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Why weaker quake did more damage than September’s (Seattle Times) “New Zealand has some of the most progressive building codes in the world. They are better prepared for an earthquake like this than many U.S. cities would be,” said Robert Yeats, professor emeritus of geology at Oregon State University. Comparing Portland’s quake risk to Christchurch [...]

Why was New Zealand’s latest quake so deadly? (Scientific American) Scientific American spoke with Robert Yeats, a professor emeritus of geology at Oregon State University in Corvallis, about why earthquakes are so difficult to predict and what is being done to even the odds. (See also Washington Post, UPI) Oregon lands $4m from NSF to [...]

Scientists look to see how nutrition affects aging brain (Democrat-Herald) Deaths attributed to Alzheimer’s are on the rise, said Dr. Gene Bowman, a nutrition and aging researcher at Oregon Health & Science University, who’s working with researchers at Oregon State University. Notes from the ends of the Earth (Register-Guard) Even without the pictures in Noah [...]

Feds give $20M grant to study winter wheat (Seattle Times) “This research is important because our climate is changing, and agriculture is probably the sector that is most affected by variations in climate,” said Susan Capalbo, an Oregon State University agricultural economist. (See also Sustainable Business Oregon, KEZI) OSU engineering students win at national event [...]