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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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CS Undergrad Receives Prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship
April 24, 2023
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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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UO computer scientist honored with distinguished membership
December 16, 2022
The Association for Computing Machinery has selected University of Oregon’s Reza Rejaie, professor and head of the Department of Computer Science, as a distinguished member for "outstanding scientific contributions to computing."