Cooperative innovation key to breakthroughs (Sustainable Business Oregon) It was 2007, and Oregon State University chemistry professor Doug Keszler was on the links with University of Oregon chemistry professor Darren Johnson. Instead of hooks and slices, they were talking cluster compounds and the fabrication of thin films for electronic devices. Women are gaining investing confidence [...]

Industry mourns leader’s passing (Capital Press) In 2010 they were recipients of Oregon State University’s Weatherford Award, which honors lifelong entrepreneurs and innovators. Living Together Before Marriage Study: No Longer Seen As Bad Omen (Huffington Post) The experience of living together before marriage is different for different people, said Richard Settersten Jr., an Oregon State [...]

Inclement weather update: With temperatures rising and no significant snow accumulation forecast today, the university will open for regularly scheduled hours and operations. Travelers are encouraged to allow ample time for today’s commute, as road conditions continue to be wet and slushy. Move-In Before Marriage No Longer Predicts Divorce (NPR) The experience of living together [...]

INCLEMENT WEATHER ALERT: A small amount of snow accumulation has made driving conditions challenging in some areas in and around the OSU main campus this morning. Travelers are encouraged to allow extra time for their commute and take extra care on roads where snow or ice make conditions difficult. The university will be open under [...]

Rare Whale Swims up West Coast to Russian Home (ABC News) She is expected to turn left to head back to feeding grounds off Russia’s Sakhalin Island, said Bruce Mate, director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University. (See also: Associated Press, Washington Post) Climate: Predictions versus what we see (Albany Democrat-Herald) Just [...]

Sonny Ramaswamy, Oregon State’s agricultural dean, chosen to head federal research institute (Oregon Live) Sonny Ramaswamy, dean of Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences, has been chosen by the Obama administration to head a key research agency. See also: Feedstuffs The Quest for Safer Intersections (The Atlantic) Researchers at Oregon State University are now [...]

 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. [...]