OSU campus to go smoke free (KEZI) Starting fall 2012, Oregon State University will officially become a smoke-free campus. “It’s about creating the best environment to study and to work,” said Lisa Hoogesteger, Smoke-Free Task Force Review Chair. Author comes to OSU to divulge dirty secrets (Gazette-Times) Author Frank Warren, who created an industry on [...]

Former military dog receives state’s first stem cell procedure (Mail Tribune) The procedure will be performed by Wendy Baltzer, an assistant professor of small animal surgery at Oregon State University’s College of Veterinary Medicine. (See also KVAL) Have laptop, will major in Women Studies (MS Magazine) The women studies program at Oregon State University suits [...]

No matter what you call them, big waves can be deadly (Oregonian) The topic of sneaker waves is a hot one in the science world, said Robert Holman, an oceanographer with Oregon State University. “It’s not fully resolved. If somebody told you they thought they understood them completely, I wouldn’t believe them.” Cancer risks of [...]

Oregon State expands fleet of undersea gliders (KVAL) Oregon State University oceanographers deployed their first undersea glider in 2005 and in the past five years, their small fleet of data-gathering autonomous vehicles has logged more than 43,000 kilometers – a distance that would more than circumnavigate the globe. Like OSU trees? There’s an app for [...]

White House announces new appointees to faith council (CNN) wo other notable appointees are The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori and Archbishop Demetrios Trakatellis.  Jefferts Schori is the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and the first woman to hold that role. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Stanford University, an M.S. and Ph.D. [...]