Pimsupa Jasmin Albert

Albert, a doctoral student in biology, is a plant community ecologist. She combines field studies with population models to understand shifts in species interactions driven by global change factors, including nitrogen deposition, invasive grasses, and pollinator habitat restoration. 

Angelique Allen

Allen seeks to decode the complex visual processing system of octopuses, including their camera-like eyes which are similar to that of humans. She is focused on how octopuses process polarization information, meaning the angle of a light wave relative to the direction of its propagation. Allen is a doctoral student in biology.

Alexandra Aringer

Aringer is a clinical and developmental psychology PhD student in the ORCHIDS Lab. She focuses on integrating different perspectives (i.e., biopsychosocial, developmental psychopathology) to better understand risk and resilience mechanisms in individuals and communities affected by trauma and adversity. She is also interested in mitigating intergenerational impacts of adversity, the biological embedding of stress, and investigating autonomic underpinnings that underscore variations in vulnerability and resilience in underserved populations.

Gaby Bailey

Bailey studies carbon nanohoops which are new types of carbon nanomaterials with unique optical properties developed in the Jasti Research Group. She is systematically altering the structure of the carbon nanohoop by incorporating other elements like sulfur or nitrogen and studying the effects on the fluorescence emission of these materials. Bailey is a doctoral student in chemistry.

Estelle Berger

Berger is a clinical and developmental psychology PhD student in the Developmental Social Neuroscience Lab. She focuses on how features of the neighborhood environment play a role in well-being, neurodevelopment, and mental health during adolescence. Additional areas of inquiry include sleep health, how to support children and families in the context of climate change and environmental degradation, the prevention of intergenerational transmission of substance use disorder, and other topics. Berger is a doctoral student in psychology.

Savanah Bird

Bird is studying the causes and consequences of African elephant hybridization in the East African Albertine Rift. Using whole genome sequencing and DNA metabarcoding techniques, her goal is to better understand what hybridization means for the future of these endangered species and how the field of conservation should view hybridization more broadly. Bird is a doctoral student in biology.

Hannah Cantrell

Cantrell is studying market integration effects on the skeleton in the Shuar, an Ecuadorian Indigenous population who participate in the Shuar Health and Life History Project, co-directed by her UO advisor, Dr. Josh Snodgrass. Using biomarkers and bone turnover markers, Cantrell is interested in how health, inequity, and lifestyle factors influence the skeleton and works at the intersection of skeletal and dental biology, human biology, and evolutionary medicine. Cantrell is a doctoral student in anthropology.

Gabrielle Coffing

Coffing is a computational biologist studying octopus evolution. She assembled a high-quality genome of the California two-spot octopus which she is using to examine the evolution of sex chromosomes in cephalopods. Coffing is a doctoral student in biology.

Dara Craig

Craig studies how coastal co-management affects cultural health and mauri (life force) in Aotearoa New Zealand, through the lens and practice of community engagement. As a member of the Glacier Lab and a non-Indigenous scholar, her research promotes living oceans and climate justice, with focuses on marine spatial planning, settler colonial studies, and supporting Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Craig is a doctoral student in environmental sciences, studies, and policy.

Taylor Culinski

Culinski is studying children and adolescents in kinship placements in the context of the opioid epidemic. She is interested in understanding youth perceptions of family dynamics, resiliency, and protective factors to develop programs and support services addressing the needs of youth in kinship care. Culinski is a master's student in psychology.

Heather Dawson

Dawson is interested in all fungi, but specializes in underground-fruiting truffle fungi with the help of her canine research partner, Rye the truffle dog. Dawson's primary research focus is on the fungi of oak savanna, and she is investigating the effects that prescribed burning has on these fungal communities. Dawson is a doctoral student in biology.

Jarod Forer

Forer is investigating how fluid microcirculation can serve as a target for new therapeutic approaches to tendon injury and disease, with an emphasis on translation to the clinical level. He is a member of the Willett Lab at the Knight Campus and the Hahn Lab in the Bowerman Sports Science Center. Forer is a doctoral student in bioengineering.

Rebecca Hayes

Hayes studies the biogeography of wild bees and their gut microbiomes. She uses machine learning and Bayesian hierarchical modeling to understand spatial patterns and drivers of variation in the pollen bees collect and the communities of organisms that live inside their guts. Hayes is a doctoral student in biology.

Justin Krier

Krier is working to better understand what is happening inside “Io,” one of Jupiter’s moons. He is looking at the magnetic relationship between the planet and moon. Krier is a doctoral student in earth sciences.

Mahindra Mohan Kumar

Kumar's research investigates how and why chronically underfunded mobile crisis response programs have been asked to solve systemic issues such as houselessness. His research is largely inspired by his most recent ethnographic project on case managers at a homeless services organization navigating the provision of social welfare for the unhoused during the COVID-19 pandemic. Kumar is a doctoral student in sociology.

Katya Podkovyroff Lewis

Lewis is focused on paleoecology and paleoclimate insights in lake sediments to predict ecosystems and vegetative community changes. Her research will serve as a means for understanding and reconstructing paleoenvironments that might provide insight to climate change impacts on communities that are facing these challenges. Lewis is a doctoral student in biology.

Hana Matsumoto

Matsumoto is investigating the mechanisms behind vegetative shifts in the arctic and boreal zones of Siberia and Alaska. Her work uses forest landscape simulation modeling, remote sensing and machine learning to help understand and reveal these dynamics. Matsumoto is a master's student in environmental studies.

Rose McDonald

McDonald is reconstructing pollinator habitats in managed forests and, within that system, determining the underlying drivers of pathogen spread among bee communities. McDonald is a doctoral student in biology.

Elizabeth McGuire

McGuire is a biological anthropologist in the Stable Isotope Lab. McGuire uses stable oxygen isotopes in mammal teeth to understand water availability in African paleoecosystems. McGuire is a doctoral student in anthropology.

Kaylee Meyers

Meyers studies biosensors and bioelectronics which involves the development of implantable and wearable sensing platforms. Her work focuses on the engineering of sensors that fully degrade within the body after their functional lifetime is complete; such sensors could help address complications in orthopedics, sports medicine, and more. Meyers is a doctoral student in bioengineering.

Nicolette Molina

Molina explores how oppression, including discrimination and other forms of inequity, interact with personal factors to increase risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among pregnant and postpartum people. Through her work, she aims to leverage a social justice approach to foster environments where life feels worth living for marginalized communities. Molina is a doctoral student in psychology.

Anastasia Browning O'Hagan

O'Hagan is studying person-to-person variation in how people interpret, evaluate, and decide whether to accept or reject messaging about climate change. Her research aims to take the first step toward a more comprehensive model of message reception that can be translated into effective climate change communications. O'Hagan is a doctoral student in psychology.

Selina Davila Olivera

Olivera is a geomorphologist who studies the recurring initiation of landslides in topographic convergent zones, or hollows, and the implications that these depositional areas have for carbon cycling within watersheds. She works in the Oregon Coast Range where both landslide hazard and carbon storage are key aspects of the landscape. Olivera is a master's student in earth sciences.

Kalika Pai

Pai is studying RNA (focusing on a long non-coding RNA related to heart disease) using single-molecule techniques. These techniques allow us to gain information about structure of the RNA, as well dynamic fluctuations that occur and interactions with other relevant biological molecules. Pai is a doctoral student in chemistry.

Nick Pancheri

Pancheri is a bioengineer leveraging comprehensive preclinical models of post-traumatic osteoarthritis to identify and target novel disease-modifying therapeutic mechanisms. His interdisciplinary work sits at the interface between engineering, biology, and drug delivery for translationally relevant therapeutic design. Pancheri is a doctoral student is bioengineering.

Nicolas Daniel Puentes

David Frey Rubio

Rubio works in Dr. Marian Hettiaratchi's Laboratory of Biomaterials for Protein Delivery and Tissue Engineering. His research aims to develop novel, affinity-based biomaterial coatings to mitigate immune reactions to neural implants. Rubio is a doctoral student in bioengineering.

Maryn Sanders

Sanders is a geomorphologist–someone who studies the surface of the Earth and how it changes over time–and her research focus is on debris flows, which are landslides that run out long distances from where they fail. She’s working in the Columbia River Gorge and Southeast Alaska to better understand the conditions necessary to initiate these events in regions where they occur annually and pose high risk to rural and tribal communities. Sanders is a doctoral student in earth sciences.

Zach Schroeder

Schroeder is a social psychologist who uses language data to research interpersonal perception and "thought-feeling accuracy" - how good we are at knowing what’s going on inside other people’s minds. He applies this research to understanding how educators actively monitor their students’ learning and how we perceive one another during conflict on social media. Schroeder is a doctoral student in psychology.

Iman von Briesen

Von Briesen's lab specializes in Melt Electrowriting (MEW), a high-resolution 3D printing technology capable of producing micron scale fibers from a variety of materials, including clinically relevant bioresorbable polymers. Her dissertation work focuses on exploring the relationships between biological systems, MEW structures, and novel scaffold materials for applications in skin tissue engineering. Von Briesen is a doctoral student in bioengineering.

Jensen Wainwright

Wainwright is a paleoanthropologist and ecologist interested in how paleoenvironmental change over the last 6 million years in eastern Africa may have influenced human evolution. Wainwright uses stable isotope geochemistry to better understand how the diets of small mammals reflect environmental conditions in modern ecosystems, such as vegetation communities and aridity, and uses these frameworks to interpret small mammal diet and ecology in the fossil record. Wainwright is a doctoral student in anthropology.

Carmen Watkins

Watkins is a plant ecologist studying species interactions in a changing world. Watkins' research explores how interactions between plants and their microbial partners change with drought and the consequences for species coexistence and biodiversity maintenance. Watkins is a doctoral student in biology.

Jaxen Godfrey

Godfrey is a doctoral student in physics.

Raleigh Goodwin

Goodwin is a doctoral student in psychology.

Phillip Hernandez

Hernandez is a doctoral student in bioengineering.

Allison LaSalvia

LaSalvia is a doctoral student in chemistry.

Andrew Lesak

Lesak is a doctoral student in physics.

Yan Carlos Pacheco

Pacheco is a doctoral student in bioengineering.

Cecelia Staggs

Staggs is a doctoral student in linguistics.

Shannan Lenke Stoll

Stoll is a doctoral student in environmental sciences, studies, and policy.

'Ana Fonongava'inga Stringer

Stringer is a doctoral student in geography.

Dehlia Wolftail

Wolftail is a doctoral student in environmental sciences, studies, and policy.