Why white Americans love debt (Smart Money) Michelle Barnhart, assistant professor of marketing at Oregon State University College of Business, and her fellow researcher Liza Peñaloza spent two years following white, middle-class Americans of varying circumstances and ages about their love/hate relationship with debt. Newport chosen for wave energy test site (OPB) Oregon State University [...]

Gift helps give new life to Education Hall (Gazette-Times) With its exterior sandstone blocks and interior walls removed, Oregon State University’s Education Hall has become nearly unrecognizable during its renovation. But a recent $2 million gift will help pay for these upgrades and ready the building for use by fall 2011. Unstable soil could mean [...]

Teens doing better: Why don’t adults believe it? (CNN International) Yes, says Richard Settersten, professor of human development at Oregon State University, more young adults are close to their parents, even living at home after high school or college. But if they once felt entitled to an easy life, they no longer do. Europe starting [...]

Liquifaction major culprit in Japan quake (UPI) “We’ve seen localized examples of soil liquefaction as extreme as this before, but the distance and extent of damage in Japan were unusually severe,” said Scott Ashford, a professor of geotechnical engineering at Oregon State University and a member of the research team. (See also MSNBC, Live Science, [...]

Japan’s 60-foot tsunami toppled four-story concrete building (Oregonian) Oregon State University tsunami expert Harry Yeh thought he’d seen every kind of damage a giant wave could inflict, until a sight in this devastated fishing town stopped him cold. Roger Nichols, artist among sound engineers, dies at 66 (New York Times) Roger Nichols, a recording engineer [...]