OpenFieldThe University of Oregon is the flagship public research university of the state of Oregon, renowned for the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, sustainable architecture, marine biology, and quantum physics.
Founded in 1876 in Eugene along the scenic Willamette River, the University of Oregon is a prestigious Carnegie R1 (Very High Research Activity) institution and an elected member of the Association of American Universities (AAU). UO enrolls over 23,000 students across nine colleges and schools. The university is home to world-class scientific facilities including the USD $1 billion Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (OIMB) in Charleston, and the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) where molecular genetics and zebrafish genomics were famously pioneered.
Fully funded five-year doctoral fellowship at the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact exploring synthetic biomaterials and neural interfaces.
UO's most prestigious merit award for incoming freshmen, providing full undergraduate funding plus an enrichment fund for study abroad and research.
Graduate teaching and research fellowship (GE) within the Oregon Center for Optical, Molecular, and Quantum Science (OMQ) participating in LIGO research.
Professional two-to-three year graduate architecture degree at the College of Design specializing in cross-laminated timber (CLT) and embodied carbon reduction.
Residential coastal research semester at OIMB in Coos Bay conducting oceanographic trawls, benthic invertebrate surveys, and larval development experiments.
Ten-week funded summer laboratory placement at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) using CRISPR genome editing in Danio rerio models.
Eight-week executive program offered by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics in multi-stakeholder forestry mediation and indigenous water compacts.
Vice President and Robert and Leona DeArmond Executive Director of the Knight Campus
World-renowned bioengineer leading the USD $1 billion Knight Campus, developing vascularized scaffold matrices and regenerative gene delivery vectors to repair catastrophic skeletal injuries.
Topics: Musculoskeletal Regenerative Medicine, Bone and Cartilage Tissue Engineering, Biomaterial Delivery Systems
View researcher profile ↗Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences & Professor of Physics
Eminent physicist who co-authored the U.S. National Quantum Initiative Act, researching quantum state tomography, single-photon sources, and optical quantum computing circuits.
Topics: Quantum Optics, Quantum Information Science, Single-Photon Waveforms
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Biology & Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Pioneering developmental neurobiologist investigating how motoneurons and the enteric nervous system develop, and how the microbiome shapes neural circuit wiring during embryogenesis.
Topics: Neural Circuit Development, Gut-Brain Axis in Zebrafish, Enteric Nervous System Plasticity
View researcher profile ↗All listings are compiled from official university sources and reviewed under OpenField editorial standards. Program availability, scholarship quotas, and entry requirements are subject to university revisions. Applicants should confirm all deadlines with University of Oregon's official admissions office.
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