OSU receives federal grant to fight childhood obesity (Oregonian) Targeting obesity among rural Oregon children is the focus of a nearly $5 million federal grant awarded to Oregon State University. (See also KEZI, Gazette-Times, KOHD) Study tracks salmon coping with warmer river (Washington Post) Oregon State University salmon geneticist Michael Banks, who did not take [...]

Why ‘not quite adult’ is not quite a bad thing (USA Today) Young people today have been criticized for taking longer to “grow up” than in the past. But in a new book, Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It’s Good for Everyone, Richard Settersten and Barbara [...]

The slow path to adulthood (OPB) Listen to OSU’s Rick Settersten, who is a guest on this morning’s Think Out Loud. A year later, Haiti quake still reverberates through Northwest (Oregonian) Ten months after Oregon State University  design student Ruby Sprengle was moved to produce tarps for Haitians from plastic shopping bags, she learned it [...]

Measuring waves without getting wet (Discovery News) By linking two visible-light camera together and processing the images in a way similar to how the human brain does with the vision of two eyes, loads more wave data can be collected without even getting a toe wet. “It’s like two eyes,” explained researcher David Hill of [...]

OSU Energy Center receives LEED Platinum certification (KEZI) A new Oregon State University building just got the highest LEED certification possible by the United States Green Building Council due to its environmentally friendly building and design practices. Grown kids still at home? (Gazette-Times) The book, “Not Quite Adults” by Oregon State University professor Richard Settersten, [...]