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Wildfire Today: The new Wildfire Smoke Research and Practice Center will be a hub for applicable research on ways to prevent wildfire hazards while building resilience to them. 

The new Institute for Resilient Organizations, Communities, and Environments is a multidisciplinary effort that will build upon the work of  University of Oregon's longstanding Institute for a Sustainable Environment.  

KGW-TV: The Wildfire Smoke Research and Practice Center at the University of Oregon is launching thanks to an $800,000 federal grant. 

The University of Oregon is building on an existing partnership with Karakoram International University to accelerate both institutions' research and teaching capacity around climate change while promoting community resilience to climate hazards in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. 

KVAL-13: Critical funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will help the University of Oregon launch the Center for Wildfire Smoke Research and Practice. 

Bloomberg Law: Mary Wood, professor of law at the University of Oregon, provides expert commentary. 

Morning Ag Clips: Nathaniel Pope, postdoctoral scholar at the University of Oregon Institute of Ecology and Evolution, is study coauthor. 

Rice University News: Rebecca Maher, postdoctoral scholar in the University of Oregon Institute of Ecology and Evolution, is a study coauthor. 

Molly Keogh, a coastal geologist at the University of Oregon, provides expert commentary. 

The University of Oregon College of Design transpecies design initiative puts design to work in an effort to address anthropogenic species extinction. 

Oregon Law Professor Michael Fakhri—faculty leader of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center's Food Resiliency Project—provides expert commentary as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. 

KLCC: Features study by Oregon State University marine ecologist Sarah Gravem and Aaron Galloway, an associate professor at the University of Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. 

Water Power Technologies Office: Yekang Ko, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Oregon, is one of six featured "water power champions."

Zoey Bailey, environmental sciences student at the University of Oregon, explains how personal experience contributed to her current research on the affect of wildfires on the "seed bank" of sub-surface seeds in scorched soil.

The new e-scooters, which provide another eco-friendly option for campus commuters, are part of a one-year pilot program launched by the city of Eugene in partnership with the University of Oregon and Cascade Mobility.