A Message About Research From
STEADMAN UPHAM
Vice Provost for Research and Graduate Education
and
Dean of the Graduate School
Optical science, software design, electronic studying, interactive multimedia, photonics, microlasers, nanotechnology, Energy Scheming, and laptop computers. Internet II, electronic banana peels, web-based and wired, zebra fish aquaria, oriented-strand board, ultrafast spectroscopy, and network-deliverable maps. Quantum control, biomechanics, Softdesk Energy, bandwidth, and stressed skin insulating core.
If we wrote without verbs, articles, prepositions, and adverbs, the words in the previous paragraph would represent the research described in this issue of Inquiry. This list of words is also code for another phrase, "the frontiers of knowledge," a place where University of Oregon researchers spend much of their lives.
Most important, however, is the message this issue carries about the way the UO conducts its business. Many of the research units, projects, and results described in this issue did not exist two years ago. They were, instead, ideas about how to meet pressing social needs, improve teaching and learning, advance technology, and create new knowledge. A major goal of the University of Oregon is to convert such ideas into practical projects of research and application.
The UO responds to the creative energy of talented faculty and staff members as well as students by enabling high-quality research. We do this rapidly and strategically, and we bring new economic resources into Oregon to accomplish our goals. These resources, about $50 million generated for research by the UO each year, help the economy of the state to grow while sustaining the intellectual environment of the university.
I invite you to learn more about the centers and institutes described here as well as about other research at the UO. Link to the frontiers of knowledge at http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~gradsch/, and let me know what you think deangra@oregon.uoregon.edu.