Watch Mark Roth's talk on "hibernation on demand" at the recent TED Conference.
The TED Conference (Technology, Entertainment, Design) brings together the world's leading thinkers in a high-intensity exchange of ideas. At the February, 2010 conference Mark Roth (biology, '79) took the stage to share his work in suspended animation: the art of shutting down life processes and then starting them up again.
Induced by careful use of an otherwise toxic gas, suspended animation can potentially help trauma and heart attack victims survive long enough to be treated. Watch Mark Roth's TED Talk.
Read the Esquire interview, from the magazine's 2008 "Best and Brightest" issue. Esquire describes Roth ('79) as a real-life "mad scientist."
For a more scholarly explanation of his groundbreaking work, visit the website of the Roth Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Read the Cascade story about Roth and other illustrious alumni of the UO's Institute of Molecular Biology.
When the volcano erupted, a UO professor discovered that local residents consoled themselves through song.
Join UO neuroscientists as they bring the host of the PBS series, The Human Spark into their brain research lab.
Temple Grandin, perhaps the world's best known person with autism, drew an overflow crowd to her UO talk.
Watch a slideshow about Elena Rodina's journalistic globetrotting, from the Arctic Circle to Cuba.