Riding safely (Corvallis Gazette-Times) Water beaded on Stacy Brock’s sport bike as she pulled into a parking lot at Oregon State University on Tuesday. The 28-year-old OSU Blackboard administrator loves motorcycling and rides to work nearly every day, except when it’s icy, so a bit of rain wasn’t a problem. Absence of wolves causes imbalance [...]

Build it, and they will come (Economist) Universities are turning increasingly to private partners to help them solve these twin problems: the increasing recruitment of foreign students by other countries, and the need to offer suitable tuition for non-standard foreign learners while keeping home students happy. Since signing up UEA in 2006, INTO has made [...]

OSU to test newest nuclear energy concepts (Portland Business Journal) Oregon State University soon will have a “nuclear” reactor on campus. The reactor will not include any nuclear materials. The university has received a five-year, $6 million grant from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to research a a new “super hot” type of nuclear reactor. Willamette [...]

Can an Ecologist Push NOAA Up the Food Chain? (Science) Marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco launched her career studying the complexity of the intertidal zone–who eats whom, for example, and how ecosystems are affected by internal dynamics and external forces. Her colleagues expect that intellectual background to serve her well in the turbulent waters of U.S. [...]

Can wolves restore an ecosystem? (Seattle Times) No trace remains of the wolves whose howls ricocheted for millennia down the lush valleys of the Olympic Peninsula. But the loss of the stealthy predators in the early 1900s left a hole in the landscape that scientists say they are just beginning to grasp. The ripples extend [...]