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Undergraduate students begin summer research fellowships
June 28, 2021
The 14 fellowship recipients are pursuing projects in a range of disciplines, from conducting a study of the experiences and health of transgender people of color during COVID-19 to research that seeks to increase the accessibility of hydrogen fuel usage to an investigation of the effect of video-coaching interventions for early childhood caregivers.
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Two UO researchers earn prestigious NSF Career Awards
May 17, 2021
BIOLOGY, COMPUTER SCIENCE - Plant community ecologist Lauren Hallett and computer scientist Lei Jiao are getting a boost from the National Science Foundation through prestigious Career Awards, which are among the most sought-after grants from the foundation.
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O project finds communications risks in a Cascadia quake
May 6, 2021
COMPUTER SCIENCE, EARTH SCIENCES - University of Oregon research inspired by an undergraduate has uncovered a communications hazard that could accompany earthquakes along the Cascadia subduction zone: Internet traffic and cell signaling facilities could be crippled.

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Prof. Thien Nguyen Receives the Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
March 16, 2023
Assistant Professor Thien Nguyen has won the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The five-year grant of $582k will support Dr. Nguyen’s project titled “Multilingual Learning for Event Structures from Text.”
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Professors Rejaie and Durairajan Receive $1M+ from NSF to Push the Frontiers of Runtime Programmable Dataplanes
May 1, 2022
Professors Reza Rejaie and Ram Durairajan, co-directors of Oregon Networking Research Group (ONRG) and faculty members in the CS department, recently received a competitive $1M+ grant from the NSF Computer and Network Systems program in support of their research project titled: “Distributed Runtime Dataplane Telemetry as an Adaptive Query Scheduling Problem: Algorithms and Applications.”
Viet Dac Lai
CS PhD Student Wins Adobe Research Fellowship
January 16, 2022
Viet Dac Lai, a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the CS department of the University of Oregon, won the competitive Adobe Research Fellowship. Only 10 students were awarded worldwide for 2022.