by nmclain | Apr 23, 2025 | News
University of Oregon’s monthly research and innovation newsletter, Pursuit, features an article about an exciting project from the Institute for Health in the Built Environment (IHBE): acoustic mushrooms! IHBE co-director, Mark Fretz, and fifth-year architecture...
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 | Oct 1, 2024 | News
Siobhan Rockcastle and Kyuho Ahn have been awarded an Agricultural Research Services (ARS) Tallwood Design Institute grant through the USDA for the proposal titled, ‘Surface matters: Exploring the impact of finishes on human factors that limit the market adoption of...
by nmclain | Jun 20, 2024 | News
Siobhan Rockcastle (UO) joins Denise Gravelle (Quinn Evans) and Julia Siple (Quinn Evans) as PI on a winning proposal, titled “A Research-Informed Guide to Circadian Lighting Design in Existing Buildings.” This research will produce a user-friendly design guide for...
by Gwynne Mhuireach | Aug 30, 2023 | News, Research
Did you know that every day, we eat billions of microbes (bacteria, fungi, viruses) inhabiting our food? According to Wasserman et al. (2019), a single apple harbors about 100,000,000 bacteria, not to mention an unquantified number of fungi, viruses, and other...
