Gabon-Oregon Center LEARN MORE AT OUR INITIAL PROJECTS goc.uoregon.edu/projects

URBAN SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM architecture | urban design | sustainability | planning Professors, students and staff at Omar Bongo University, in collaboration with UO colleagues from the Urban Design Lab (UDL) and the Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI), are helping the Gabonese National Public Works Agency with sustainable planning and development of Development Sustainability university campuses, housing, transportation, and public space.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROGRAM IN GABON education | linguistics | cultural exchange The American English Institute (AEI) is working with Omar Bongo University and the Ministry of National Education to launch an intensive English program for students and professionals interested in learning English.

OGOOUÉ RIVER BASIN SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM conservation | sustainability | biology | geography GOC researchers and students collaborating with The Nature THE FUTURE Conservancy, the Gabonese National Parks Agency, and the Water & Forests Ministry on holistic riparian ecosystem assessment, from water Gabonese, American and international partners working together to advance quality to fisheries, sedimentation to biodiversity. collaborative research, education, and public service programs between Gabon, Oregon, the U.S. and Africa, with an emphasis on meeting the world’s urgent MICROBIAL BIODIVERSITY IN TROPICAL sustainable development needs. RAINFORESTS biodiversity | sustainability | climate change A partnership Université des Sciences de la Santé (USS), Gabonese and Oregon biologists are working with Gabon’s National In Gabon, scientists, professors, professionals Centre National de Recherche Scientifique et Research Center and the Smithsonian Institution in the Gamba region to and students are teaming up with colleagues in Technologique (CENAREST), and Ecole Nationale study microbial biodiversity in Gabon’s tropical forest as an indicator of Oregon, the U.S. and around the world to develop des Eaux et Forêts (ENEF). soil fertility and climate change. cutting-edge projects to address the global development challenges as manifested in Gabon. A new vision ETHNOBOTANY AND ANTHELMINTIC DRUG These projects situate Gabon in global comparative The Libreville, Gabon and Eugene, Oregon DEVELOPMENT perspective, while prioritizing sustainability, branches of the Center carry out their joint mission pharmacology | culture | medicine environmental conservation, health care, and through the mutual sharing of ideas, expertise, Gabonese researchers, scientists and students from the Institute for education, all clearly stated themes under the research and educational initiatives, as well as Pharmacopeia and Traditional Medicine (Iphametra) are working with Gabon Emergent national development program. the regular flow of exchange students, faculty, Oregon biologists to search for anthelmintic compounds in local plants, researchers, and other partners. In so doing, we to develop new medicines to treat nematode borne diseases in Gabon. The University of Oregon is proud to host and draw in contributions from private corporations, sponsor the U.S branch of the Gabon-Oregon foundations, and other parties interested in Center, working in tandem with partner universities supporting applied research on sustainable MHEALTH GABON in our statewide Oregon African Studies Consortium development centered on Gabonese realities with innovation | medicine | networks | technology (Oregon State University, Portland State University, worldwide significance. The Albert Schweitzer Hospital, Gabon’s Health Science University Oregon Health and Science University, Willamette and Oregon Health & Science University are working on a Mobile University). The Université Omar Bongo is the Phone Health Network for Young Women in Rural Gabon for improved proud host of the Gabon branch of the Gabon- diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis. LEARN MORE AT Oregon Center, working in tandem with Université goc.uoregon.edu/about des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku (USTM), ONGOING AND POTENTIAL RESEARCH AREAS

Patterns of Diversity of Tropical Forest Saprotrophic Epidemiology and Medical Anthropology (Epidemiology, Fungi (Biology) Anthropology)

Environmental Law and Civic Engagement (Natural Neurotoxicity of Hydrocarbons (Global Health, Resource Law, Land Tenure, Property Rights, Conflict Neurotoxicity) Resolution) Land Use, Livelihoods, and National Parks Deepen Forestry and Environmental Sciences Education (Anthropology, Geography, International Affairs, Political in Gabon (Forestry, Political Science, Geography, Science) Environmental Studies, International Studies) Anti-Poaching Incentives and Economic Modeling Endangered Species in Tourism Contexts (Anthropology) (Economics)

Wood Durability, Harvest Reduction and Carbon Cultural Cooperation and Media (Journalism and Accounting (Forestry) Communication, English Language Studies)

Wood Products Innovation (Wood Products Industry) Archaeology and Cultural Preservation (Archaeology, Anthropology) Ecotourism Business Models (Geography, Business, Tourism and Outdoor Program) Neuroscience Trainings (Neuroscience, Biology)

Alternative Energy and Materials Science (Chemistry) Distance Education Linkages for Primary and Secondary Schools in Gabon (Education) Marine Biodiversity in Gabon (Marine Biology) Green Chemistry in Gabon (Chemistry) Manioc Toxicity (Global Health, Toxicity)

GABONESE ASSOCIATION | GABON-OREGON CENTER:

President: Members: The Minister of Higher Education of the Gabonese Professor Guy Rossatanga-Rignault Republic Dr. Lee White Dr. Michel Antseleve Vice-President: Mr. Igor Nyambie Simard The Rector of Omar Bongo University Ms. Alia Maheva Amiar

Association Gabonaise du Centre Transnational de Gabon-Oregon Transnational Research Center on Recherche Gabon-Oregon sur l’Environnement et le Environment and Development Développement 5209 University of Oregon B.P. 23906 Libreville, Gabon Eugene, Oregon, USA

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