Health & Wellness
Trygve's Triumph: A Norwegian Fjord's fight with EPM
Meet Trygve, a young Norwegian Fjord horse owned by Alexandria Harris and her family. This video chronicles Trygve’s fight against equine protozoal myeloencephalitis at the Oregon State University Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital. "He means a lot to me and my family. He's a very sweet horse," said Harris.
OSU 2Play Lab provides physical activity outlet for kids from Jackson Street Youth Services
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.
Where in the world is professor Brad Cardinal? Thailand
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.
Vet Med: From Slow Heart to Steady Beat: Watch Dog Maximus Get a Pacemaker
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.
OSU bioengineering researchers send cardiac tissue cells to space to test effects of low gravity
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.
Where in the world is professor Sunil Khanna? Botswana
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.