Two OSU students build Beaver soapbox car to race in LA (Oregonian) A 7-foot beaver will be tearing through the streets of downtown Los Angeles today, piloted by two Oregon State University seniors. OSU business college adds degrees (Portland Business Journal) The Oregon State Board of Higher Education approved four new bachelor degrees for the [...]

OSU researchers bring in $252 million from outside grants and contracts (Oregonian) Oregon State University brought in more than $252 million in external science contracts and grants in 2008-09, generating spin-off companies and boosting Oregon’s economy, the university announced this week. Oregon State receives rare books by Malamud (Oregonian) Howard Mills, who once owned a [...]

Clarification: In a KVAL story that ran in yesterday’s OSU Today, the figure for OSU grants was underreported, and should have read $250,000,000. OSU Seeing More Private And Federal Money As State Support Fades (OPB) Oregon State University announced Monday that it accumulated a quarter of a billion dollars in research money last year. As [...]

Record OSU grants lead to new startup companies (KVAL) Oregon State University is celebrating a record year for research grants and funding. Grants for OSU last year topped $250,000.The grants are an all-time record for the Corvallis campus. OSU researchers hit $252M in funding (Portland Business Journal) Oregon State University officials said Monday its researchers [...]

Wolves: majestic symbol or bloodthirsty predator? (Oregonian) Bill Moore, who earned a wildlife biology degree from Oregon State University, also warns that Oregon hikers could be in for a shock. Hikers in the northern Rockies “have had their dogs killed right in front of them” by wolf packs, he says. Get flu vaccine now, agencies [...]