Horticulturist grows, promotes (Capital Press) Anita Azarenko, 51, today is head of the Department of Horticulture at Oregon State University and a farmer. MLK Jr. celebration at Oregon State through Jan. 23 (KVAL) Oregon State University will celebrate the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with a celebration now through Jan. 23 at [...]

Sea lions showing up in Oregon (San Francisco Chronicle) Kim Suryan, a biologist with the Marine Mammal Institute in Newport, part of Oregon State University, said she’s been tracking the arrival of California sea lions and Steller sea lions at Sea Lion Caves and a haul-out area at nearby Heceta Point since 2005. A national [...]

Is It Wrong to Wreck the Earth? (Philosophy Talk) The hosts of Philosophy Talk sit down with environmental ethicist and celebrated author Kathleen Moore for a program recorded in front of a live audience at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Firefox Crop Circles (TIME) In 2006, the Oregon State University Linux Users group created the [...]

Pet Talk: Reaching beyond Oregon to help animals (Oregonian) For the third year in a row, a group of students from Oregon State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine, led by four veterinarians and one technician, went to the Nicaraguan island of Ometepe. Modern, but not minimalist (Bend Bulletin) Jeff Garren, who’s an Oregon State University [...]

The sorry state of in-home day care (Newsweek) Oregon State University researcher Stewart Trost and his team surveyed almost 300 Kansas home day care directors who care for kids aged 2-5. The high point of the OSU results is some surprisingly good news about the food served to kids. Anybody need a robotic cockroach? (ABC [...]