OSU:
- Professor John C. Buckhouse (Rangeland Ecology Management/Water Quality) is the local authority on the life and times of J.B. Charbonneau, the infant who traveled with Louis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery.
UO:
- Teaching of Native Languages
- A geography professor's work, "Woodburn, Oregon: a microcosm of immigrant shifts in America" that includes a video slideshow narrated by the professor (a new technology UO is using in partnership with YouTube). See the url below.
http://pmr.uoregon.edu/science-and-innovation/uo-research-news/
research-news-2008/march-2008/
woodburn-oregon-a-microcosm-of-immigrant-shifts-in-america/
- The study of DNA in human feces remains in Paisley Caves in southwestern Oregon -- evidence of ancient Oregonians.
- Bob Bussel, a professor of history and Director of UO's Labor Education and Research Center: His 100-page booklet tells the story of labor in Oregon, focusing on eight leaders who often used their commissioner's post of the state's Bureau of Labor and Industries (BOLI) as a bully pulpit to promote social stability and decency.