Posts Tagged ‘campus_sustainability’
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The EPA recently released their list of green power usage amongst the Top 20 Colleges and Universities in the nation, as reported by Sustainable Business Oregon. OSU came in 4th in the nation behind the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Utah. Oregon State uses a combination of biogas, biomass, solar, [...]
Tags: campus_sustainability, EPA, OSU Green Energy
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Thursday, August 11th, 2011
The Princeton Review just came out with its annual list of the greenest colleges in America, and OSU was among the top 16 green universities in the country! OSU received the highest ranking possible from the Princeton Review. This recognition is due to the high recycling efforts on campus, student involvement in sustainability, and the [...]
Tags: campus_sustainability, Environment, Green, sustainability
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
April 7th has been dedicated to nature’s engineer, the amazing BEAVER! Today is a very special day here on campus because the beaver is OSU’s official fierce mascot. April 7th was chosen as International Beaver Day because it is the birthday of the late Dorothy Richards of Little Falls, New York who studied beavers for [...]
Tags: Beaver Nation, beavers, Benny Beaver, campus_sustainability, college_of_engineering, Corvallis OR, Environment, Green, Oregon-State, oregon-state-university, OSU, OSU Athletics, OSU Beavers, Research, sustainability
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Thursday, January 6th, 2011
With the ringing of 2011, come the good old New Year’s resolutions. It seems as though the majority of people out there are sticking to tradition and committing to either losing weight or getting back in shape. With that said, Dixon Recreation Center is buzzing with patrons working to achieve their goals. What draws students [...]
Tags: Admissions, Athletics, Beaver Nation, beavers, campus_sustainability, Environment, Green, New Student Programs & Family Outreach, Oregon-State, oregon-state-university, oregon_state_university, OSU, OSU Athletics, OSU Beavers, sustainability
Posted in Admissions, Alumni, Athletics, Campus Life, Campus Visit, Careers, Dual/Degree Partnership, Faculty, Graduate Students, International Students, Misc., Orientation/New students, Parents, Powered by Orange, Sustainablility, Uncategorized, Undergraduate Students | No Comments »
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
The Sustainable Endowments Institute just named Oregon State University a “Campus Sustainability Leader” on its annual sustainability report card. This is the fourth consecutive year that OSU has achieved that designation, raising its overall score each year. The Sustainable Endowments Institute’s 2011 Report Card has profiles for 322 institutions, based on 1,100 survey responses. The [...]
Tags: Admissions, campus_sustainability, Environment, oregon_state_university, sustainability
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Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010
After years and years of students meeting, lobbying, blogging, discussing, proposing and campaigning for the Student Experience Center, the SEC officially passed late Thursday, May 27th. The Student Experience Center was approved with a total of 2,056 “yes†votes which represents 69 percent of the total. There has been much excitement bubbling around campus about [...]
Tags: Beaver Nation, campus_sustainability, Corvallis OR, Environment, oregon-state-university, oregon_state_university, OSU, OSU Beavers
Posted in Alumni, Campus Life, Events, Faculty, Graduate Students, International Students, Misc., Parents, Powered by Orange, Sustainablility, Uncategorized, Undergraduate Students | 5 Comments »
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
An OSU student and a staffer have been recognized by 1000 Friends of Oregon as part of their “35 Innovators under 35“. Andrea Norris Corvallis As a student at Oregon State University, Andrea served as director of the ASOSU Environmental Task Force and successfully initiated efforts to enact a student-funded Green Energy Fee. The fee, [...]
Tags: campus_sustainability, Environment, sustainability
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Just found this on the internets (hat tip to Blue Oregon): Washington Post- Lubchenco Will Helm National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration By Juliet Eilperin President-elect Barack Obama has tapped Oregon State University professor Jane Lubchenco, one of the nation’s most prominent marine biologists, to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Lubchenco, a conservationist who [...]
Tags: Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, Barack Obama, campus_sustainability, climate change, COMPASS, Corvallis, global warming, Jane Lubchenco, Joint Oceans Commission Initiative, Lubchenco, Marine Biology, Marine Mammal Institute, National Academy of Sciences, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Board, National Science Foundation, NOAA, NSF, oregon-state-university, Pew Oceans Commission, PISCO, Research, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Royal Society
Posted in Beaver News, Faculty, Graduate Students, International Students, Misc., Research, Undergraduate Students | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
I try to stay away from straight reporting of the news here because you all have The Google and are more than capable of browsing the happenings related to OSU. I just couldn’t resist this one, though. We have talked about the transparent transistor technology that was developed at OSU by College of Engineering researchers [...]
Tags: campus_sustainability, EECS OSU, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering OSU, Hewlett Packard, Hewlett Packard Oregon State University, HP, HP OSU, OSU Engineering, Solar Panels, sustainability, Transparent Transistor, Transparent Transistor OSU
Posted in Alumni, Faculty, Graduate Students, International Students, Misc., Research, Uncategorized, Undergraduate Students | 15 Comments »
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
In the recurring sustainability theme here at OSU, the EPA just released its College and University Green Power Challenge results. OSU came in fourth in the nation overall and first in the Pac-10. This last year, OSU purchased 66,680,400 kilowatt hours (kWh) of green/sustainable energy, good for 74% of our total power usage. OSU student [...]
Tags: campus_sustainability, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, OSU Green Energy, OSU Recycling, OSU Sustainability, sustainability, Sustainable energy
Posted in Campus Life, Faculty, Graduate Students, International Students, Misc., Research, Undergraduate Students | 1 Comment »
