More Farms Vie for the $1 Billion Spent at Farmers Markets (Business Week) While a growing breed of consumer hungry for locally-sourced food is obviously contributing to the uptick, competition from foreign and domestic agribusiness is also encouraging more independent farmers to try direct retail, says Larry Lev, a professor in the department of agricultural [...]

Brain Drain: Are California’s Brightest Students Leaving the State? (Yahoo News) Arizona State University, University of Oregon, Northern Arizona University, University of Nevada-Reno, Oregon State University, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. What do these colleges all have in common? OSU scores money for its nuclear research program (Portland Tribune) OSU researchers have won [...]

Commencement Speakers 2012: How Schools Land Top Speakers (Huffington Post) “We think we have two novel connections to the first lady,” said Steve Clark, vice president of university relations at Oregon State University. OSU impacts central coast and beyond (Newport News Times) Oregon State University President Ed Ray discussed the university’s impacts on quality of [...]

Water Ills Focus of New Documentary (Huffington Post) Aaron Wolf of Oregon State University (whose study of documented water disputes over the past 50 years showed that of the 1,800 disputes, “two thirds were cooperative” and involved “very little violence and no wars”) Passage of SB 242 means OSU begins own insurance coverage as of [...]

The Dinosaurs’ Nemeses: Giant, Jurassic Fleas (NPR) Poinar, an emeritus professor at Oregon State University, studies life forms preserved for millions of years in amber, or ancient tree sap. Better Off Dad: The Health Perks of Fatherhood (Everyday Health) When it comes to at-risk behaviors like drinking, smoking, and drug use, fatherhood just might be [...]