by nmclain | Mar 20, 2025 | News
Researchers at the Institute for Health in the Build Environment (IHBE) are among the contributors of a new paper in Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology on methods of detecting COVID-19 in a built environment. Environmental surveillance holds...
by nmclain | Mar 20, 2025 | News
The University of Oregon features a story about the potential mass timber construction has for the environment, affordable housing, wildfire management, and jobs. Included is a new video produced by University Communications and the Tallwood Design institute (TDI)...
by nmclain | Mar 1, 2025 | News
Siobhan Rockcastle has been invited to give a keynote presentation at the Daylight Academy Annual Conference in Garching, Germany on May 22, 2025. Her talk will be titled “Designing healthy daylit spaces: the intersection between research and practice.” This year’s...
by yakhour5 | Feb 28, 2025 | News
IHBE is thrilled to announce an exciting new study abroad program in Southeast Asia, where students will be studying Building-Integrated Agriculture. This will be an 8-week summer term program, jointly delivered by the University of Oregon School of Architecture and...
by yakhour5 | Feb 28, 2025 | News
IHBE’s Gwynne Mhuireach was awarded a USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Seed Grant to study microbiomes of garden-fresh versus store-bought produce and the variation in their effects on the human gut microbiome. Despite the potential for food...
by yakhour5 | Feb 28, 2025 | News
Urban agriculture can promote nutritional security, food resilience, reduced distribution embodied impacts, and equitable access to healthy foods for burgeoning urban populations. Yet, the lack of open space, contaminated brownfields and surging land prices all...
