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Oregon State employees, students and visitors can now rent pedal bikes and seated electric scooters across the Corvallis campus, thanks to a new relationship with micromobility vendor

What’s new:  

If you’re not making any changes to your OSU-sponsored health insurance this year, you do not need to complete the open enrollment process this October unless the following reasons apply:

Cases where you still need to participate in open enrollment:

What:

A new OSU contract with provider Corestream means both full- and part-time employees can sign up for several types of optional insurance plans separate from PEBB health benefits during open enrollment Oct. 1-31.

Corestream is offering OSU employees discounted rates for accident, critical illness and hospital insurance, as well as car, home and pet insurance. There’s also a free suite of retail discounts.

When:

For new students arriving at Oregon State University, the first few weeks can be overwhelming. There are so many new things to take in at once, from new housing, new food options, a new city and the seemingly daunting task of new college courses.

College of Health assistant professor of practice and child care policy researcher Megan Pratt recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to testify before U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren about the challenges facing the child care industry. (Watch their conversation here.)

On a warm day in mid-August, Marianne Dickson stood in the middle of her sprawling garden, checking on her marigolds. Smiling under a broad brimmed sunhat, she surveyed her domain as hens clucked in the distance.

Students are feeling a lot of concern and skepticism about generative AI, Ecampus researchers found in a recent survey, and the results indicated a need for some level of guidance around the use of generative AI such as ChatGPT or Copilot.

At this year’s American Psychological Association conference in Seattle, OSU professor Kathleen Bogart received the association’s award for contributions toward advancing disability in psychology.

The conference, attended by more than 10,000 people, also included the inaugural disability networking event hosted by the APA and the Disability Advocacy & Research Network, which Bogart co-founded in 2021, for disabled psychologists from a wide range of disciplines to get to know each other.