The Sustainability Tracking Assessment & Rating System (STARS), a program of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, has given OSU a “Gold†rating for sustainability, which is the second highest rating a university can receive. The university has received recognition for its many programs and accomplishments that attributed to the gold [...]
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OSU’s Continued Commitment to Sustainability
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011‘Tis the Season to Hit Dixon Recreation Center!
Thursday, January 6th, 2011With 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 [...]
OSU’s Continual Committment to Sustainability
Thursday, December 30th, 2010President Ed Ray’s 2010 President’s Report shares a decade of accomplishments here at Oregon State University. OSU is committed to sustainability as seen through the collaborative efforts and actions of students, faculty, and staff. Currently OSU is ranked 7th in the nation among universities for using renewable energy by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA [...]
Oregon State University named a “Campus Sustainability Leader”
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010The 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 [...]
College of Forestry Researchers Revolutionizing Duct Tape and more?
Friday, July 9th, 2010While these college of Forestry professors may not have invented ”Duct Tape,” they may very well end up changing the glue behind the idea. Recently Kaichang Li, a professor of wood science and engineering, and his postdoctoral research associate, Anlong Li, made an incidental discovery in a wood products lab at Oregon State University. Together they created a new [...]
Sustainability efforts recognized
Thursday, February 18th, 2010An 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, [...]
OSU Hopes to Partner with Nissan for Electric, Hybrid Cars
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009We all know Oregon State University has been a statewide leader in going green (the environmental movement, not the school colors, folks). The Orange and Black has furthered it’s leadership in the movement as it becomes “poised to take a larger role in emerging electric car technology at a time when Nissan North America has [...]
Terri Irwin Humpback Whale Research Gift to Oregon State University Follow Up
Thursday, June 26th, 2008As promised, here’s a video of the ceremony: Enjoy!
Transparent Transistor to be Used in New Solar Panel Technology
Monday, June 23rd, 2008I 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 [...]
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