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OSU-Cascades Researcher Receives Fulbright to Study Impact of Science on Policies

May 7, 2008
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OSU-Cascades Campus researcher Julie Elston will travel to Europe as part of a Fulbright fellowship in June.
Elston is an assistant professor of international business at the OSU-Cascades campus. Her award is for the 2008 Fulbright German Studies Seminar "Science and Society: The Impact of Science on Policy Formation." Elston will travel to Brussels and Berlin to study the impact of science on policy formation in the European Union and plans to compare her research with similar issues in the United States.

Business Professor Awarded Fulbright To Research Cell Phone Privacy Issues

April 11, 2008
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Nancy King, an associate professor of business law in the College of Business, will spend several months next year doing research on privacy law in Belgium with a research grant from the Fulbright Scholar Program.
King will be doing research on privacy issues related to the increasing use of cell phones as a portal for electronic commerce (mobile-commerce) under the European Union Affairs Research Program in Belgium.
Her host institution is the University of Notre-Dame de la Paix in Namur, Belgium, where she will work with the Center of Recherches Informatique Et Droit (CRID). King will join the law faculty from the host university to conduct collaborative research with European Union scholars on personal privacy and related data protection concerns that are arising in electronic commerce.

Scientists, Brewers Converge on Corvallis for First International Hops Symposium

July 31, 2007

More than 140 scientists and master brewers representing 13 different countries will meet at Oregon State University August 9-10 for what organizers say is the first international brewers’ symposium to focus on the unique role of hops in making beer. Topical sessions begin with a presentation by Denis De Keukeleire from Ghent University in Belgium, who is widely regarded as “the godfather of hops,” according to OSU food scientist Thomas Shellhammer.