by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Weise receives grant to transform a podcast into a YouTube series
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Julie Wise is a CSWS faculty affiliate. Julie Weise, an associate professor of history, has been awarded a $50,000 public-engagement grant to take her Nuestro South project to the next…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Lowthorp calls for caution around gene editing in human embyos
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared in Around the O. Leah Lowthorp is a CSWS faculty affiliate. A University of Oregon cultural anthropologist is among a 21-member group of international researchers and public-interest advocates who have published a strong, cautionary…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Richmond receives top award from Oregon Historical Society
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Geri Richmond is a CSWS faculty affiliate. University of Oregon chemist Geri Richmond has once again been recognized for her contributions to the field of science. Richmond is adding a…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Peters receives NSF Rapid Response grant for coronavirus study
Editor’s note: This story originally appeared in Around the O. Ellen Peters is a CSWS faculty affiliate. Since COVID-19 first surfaced in December in China, the disease has spread rapidly around the globe, sickening nearly 100,000 people, killing more than…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Laura Pulido is the newest recipient of a Collins Chair
From Around the O — Laura Pulido, a professor in two UO departments who has had a wide-ranging influence on campus and beyond, has been named a Collins Chair in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Collins gift specifies…
by Jenee Wilde • • Comments Off on Celona awarded Oregon Literary Fellowship
Assistant professor Marjorie Celona, creative writing, has received an Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship for her fiction writing. The award was part of the 2020 Oregon Literary Fellowships Program, which helps Oregon writers initiate, develop, or complete literary projects. Celona was…