The Oak Creek Center for Urban Horticulture will have a public field day Wednesday, Aug. 25, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oregon State University students and faculty will share information and ideas about vegetable gardening, urban chickens, annual trials, hedge-row trials, green towers, beekeeping and green roofs. The Oak Creek Center is on the [...]
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Oregon State named “Cool School” by Sierra Club
Tuesday, August 17th, 2010
The Sierra Club has released its “Cool Schools” rankings based on the ‘greenness’ of participating universities, and Oregon State has the highest green ranking in the state, and is listed as 24th in the nation.
Powered by Internships – Oregon Explorer
Monday, August 16th, 2010
Tyler Barns graduated in June from Oregon State’s Professional Science Master’s program. While he was here he worked as an intern for Oregon Explorer, a digital library that houses information on the state’s natural resources. Currently, he is working as a biologist for WRA Environmental Consultants in San Rafael, Calif. He specializes in rare plant [...]
Going the Distance
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
For Callum Read, part of the experience of attending the International Baccalaureate Student World Conference at Oregon State was getting here. When found out he’d been chosen to go, his mother told him he should bike from their home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to Corvallis, where 300 International Baccalaureate high school students from 10 countries [...]
The Clover Finder
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Recently NPR reporter Ari Shapiro caught up with Marine Geology and Geophysics PhD student Summer Praetorious. But they didn’t talk about the technical stuff…instead they talked about luck. Shapiro had heard from a former professor of Praetorious’ that she had a knack for finding four-leaf clovers. And Shapiro got curious. Check out the story that [...]
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