Good news for grads: Hiring is up 19 percent (Gazette-Times) Chris Shriver-Munsch won’t know if she’s been accepted into veterinary school for another four months. So the recent graduate of Oregon State University’s animal sciences master program stopped by the CH2M Hill Alumni Center on Wednesday afternoon for Career Services’ University Career Fair to look [...]

Oceanographers track tsunami debris across Pacific (KMTR) Oregon State University oceanographers heard from a ship recently that items were found near Midway Island, West of Hawaii. The debris is spread out across the ocean, but traveling about 10 miles per hour a day. (see also Sign On San Diego, Many older buildings not ready for [...]

Researchers battle parasite-driven frog deformities (PBS) Andrew Blaustein, an ecologist at Oregon State University, said environmental factors are driving the spread of parasite infections. OSU Extension surviving in Lane County (Capital Press) Jessie Russell, garden and landscape manager for King Estates Winery, recently found a worm she couldn’t identify in the estate’s apple orchard. Russell [...]

Scientists investigate riddle of rapidly inflating volcano (Daily Mail) It’s one of the fastest uplifting volcanic areas on Earth,’ said Oregon State University professor, Shan de Silva. (see also Wired, Yahoo) Student fashion designer catapulted to fame (Gazette-Times) Amanda Grisham, 21, was both the only student and youngest finalist competing in Catapult: Emerging Designers Competition [...]

Oregon’s first female governor shares her story (Statesman Journal) “Up the Capitol Steps: A Woman’s March to the Governorship,” by former Gov. Barbara Roberts, has been published by the Oregon State University Press as part of its Women and Politics in the Pacific Northwest series. OSU study shows downside of biomass power generation (Register-Guard) In [...]