Potentially fatal airborne fungus found in Oregon (Seattle Times) A new and potentially fatal strain of an airborne fungus, related to one that killed several people on Canada’s Vancouver Island, has turned up in Oregon and researchers, including some from Oregon State, say they don’t know how it got here. Do you know where you [...]

Oregon legislation considers reissuing unused prescriptions (Oregonian) An estimated 3 percent of drug prescriptions nationwide go unused — lost, ignored, replaced or no longer needed. In Oregon, that translates to more than 1 million drugs a year. One example — a bottle of anti-cancer pills worth about $3,000 — sits on a cupboard shelf in [...]

Donald Barthelme: America’s Weirdest Literary Genius (TIME) Donald Barthelme is often regarded as a dead, twisted branch on the evolutionary tree of American letters. The first major biography of him, Oregon State University Distinguished Professor of English Tracy Daugherty’s “Hiding Man,” should help correct that. Sweat power is green power (Gazette-Times) Oregon State University women [...]

Clear Opportunities (New Electronics) In a January cover story for New Electronics, a trade and technical magazine serving the electronics design community, OSU Electrical and Computer Engineer professor John Wager discusses the future of transparent electronics. OSU student exercise to generate power (Oregonian) Thousands of college students regularly hit the cardio exercise machines to work [...]

OSU student mentioned on Rachel Maddow show (MSNBC) Bobby Henderson, inventor of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is praised by Maddow on the anniversary of Darwin’s birth. In Search of a Better Search Engine (Chronicle of Higher Education) Web sites for colleges and universities everywhere have become repositories for data sheets, meeting minutes, [...]