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2024 State Legislative Session Overview
On the evening of Thursday, March 7, legislators adjourned the 2024 regular legislative session in Salem, three days before the constitutional deadline.
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House committee passes College Cost Reduction Act
The US House Education and Workforce Committee held a hearing on January 31 on Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC5)’s College Cost Reduction Act (H.R. 6951).
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DeFazio looks back on 36 years in Congress in chat with students
DeFazio visited with students from the School of Planning, Public Policy and Management. The visit provided students an opportunity to learn how DeFazio applied his education to his career.
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2024 Oregon Legislature convenes for short session
The 82nd Oregon Legislative Assembly convened on February 5 to kick off the 2024 Legislative Session.
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State’s three largest universities form joint cybersecurity center
Cybersecurity experts from the state’s three largest research universities have joined together to launch the Oregon Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, with the goal of improving Oregon’s resilience to cyberattacks.
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UO team designs an eye in the sky to keep watch on wildfires
This fall, the U.S. Forest Service reached out to the UO’s Oregon Hazards Lab with a request: Could the lab design and build a portable, solar-powered, wildfire detection camera that could be packed into a remote location and deployed in response to a wildfire?
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Law school answers the demand for Spanish-speaking mediators
When the University of Oregon School of Law discovered an unmet need affecting Oregonians across the state, staff members searched nationwide for a solution. When they couldn’t find it, they created one.
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New research could improve treatments for Parkinson's, epilepsy
By listening in on the background chatter in the brain, scientists can predict the relationships between different neurons, according to new research from University of Oregon scientists and their colleagues.
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If your next cup of espresso tastes a bit better, you can thank volcanology
Adding a squirt of water to coffee beans before grinding reduces static electric charge on the coffee grounds, new University of Oregon research shows.
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