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Oregon State University will mark the 50^th anniversary of the seminal science fiction television series, 'Star Trek,' with a number of events as well as a class dedicated to the original show.

OSU will be part of a new initiative supported by the National Science Foundation to rapidly assess earthquake and wind damage at disaster scenes around the world.

Oregon State University will celebrate the relationship between the arts and science throughout the 2016-17 school year with a new series of events and activities called SPARK.

The Oregon State University band program will celebrate its 125^th anniversary with a concert at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 9, in the Austin Auditorium at The LaSells Stewart Center.

Marianne Vydra has been named as interim OSU athletics director while the university completes a national search to select a new intercollegiate athletics director.

People in and around some newly built coastal structures will be more safe thanks to national construction standards announced today that will consider the risks posed by tsunamis.

The characteristics of a person’s relationship, including commitment and partner-specific risk factors, affect the choice of whether or not to use condoms, according to new research from Oregon State University.

Oregon State University is launching an immediate national search to replace Todd Stansbury, vice president and director of intercollegiate athletics at OSU.

John Grotzinger, a planetary scientist from the California Institute of Technology, will speak about exploration on Mars at the 2016 Thomas Condon Lecture Tuesday, Oct. 4, at OSU.

A new study documenting the reproductive success of salmon trucked above Foster Dam could open up miles of spawning habitat on the upper South Santiam and other river systems.

Auditions for Oregon State University Theatre’s fall 2016 production, 'James and the Giant Peach,' will be held at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 3 and 4.

Oregon State University has launched a new partnership with Zipcar

A mini-film festival outlining some of the latest in coastal research and marine initiatives will be held on Thursday, Sept. 22, at OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.

Oregon high school students and teachers are joining scientists at Oregon State University aboard the research vessel Oceanus to gain at-sea research experience off the Oregon coast.

The First Amendment will be the focus of a Sept. 16 panel discussion and town hall meeting at Oregon State University to mark Constitution Day.

Oregon State University will host its main day of new resident move-in on Sunday, Sept. 18, for students living in on-campus university housing.

The first-ever detailed, atomic-level images have been made of a peroxiredoxin, revealing a peculiar characteristic that might form the foundation for a new approach to antibiotics.

Researchers have discovered a drug delivery system that may offer new hope for patients with a rare genetic disorder – and make what might become a terrible choice a little easier.

Researchers have discovered a mechanism of intercellular communication that helps explain how biological systems function properly most of the time, and sometimes remarkably well.

OSU research funding reached $336 million in the past fiscal year – a second consecutive year of record-breaking growth.

Due to heat levels that may break records this coming weekend, OSU officials are reminding people of the year-round smoking ban on university property, especially in research forests.

The Finance and Administration Committee of the Oregon State University Board of Trustees will meet on Thursday, August 25.

OSU is issuing a request for proposals to construct up to three advanced regional class research vessels to help replenish the U.S. academic fleet.

Special Olympics Oregon will move its Summer State Games to Oregon State University and venues around Corvallis beginning in 2017.

A new study suggests that improved access to pharmacies could help address a problem with hospital readmissions that are higher in rural, remote or smaller communities.

A new program to increase entrepreneurial activity and stimulate job creation in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest is now being offered in Portland by the OSU College of Business.

Harriet Nembhard has been named as the new head of the School of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The Oregon State University Press has published a book by George Poinar Jr. called "A Naturalist's Guide to the Hidden World of Pacific Northwest Dunes."

Aiming to stop the looming extinction of large wild-animal species across the globe, a group of international conservation scientists has issued a call for actions to halt further declines.

Corvallis citizen scientists are invited to attend a town hall forum focused on next year’s total solar eclipse. 

Dan Cox, professor of civil and construction engineering in the College of Engineering at OSU, has been named as the new director of the Cascadia Lifelines Program.

Oregon State University’s popular Bard in the Quad program returns for its 11^th season in August with a production of Shakespeare’s witty and romantic, 'Love’s Labour’s Lost.'

A 2015 Oregon State University study that linked natural-gas fracking to increased air pollution and heightened health risks has been corrected by its authors.

OSU is beginning a new three year, $515,000 initiative to help improve the learning and knowledge retention of college students, especially in highly complex math and science.

F. Javier Nieto has been named dean of the College of Public Health and Human Sciences at Oregon State University.

Girl Scouts and their parents reported increases in energy-saving behaviors, such as turning off power strips at night and washing clothes in cold water, after the children participated in an intervention program, new research shows.

Researchers at 27 universities and museums around the United States have begun creating what will soon become the world’s greatest butterfly collection – in digital form.

Roberta Marinelli, a marine science leader from Southern California, has been named dean of the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at OSU.

OSU engineers have created a new software package that should help people in developing nations make better use of small scale hydropower to produce electricity.

The public can explore Oregon’s forests, farms, history, public gardens and more this summer through an online map assembled by Oregon State University.

Oregon State University’s Fairbanks Gallery is hosting a summer-long art faculty exhibit at Fairbanks Gallery from June 14 through September 28.

Native Olympia oysters, which once thrived along the Pacific Northwest coast until over-harvesting and habitat loss all but wiped them out, have a built-in resistance to ocean acidification.

A much better understanding of the role of diet and supplements in maintaining optimum health well into old age has emerged over the past 20 years.

The Oregon State University Class of 2016 will celebrate a record-breaking number of graduates June 11.

The OSU Board of Trustees today approved a $1.17 billion operating revenue budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year that provides funds for growing the OSU-Cascades campus in Bend and new investments guided by the university’s strategic plan.

A committee has been selected to undertake a national search for the new provost and executive vice president at Oregon State University.

OSU students recovering from drug and/or alcohol addiction will find even more support this coming school year through a new housing option, specifically for those in recovery in fall, 2016.

While marijuana has a long history of cultivation, consumption and regulation, scientists are still learning how the plant’s compounds behave in the human body. At the June 6 Corvallis Science Pub, Jane Ishmael will provide an overview of what is known about the chemicals in marijuana and how they affect health.