State of the budget: Provost/Executive Vice President Sabah Randhawa continues the dialogue regarding the university budget, academic alignment and decision-making processes related to both of those areas in a special “state of the budget” communication today. Read it here: http://oregonstate.edu/leadership/budget/provost-dialogue-11-06-09.html Whale Watch: Endangered Designation in Danger (Wall Street Journal) The humpback review, certain to be [...]

Concussions and Congress and the Future Game (New York Times) Former N.F.L. player Michael Oriard, a professor of English and associate dean at Oregon State, wrote, “Will it one day make as much sense to keep your son away from football as it does to strap your toddler into a car seat?” (See also Deadspin [...]

Why Are Kilimanjaro’s Glaciers Fading? (TIME) Other scientists insist that melting, if it’s occurring at all, has a relatively minor effect. “The fact that you have melting may mean air temperatures have increased, but it doesn’t necessarily,” says Philip Mote, who heads the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University. A Thrilling time [...]

OSU names four ‘executive deans’ (Oregonian) Oregon State University named four “executive deans” on Monday to oversee four new academic divisions approved earlier this fall to provide a new organizational framework for OSU’s existing 11 colleges. (See also Gazette-Times) OSU students prep for trek across Africa (Gazette-Times) Keegan Warrington and Tate Koenig have a fundamental [...]

Wave Power (Oregon Field Guide) An update on an Oregon State University project to use ocean waves off the Oregon coast to generate power. OSU Extension gets $839K in grants (Gazette-Times) Oregon State University received two grants, for $522,108 and $317,182. Crowd of zombies brings ‘Thriller’ to Reser (Gazette-Times) Unofficially, 638 dancers gathered at Reser [...]