The championship-winning Oregon State team you’ve never heard of (Oregonian) Call them Oregon State University’s unheralded group of champions – the 80-plus students that represent OSU’s Formula SAE motorsport team, and who currently sit atop the world rankings in the series. Studying tsunamis to save lives (KING5) Researchers at Oregon State University in Corvallis have [...]

Ceremony blesses site of Native American Cultural Center (Gazette-Times) During summer orientation before beginning her first year at Oregon State University, Christy Jones stepped through the doors of the Native American Longhouse and never left. (See also KEZI, LIFE@OSU) Are Mom and Dad’s problems keeping baby up at night? (TIME) “Even if they’re not able [...]

Parents’ marital strife affects toddlers’ sleep (CNN) Signs of marriage instability, such as parents contemplating divorce, when a child is just 9 months old are associated with problems falling and staying asleep when the child is 18 months old, said study researcher Anne Mannering, of Oregon State University. (See also Science Blog, Sify, Health 24) [...]

Savage curiosity answered at OSU (Gazette-Times) Dan Savage planned to talk about the It Gets Better project, an online movement aimed to reduce suicides of LGBT youth, at his Monday evening keynote address for Oregon State University’s Pride Week 2011 at LaSells Stewart Center. Pile on calcium-rich vegetables to keep your bones healthy (Leader-Telegram) According [...]

Study finds folks cozy up to curvy furniture (Minneapolis Star-Tribune) People react more positively to, and prefer to socialize in, spaces filled with curvy forms and shapes, as opposed to rectangles, according to a new study from Oregon State University. Science Pub tackles invasive species (Gazette-Times) At the May 9 edition of Corvallis Science Pub, [...]