UO faculty experts study many of the most pressing global issues. Through our global networks, we collaborate with international partners to drive change through innovation. 
 

Advancing sustainable development and environmental stewardship in the Amazon Basin through innovation and community partnership.

Director: Lucas Silva 
 

Established in response to the increasing concerns about the sustainability of cities due to the worldwide trends of rapidly increasing population size and resulting urbanization. Student funding is available.

Director: Yekang Ko 
 

Supports foreign language educators on the UO campus, nationally, and internationally. CASLS is a National Foreign Language Resource Center. 

Director: Julie Sykes 
 

Research and outreach center devoted to promoting understanding of the Asia-Pacific region. CAPS' primary aim is to foster collaborative and individual research engaging Asia-interested scholars from the UO, the nation, and around the world.

Director: Maram Epstein 
 

An interdisciplinary center that supports a wide range of scientific, educational, and service-oriented initiatives designed to understand and ameliorate the world’s most challenging health and social problems. Student funding is available.

Directors: Clare Evans, Jeff Measelle, Josh Snodgrass, Jo Weaver, Kristin Yarris 

Aims to inspire students to develop the ability to use reason and conflict resolution discourse to help prevent violence and hate in personal, national, and international affairs. Programming is sponsored in part by the Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace.
 

Focused on expanding academic programming in Islamic Studies and the apposite fields of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies on the UO campus.

Director: David Hollenberg 
 

A diverse group of faculty, graduate students, and active professional community members and emeriti who work across languages and disciplines in the area of Translation Studies. Student funding is available.

An internationally-oriented research and outreach center dedicated to engaging in dialogue as a means to achieve transcultural understanding, and fostering opportunities to pave the way for conflict sensitive reporting on an international scale.

Directors: Steven Shankman & Peter Laufer 
 

Promotes research and education in three broad areas: developments in contemporary Vietnam, the history and future of US-Vietnam relations, and critical issues involving the Vietnamese-American community.

Director: Tuong Vu