Oregon State diploma yields top salary (Portland Business Journal) Want your children to get the best salary possible after graduating in Oregon? Then send them to Oregon State University , which tops a list of 12 Oregon colleges with a median, mid-career salary of $86,900 a year, according to surveys by salary research company PayScale [...]

Wet weather could bring the worst wine grape harvest in decades (OPB) Oregon State University experts say the late spring and wet early fall are threatening to keep wine grapes from ripening in time for harvest. Oregon Sea Grant receives $2.6 million research grant (Gazette-Times) The National Science Foundation awarded the Oregon Sea Grant a [...]

New unifying method describes ‘electronegativity’ (R&D) Researchers at Oregon State University have created a new, unifying method to describe a basic chemical concept called “electronegativity,” first described almost 80 years ago by OSU alumnus Linus Pauling and part of the work that led to his receiving the Nobel Prize. (see also Science Daily, PhysOrg) A [...]

Rising carbon dioxide levels at time of Ice Age not linked to Pacific Ocean (Red Orbit) “Frankly, we’re kind of baffled by the whole thing,” says Alan Mix, a professor of oceanography at Oregon State University and an author on the study. “The deep North Pacific was such an obvious source for the carbon, but [...]

Pacific Northwest forests offer biomass bounty (Western Farm Press) Two five-year projects to create aviation fuels of the future out of tree plantations and low-value wood products in the Pacific Northwest were announced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and will provide $9.8 million in grants to researchers at Oregon State University. (see also International [...]