Oregon's $500 million grass seed industry is the result of a 100-year-long partnership between Oregon State University, USDA scientists and growers.
For OSU-Cascades researchers, insects reveal how streams recover from the equivalent of major surgery.
In his new book, Hiding Man, OSU English Professor Tracy
Daugherty describes how culture and personal ambition shaped one of
America's most influential writers. Listen to selections from
Daugherty's March, 2009 reading at OSU.
With its recycled materials, nontoxic finishes, salvaged woods,
efficient lighting, low-flow fixtures and native landscaping, newly renovated Kearney Hall is a
stellar example of 21st-century sustainability.
As OSU's new honeybee specialist, Ramesh Sagili is helping Oregon farmers maintain strong colonies of pollinators.
Along the Oregon coast, in Idaho’s Salmon River canyon and in Baja
California, Loren Davis has searched for signs of North America’s
earliest inhabitants.
John Sessions likes to refer to forestry as “a bio-energy puzzle.” Like
a lot of 21st-century puzzles, its solutions are digital
and
mathematical.
In the burgeoning green building sector, Oregon is poised to become
a national leader.
Contaminated food can kill, but food recalls sweep out the good with the bad. A new biosensor can tell the difference.
“Entrepreneurship isn’t just for business students,” says Dann Cutter. “It’s as fundamental as math, reading and writing.”
