Solar System: Capturing Sunlight With Artificial Leaves
Why drill for fossil fuels when an enormous, self-sustaining energy source is right over our heads? Green plants figured this out eons ago. We humans are just beginning to catch up.
Natural Sciences
UO's Private Science Cloud
Eugene and clouds—they go together like Ducks and touchdowns. It is perhaps fitting, then, that computer and information science professor Allen Malony is leading a team that will install a UO cloud computing system in late spring 2012.
Understanding the Enemy
Supported by a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation, biologists Hui Zong and William Cresko are in the midst of an ambitious three-year project focused on genetic changes that occur in glioma, the deadliest form of brain cancer.
Power Surge
In science, as in life, sometimes discovery is about unintended consequences -- as UO geologists Mark Reed and James Palandri found out on a project in Iceland.
How to Stop Smoke Signals
A UO professor is on the front lines of humanity’s war against nicotine addiction, and one of his weapons of choice is an everyday technology that can also be used to order pizza and vote for American Idol contestants.
Online Extras
Officer Memorial
Thousands gathered at Matt Arena to honor Officer Chris Kilcullen ('95).
Prisoner of the Taliban
Political science alum tells his tale of survival.
Chomsky on Campus
Watch Noam Chomsky's recent UO lecture.Nixon in China
Watch excerpts from the opera, coming soon to Eugene. Survival by Digitization
As political instability in Yemen increases, centuries-old manuscripts are at risk.
The Downside of Microfinance
Listen to NPR and other interviews with anthropologist Lamia Karim.
Corazon Aquino Tree
Three’s a charm for a living memorial.