Living with Wolves (Oregon Field Guide) OSU’s Bill Ripple and Allison Field are interviewed. Life found in deep layer of earth’s crust (UPI) A team from Oregon State University drilled down to 4,500 feet, where temperatures reach 215 degrees Fahrenheit. Look out! There’s an Opera in your lap (Democrat-Herald) The Oregon State University Opera and [...]

Athletic, outdoor industry booming in Portland (Oregonian) Oregon State University is uniquely poised to meet the needs of this growing industry as it plans to eventually open a branch of its Apparel Research Center in Portland to serve industry partners. Finding Your Patronus (Gazette-Times) What do Martin Luther King Jr. and Albus Dumbledore have in [...]

Minneapolis disaster spawning new concepts in bridge research (ScienceBlog) Civil engineers at Oregon State University have developed a new system to better analyze the connections that hold major bridge members together, which may improve public safety, help address a trillion-dollar concern about aging infrastructure around the world, and save lives. (See also Gazette-Times) Weatherathome: How [...]

OSU makes big gains in minority, international and grad student enrollment (Oregonian) Oregon State University surprised some when it grew this fall to become the second-largest university in the state, surpassing the University of Oregon (both trail Portland State University in enrollment, though both continue to exceed PSU in measurement of full-time students on their respective campuses). Oregon’s hunger [...]

A devilish grass invades the West (Science NOW) “It is a devilish species because it is absolutely not of any worth,” says Seema Mangla, a plant ecologist at Oregon State University, Corvallis, who led the study. “Every animal avoids it.” (See also Mercury News, Chico Enterprise-Record) ‘Godfather’ topic of talk at MU (Gazette-Times) Oregon State [...]