Students and faculty build OSU’s first living roof building (KEZI) Winds gusted and heavy rains drenched students as they began construction on a new project at OSU. The conditions weren’t about to stop students and faculty from assembling OSU’s first living roof building. When is a rival really an ally? (Register-Guard) Saturday, some 35 Oregon [...]

Oregon scientists help draw up new climate change report (OPB) Phil Mote runs the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University and he’s a co-author of the adaptation report. He says Congress needs to know that simply cutting greenhouse gas emissions isn’t enough. Vote dooms Lane County 4-H: “Lots of tears this morning” [...]

Lane County voters reject tax for extension service (Register-Guard) The future looks bleak for the Oregon State University extension service in Lane County, where 55 percent of votes cast in a five-year local option tax to help fund the service came in against the measure. If the preliminary results hold true, that means an uncertain [...]

The face of race (OPB Think Out Loud) OSU alum Nichole Maher,  executive director of the Native American Youth and Family Center and a founding member and co-chair of the Coalition of Communities of Color, is one of the guests. OSU engineering students win design contest (Statesman Journal) Oregon State University engineering students have won [...]

Blue sky, other green energy programs get high participation rates in Oregon (Oregonian) Blue Sky invests in wave energy research at Oregon State University in hopes that it develops into a formidable energy source in 20 years. Invasive marine species found off Oregon Coast (OPB) Sam Chan is an invasive species specialist at Oregon State [...]