The UO Provost's Office has convened a Science Council to advise the provost and UO president on issues related to science research, including national and international trends and developments in the sciences.
The Science Council will also provide a forum for the discussion of multidisciplinary initiatives and even those that would involve collaboration with other institutions. The Council is comprised of faculty from numerous disciplines in the College of Arts and Sciences -- biology, chemistry, geological sciences, math and physics -- two of whom represent signature research institutes on campus.
Among the key issues the Council will address are science faculty recruitment and retention, graduate student support and the setting of strategic research priorities. In the longer term, the Science Council hopes to facilitate the development of new collaborative research endeavors, building on some of the past successes such as ONAMI (the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute) and BBMI (the Brain Biology and Machine Initiative).
- Lisa Raleigh
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