OSU scientist receives prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship (OSU News) Angelicque “Angel” White, an oceanographer from Oregon State University, has received a 2012 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Food Hero website will show you how to boost fruits, vegetables in your diet (OregonLive) The helpful, healthful folks at Oregon State University Extension [...]

Why Hood keeps cool while St. Helens blows its top (Columbian) New research indicates that a mixture of hotter and cooler magma is the reason Mount Hood has not had a large explosive eruption in the last 500,000 years. The study, done by a team that includes two Oregon State University scientists and a Vancouver-based [...]

OSU to study impact of offshore wind turbines on birds (Portland Tribune) The Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center, based at Oregon State University, scored a three-year, $600,000 grant to study the impact of off-shore wind towers on seabirds and bats. The grant came from the U.S. Department of Energy. (see also OPB, Daily Astorian, [...]

Scientists discover reason for Mt. Hood’s non-explosive nature (OregonLive) “We joke that part of the reason Hood is so interesting is because it’s so boring,” said Oregon State University volcanologist Alison Koleszar. “It has been doing the exact same thing for at least the last 30,000 years.” (see also KVAL, Phys.Org, Planet Save) Growth spurt [...]

‘Vampire’ parasite found entombed in amber (National Geographic) George Poinar, Jr., an expert on insects preserved in amber at Oregon State University, discovered the bat fly in a mine in the Dominican Republic. Universities are bringing Occupy into the classroom (USA Today) Oregon State University philosophy professors Joseph Orosco, left, and Tony Vogt lead a [...]