LIFE@OSU

Oregon State’s commitment to promote diversity on campus has received a national “best practices” award for college programs. Terryl Ross, director of OSU’s Office of Community and Diversity, accepted the “Committed to Diversity” Award from Minority Access Inc., a Washington, D.C.-area non-profit working to expand minority involvement in education, employment, and research.

Passage of several of the dozen measures, especially Measures 57, 59 and 61, on Oregon’s Nov. 4 ballot could have significant effect on how public services are funded by the state.

Leaders in the OSU College of Health and Human Sciences and at other Oregon universities have been exploring the potential of developing a new academic entity: an accredited school or college of public health. The new school would be the only such institution in the state of Oregon. The proposal is now moving forward under the leadership of Tom Eversole and involves collaboration with Oregon Health and Sciences University and Portland State University.

Eighteen months after a troubled young man murdered 32 students at Virginia Tech and then turned the gun on himself, OSU students, faculty and staff have an emergency communications system in place that could help prevent such a tragedy from ever happening here.

Native American flutist and Oregon State University music instructor Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reibach contemplates a career that includes 12 albums, two DVDs, and more than 23 award nominations. “Awards are nice, but they don’t really mean anything,” he says, reaching out his colorfully tattooed arm to stroke the head of his dog, a miniature Chihuahua.

If you’re looking to stay fit, get a little stress relief or just get together and exercise with, oh, say a few hundred friends, the Faculty/Staff Fitness program is for you.

Valerie Rosenberg and Paul Primak took the “Bicycle Commute Challenge to the max, riding 43 miles from Eugene to their offices in Snell Hall.

Seven years after being told her unborn daughter was going to die because of complications during pregnancy, Elizabeth Cuno found herself majoring in health management and policy at OSU and taking Stephanie Bernell’s class in health economics in the College of Health and Human Sciences.

OSU researchers deployed a wave energy buoy in the Pacific last week, and new findings suggest the development of wave energy facilities off the Oregon coast could have significant environmental impacts. Most of those impacts, however, are largely unknown, and the report itself is being used as a guide for the flood of technological advances seeking to tap a clean, renewable energy source like ocean waves.

Four months after receiving a kidney donated by one of her former Oregon State University colleagues, Cynthia Hubbard is feeling great.