Business accelerator mini-boom continues (Oregon Business) Oregon State University recently launched a Venture Accelerator with $380,000 from the OSU College of Business, Office for Commercialization and Corporate Development, and the University Venture Development Fund. PNNL, Oregon State get $2.8M from Department of Defense (Sustainable Business Oregon) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will receive up to $2.8 [...]

Admissions leaders and legal experts debate how to define merit (Inside Higher Ed) Oregon State University has been considered a leader in the field, and officials from the university have periodically credited its “Insight Resume”– in which students respond to short questions about leadership, creativity, dealing with adversity, community service and other topics — with [...]

Home brewers look into growing backyard hops (OPB) Oregon State University’s hops breeder, Shaun Townsend, said he regularly fields questions from the public about growing hops. He also teaches workshops on “hops growing 101″ to prospective hops farmers and gardeners. Remembering King’s legacy (Gazette-Times) Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech has resonated [...]

Searching the Olympic Forest for the elusive marten (OPB EarthFix) Photographs of martens provided by OSU’s Katie Moriarty. OSU bike safety event draws hundreds (Gazette-Times) Nearly 600 people, most of them Oregon State University students, turned out Thursday during the three-hour “Be Bright, Be Seen” bike safety giveaway in the Memorial Union Quad. Dance and [...]