Life at OSU

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Two leading Oregon State University faculty researchers in the areas of disease prevention through smart eating habits and exercise for healthy aging are the featured presenters in the second “Science Pub Corvallis” evening, set for Monday, April 13, 6 p.m. at Old World Deli, 341 S.W. 2nd St.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Firms that are able to increase advertising during recessions are likely to have stronger future earnings, according to a new study by researchers at Oregon State University and Western Oregon University.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory at Oregon State University has completed installation of a new $1.1 million “hurricane” wavemaker that’s the largest of its type in the nation, able to more accurately simulate the types of waves and flooding that can cause billions of dollars in damage.

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University will present the fifth biennial conference on Diet and Optimum Health on May 13-16 in Portland, featuring many leading experts and a free public session with Marion Nestle, award-winning author of several books on food politics and safety.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Benjamin “Benji” Lewis, a Marine Corps veteran who served two combat tours in Iraq, will speak at Oregon State University on Tuesday, May 5, about his refusal to accept involuntary activation and redeployment.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Scottish-born novelist Margot Livesey will visit the Oregon State University campus on Friday, May 15,. to read from her most recent work, the award-winning novel “The House on Fortune Street.”

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University has become a Peace Corps Master’s International partner, and will participate in an innovative program that allows a graduate student to get a master’s degree while also doing a full 27-month service project in the Peace Corps.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Researchers at Oregon State University have found one gene in the human body that appears to be a master regulator for skin development, in research that could help address everything from skin diseases such as eczema or psoriasis to the wrinkling of skin as people age.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Older adults who worry about their health engage in less physical activity, and those who participate in less activity are more likely to report having difficulty walking, according to a new study.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Higher levels of a certain antimicrobial protein that’s regulated by vitamin D appear to significantly reduce the risk of death from infection in dialysis patients, a new study has found.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State University community awoke to news this morning that one of its own, renowned marine biologist Jane Lubchenco, an OSU faculty member for more than three decades, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate late yesterday to serve as undersecretary of Commerce in the Obama administration.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Every day, thousands of college students determinedly hit the cardio machines, lowering their stress after a tough exam, getting in shape for spring, or working off those chocolate chip cookies that showed up in a care package from home.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A conversation between Oregon’s first woman Supreme Court justice and the director of a group that provides leadership training programs to college women in Oregon is the kick-off event for a series of Women’s History Month programs being presented by the Oregon State University Women’s Center.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – As part of a tour of key campuses across the United States, a delegation of Iraqi university presidents is visiting Oregon State University this Saturday. The initiative is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the American Council on Education, but the OSU leg of the tour was made possible, in part, by the efforts of an alumnus who helped create a relationship between OSU and Iraqi universities while serving as a captain in the U.S. Army.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Piers Hale will deliver a lecture titled “The Post-Darwinian Natural Theologies of Asa Gray and Charles Kingsley” on Friday, Feb. 20, at Oregon State University. The free public lecture begins at 4 p.m. in Memorial Union Room 208.

CORVALLIS, Ore. -- Oregon State University Press is part of a four-member partnership sharing in a new $1-million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that will establish a collaborative publishing program focused on Indigenous studies.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The faltering economy combined with interest in healthy food choices has led to an increase in calls to Oregon State University Extension Service county offices with questions about growing food in home gardens – and more calls are expected as spring approaches.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Seafood lovers who prefer eating local products will soon have another tool at their disposal – a bar-coding system that traces the history of their fish from ocean to market and introduces the buyer to the fishermen who supplied their meal.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – At a time when local emergency food pantries are facing growing demands, Oregon State University faculty, staff and students collected and donated the equivalent of more than 485,000 pounds of food during OSU’s annual food drive, which took place throughout the month of February.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Two graduate students in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State University have been honored for their academic accomplishments.

NEWPORT, Ore. – An international team of scientists will return this April 3-17 to an undersea volcano near the Mariana Islands northwest of Guam where in 2004 they observed a deep-ocean eruption live for the first time from a remotely operated vehicle, or ROV – a feat they duplicated in 2006.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Two new administrators have been appointed in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University.

Steve Tesch, a professor of silviculture in the OSU Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management, has been named executive associate dean. Brenda McComb, an associate dean for natural resources at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, has been named head of the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – To find out the cause of what’s being called a global “pollination crisis,” researchers at Oregon State University have successfully attached an electronic tracking device to a hummingbird for the first time – and the darting travels of the tiny bird may be pointing the way to at least part of the problem.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Danielle Jansik, a graduate student in environmental engineering at Oregon State University, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and will study next year in Denmark.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – An online short course series on wood-based composite science will begin May 11 to provide professionals with a fundamental knowledge of wood as an engineering material in the manufacture of wood-based composites.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Faculty at Oregon State University Libraries are granting open access to their scholarship and knowledge.

On March 6, library faculty adopted a policy that requires deposit of final published versions of scholarly works in the libraries’ institutional repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU. This is the first open access mandate adopted by a library faculty in the United States, according to Michael Boock, head of digital access services for OSU Libraries.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Imagine taking wood that’s soft and weak and using a combination of heat, steam and pressure to transform it into a product more than twice as strong as Douglas fir. And consider that this wood comes from trees that grow incredibly fast and thrive in the Pacific Northwest.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The American Forest Foundation this week announced a three-year, $510,000 grant to Oregon State University to help address an issue of growing concern to many of America’s 10 million family forest owners: What happens to the forest under the next owners?

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Amid growing concern about rising sea levels triggered by global warming, Oregon Sea Grant researchers at Oregon State University are discovering that rip currents might play a role in coastal erosion because they create rip “embayments” – or low areas on sandy beaches – that expose nearby land to higher rates of erosion by wave activity.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Two Oregon State University researchers have uncovered a pattern of distrust – and sometimes outright antagonism – among physicians at hospitals and midwives who are transporting their homebirth clients to the hospital because of complications.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A special conference at Oregon State University on May 14-15 will focus on the emergence of oceanography in the mid-20th century as a critically important science. The event coincides with the 50th anniversary of oceanography at OSU.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Three universities have launched a four-year study with nearly $1 million in funding that will examine the impact that organic and conventional management practices have on the health of cows at 300 dairy farms in New York, Oregon and Wisconsin.

CORVALLIS, Ore.- A recent study in Oregon suggests that drugs designed for treating the most severe mental illnesses are often prescribed at inappropriately low doses and at considerable expense, for use in conditions where their benefit has not been established.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Nominations are being accepted for the 2009 Outstanding High School Business Educator Awards, presented by the Portland Tribune and the Oregon State University College of Business.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – California’s poet laureate Carol Muske-Dukes will visit the Oregon State University campus on Friday, Feb. 20, to read from her works. The reading, which begins at 7:30 p.m., will be held in the Valley Library main floor rotunda, 201 S.W. Waldo Place, Corvallis, and is free and open to the public.

Documentary narrated by actor Tom Selleck

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A group of students from Oregon State University who want to learn how to balance water management with conflicting interest groups are headed to one of the most arid, conflict-riddled regions of the world to see what lessons it can offer.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – If global warming some day causes the West Antarctic Ice Sheet to collapse, as many experts believe it could, the resulting sea level rise in much of the United States and other parts of the world would be significantly higher than is currently projected, a new study concludes.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Philosopher Kathleen Dean Moore looks at an old growth forest and sees a sanctuary, a place that has spiritual value. Timber company chairman Howard Sohn sees the value in old growth for its ecological characteristics, and wants to remove the guilt associated with forest management.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University has hired a honeybee researcher from Texas A&M University as part of an initiative to help ensure that there are enough healthy honeybees to pollinate Oregon's crops.

NEWPORT, Ore. – A newly published study has found that the oldest trees in the forest also grow the slowest – and they likely aren’t the prettiest.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Elementary students at Marion and Turner schools in Marion County will have the opportunity to learn about the intestinal physiology of a llama, examine a freeze-dried horse leg, compare the differences between a veterinarian and a medical doctor, and help conduct an exam on a dog.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Stacey Harper, a nationally recognized leader in the interactions of nanomaterials with biological systems, has been named as the sixth “signature research faculty fellow” of the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute, or ONAMI.

CORALLIS, Ore. – The second-annual “Recognizing Excellence” week at Oregon State University kicks off on May 11 with a half-day of events focused on faculty researchers, their inventions and commercializing OSU innovations for the marketplace.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University’s Center for Counseling and Psychological Services and the Office of Student Affairs are working to shed light on mental health.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Is there anything really new to be said about the prospects for salmon in the Pacific Northwest? Yes, says a group of experts, including several from Oregon State University, in a series of perspectives collected in a special feature issue of the online journal Ecology and Society.

SAN FRANCISCO – One part of a new Google Earth feature that was announced today, Ocean in Google Earth, will highlight marine reserves – one of the most promising approaches to conserving biodiversity, restoring decimated fish populations and other marine species, and bringing significant parts of the world’s oceans back to health.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Patrick Proden's jobs have taken him from one extreme to another: from the concrete jungle of Baltimore's rough inner city, to a tiny town in rugged Alaska with no indoor plumbing, to the hot and humid coast of Tanzania.

And now Oregon.