June 12, 2024 – Researchers at UO identified those gaps as they created a comprehensive, searchable database of 111 empirical studies on four-day school weeks. Sean Grant, PhD, a research associate professor at PSI, helped compile the HEDCO research dashboard.

June 5, 2024 – Youth Scientific Council on Adolescence members Dallas Tanner, Talya Soffer, and Kobe Wood talk with Professor Leslie Leve about parenting styles, and how we’re affected by our relationships with our caregivers during adolescence.

May 8, 2024 – That was the case even though the children were raised by adoptive–not birth–parents. Research team, led by Leslie Leve, a professor in the UO College of Education and scientist with the Prevention Science Institute.

April 29, 2024 – Social connectedness, a feeling of belonging at school and in the community, can play an important role in suicide prevention among high-risk teens, new research from the University of Oregon finds.

April 18, 2024 – Stephanie Shire, PhD, associate professor of Early Childhood Special Education at the University of Oregon, focuses her current research on young children with autism and their families.

April 17, 2024 – New research suggests that adolescence is the crucial intervention point for steering young women away from the criminal justice system. Leslie Leve, PhD, involved in research.

April 16, 2024 – A new analysis of childhood opportunity shows that Portland is a relatively good place to raise children. Leslie Leve, PhD, associate director of the Prevention Science Institute, gives expert commentary.

April 3, 2024 – Professor Samantha Shune, PhD, an expert on aging and mealtime, troubleshoots this frequent problem of dementia.

March 20, 2024 – In the latest edition of the College of Education's Research Briefly video series hear from Dean Laura Lee McIntyre, who discusses an NIH funded study that looks at the long-term effects of COVID-related school closures. Research Briefly is dedicated to highlighting remarkable research and grant awards within the COE.

March 19, 2024 – Senior Scientist John Seeley, PhD, who is also a professor and associate dean for research in prevention science and special education at the UO, is a co-investigator on the project at the Oregon Research Institute.