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This Is Your OSU. A quarterly report from OSU President Ed Ray.

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The Living Course

Where Socrates meets YouTube

Those massive, monolithic intro courses — mainstays of big universities — are undergoing a metamorphosis in Corvallis.









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Conditioning Minds

OSU program emphasizes
academic success for student athletes

Fans rooting for the Orange and Black live for those heart-stopping moments when sweat and pain and indomitable spirit gel in brilliance.
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Along a Path Forward

Anna Harding approaches mentoring with discipline and heart

The first conversation between Kelly Gonzales and Professor Anna Harding went on so long the phone died.









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High Noon for Nano

Nanomaterials must earn their stripes

Along a four-lane highway east of Corvallis, Oregon State University's Sinnhuber Aquatic Research Laboratory sits adjacent to rows of blueberries, hazelnut trees and hops on trellises. video









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Oregon's Engineering Engine

An industry-university cooperative
powers the state's high-tech workforce

If you looked in on Mike Sabo at Cascade Microtech's corporate headquarters in the Silicon Forest last summer, you couldn't have distinguished him from the firm's 20 full-fledged engineers.









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Reptile Planet

Dan Preston tracks cold-blooded animals across the globe

Dan Preston pauses outside an ordinary-looking door in Cordley Hall. "Most people who walk by have no idea what's inside this room," the OSU biology major remarks as he turns the knob.