Oregon State University’s Mike Bondi on the science of Christmas trees (San Francisco Examiner) The professor at Oregon State University’s College of Forestry specializes in Christmas trees. He is scheduled to speak at a Christmas tree workshop Saturday at the Whole Foods Market in Redwood City. 100 Notable Books of 2009 (New York Times) Tracy [...]

OSU professor explores the rural environmental crisis from China’s burgeoning economy (Oregonian) The Chinese people Bryan Tilt talked to in rural Sichuan Province lived in a cloak of pollution. Tilt, an anthropologist at Oregon State University, interviewed workers, state and company officials, farmers and scientists to unravel the complex issues of achieving sustainability within an [...]

A New Scale for Nuclear Power (New York Times) Corvallis company NuScale, initially developed at OSU, is featured. Fans find pillow-making not entirely soft duty (Gazette-Times) Jasmine Collins responded with a resounding, “No!” when she was asked to help make some green and yellow pillows Tuesday afternoon at the Boys & Girls Club of Corvallis. [...]

Civil War can engender family feuds; just ask the Widmers (Oregonian) It’s not even 10:30 a.m. at the Widmer Brothers Brewing Co. and already the trash-talking has begun. “I really don’t see the Ducks scoring more than 65 points in this game,” University of Oregon grad Kurt Widmer  says, looking forward to Thursday’s Civil War [...]

Report isn’t accurate gauge of hunger (Los Angeles Times) “The focus was on, did you find yourself in a circumstance that you had to make some very unsavory choices to get your family through,” said Mark Edwards, a professor of sociology at Oregon State University and an expert on food insecurity. Protecting the forests, and [...]