![[Researchers at OSU Seafood Lab test the effects of a new kind of ice, made fro]](http://oregonstate.edu/foodsci/sites/default/files/imagecache/733x314/feature-stories/osu-seafood-laboratory.jpg "[Researchers at OSU Seafood Lab test the effects of a new kind of ice, made from salt-water brine, on fish preservation & quality]")
![[Students touring wine facility in Italy, boy climbing rocks, girl holding kiwi]](http://oregonstate.edu/foodsci/sites/default/files/imagecache/733x314/feature-stories/professor-shares-love-italy-students_4.jpg "[Students touring wine facility in Italy, boy climbing rocks, girl holding kiwis]")
![[Rachel Miller visits France Summer 2102 to test ice-cream recipes]](http://oregonstate.edu/foodsci/sites/default/files/imagecache/733x314/feature-stories/milky-way.jpg "[Rachel Miller visits France Summer 2102 to test ice-cream recipes]")
![[OSU students making cheese with same vats and molds as used in U.S. and Europe]](http://oregonstate.edu/foodsci/sites/default/files/imagecache/733x314/feature-stories/age-cheese.jpg "[OSU students making cheese with same vats and molds as used in U.S. and Europe]")
![[Closeup of mug of beer with foamy head]](http://oregonstate.edu/foodsci/sites/default/files/imagecache/733x314/feature-stories/bitter-words-beer.jpg "[Closeup of mug of beer with foamy head]")
![[OSU food scientist Yanyun Zhao (right) and research associate Jingyun Duan dip]](http://oregonstate.edu/foodsci/sites/default/files/imagecache/733x314/feature-stories/fresh-frontiers.jpg "[OSU food scientist Yanyun Zhao (right) and research associate Jingyun Duan dip lingcod fillets in fish oil and chitosan solution]")
![[Local berry farmer, Cyndi Snegirev, and OSU scientist Yanyun Zhao pour pomegra]](http://oregonstate.edu/foodsci/sites/default/files/imagecache/733x314/feature-stories/special-treatment_0.jpg "[Local berry farmer, Cyndi Snegirev, and OSU scientist Yanyun Zhao pour pomegranate concentrate]")
![[Graduate student Harper Hall checking a yeast culture]](http://oregonstate.edu/foodsci/sites/default/files/imagecache/733x314/feature-stories/fermentation-its-culture.jpg "[Graduate student Harper Hall checking a yeast culture]")
![[Student Jeb Hollabaugh working with pipette in FST Pilot Brewery]](http://oregonstate.edu/foodsci/sites/default/files/imagecache/733x314/feature-stories/art-and-science.jpg "[Student Jeb Hollabaugh working with pipette in FST Pilot Brewery]")
![[Graduate Student Tomomi Fujimaru tasting green vegetable juice while wearing a]](http://oregonstate.edu/foodsci/sites/default/files/imagecache/733x314/feature-stories/beyond-junk-food.jpg "[Graduate Student Tomomi Fujimaru tasting green vegetable juice while wearing a nose clip]")
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OSU pharmacy students to help address health emergency at the University of Oregon
-Feb 25, 2015
The students at the University of Oregon are facing a serious outbreak of meningitis, the CDC has called for a massive immunization program, and OSU students are heading south to help out.… Read full story.
Fish native to Japan found in Port Orford waters
-Feb 25, 2015
A team of scientists from OSU and ODFW is studying an unusual fish captured alive in a crab pot near Port Orford this week called a striped knifejaw that is native to Japan.… Read full story.
