In this photo from an unrelated past project, Will Massey plays with elementary-age kids on the playground.
Every week for the past seven years, teens and tweens from Jackson Street Youth Services have been coming to Langton Hall at Oregon State University to take a break from the shelter and do what kids do best: play.
Cardinal poses with Amphorn Sriyapai, dean of Kasetsart's Faculty of Sports and Health Science, who nominated him for his honorary doctorate. Sriyapai has also previously been a visiting scholar at OSU.
Warning: This video contains surgical imagery.
Maximus is a four-year-old German shepherd in need of a pacemaker to fix his slow heart rate. The surgery is performed by Dr. Charlotte Donnan and team at the Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital at the Oregon State University Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine.
Ivana Hernandez holding the box containing cardiac cells bound for the International Space Station. Photo courtesy of Space Tango.
As part of a larger research grant, a bioengineering student and professor at Oregon State University sent three types of cardiac cells on a recent SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station.
The materials orbited for 21 days in November, and once they return to OSU in mid-December, the researchers will study the effects very low gravity (microgravity) had on cell growth and health.
Sunil Khanna is a professor and director of the Center for Global Health in Oregon State University’s College of Health. He also leads the center’s Botswana Global Health Initiative, which takes undergraduate and graduate students from across OSU to Botswana every year, where they gain hands-on experience in community health and cross-cultural training.
Faculty Staff Fitness at Oregon State University started with a single class in 1984.
Now, the program offers more than 30 classes, including pickleball, country line dancing, adaptive exercise and — starting winter term — hula fitness. Between 1,000 and 1,500 people participate each term.
Oregon State University health faculty are using grant dollars to help create a culture of belonging and to ensure teaching practices are rooted in equity.
In the past two years, OSU’s College of Health has received grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation totaling $475,000 to work on “Transforming Academia for Equity.”
