Endangered whale’s swim captivates researchers (Vancouver Sun) “He was moving very fast. That’s day and night and day and night, so it was a pretty significant effort,” said Bruce Mate, director of Oregon State University’s Marine Mammal Institute, who tagged the whale last fall. OSU expo highlights volunteering, nonprofits (Gazette-Times) Britnie Newman is looking for [...]

OSU gets $5 million from Red Mill founder (Portland Business Journal) Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods founders Bob and Charlee Moore have donated $5 million to Oregon State University. The money will be used to establish the Moore Family Center for Whole Grain Foods, Nutrition, and Preventive Health in OSU’s College of Health and Human [...]

OSU launches Office for Commercialization (Portland Business Journal) Oregon State University is beefing up its efforts to commercialize faculty research. The Corvallis university has changed the name of its Office of Technology Transfer to the Office for Commercialization and Corporate Development. (See also Gazette-Times) And your definition of monogamy is? (Willamette Week) A pair of [...]

Next up at OSU: Making cheese (Oregonian) Anyone who has tasted Cougar Gold, the crumbly, tangy aged cheddar from Washington State’s campus creamery, knows that good things can happen when you put students to work making cheese. So it’s welcome news that Oregon State University is getting back in the cheese game with a newly [...]