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Oregon

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NSF and Oregon

In FY 2003, NSF provided 319 awards totaling approximately $57 million to 26 institutions in the state of Oregon as well as $200,000 in fellowships.

Institutions in Oregon that received NSF support in FY 2003 include Pacific University, Eastern Oregon University, Lewis and Clark College, the Decision Science Research Institute, Portland State University, Portland Community College, Reed College, Willamette University, and Eduworks.


Examples of Projects Currently Funded by NSF in the State of Oregon:

H.J.Andrews Experimental Forest — The central question guiding the H.J. Andrews Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project at Oregon State University is: How do land use, natural disturbances, and climate change affect three key ecosystem properties, ie carbon dynamics, biodiversity, and hydrology? These three ecosystem properties are of high scientific and social interest and represent three rather different categories of ecological response to landscape patterns. The principle spatial scale for synthesizing results of these studies if the Andrews Forest and the adjacent upper Blue River watershed. The time scale spans the past 500 years and extends several centuries into the future. The Andrews Forest LTER consists of long-term experiments, measurement programs, short-term studies, and modeling analysis.

Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources — Major challenges face the Northwest and the nation both in sustaining environments and economies and in developing educational programs to meet present and emerging needs. Natural resources and resource-based economies are severely threatened. Supported by an Advanced Technological Education award, the Northwest Center for Sustainable Resources at Chemeketa Community College is transforming two-year programs to meet the needs of the technological, high performance workplace in natural resource management. The Center will market and distribute curriculum projects and clearinghouse materials, offer faculty development institutes for high school teachers and community college instructors, develop and deliver new curricula, and disseminate the Center's partnership approach emphasizing employer connections and infusion of industry and professional standards into technician education programs.

Small Business Innovation Research — An NSF SBIR award to CleverSet, Inc. will advance relational Bayesian modeling (RBM) technology with specific focus on information-based technology applications in electronic commerce, especially customer and application system behavior modeling. Relational Bayesian modeling combines recent advances in graphical statistical modeling with modern relational and object-oriented data models. Work will focus on an open problem in RBMs: the representation and discovery of, and computation with, probabilistic dependencies in many-to-one relations.

MONEY — MONEY is a traveling exhibition developed by the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry that uses the familiar and fascinating subject of money to build math skills and promote economic literacy. The exhibit addresses the needs of children and their families for economic literacy through a mix of hands-on interactives, audio and video components, computer-based activities, graphics, text, and artifacts. Areas in the exhibit address the history money, how it is made, prices and markets, and world trade.

For more information on Oregon and NSF, please contact the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at 703-292-8070.

Useful Links:

Oregon State Home Page
Oregon Governor's Office


 
 
     
 

 
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