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Awards

Fostering a culture of research excellence through awards, internships, and fellowships.

These opportunities recognize outstanding scholarly work, innovative research projects, and contributions to advancing knowledge across disciplines. Whether you’re conducting groundbreaking research, engaging in interdisciplinary collaboration, or making significant strides in your academic field, our sponsored awards are designed to support and elevate your scholarly pursuits. Explore how these opportunities can help propel your research and enhance your academic journey.

Undergraduate student presents on winning project.
Libraries' Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence
The Libraries' Award for Undergraduate Research Excellence (LAURE) recognizes students who demonstrate high-quality academic work and excellent library research skills. LAURE winners receive a monetary award and are featured in the UO Scholars' Bank.
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Tiny Galleries
The Tiny Galleries repurpose obsolete phone booths dating back to 1937 in the historic Knight Library entrance halls, as a unique opportunity for students to reflect on and share what they're learning, express artistic ideas, engage more deeply with the broader campus community, and contribute to academic discourse. In addition to having their work displayed, successful applicants receive a monetary award and are recognized at an opening reception.

Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) Fellowships

Our SCUA fellowships offer anyone, regardless of institutional affiliation or status, the opportunity to work with our rich collections. Researchers working in the realms of feminist science fiction, LGBTQIA+, Ken Kesey, conservative and libertarian movements, environmental activism and the built environment and prints materials from the Americas, Europe, Africa and/or Asia are encouraged to apply.

Learn about SCUA Fellowships

Join us for the opening of SCUA’s fall exhibition this Friday, October 10, 4-6 p.m. in the Paulson Reading Room (Knight Lib 206). This celebration will include a brief introduction from the exhibit’s curators and a zine-making workshop featuring reproductions of food-related material from our collections.
Meet Heghine Hakobyan, the UO Libraries’ Slavic, German and Scandinavian Studies Librarian; also the Interim Subject Specialist for Religious and Judaic Studies. Full of great experiences and stories, she is an invaluable resource for researchers and students.
The inaugural Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) Research Fellows Panel was held on Friday, October 3. The event featured research presentations and discussion spotlighting an international group of emerging scholars from across disciplines.