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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.

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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.

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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.

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Oregon Digital Newspaper Program Awarded NEH Funding

The University of Oregon Libraries has been named one of 97 award recipients in the latest round of National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funding. The award will support ODNP's efforts to digitize 100,000 pages of historic newspaper content, greatly expanding and diversifying our state's presence in the Library of Congress' Chronicling America collection.
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Indigenous North Americans Ebook Collection Launched by BTAA (external link)

The Big Ten Academic Alliance's Center for Library Programs announces the expansion of the Big Ten Open Books project with the publication of its second 100-book collection. Exploring the history, culture, religion, and resilience of Indigenous populations from the 15th century to present day, these high-quality scholarly works first published by the partnering university presses are now made openly available in digital form.
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Le Yang, UO Libraries' AVPUL Receives Fulbright Award (external link)

Associate Vice Provost & University Librarian for Collections, Discovery, and Digital Strategy Le Yang is one of four UO faculty members to receive Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards for the 2025-26 academic year. As a Fulbright Specialist in Taiwan, he'll work with Taipei Medical University’s library incorporating AI-enhanced search tools and LLMs.