Three years later, OSU Food Pantry sees growing need (Gazette-Times) When Oregon State University’s Emergency Food Pantry opened in March 2009 as one of the first university food pantries in the nation, its student staff and volunteers saw only about 40 visitors twice a month during open hours. Ramaswamy will leave big shoes to fill [...]

Valenti leaves mark at Oregon State (NCAA) Oregon State’s Gill Coliseum is named for Paul Valenti’s coach, Amory T. “Slats” Gill. The coliseum’s court is named for Ralph Miller, the equally legendary coach who succeeded Valenti. But the program, literally for most of its 111 seasons, has in one way or another been associated with [...]

Fukushima’s Food Fallout: Testing groceries for radiation in Japan (PBS News Hour) Radio ecologist Kathy Higley is reading Fukushima tea leaves at Oregon State University. She studies how radionuclides move through the environment. Foraging Oregon truffles is dirty work, but the payoff is delicious (Oregonian) It wasn’t the most auspicious beginning to a day of [...]

Wolves to the slaughter (American Prospect) In Yellowstone National Park, biologist William Ripple, a professor at the College of Forestry at Oregon State University, has found that when there were no wolves, elk ran amok. They overgrazed the banks of streams, and they ate away the sprouts of aspen trees, resulting in stunted aspen groves. [...]

 Obama appoints OSU dean to lead national ag institute (Capital Press) Oregon State University College of Agricultural Sciences Dean Sonny Ramaswamy has been appointed director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture by President Barack Obama. (see also Portland Business Journal, Oregonian, Farm Futures) Sonny Ramaswamy, ag dean at OSU, adapts and grows wherever [...]