
$700,000, Heising-Simons Foundation
Lei Jiao, Computer and Information Sciences
Orchestrating Edge Infrastructures and Mobile Devices under Uncertainty to Provision Edge AI as a Service
$109,069, National Science Foundation
Alexander Kleshchev, Mathematics
Modular Representation Theory and Categorification with Applications
$270,540, National Science Foundation
Heather Le Bleu, Biology
Ion signaling and cell state transitions for organ size control of regenerating zebrafish fins[NRSA F31 Pre-doc]
$44,130, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Melissa Lucash, Geography
Spatial patterning and carbon vulnerability: Does the spatial arrangement of forest management increase susceptibility to climate change and ecosystem disturbances?
$189,583, University of Colorado-Denver
Ben McMorran, Physics
Collaborative Research: Engineering, imaging and control of three-dimensional topological magnetic materials
$458,098, National Science Foundation
Cristopher Niell, Biology
Computational architecture of the octopus visual system[ONR]
$220,000, Office of Naval Research
Paul Wallace, Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: Volatile sources, eruption triggers,and magma ascent rates for mafic alkaline magmas at Nyiragongo and Nyamulagira volcanoes, DR Congo, East African Rift
$227,229, National Science Foundation
 

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March 2021

Nick Allen, Psychology
VICO: Android Digital Wellbeing Study
$300,000, Google
Alice Barkan, Biology
PlantSynBio: Regulatory Systems to Tune Gene Expression in Synthetic Chloroplast Operons
$999,220, National Science Foundation
Josef Dufek, Earth Sciences
Tracking volcanic volatiles from magma reservoir to the atmosphere: identifying precursors, assessing hazards, and optimizing satellite observations
$129,960, Michigan Technological University
Ben Farr, Physics
Finding Gravitational Wave Needles in a Noisy Haystack (Full of Pins)
$19,000, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Pediatric Supporting Parents proposal support
$75,000, Center for the Study of Social Policy
Philip Fisher, Psychology
FIND PCC Renewal
$147,559, People's Community Clinic
Philip Fisher, Psychology
FIND-NYCMC
$288,000, Robin Hood Foundation
Lauren Hallett, Biology
CAREER: Top-down and bottom-up controls on species coexistence in a variable world
$349,744, National Science Foundation
John Halliwill, Human Physiology
Histamine as a Molecular Transducer of Adaptation to Exercise
$433,890, National Institutes of Health
Christopher Hendon, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Inorganic defects in metal-organic frameworks
$100,000, Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Leif Karlstrom, Earth Sciences
Fluid oscillations in conduit-reservoir systems, very long period seismic signals at Kilauea volcano, and the phenomenology of unsteady magma ascent
$286,666, National Science Foundation
Shawn Lockery, Biology
Genetic analysis of effort discounting in C. elegans[CEBRA - R21]
$216,191, National Institutes of Health
Melissa McCart, Psychology
Kids Academy: Preparation and Delivery of 18 Virtual Kids Academy Events[Contract with the State of Washington DSHS]
$324,500, State of Washington
Cristopher Niell, Biology
Phase II: connectomic analysis tool for dense neuronal circuits
$10,000, DRVision Technologies LLC
Cristopher Niell, Biology
Neural circuit computations for visual motion during natural primate behaviorsBRAIN Initiative: Exploratory Team-Research BRAIN Circuit Programs - eTeamBCP [U01]
$74,000, University of Texas at Austin
Tobias Sherbow, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Incorporation of Zinc and Nickel Complexes that Bind H2S and HS in ChemFET Sensing Devices[NRSA F-32 Postdoc]
$66,930, National Institutes of Health
Monte Westerfield, Biology
ZFIN: The Zebrafish Model Organism Database
$2,464,000, National Institutes of Health
 

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February 2021

Philip Fisher, Psychology
RAPID-EC (Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development - Early Childhood) 2021 Pritzker
$200,000, Pritzker Children's Initiative
Aaron Galloway, Biology
Kelp forests on the Oregon Coast: the foundation that links and supports healthy coastal ecosystems and economy
$38,036, Oregon State University
Karen Guillemin, Biology
Transmission of microbiota among host communities and states: do microbes discriminate between hosts
$10,256, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Andrew Lovering, Human Physiology
COVID-19 Impact: Pac-12 Student Athlete Project on the Impact of COVID-19:Impact of COVID-19 on student athlete lung function and diffusing capacity
$25,000, The Pac-12 Conference

Melissa Lucash, Geography
Visualizing forest futures under climate uncertainty: integrating indigenous knowledge into decision support 
$35,758, Pennsylvania State University

Melissa McCart, Psychology
Preparation and Delivery of 8 1-Day Virtual Conferences [Contract with State of Washington DSHS]
$155,000, State of Washington
Adam Miller, Biology
Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain
$976,568, Yeshiva University
Geraldine Richmond, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Oregon Junior Science & Humanities Symposium
$5,620, National Science Teaching Association

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January 2021

Shannon Boettcher, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA)
$150,000, California Institute of Technology
Estelle Chaussard, Earth Sciences
CAREER: Peatland Geomorphology: Quantifying Geomorphological Changes across SE Asia Peatlands
$126,870, National Science Foundation
Jee Choi, Computer & Information Sciences
Renewal: Optimizing Streaming Tensor Decomposition
$75,000, Intel Corporation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Prescription for Play evaluation
$35,308, LEGO Group, Inc
Ann Glang, Psychology
OnTRACK: Mobile Application for Pediatric Post-TBI Patient Management
$85,482, Creare, LLC
Ann Glang, Psychology
OnTRACK: Mobile Application for Pediatric Post-TBI Patient Management
$19,979, Creare, LLC
Tory Herman, Biology
Maintenance of synapses during adulthood in Drosophila
$73,750, National Institutes of Health
Melissa Lucash, Geography
Collaborative Research: Quantifying rates of biome shifts under climate change in arctic and boreal ecosystems
$519,388, National Science Foundation
Jennifer Pfeifer, Psychology
R56 - Social connection and mental health in girls: A prospective longitudinal study across adolescence
$100,000, National Institutes of Health

Dave Sutherland, Earth Sciences
Buried or fried? Understanding sedimentation and temperature effects on native species restoration in the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Coos estuary
$598,226, National Estuarine Research Reserve System

Terry Takahashi, Biology
Murdock Commercialization Initiative
$60,000, M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust
 

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sign for Sand Creek Massacre national historic site in empty grass landscape
Foundational White Supremacy in Landscapes of U.S. Historical Commemoration
PI: Laura Pulido of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies

To what extent is white supremacy acknowledged or erased in National Landmarks across the U.S.? How can the landscape provide a path toward greater honesty and racial justice? This project investigates the ways white supremacy, associated with the creation of U.S. territories, states, and the nation, is represented through historic and National Landmarks. Ranging across the U.S., this project will also produce a database of all National Landmarks along with a historical atlas.

December 2020

Alice Barkan, Biology
Mechanisms of light regulated translation in chloroplasts[Budget Revision]
$400,000, National Science Foundation
Eric Corwin, Physics
Extreme Diffusion
$1,000,000, W.M. Keck Foundation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Youth Law Center
$25,000, Youth Law Center
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Editor Consultant Training
$2,358, Children's Home Society of Washington
Karen Guillemin, Biology
High Throughput Cell Characterization Using Next Generation Sequencing
$558,500, The Murdock Trust
John Halliwill, Human Physiology
Effectiveness of transcutaneous delivery by proprietary cream for human performance (Phase 1)
$48,429, Amp Human
Brice Kuhl, Psychology
Neural mechanisms for reducing interference during episodic memory formation
$485,965, National Institutes of Health
Melissa Lucash, Geography
Collaborative Research: Regional impacts of increasing fire frequency on carbon dynamics and species composition in the boreal forest [Transfer NSF ID 1737706]
$174,020, National Science Foundation
Trish Mace, Biology
Exploring our Coast: Marine Science and Native Cultures
$22,500, Youth Outside
Diego Melgar Moctezuma, Earth Sciences
Regional Automated Final Fault Inversion of Seismic and Geodetic Data: Towards 10-minute solutions
$82,327, U.S. Geological Survey
Cristopher Niell, Biology
Spatial exploration and navigation in the primate hippocampus. [R01 -Subaward - UCSD]
$81,969, University of California, San Diego
Lauren Ponisio, Biology
Identifying Barriers And Incentives To Adopting Bee-Friendly Management Practices On Pollinator-Dependent Farms NIFA 2019-67012-29664 8/1/20 - 7/31/21 Jennie Durant Fellowship Transfer UCR
$94,464, U.S. Department of Agriculture
John Postlethwait, Biology
Mechanisms of Sex Determination in Zebrafish [MIRA R35]
$383,410, National Institutes of Health
Matt Streisfeld, Biology
Collaborative Research: Processes and Consequences of Somatic Mutation Accumulation in Plants
$439,689, National Science Foundation
 

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November 2020

Boris Botvinnik, Mathematics
Geometry and topology of metrics with positive curvature conditions
$42,000, Simons Foundation
Scott Bridgham, Biology
Phase 2 PNW Blue Carbon Working Group Project: Using new greenhouse gas flux and carbon sequestration data to refine blue carbon project feasibility assessments for Pacific Northwest end users interested in blue carbon finance
$10,891, Institute for Applied Ecology
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Communications fund for RAPID project
$7,500, Heising-Simons Foundation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
New Normal Fellowship Technical Assistance
$4930, 4.0 Schools
Karen Guillemin, Biology
Senior Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advance Research program Humans & the Microbiome Karen Guillemin Fellowship
$22,500, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Lauren Hallett, Biology
Plant-microbe feedbacks and noxious weed invasion: will climate variability enhance spread and dominance?
$91.331, Tulane University
Scott Hansen, Chemistry and Biochemistry
CAREER: Mechanisms controlling spatial patterning of PIP lipids in eukaryotic cell polarity
$393,242, National Science Foundation
Christopher Hendon, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Beyond flavor correlation: causation of qualities in espresso
$200,000, Coffee Science Foundation
Andrew Lovering, Human Physiology
High-resolution metabolomics and proteomics to identify doping biomarkers with rHuEPO or prolyl hydroxylase inhibition at low and high altitudes
$595,000, Research Logistics, LLC
Stephanie Majewski, Physics
Trigger Global Event Processor R&D (Dudley & Tech)
$17,138, Columbia University
James Murray, Biology
Reinforcement Learning And Action Sequencing In Subcortical And Cortical Circuits [r00]
$249,000, National Institutes of Health
Dave Sutherland, Earth Sciences
NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment - David Sutherland
$176,273, National Science Foundation
Monte Westerfield, Biology
Undiagnosed Diseases Network (UDN) Study #1 [PAPSS1]
$150,000, Harvard University
 

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October 2020

Philip Fisher, Psychology
Organizational Development Support La Piana
$97,750, Heising-Simons Foundation
Laura Fredrickson, Mathematics
The Asymptotic Geometry of Moduli Spaces [NSF Grant Transfer (Stanford), NSF ID: 2005258]
$145,270, National Science Foundation
Lauren Hallett, Biology
Ecological intensification for a productive oak-hazelnut savannah landscape
$499,991, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Stephanie Majewski, Physics
Trigger Global Event Processor R&D (Dudley & Tech)
$35,378, Columbia University
Thanh Nguyen, Computer & Information Sciences
W911NF-17-S-0002: Adversarial Reasoning: Tackling Sequential and Coordinated Attacks in Security Domains with Real-time Information
$70,000, U.S. Department of Defense
Laurie Powell, Psychology/CBIRT
Oregon's Traumatic Brain Injury State Partnership Program Mentor State (OHA agreement)
$75,000, Oregon Health Authority

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Researchers sifting dirt through screen in tropical grove
The Island of Stone Money
PI: Scott Fitzpatrick of Anthropology 

The Islands of Yap are known as the “Land of Stone Money” after the large round disks of limestone brought there from the Palauan archipelago. Today, the stone money symbolizes the identity of Yap itself. This project explores the unique identity of the island and its historical originations throughout the area. 

September 2020

Jennifer Ablow, Psychology
OHSU-Sullivan: Maternal Obesity and Poor Antenatal Nutrition as Prenatal Risk Factors for ADHD and Neurodevelopmental Endophenotypes
$61,960, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Oregon Health and Science University)
David Allcock, Physics
QLCI-CI: Enhanced Sensing and Distribution Using Quantum States
$1,200,000, 5 Years: National Science Foundation (University of Colorado)
Dare Baldwin, Psychology
2020-21 IPA: Lead Researcher for CCTV Footage [ShakeAlert]-Extension of 2019-20 IPA [UO Grant 251690]
$67,000, 1 Year: U.S. Geological Survey
Edward Davis, Earth Sciences
Conserving Oregon's Fossil Heritage through Fossil Preparation
$40,000, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Interior
Chris Q Doe, Biology
Developmental Biology Training Program [T32]
$1,072,296, 5 Years: National Institutes of Health
Hans Dreyer, Human Physiology
MRF Emergency Interim Support to generate preliminary data for R01 Cycle 2, A1 competitive resubmission to NIA
$50,000, 1 Year: Oregon Health and Science University
Josef Dufek, Earth Sciences
Tribocharging of Carbon Particles
$79,054, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy (Nevada National Security Site)
Brittany Erickson, Earth Sciences
Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS)
$22,000, 1 Year: U.S. Geological Survey (University of Southern California)
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Tinkergarten Evaluation Report
$29,834, 1 Year: Tinkergarten
Philip Fisher, Psychology
COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Aug-Dec
$116,924, 1 Year: Pritzker Children's Initiative
Philip Fisher, Psychology
COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Aug-Dec
$300,000, 1 Year: Heising-Simons Foundation
Daniel Lowd, Computer & Information Sciences
Reverse Engineering Deceptive Text
$765,701, 2 Years: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
David McCormick, Biology
Brain states and flexible behavior[BRAIN - R01]
$2,420,268, 3 Years: National Institutes of Health
Cristopher Niell, Biolog
Neural coding and functional organization of the octopus visual system [BRAIN Initiative - R01]
$709,168, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health
Lauren Ponisio, Biology
Identifying Barriers And Incentives To Adopting Bee-Friendly Management Practices On Pollinator-Dependent FarmsNIFA 2019-67012-29664 8/1/20 - 7/31/21 Jennie Durant Fellowship Transfer UCR
$20,000, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Josh Roering, Earth Sciences
Form, Process and Evolution of Carbonate Hillslopes in sub-Humid Climate
$3,393, 1 Year: U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Christian Stanciu, Earth Sciences
Improved LAB depth estimate: A necessary step in developing the Community Thermal Model for southern California
$30,000, 1 Year: National Science Foundation (Southern California Earthquake Center)
 

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August 2020

Tyson Barker, Psychology
Strong Starts
$10,000, 1 Year: Robin Hood Foundation (Center for Court Innovation)
James Brau, Physics
Experimental High Energy Physics [Revised Budget and Scope]
$3,245,000, 4 Years: U.S. Department of Energy
Theresa Cheng, Psychology
Close friendship quality and the emergence of depression in adolescent females: Neurodevelopmental mechanisms and sensitive periods [NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31)]
$46,440, 2 Years: National Institutes of Health
Bill Cresko, Biology
Collaborative Research: RoL: The evo-devo of male pregnancy and its effects on the brood pouch microbiome
$1,070,484, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Vickie DeRose, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
NRT-URoL: Molecular Probes and Sensors for Complex Environments
$3,000,000, 5 Years: National Science Foundation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Translational Science Model Data Management Robin Hood Foundation - Year 3
$390,000, 1 Year: Robin Hood Foundation
Tyler Kendall, Linguistics
NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Assignment - Tyler Kendall
$155,649, 1 Year: National Science Foundation
Mark Lonergan, Chemistry and Biochemistry
The photoelectrochemistry of non-selective semiconductors
$90,000, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Allen Malony, Computer & Information Sciences
A Performance Model (COMPASS-ASPEN) for Intelligent Scheduling in Heterogeneous Runtime System (BRISBANE). Period 2
$38,305, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Ben McMorran, Physics
Investigating Quantum Coherence using Structured Electron Interferometry
$572,321, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Adam Miller, Biology
Isolation and interrogation of the transcriptional profile of pioneer neurons[Resubmission]
$104,934, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Oregon Health and Science University)
Kathryn Mills, Psychology
Modeling Developmental Change in the ABCD Study: Longitudinal Analyses for Clinical Outcomes
$121,804, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health
Cristopher Niell, Biology
MRI: Acquisition of a High-Throughput Fluorescence Slide-Scanner Microscope for the University of Oregon Histology Core Facility
$299,782, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Mike Pluth, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Bio(in)organic Chemistry of Reactive Sulfur and Selenium Species
$432,000, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Michael Raymer, Physics
Quantum Leap Grantees Meeting 2020
$64,855, 1 Year: National Science Foundation
Alan Rempel, Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: Freeze-on of subglacial sediments in experiments and theory
$92,468, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Dave Sutherland, Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: AccelNet: Accelerating discoveries at Greenland's marine margins through international collaboration
$297,566, 5 Years: National Science Foundation
Dave Sutherland, Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: How fast do tidewater glaciers melt? Quantifying the processes that control boundary layer transport across the ice-ocean interface
$253,192, 4 Years: National Science Foundation
Douglas Toomey, Earth Sciences
Oregon Seismic Station Expansion Project to Support ShakeAlert
$150,000, 3 Years: State of Oregon
 

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researchers examining sediment core on sandy coastal shore
Buried or Fried? Understanding sedimentation and temperature effects on native species in the South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve and the Coos estuary
PI: David Sutherland of Earth Sciences

The South Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve is located in the Coos estuary, which boasts ecological, economic, and cultural richness. However, the area itself is vulnerable to natural and human causes of environmental decline. This project will investigate the impacts of water quality deterioration, climate change, and land use changes on the native oyster and eelgrass beds, both of which are critical habitats in the Coos estuary ecosystem.

July 2020

Shannon Boettcher, Chemistry and Biochemistry
GOALI:CAS: Oxygen Evolution Catalysts for Membrane Electrolysis: From Fundamentals to Applications
$499,282, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Jee Choi, Computer & Information Sciences
Analysis of High Performance Portable Tensor Decomposition Implementations
$81,456, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Dasa Demircan, Psychology
Neural mechanisms of specificity and generalization learning
$1,573,248, 5 Years: National Institutes of Health
Josef Dufek, Earth Sciences
Magma Waves, magma wagging and volcanic oscillations
$19,000, 1 Year: National Science Foundation (Yale University)
Caitlin Fausey, Psychology
Play & Learning Across a Year (PLAY)
$8,867, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (New York University)
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Prescription for Play evaluation
$700,000, 1 Year: The LEGO Foundation (LEGO Group, Inc)
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Overdeck Portfolio Technical Assistance
$75,000, 1 Year: Overdeck Family Foundation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Harlem Playspace FIND Workshop
$3,000, 1 Year: Harlem Playspace - Storefront Academy
Scott Fisher, Physics
CAREER: Searching for Dark Sectors from Earth to Sky
$150,000, 3 Years: Roundhouse Foundation
Philip Fisher, Chemistry and Biochemistry
COVID-19 Rapid Response Research
$115,000, 1 Year: Valhalla Charitable Foundation
Jennifer Freyd, Psychology
2020-21 Editor: Journal of Trauma and Dissociation
$8,500, 1 Year: International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation
Aaron Galloway, Biology
Pycnopodia helianthoides feeding ecology and influence on purple urchins
$48,597, 1 Year: Nature Conservancy
Thomas Giachetti, Earth Sciences
Pumice: a post-fragmentation product?
$349,683, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Emilie Hooft Toomey, Earth Sciences
Structure of a recharging crustal magma plumbing system at the Santorini arc volcano
$292,974, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
Bradley Hughes, Psychologyx
Dancing with Myself: The Influence of Similarity Between Personality, Social Class, and Political Attitudes on Initial Dating Decisions [Graduate Student Research Grants to Advance the Science of Love]
$10,000, 1 Year: John Templeton Foundation(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Adam Miller, Biology
Proteomic analysis of the electrical synapse
$405,625, 2 Years: National Institutes of Health
Cristopher Niell, Biology
Neural coding and functional organization of the octopus visual system[BRAIN Initiative - R01]
$1,772,920, 5 Years: National Institutes of Health
Boyana Norris, Computer & Information Sciences
IDEAS2 Transfer (Advancing Software Productivity for Exascale Applications)
$332,843, 3 Years: U.S. Department of Energy
Lauren Ponisio, Biology
Collaborative proposal: Reconciling the interaction patterns of highly functional and resistant ecological communities
$510,452, 4 Years: National Science Foundation
Julie Schram, Biology
Seasonal variation and trophic modification of Antarctic benthic macroalgal fatty acid trophic biomarkers
$7,553, 1 Year: Antarctic Science Ltd
Alan Shanks, Biology
The Annual Recruitment of Dungeness Crab Megalopae and the Prediction of the Future Commercial Catch; Funding for Spring/Summer 2020
$9,944, 1 Year: Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission
Amanda Thomas, Earth Sciences
Rapid Magnitude Assessment Of Large Earthquakes From Machine Learning
$44442, 1 Year: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Douglas Toomey, Earth Sciences
ALERTWildfire Implementation in Oregon at High-Risk Portland General Electric Locations: Installation and Operation of Fire Monitoring Sites
$137,905, 3 Years: Portland General Electric Company
Paul Wallace, Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: Size, depth and longevity of magma reservoirs under Kilauea's rift zones: Integrating melt inclusion data and thermal modeling
$40,743, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Tien-Tien Yu, Physics
CAREER: Searching for Dark Sectors from Earth to Sky
$400,000, 5 Years: National Science Foundation
 

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June 2020

David Allcock, Physics
Metastable Qubits in Multi-Ion Systems
$966,000, 3 Years: U.S. Department of Defense (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jayanth Banavar, Physics
EMPHABIOSYS: Emergence of New Phases in Biopolymer Systems[European Commission (Grant Agreement number 894784)][UO Partnership Agreement to host Tatjana Å krbic, Fellow]
$17,451, 2 Years: European Commission (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Shannon Boettcher, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Advanced Bipolar-Membranes for O2 Generation from Seawater
$3,000,000, 5 Years: U.S. Department of Defense
Shannon Boettcher, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Pure Hydrogen Production Through Membrane Electrolysis of Dirty Water
$500,000, 4 Years: U.S. Department of Energy
Hank Childs, Computer & Information Sciences
Schwartz Summer 2020
$24,439, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Vickie DeRose, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
RAPID: Measuring RNA Tertiary Contacts in SARS-CoV2
$200,000, 1 Year: National Science Foundation
Sarah DuBrow, Psychology
2020 Sloan Research Fellowship Award
$75,000, 2 Years: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Ian Greenhouse, Human Physiology
Beyond Dopamine: Thalamic GABA and Motor Inhibition in Health and Parkinson's Disease [Amendment No. 3 for Research Project Support]
$17,604, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Oregon Health and Science University)
Marina Guenza, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Multiscale Modeling of Gas Permeation in High Molecular Weight Polymer Membranes
$110,000, 2 Years: American Chemical Society
Lauren Hallett, Biology
Above And Belowground Ecological Feedbacks To Resource Availability And Land Management[USDA NIFA Postdoc Fellowship]
$164.913, 2 Years: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Raghuveer Parthasarathy, Physics
New Tools for Advancing Model Systems in Aquatic Symbiosis
$325,000, 3 Years: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Matthew Polizzotto, Earth Sciences
The UNC Chapel Hill Superfund Research Program (UNC-SRP)
$22,125, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (University of North Carolina)
Amy Robbins, Biology
Mechanisms of Sonic hedgehog mediated skeletal patterning in zebrafish fin appendages[NRSA F31 Pre-doc]
$86,256, 2 Years: National Institutes of Health
Emily Sylwestrak, Biology
Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant Program
$80,000, 2 Years: Brain Research Foundation
Frank Vignola, Physics
Regional Solar Radiation Data Center
$4,558, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Zachary Wallmark, Psychology
An fMRI investigation of common neural correlates of emotional congruence for social and musical stimuli
$20,000, 1 Year: The GRAMMY Foundation
Hailin Wang, Physics
Mechanically Mediated Spin Entanglement in Diamond
$450,000, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Ray Weldon, Earth Sciences
Characterizing Bishkek's seismic hazard as a training exercise for Central Asian and American students and educators
$22,500, 2 Years: U.S. Department of State

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researchers looking at brain scans in exam room
Neural mechanisms of specificity and generalization learning
PI: Dasa Demircan of Psychology 

Memory-based cognition depends on the ability to remember specific details of experiences, or specificity, and the ability to combine information across experiences to learn new concepts and create new knowledge, or generalization. This project looks at the hippocampus’s role in specificity and generalization. The results will help reconcile a decades-long debate regarding the nature of concept representations and strengthen theories of memory function. This will shed light on many neuropsychiatric disorders pertaining to memory and generalization mechanisms within the brain.

May 2020

Caitlin Fausey, Psychology
Play & Learning Across a Year (PLAY)
$9,660, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (New York University)
Patricia Hersh, Mathematics
Topological and algebraic combinatorics of posets and stratified spaces
$150,000, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Darren Johnson, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Dynamic covalent self-assembly and self-sorting of 2D and 3D nanohoops and cages
$640,000, 4 Years: National Science Foundation
Patrick Phillips, Biology
Novel genetic screen for increased late-life neuronal health
$405,625, 2 Years: National Institutes of Health
Geraldine Richmond, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Determining the Molecular Factors that Contribute to Nanoemulsion Formation and Stabilization by Carboxylic Acid Surfactants and Polymers
$569,941, 4 Years: National Science Foundation
Will Struble, Earth Sciences
Lewis and Clark Fund Grant for Topographic Map Interpretation
$5,000, 1 Year: American Philosophical Society
Frank Vignola, Physics
Regional Solar Radiation Data Center
$52,749, 5 Years: U.S. Department of Energy
Ashley Walker, Human Physiology
Long-term effects of large artery stiffness on the brain
$149,997, 3 Years: Alzheimer's Association

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April 2020

Edward Davis, Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: Neotoma Paleoecology Database, a Multi-Proxy, International, Community-Curated Data Resource for Global Change Research
$122,850, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Richard Emlet, Biology
REU Site: Exploration of marine biology on the Oregon coast
$391,488, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
rCOVID-19 Rapid Response Research
$100,000, 1 Year: Pritzker Children's Initiative
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Direct to Caregiver Pilot Funding
$26,000, H1 Year: emera Foundation
Daniel Grimes, Biology
Discovery and Mechanism of Heterotaxy Genes
$50,000, 1 Year: Oregon Health and Science University
Lauren Hallett, Biology
Research Project: Causal Factors of Exotic Annual Grass Invasion Across the Great Basin Sagebrush Ecosystem
$482,648, 5 Years: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Andrew Kern, Biology
Deep learning for population genetics
$1,787,211, 4 Years: National Institutes of Health
Stilianos Louca, Biology
RAPID: Improved phylogenetic approaches for characterizing the epidemiological dynamics of COVID-19
$105,309, 1 Year: National Science Foundation
Stephanie Majewski, Physics
Trigger Global Event Processor R&D (Dudley & Tech)
$457,410, 6 Years: National Science Foundation (Columbia University)
Melissa McCart, Psychology
Teams TBI 2019-2021
$470,384, 2 Years: U.S. Department of Education (Oregon Department of Education)
Brad Nolen, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Control of actin filament networks by Arp2/3 complex and its regulators[MIRA - Maximizing Investigator's Research Award - R35]
$2,875,266, 5 Years: National Institutes of Health
Leland O'Driscoll, Earth Sciences
USGS IPA: Seismic Station Deferred Maintenance
$107,210, 2 Years: U.S. Department of Interior
Alexander Polishchuk, Mathematics
Derived categories, noncommutative orders, and other topics.
$239,008, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
John Postlethwait, Biology
EAGER: Origin and physiological consequences of a neoplasm outbreak in Antarctic fish [Revised Budget]
$254,782, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
Matt Smear, PsychologyActive sensing at the sensory surface: glomerular signals for olfactory navigation by freely-moving mice$645,130, 2 Years: National Institutes of Health Kirstin Sterner, AnthropologyDoctoral Dissertation Research: Uncovering the regulatory landscape of myofiber type in the context of human evolution$29,395, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
Ashley Walker, Human PhysiologyLarge artery stiffness and cerebrovascular dysfunction: Implications for cognitive impairment and neuropathology$2,117,000, 5 Years: National Institutes of Health  

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March 2020

Shabnam Akhtari, Mathematics
Problems in the Geometry of Numbers and Diophantine Analysis
$220,490, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Nick Allen, Psychology
Social Processing Deficits in Remitted Adolescent Depression
$79,495, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc)
Alice Barkan, Biology
High-resolution modeling of protein-RNA interfaces
$119,941, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Elliot Berkman, Psychology
Construal level as a novel pathway for affect regulation and cancer control
$2,984,869, 5 Years: National Institutes of Health
Marcin Bownik, Mathematics
Harmonic and functional analysis of wavelet and frame expansions
$210,698, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Josef Dufek, Earth Sciences
Constraining properties of pyroclastic density currents with remote infrasound and seismic observations[NSF GeoPRISMS Program Postdoc Program - Leighton Watson]
$266,406, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
Judith Eisen, Biology
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Symbiosis in Aquatic Systems Investigator Program [Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation]
$2,025,000, 5 Years: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
rCOVID-19 Rapid Response Research
$35,309, 1 Year: Heising-Simons Foundation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Tinkergarten Evaluation
$55,952, 1 Year: Tinkergarten
Michael Haley, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Tuning Antiaromaticity and Diradical Properties in Diarenoindacenes, Diindenoacenes, and Related Quinoidal Scaffolds
$490,000, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Christopher Hendon, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Defects and Doping in Metal-Organic Frameworks
$330,000, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Andrew Kern, Biology
NRSA: Computational Methods for Next-Generation GWAS
$132,756, 2 Years: National Institutes of Health
Huaxin Lin, Mathematics
Dynamical systems, C*-algebra theory and K-theory
$180,043, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Trish Mace, Biology
CMLC Larval Exhibit - Inviting Wonder and Exploration
$9,600, 1 Year: Coos Foundation
Allen Malony, Computer & Information Sciences
A Performance Model (COMPASS-ASPEN) for Intelligent Scheduling in Heterogeneous Runtime System (BRISBANE).
$39,930, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Nicholas Proudfoot, Mathematics
Kazhdan-Lusztig theory of matroids
$200,000, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Geraldine Richmond, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
REU Site: Think Globally and Act Locally in Building Research and Career Skills in Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science at the University of Oregon
$256,994, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Josh Roering, Earth Sciences
Building a high-resolution record of landslide chronology for Cascadia megathrust earthquakes: Collaborative Research with University of Oregon and University of Arizona
$76,958, 1 Year: U.S. Geological Survey
Amanda Thomas, Natural Sciences
Improving Seismic and Infrasound Constraints on Surface Flows a Cascade Volcanoes
$284,149, 3 Years: U.S. Geological Survey
Frank Vignola, Natural Sciences
Reducing Photovoltaic (PV) Performance Uncertainty by Accurately Quantivying the PV Resource
$25,159, 2 Years: National Science Foundation

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baby octopus in a petri dish
Neural Coding and functional origination of the octopus visual system
PI: Cristopher Niell of Biology

Octopuses have large and complex brains, accompanied by powerful visual systems that support remarkable behaviors, such as camouflage and detecting polarized light. This project will be the first to describe neural computations in the central visual system of cephalopods. The project will use advanced microscopy methods to measure the activity of neurons within octopus brains to determine how they respond to different stimuli. The team will then build a computational network that summarizes the neural processes performed by the creature’s visual systems.

February 2020

Nick Allen, Psychology
Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Mobile Sensing Pilot Study
$10,002, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (University of California, San Diego)
Sarah DuBrow, Psychology
Quantifying the latent-cause inference process in humans
$72,956, 2 Years: National Institutes of Health (Princeton University)
Josef Dufek, Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: Integrating Petrochronology, Magma Dynamics, and Volcanic Unrest at the Three Sisters Volcanic Complex
$338,403, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
1/4 Investigation of opioid exposure and neurodevelopment (iOPEN)
$12,549, 2 Years: National Institutes of Health (Oregon Health and Science University)
Emilie Hooft Toomey, Earth Sciences
Collaborative research: Cascadia2020: Investigating subduction zone segmentation with a 3D high-resolution Vp model
$278,013, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Stephanie Majewski, Physics
Global Hadronic Triggering R&D for HL-LHC (Dudley)
$21,609, 1 Year: National Science Foundation (Stony Brook University)
Allen Malony, Computer & Information Sciences
Understanding Behavior in Composed Services
$90,538, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Ken-ichi Noma, Biology
3D Genomic Basis of Cellular Senescence [Subaward Transfer from The University of Pennsylvania]
$146,988, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania)
Brian Smith, Physics
W911NF-17-S-0002: 22nd Annual SQuInT Workshop
$20,000, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Defense
Emily Sylwestrak, Biology
Functional Organization of Habenula Circuits Driving Motivated Behavior [BBRF - NARSAD pending Grant Transfer to UO]
$62,213, 2 Years: Brain and Behavior Research Foundation

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January 2020

Gregory Bothun, Physics
Magnetic Stabilization of CubeSat Orbital Pointing
$11,800, 1 Year: (National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Oregon State University))
James Brau, Physics
Sensor Development for Future e+e- Colliders
$4,489, 1 Year: (U.S. Department of Energy)
James Brau, Physics
Linear Collider Collaboration Directorate (Amendment)
$50,000, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Jee Choi, Computer & Information Sciences
Optimizing Streaming Tensor Decomposition
$88,499, 2 Years: Intel Corporation
David Condon, Psychology
The Mobile Toolbox for Monitoring Cognitive Function - Data Core
$2,438, 1 Year: (National Institutes of Health (Northwestern University)
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Packard Technical Assistance
$10,000, 1 Year: (Packard Foundation)
Carrie McCurdy, Human Physiology
Interrupting the Vicious Cycle of Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome
[Transfer of subaward from the University of Colorado to the University of Oklahoma]

$173,709, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (University of Oklahoma)
Thien Nguyen, Computer & Information Sciences
BBN Subcontract: Better Extraction from Text Towards Enhanced Retrieval Program (BETTER)
$439,458, 4 Years: Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.)
Douglas Toomey, Earth Sciences
Seismic Network Operations Cooperative Agreement
$119,600, 1 Year: U.S. Geological Survey
Monte Westerfield, Biology
Alliance Central: A platform for sustainable development of next generation genome knowledgebases [U24 Subaward with Caltech]
$663,794, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (California Institute of Technology)

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December 2019

Nick Allen, Psychology
Antecedents of Suicidal Behavior Related Neurobiology
$40,307, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Columbia University)
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Early Childhood Measures Library
$400,000, 3 Years: Heising-Simons Foundation
Krista McGuire, Biology
Terroir and Microbiomes: Examining the impacts of environmental variations and farming practices on wine grapevine microbiomes
$24,731, 1 Year: Oregon Wine Board (Linfield College)
Krista McGuire, Biology
Interacting effects of moisture and biotic interactions on seedling recruitment in tropical forests: experimental tests of the consequences of climate variability
$31,070, 1 Year: U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Michael Raymer, Physics
QII-TAQS: Quantum-Enhanced Telescopy
$600,000, 4 Years: National Science Foundation (University of Illinois)
Boyana Norris, Computer and Information Science
YR3 Supplement: HEP Event Reconstruction with Cutting Edge Computing Architectures
$121,831, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)(U.S. Department of Energy (DOE))
David Sutherland, Earth Sciences
Support for Graduate Student Employee, Maria Jose Marin Jarrin
$29,672, 1 Year: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)(State of Oregon)
David Sutherland, Earth Sciences
EESLR 2019 Ecohydrological impacts of sea-level rise on flood protection and blue carbon sequestration in Pacific Northwest tidal wetlands
$190,263, 3 Years: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)(Oregon State University)
Kelly Sutherland, Biology
Propulsive advantages of coordinating multiple jets by colonial marine organisms
$1,108,875, 3 Years: Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
 

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November 2019

David Allcock, Physics
Development of Methods for Continuous-Variable Quantum Computing with Trapped-Ion Motional States
$250,000, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Defense (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Miles Bodmer, Earth Sciences
Linking Mantle Structure and Dynamics to the Landscape Evolution of the Cascadia Forearc
$298,074, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
Gregory Bothun, Physics
Magnetic Stabilization of CubeSat Orbital Pointing
$11,800, 1 Year: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Oregon State University)
Emilie Hooft Toomey, Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: An Open Access Experiment to Seismically Image Galapagos Plume-Ridge Interaction [UO lead]
$539,509, 4 Years: National Science Foundation
Jennifer Freyd, Psychology
2019-20 Editor: Journal of Trauma and Dissociation
$8,500, 1 Year: International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation
Emilie Hooft Toomey, Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: An Open Access Experiment to Seismically Image Galapagos Plume-Ridge Interaction [UO lead]
$539,509, 4 Years: National Science Foundation
Andrew Lovering, Human Physiology
Integrative physiology of VIIP: cardiopulmonary, sleep, and cognitive function assessment during hypercapnic bed rest [Supplemental Funding]
$14,750, 1 Year: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)(Wyle, Science, Technology, and Engineering Group)
Ken-ichi Noma, Biology
Condensin connects 3D genome organization, chromosomal segregation, and gene regulation via its interactions with transcription-related factors [NIH Grant Transfer 5R01GM124195-03]
$545,358, 2 Years: National Institutes of Health
Geraldine Richmond, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Oregon Episcopal School JSHS Symposium
$9,000, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Defense (National Science Teaching Association)
 

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hazelnut orchard with harvester equipment among trees
Ecological intensification for a productive oak-hazelnut savannah landscape
PI: Lauren Hallett of Biology

Agroecosystems, such as hazelnut orchards and oak woodlands, face many intersecting challenges to maintaining their own success and promoting the health of their surrounding environment. These include support for biodiversity, pollination, soil health, pest control and mitigating the environmental consequences of pesticide runoff. This project tests two strategies to enhance ecosystem multi-functionality across the hazelnut-wildland agroecosystem. The results will offer approaches to promoting and maintaining sustainability in the agroecosystem.

October 2019

Hank Childs, Computer & Information Sciences
ECP ALPINE
$755,471, 4 Years: U.S. Department of Energy
Hank Childs, Computer & Information Sciences
EECP VTK-m transfer
$280,641, 4 Years: U.S. Department of Energy
Sarah DuBrow, Psychology
NARSAD: Latent cause inference as an underlying mechanism for positive symptoms in psychosis
$69,624, 2 Years: Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Six Bricks Technical Assistance
$100,000, 1 Year: The LEGO Foundation
Raymond Frey, Physics
LIGO Operations: R. Schofield
$103,636, 1 Year: National Science Foundation (California Institute of Technology)
Aaron Galloway, Biology
Assemblage-wide effects of ocean acidification and ocean warming on ecologically important macroalgal-associated crustaceans in Antarctica.
$16,080, 1 Year: National Science Foundation (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Ann Glang, Psychology
Injury Health-Related Equity Across the Lifespan
$25,440, 3 Years: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (University of Washington)
Jun Li, Computer & Information Sciences
DRAWBRIDGE Configuration and Deployment in Operational environments
$78,425, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
David McCormick, Biology
Peripheral nerve stimulation enhanced cortical plasticity and learning in mice
$343,063, 1 Year: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (University of Wisconsin System)
Boyana Norris, Computer & Information Sciences
Code Quality Research Continuation 2019
$569,975, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
David Strom, Physics
FY20 WBS 3.6 TDAQ Subsystem - Winklmeier/Sinev
$149,835, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Amanda Thomas, Earth Sciences
High-resolution imaging of slow earthquake source processes resulting from the Cholame Dense Array Experiment$60,000, 2 Years: U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Monte Westerfield, Biology
Baylor (U54) Center for Personalized Expression and Functional Gene Analysis in Drosophila and Zebrafish (Year 5)[ATP13A3]
$150,000, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Baylor College of Medicine)
Monte Westerfield, Biology
Baylor (U54) Center for Personalized Expression and Functional Gene Analysis in Drosophila and Zebrafish (phase II)
$516,249, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Baylor College of Medicine)

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September 2019

Jennifer Ablow, Psychology
OHSU-Sullivan: Maternal Obesity and Poor Antenatal Nutrition as Prenatal Risk Factors for ADHD and Neurodevelopmental Endophenotypes
$105,505, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health, Oregon Health and Science University
Shabnam Akhtari, Mathematics
Problems in Diophantine approximation and the geometry of numbers
$42,000, 5 Years: Simons Foundation
Zena Ariola, Computer & Information Sciences
Renewal AY19-20: Software Verification in the Coq Proof Assistant
$102,372, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Dare Baldwin, Psychology
IPA: Lead Researcher for CCTV Footage [ShakeAlert]
$60,000, 1 Year: U.S. Geological Survey
Matt Barber, Institute of Ecology and Evolution
Molecular mechanisms of evolution at the host-microbe interface
$1,828,325, 5 Yearw: National Institutes of Health
Alice Barkan, Institute of Molecular Biology
A general platform for designing synthetic operons for production of biofuels and other foreign pathways in algal chloroplasts
$310,000, 3 Years: U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Arkady Berenstein, Mathematics
Noncommutative cluster structures
$42,000, 5 Years: Simons Foundation
Edward Davis, Earth Sciences
Conserving Oregon's Fossil Heritage through Fossil Preparation
$7,061, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Interior
Brittany Erickson, Earth Sciences
Advancing Simulations of Sequences of Earthquakes and Aseismic Slip (SEAS)
$19,000, 1 Year: U.S. Geological Survey (Southern California Earthquake Center)
Ann Glang, Psychology
Evaluation of Return to School Programs for Traumatic Brain Injury
$549,226, 4 Years: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Daniel Grimes, Biology
The Role of Cilia and Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow in Spine Development and Human Disease (R00 phase)
$249,000, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health
Mike Hahn, Human Physiology
Exploration of Novel Material for Force Dissipation
$10,427, 1 Year: JALMR, LLC
Laura Jeanty, Physics
Searches for New Long-Lived Particles and Upgrade to the ATLAS Inner Detector
$750,000, 5 Years: U.S. Department of Energy
Andy Karduna, Human Physiology
Biomechanical metrics to improve performance and reduce elbow injuries in Pac-12 baseball players.
$417,631, 3 Years: The Pac-12 Conference (University of Southern California)
Allen Malony, Computer & Information Sciences
PROTEAS - TUNE
$1,052,291, 4 Years: U.S. Department of Energy
Jennifer Pfeifer, Psychology
Cheng: Max Planck Institute/Jacobs Foundation Collaboration
$47,078, 2 Years: Jacobs Foundation (Max Planck Institute for Human Development)
Patrick Phillips, Biology
MIRA: Systems genomics of complex traits
$1,830,955, 5 Years: National Institutes of Health
Geraldine Richmond, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Surveys of NIST
$639,193, 2 Years: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Yefeng Shen, Mathematics
FJRW theory, mirror symmetry, and modular forms
$42,000, 5 Years: Simons Foundation
Monte Westerfield, Biology
Expansion and Modernization of the Zebrafish International Resource CenterZIRC [C06 Research Facilities Construction Grant]
$8,000,000, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health
Monte Westerfield, Biology
Undiagnosed Diseases Network [Gene Function Study #1: MAST2]
$150,000, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Harvard University)
 

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Rapid assessment of pandemic impact on development
PI: Philip Fisher of Psychology

Launched in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, RAPID-EC is an ongoing national survey of households with children from infancy to five years old. Twice a month, 1,000 caregivers in all 50 states are asked questions regarding well-being, hardships, access to childcare, and health care. The goal is to ensure that the struggles caregivers and families are facing are heard and considered by policymakers. The collected data is given to key stakeholders to make informed decisions about immediate and long-term policies.

August 2019

Ilya Bindeman, Earth Sciences
Investigation of triple oxygen isotope systematics of shales in the Precambrian
$213,842, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
Daniel Dugger, Mathematics
Equivariant homotopy theory for spaces with involutions
$42,000, Simons Foundation
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Anglicare FIND Intervention
$264,745, 1 Year: Anglicare
Philip Fisher, Psychology
Improving EC programming through the Creation of the PN3 Measures Repository and Search Engine
$350,000, 3 Years: Valhalla Charitable Foundation
Raymond Frey, Physics
Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with LIGO: The Oregon Experimental Relativity Group
$900,000, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Laura Jeanty, Physics
ITk Inner Pixels Prototype 19-1 Collaboration
$15,591, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Laura Jeanty, Physics
ATLAS SUSY Convenorship
$56,036, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Darren Johnson, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Design of Modular Receptors for Ion and Molecule Recognition
$291,047, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health
Allen Malony, Computer & Information Sciences
Summer and Academic Year Support for Jacob Lambert
$75,065, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Diego Melgar Moctezuma, Earth Sciences
Local Tsunami Warning with GNSS Earthquake Source Products
$800,026, 4 Years: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Geraldine Richmond, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
Molecular Structure, Stabilization and Assembly at Nanoemulsion Surfaces
$810,000, 3 Years: U.S. Department of Energy
Alan Shanks, Biology
The Annual Recruitment of Dungeness Crab Megalopae and the Prediction of the Future Commercial Catch; Funding for Spring/Summer 2019
$9,928, 1 Year: Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission
Amanda Thomas, Earth Sciences
CAREER: Using the Rattlesnake Ridge landslide as a natural laboratory to study repeating earthquake evolution and development of operational repeating signal detectors[
$549,995, 5 Years: National Science Foundation
Douglas Toomey, Earth Sciences
Support and Improvement of Shake Alert 2019-2021: Collaborative Research with Univ. of California Berkeley, Caltech, Univ. of Washington, and Univ. of Oregon
$3,091,760, 2 Years: U.S. Geological Survey
Eric Torrence, Physics
FASER: Tracker Mechanics, Trigger, and Detector Support
$61,365, 2 Years: Heising-Simons Foundation (University of California, Irvine)
Ashley Walker, Human Physiology
Large artery stiffness and cerebrovascular dysfunction: Implications for cognitive impairment and neuropathology [R01 conversion - NIH High Priority, Short-Term Project Award R56]
$428,419, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health
Ben Young, Mathematics
Bijective and Algebraic Combinatorics
$42,000, 5 Years: Simons Foundation
 

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July 2019

Nicolas Addington, Mathematics
K3 surfaces, derived categories, and cubic fourfolds
$150,000, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Nick Allen, Psychology
Yr5 ORI Subaward: Depressed Mothers' Parenting of Adolescents: Social-cognitive & Neural Mechanisms [Amendment #5]
$306,788, 1 Year: National Institutes of Health (Oregon Research Institute)
Edward Davis, Earth Sciences
Conserving Oregon's Fossil Heritage through Fossil Preparation
$50,505, 3 Years: U.S. Department of Interior
Rebecca Dorsey, Earth Sciences
Collaborative Research: Testing Evolutionary Pseudocongruence Along the Baja California Peninsula Through Integration of Geologic and Genomic Data
$645,706, 5 Years: National Science Foundation
Dejing Dou, Computer and Information Science
NSF Student Travel Support for the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2019)
$24,000, 1 Year: National Science Foundation
Josef Dufek, Earth Sciences
Collaborative research: Mapping bed forces to granular flow properties (non-lead)
$240,280, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
Josef Dufek, Earth Sciences
Triboelectric Charging of Particles on Titan: Assessing The Role of Charging and Aggregation on The Geomorphology of Titan
$301,327, 3 Years: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Raymond Frey, Physics
QuarkNet Summer 2019 Workshop - MOU Year 7
$2,000, 1 Year: National Science Foundation (University of Notre Dame)
David Garcia, Biology
Cellular memories of a stressful past: encoding by epigenetic regulation of RNA
$40,000, 1 Year: Medical Research Foundation
Daniel Grimes, Biology
Using Zebrafish to Understand Spine Growth and Disease
$100,000, 1 Year: Donald and Delia Baxter Foundation
John Halliwill, Human Physiology
IPorter Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Award - Emily Larson [Renewal]
$28,300, 1 Year: American Physiological Society
Ben Hutchinson, Psychology
Leveraging Deep Probabilistic Models to Understand the Neural Bases of Subjective Experience
$9,270, 1 Year: National Science Foundation (Northeastern University)
Darren Johnson, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
AlOx coating of high temperature materials
$134,085, 1 Year: Minteq International Inc.
David Johnson, Chemistry and Biochemistry 
A Mechanistic Approach to Solid State Synthesis by Controlling Interfacial Reactions
$450,000, 3 Years: U.S. Department of Energy
Svetlana Maslakova, Biology
Collaborative Research: ARTS: Understanding Tropical Invertebrate Diversity Through Integrative Revisionary Systematics and Training
$99,468, 4 Years: National Science Foundation
Christopher Minson, Human Physiology
Targeting Hypertension and Insulin Resistance with Heat Therapy
$300,000, 3 Years: American Heart Association
Boyana Norris, Computer and Information Science
Code Quality Research
$114,987, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Carol Paty, Earth Sciences
Characterizing the Influence of ICMES at Mercury Using MESSENGER Observations and Multifluid Simulations [NASA Grant Transfer]
$251,280, 1 Year: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Valerie Sahakian, Earth Sciences
Bay Area Site Effects: Exploring Site Spectral Physical Parameters
$91,712, 1 Year: U.S. Geological Survey
Nadia Singh, Biology
CAREER: The Evolution of fine-scale recombination landscapes
$259,523, 1 Year: National Science Foundation
David Strom, Physics
U.S. ATLAS SUPER2019 Undergraduate Research
$5,226, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Energy
Amanda Thomas, Earth Sciences
Rapid Magnitude Assessment of Large Earthquakes from Machine Learning [fellowship]
$44,946, 1 Year: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Snowy mountainscape
Manipulating erythropoiesis at low and high altitudes to discover new biomarkers
PI: Andrew Lovering of Human Physiology

Using young and healthy college students recruited from the University of Oregon, this study (High resolution metabolomics and proteomics to identify doping biomarkers with rHuEPO or prolyl hydroxylase inhibition at low and high altitudes) will compare the effects of manipulating erythropoiesis, the process of producing red blood cells, at sea level and high altitude to discover new biomarkers. Divided into two phases, the students will participate in baseline studies at sea level and high-altitude exposure, including tests of aerobic endurance. Phase two will compare the effects of erythropoietin, a hormone produced by the kidneys, roxadustat, an anti-anemia drug, and a placebo via blood samples taken during the study.

Social Sciences

June 2021

Sarah Cooley, Geography
Leveraging new satellite technologies to constrain feedbacks between surface water, permafrost and carbon emissions in the Arctic
$30,463, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
 

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April 2021

Craig Kauffman, Political Science
The Eco-Jurisprudence Monitor: An Interactive Online Tool for Converting Data into Action
$100,000, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
 

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March 2021

James Meacham, Geography
Cartographic support of Wyoming Migration Initiative for Pew "State of Migration Report"
$20,000, University of Wyoming
James Meacham, Geography
Phase 14: Cartographic Support of Wyoming Migration Initiative Research and Outreach
$30,000, University of Wyoming

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December 2020

Shaul Cohen, Geography
UO Prison Education Program Mellon Foundation
$481,000, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Zachary DuBois, Anthropology
Measure Development to Advance the Scientific Study of Minority Stress in Transgender Individuals
$38,972, Michigan State University
Vera Keller, History
Curating the German Enlightenment: Johann Daniel Major (1634-1693) and the Experimental Century
$50,000, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
 

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November 2020

Wesley Wilson, Economics
A Study of the Modal Competitive Factors Among Truck, Rail, and Barge in Agriculture
$79,228, U.S. Department of Agriculture
 

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September 2020

James Meacham, Geography
Cartographic Development Support Greater Yellowstone Migration Project
$39,210, 2 Years: University of California - Berkeley
 

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August 2020

James Meacham, Geography
Cartographic Visualization Support and Product Development of Migration Corridors Research in Oregon and Montana (University of Wyoming/USGS)
$80,000, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Interior (University of Wyoming)
Craig Parsons, Political Science
Emily Masucci 2020 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program
$40,033, 2 Years: U.S. Department of Education
Craig Parsons, Political Science
Holly Moulton 2020 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program
$29,450, 2 Years: U.S. Department of Education
Craig Parsons, Political Science
Katherine Shields 2020 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program
$19,768, 2 Years: U.S. Department of Education

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graph of Atlas detector data
Searches for new fundamental particles and advances in instrumentation for research in particle physics
PI: Laura Jeanty of Physics

There has been much success with the standard model of particle physics for describing the nature of matter on small scales and explaining the fundamental interactions of elementary particles in our universe. But many questions remain unanswered. This project targets the discovery of long-lived particles produced from electroweak processes by the Large Hadron CERN (Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland. This work will illuminate the most promising hiding place of weak-scale solutions to many of the remaining mysteries of particle physics while advancing the instruments used in the searches.

July 2020

Carolyn Fish, Geography
Map storytelling to build empathy for coastal communities
$73,131, 1 Year: National Science Foundation (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
Lynn Stephen, Anthropology
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Gender-based violence and the politics of justice and care among low-income women in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
$25,093, 2 Years: National Science Foundation

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June 2020

Lindsay Frederick Braun, History
Cultures of Colonial Compilation: Collecting and Mapping Knowledge in Southern Africa, 1850-1910
$29,870, 1 Year: Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Lucas de Carvalho Ramos Silva, Geography
Landscape Prioritization for Scaling Up Carbon Drawdown: An integrated strategy for forest and water governance in the Pacific Northwest
$140,000, 5 Years: Eugene Water & Electric Board
Kirstin Sterner, Anthropology
MicroRNAs, myofibers and the evolution of endurance locomotion in hominins.
$9,968, 2 Years: Leakey Foundation
 

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May 2020

Carolyn Fish, Geography
Map storytelling to build empathy for coastal Alaskan indigenous communities
$102,072, 2 Years: National Science Foundation (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
Kathy Lynn, Environmental Studies
Tribal Climate Change Project Partnership
$5,000, 1 Year: U.S. Department of Interior (Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians)

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April 2020

Kirstin Sterner, Anthropology
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Uncovering the regulatory landscape of myofiber type in the context of human evolution
$29,395, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
 

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March 2020

Mark Carey, History
Dissertation Grant: The Seafloor and Society: How Technological Development on the Ocean Floor Transformed North America
$12,990, 1 Year: National Science Foundation
Nelson Ting, Social Sciences
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social environment and gut microbiome plasticity in a black-and-white colobus monkey (Colobus vellerosus)
$25,159, 2 Years: National Science Foundation

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February 2020

Bryna Goodman, History
Finance and Fortune: Economics, Individual Calculation, and the Fate of the Chinese Republic
$56,500, 1 Year: National Humanities Center
Judith Raiskin, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Support for The Eugene Lesbian Oral History Project
$22,057, 1 Year: Oregon Cultural Trust
Ed Rubin, Economics
TWEEDS: The Workshop in Environmental Economics and Data Science
$30,000, 2 Years: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Julie Weise, History
Nuestro South
$50,000, 1 Year: Whiting Foundation

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January 2020

Maria Escallon, Anthropology 
Excluded: Black Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Diversity in Colombia
$60,000, 1 Year: National Endowment for the Humanities
James Meacham, Geography
Pilot Routable Road Network
$49,944, 1 Year: Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries
Ellen Scott, Sociology
Support for analysis of preliminary findings of research on the impacts of the new scheduling reform law in Oregon
$11,000, 1 Year: Ford Foundation
Lynn Stephen, Anthropology
Can the State Interrupt the Vicious Cycle of Gendered Violence that it Helped to Create? Evidence from Guatemala
$21,025, 1 Year: Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Xiaobo Su, Geography
China-In-Asia: Historical Connections and Contemporary Engagement
$7,500, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (Social Science Research Council)
 

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December 2019

Nicolae Morrar, Environmental Studies, Philosophy 
Translation of the Seminars of Gilles Deleuze
$18,800, 3 Years: National Endowment for the Humanities (Purdue University)
 

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November 2019

Maria Escallon, Anthropology
Excluded: Black Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Diversity in Colombia
$40,000, 1 Year: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.

Carolyn Fish, Geography
Map storytelling to build empathy for coastal Alaskan indigenous communities
$102,072, 2 Years: National Science Foundation (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)

Leslie McLees, Geography
Revise/Remix
$3,969, 2 Years: Open Oregon Educational Resources
 

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october 2019

Jeff Hanes, History
Oregon-Vietnam-Japan Collaboration and Exchange Project
$97,836, 1 Year: Japan Foundation

James Meacham, Geography
Phase 13: Cartographic Visualization Support of Wyoming Migration Initiative Research and Outreach
$46,000, 1 Year: Knobloch Family Foundation (University of Wyoming)

Krystale Littlejohn, Sociology
Changemakers in Family Planning Award
$57,058, 2 Years: Society in Family Planning
 

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September 2019

Cristina Faiver, Geography
Toxic Entanglements: Public Health, the Global Goods Movement, and Environmental Racism in Southern California
$10,000, 1 Year: Society of Woman Geographers

Laura Pulido, Geography, Indigenous, Race & Ethnic Studies, Latinx Studies
Foundational White Supremacy in Landscapes Of Us Historical Commemoration
$350,000, 5 Years: National Science Foundation

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August 2019

Scott Fitzpatrick, Anthropology
First Colonization of the Island of Stone Money: Archaeological Investigation of the Remote Yap Islands, Western Micronesia
$19,935, 1 Year: Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc.
Bruce Blonigen, Economics
The Long-run Relationship Between Trade and the Growth of Cities
$394,536, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
David Evans, Economics
Collaborative Research: A Unified Framework for Optimal Public Debt Management
$127,596, 3 Years: National Science Foundation
James Meacham, Geography
Phase 12: Cartographic Visualization Support and Product Development of Migration Corridors Research in Colorado
$40,000, 2 Years: U.S. Department of Interior (University of Wyoming)
Jo Weaver, Global Studies
Collab Res: Food Insecurity and Mental Health in Global Perspective: Social and National Pathways
$11,675, 1 Year: National Science Foundation
 

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July 2019

Kirstin Sterner, Anthropology
Doctoral Dissertation Research: Investigating the effects of diet on biological age through a rhesus macaque epigenetic clock
$29,379, 2 Years: National Science Foundation
Alison Carter, Anthropology
Urbanism, Environment, and Household Ecology at Angkor
$5,000, 1 Year: Earthwatch Institute
Ellen Scott, Sociology
Unpredictable Scheduling Practices in Oregon - Second Phase
$20,000, 1 Year: United Food and Commercial Workers Union
 

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