The Department of Physics at the University of Oregon grew out of the Natural Philosophy curriculum that was offered at the university beginning the year it was founded, 1876. The collection contains grant reports and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission records.
UA 171
In 1936, the State Board of Higher Education combined the Oregon State Museum of Anthropology, the Condon Museum of Geology, the University Herbarium, and the Museum of Zoology into the University of Oregon Museum of Natural History. The collection contains correspondence, reports, meeting notes and minutes, Herbarium historical documents, glass negatives, photographs, a Museum of Anthropology accessions/inventory journal, and a negative of Fort Rock sandals.
UA 119
The Institute of Molecular Biology was founded in 1859. It is a research community and graduate program that is dedicated to investigating biological questions at the molecular level. The collection contains records that document the functions and activities of this institute.
UA 169
The Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences (ICDS) at the University of Oregon was founded in the mid-1980s.
The collection contains correspondence, book and article length manuscripts, files on/of Harold H. Hawkins, R. Daniel Ketchum, and Nelson Cowan, and files on the Case Against Secondary Task Analysis manuscript.
Call number: UA 045
Guide to The Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences Records
The Pine Mountain observatory operates under the University of Oregon’s Department of Physics and under a special use permit from the Deschutes National Forest. The collection consists of construction and dedication records, committee and staff minutes, correspondence and reports, office files, guest registries, and a 2-volume history from 1963-1997.
Call number: UA 093
Sigma Xi was founded in 1886 (nationally) to honor excellence in scientific investigation and encourage a sense of companionship and cooperation among researchers in all fields of science and engineering. The Society of the Sigma Xi, University of Oregon Chapter, was founded in 1923 after a two year effort. Collection contains office files, correspondence, financial records, fraternity records, chapter book, and historical information.
Call number: UA 147
Guide to Society of the Sigma Xi. University of Oregon Chapter Records
Geology has been offered at the University of Oregon since its establishment in 1876, and Thomas Condon was the first and only professor of Geology until 1904. Collection contains correspondence, subject files, grade books, scrapbooks, photographs, office files and includes files of Samuel Dicken and Warren Smith.
Call number: UA 054
The Condon Lecture Series was created in 1944 by the Oregon State Board of Higher Education and was named after the University of Oregon’s first geologist, Thomas Condon. The collection contains published and unpublished versions of lectures, correspondence, and proposals.
Call number: UA 141
Mathematician Charles Hiram Chapman served as President of the University of Oregon, 1893-1899, and taught mathematical physics at the university. Collection contains incoming inquires and correspondence of Charles Chapman during his presidency at the University of Oregon, 1893-1896.
Call number: UA 001.2
Guide to the Office of the President – Charles Hiram Chapman Records
Joy Belsky (1944-2001) was a Portland range ecologist who worked on protecting public lands in the Western United States. The collection includes articles published in scientific journals, newsletters, newspaper articles, government publications, manuscripts, speeches/talks and correspondence.
Call number: Coll 332
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