Discovery

Pioneering Research Improves Tomorrows Lives

A new drug that prevents brain damage in stroke victims. A breakthrough discovery explaining why the elderly lose their balance. New evidence on how the brain represses memories. It all starts with basic research—research that lays the foundation for those sudden leaps in knowledge that eradicate polio, send man to the moon, or double the yield of a single grain of wheat.

The University of Oregon is a premier research university, and faculty research here goes hand-in-hand with teaching in an extraordinary atmosphere of collaboration across disciplines.

UO research keeps faculty members—and their students, both graduate and undergraduate—at the forefront of new knowledge developing in their fields.

Private support for students, faculty members, and facilities will make it possible to see what has not been seen, to understand what has never been understood, and to imagine beyond our wildest visions.