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Thick wildfire smoke consumes an Oregon forest.
Senator Jeff Merkley is working on two bills to deal with smoke crisis
KMTR-TV: A center to research wildfire smoke could be at the University of Oregon.
U.S. Senator Alex Padilla directly faces the camera and smiles. An American flag sits in the background over Padilla's right shoulder.
U.S. Senator Alex Padilla Raises Public Health Concerns Regarding Wildfire Smoke and Lack of Clean Air in California Communities
Sierra Sun Times: Cassandra Moseley, vice provost for academic operation and strategy at the University of Oregon, participated in hearing.
scooters, city streets, shared mobility
Micromobility equity goals are common, but follow-through is lacking: study
Smart Cities Dive: Features report by researchers from the University of Oregon and the Greenlining Institute.
Timber workers with the Madera Sugar Pine Company pose for a photo in Madera County, California in 1914.
The Working-Class Loggers Who Saved an Old-Growth Forest
In These Times: Author is Steven C. Beda, assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon. Article is excerpted from Beda's forthcoming book, Strong Winds and Widow Makers: Workers, Nature, and Environmental Conflict in Pacific Northwest Timber Country. 
A sun patio with passive cooling devices is shown. The patio holds a plush couch with several throw pillows, planters with flowers and greenery, and a coffee table adorned with small shrubs.
Selling Homeowners on the Benefits of Passive Cooling
Realtor Magazine: Alexandra Rempel, assistant professor of environmental design at the University of Oregon, provides expert commentary. WWF also cites research. 
A Kiwibot delivery robot trying to cross Michigan Avenue in Detroit.
Delivery robots aren't quite ready to roll
Axios: Nico Larco, a professor of architecture and director of the Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon, is quoted.
Alexis Vasquez, who uses they/them pronouns and identifies as Taino, proudly displays the Navajo Nation and Puerto Rico flags as they lead the cyclists to the next stop during the ride.
Organizers call inaugural Native and Indigenous Bike Ride a success
BikePortland: Angela Noah is a planning, public policy and nonprofit management major at the University of Oregon. 
seismic waves are charted by a seismograph
More Sensors Added to ShakeAlert Earthquake Network
Government Technology: The University of Oregon is a partner in the ShakeAlert network. 
This illustration shows how mass plywood panels, a form of mass timber, could be used in an affordable housing complex. The UO and OSU recently received portions of a large federal grant to advance mass timber construction.
UO programs bolstered by $16M in Build Back Better funds
Researchers at the University of Oregon will receive more than $16 million in federal funds as part of a major government grant to the Oregon Mass Timber Coalition from the Build Back Better Regional Challenge.
Two construction workers help build a roof, guiding to the appropriate place a stack of wood that is suspended by a system of cables. Other buildings, trees, and blue sky fill the background.
Oregon coalition gets $41 million in federal funds to advance 'mass timber' for housing
The Oregonian: University of Oregon and Oregon State University will use some of the funds to research the use of mass timber in housing.
A polar bear stands at a distance and faces the camera. The bear is surrounded by snow and ice.
The polar bear became an 'accidental icon' of climate change. Is it time to rethink that?
CBC, Canada: Kari Marie Norgaard, professor of sociology at University of Oregon, provides expert commentary. 
The capitol building is shown against a blue sky with a few wispy clouds.
The IRA and its Clean Energy Implications with Jody Freeman and Greg Dotson
CleanLaw Podcast: Harvard professor Jody Freeman speaks with Greg Dotson, an associate professor at University of Oregon School of Law and recent Democratic chief counsel to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, about the climate and clean energy provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. 
A blue and orange natural fractal is shown up close. Blue and orange feathers from the fractal's center while slightly blurry blue, orange, and white circles of light dance around the fractal's perimeter.
Ready to Chill Out? Look No Further Than Nature's Fractals
Sierra Magazine: Research from Richard Taylor, professor of physics at the University of Oregon, is featured. 
Smiling with the sun illuminating the left of his face, Jason Younker stands against a blue sky wearing Coquille regalia.
A Conversation with New Coquille Indian Tribe Chief Jason Younker
University of Oregon alumnus and tribal liaison and the new Chief for the Coquille Indian Tribe, Jason Younker looks to preserve and restore Coquille culture for future generations. 
A young person holding a tree seedling and wearing a red hard hat looks to the left and smiles slightly. In the background, several others are congregating near a truck loaded with hay. Further back sits the Oregon State Capitol building.
A Grassroots Anti-Environmentalist Movement Grows in Oregon
The New Republic: Steve Beda, assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon, provides expert commentary.