Safety issues linger as nuclear reactors shrink in size (New York Times) In America, companies with designs include Westinghouse, the maker of traditional reactors; Babcock & Wilcox, a maker of submarine reactors for the Navy; and NuScale, a start-up that spun out of an Oregon State University research project. OSU restores cleaning contract level (Gazette-Times) [...]

OSU ag school changes to cut cost (Capital Press) Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences is proposing to merge some departments and change its name as part a university-wide strategic alignment initiated last year by Provost Sabah Randhawa. OSU food drive nets record haul (Gazette-Times) With furloughs, budget cuts and layoffs, Oregon State University [...]

New OSU solar research center set to open in May (Portland Business Journal) The center — which has received $2.7 million in funding, mostly from a three-year U.S. Department of Energy grant — will include a collaboration among more than 20 researchers from OSU, the University of Oregon, Portland State University and the Pacific Northwest [...]

OSU veterinarian uses human heart surgery techniques and human pacemakers on dogs (Oregonian) David Sisson, who turns 60 in April, was brought in to start the small-animal program at Oregon State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine five years ago. Trendy restaurant apologizes for serving whale meat (CNN International) Armed with a hidden camera, the two [...]

The Invader: Lionfish (Reader’s Digest) In this video, OSU’s Mark Hixon discusses what happens when the aquarium fish runs rampant off the Atlantic coast. To read the feature article on Hixon and lionfish, click here. Asian fly invasion could ruin Oregon fruit crops (Oregonian) “The fruit looks great when you buy it, and it would [...]