Wave machine wows ‘em in Corvallis (Oregonian) As experiments go, the test Wednesday at Oregon State University’s O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory was a wild success. OSU Researchers Test New Wavemaker To Learn About Tsunami And Hurricane Damage (OPB) Researchers at Oregon State University tested out a new $1.1 million wavemaker Wednesday.  The device is [...]

OSU receives $3 million grant for energy research (Daily Journal of Commerce) Oregon State University’s College of Engineering and College of Science have been notified by the U.S. Department of Energy and the White House that it will receive a five-year, $3 million grant to help develop a Center for Inverse Design. Oregon university students [...]

‘Popular Science’ recommends eight geeky getaways (USA Today) The magazine’s May issue includes Oregon State University’s Tsunami Research Center on its list. See the article here. Intel, OSU among biggest green power buyers (Oregonian) Intel heads the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s latest Top 50 list of green-power buyers, with Oregon State University making the cut [...]

Oregon State names new dean of ag college (Capital Press) Sonny Ramaswamy, an agricultural leader from Purdue University, has been named dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences at Oregon State University and director of the Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station. (Also see The Oregonian and The Gazette-Times) Trying to fill a gender gap (Chicago Tribune) [...]

Breaking new ground in ocean protection (NBC Nightly News) Bill Chadwick of Oregon State University could barely conceal his excitement. “Around half the species we’ve found are new to science, It’s really a fantastic frontier,” he told me.   We’d met Chadwick in Guam on board the RV Thompson, at the start of an expedition he [...]

Oregon State University Gets National Recognition for Green Energy Push at Pac-10 Conference (EPA.gov) Oregon State University is being recognized for its purchase of green power during the Pacific-10 football conference. OSU purchased 66,680,400 kilowatt-hours of green power for the conference, which used a total of 81,646,400 kilowatt-hours, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Nellis [...]

Oregon company finds new recycling niche (Washington Energy Services) Agri-Plas is using a new process developed by Oregon State University graduate Kevin DeWitt that can break down old plastic and turn it back into oil. Coming home (Bend Bulletin) Jonathan Green — a 24-year-old professional golfer who in 2003 helped Sisters High School win a [...]

Whale protection (Malaysian Star) One of the most memorable moments in Dr Bruce Mate’s career in studying whales was the first time he touched a whale, and it looked him in the eye. Mate is director of Oregon State University Endowed Marine Mammal Program. OSU scientist donates flag (Gazette-Times) When OSU’s Lia Danelishvili says she’s [...]

Oregon State’s Jane Lubchenco takes over at NOAA, says the president values science (Oregonian) Oregon marine biologist Jane Lubchenco recently assumed the helm of the federal agency that strives to explain our world “from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun.” Search of river goes on for missing student (Oregonian) Deschutes [...]

Oregon State’s Jane Lubchenco takes over at NOAA, says the president values science (Oregonian) Oregon marine biologist Jane Lubchenco recently assumed the helm of the federal agency that strives to explain our world “from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun.” New Discovery Tools for Online Library Resources (Information Today) A [...]