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It’s Urban Horticulture Field Day!

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

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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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 [...]

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Oregon State’s Day of Service a success!

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

“Woo-hoo! Thank you Beavers,” came the shout of a Eugene runner wearing the green and yellow of the University of Oregon Ducks, passing a group of about 35 orange and black Oregon Staters who worked Saturday morning to clear hazardous brush along one of the city’s busiest riverfront paths. The group in Eugene joined volunteers [...]

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Alumni mobilizing en masse for ‘Community Day of Service’

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Among the many reasons to be proud of Oregon State University is the number of alumni who have already stepped up to take part in this Saturday’s “Community Day of Service” (May 22) for projects spread across 13 cities in five states and one location halfway around the world — Qatar! In only its second-annual [...]

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Pet Day is back!

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Veterinary students at Oregon State University will coordinate one of the most popular annual spring events on campus this Saturday, May 1, when the OSU College of Veterinary Medicine hosts its 23rd annual Pet Day celebration. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., the college will open its doors to two- and four-legged visitors for tours, [...]

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Celebrate Earth Week at Oregon State

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

There’s still plenty of time to get in on Earth Week activities at Oregon State. We can’t think of a better place than OSU to show how education and research play critical roles in preserving our environment. We are the nation’s top-rated university in conservation biology, forestry and agriculture, and our faculty and students consistently [...]

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Better Living in Portland

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

If you live in or around Portland, chances are you’ve heard of the Energy Trust Better Living Show. In its third year, the free, green living expo is the Northwest’s largest sustainability lifestyle show and takes place this year 3/26 through 3/28. The show is designed to empower people to become more mindful consumers by [...]

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Oregon State’s MU is collecting funds for Haiti

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

You can contribute to the relief effort in Haiti simply by walking to the MU. The Memorial Union is acting as a collecting and communication agent for Haitian Quake relief. The MU has a pre-existing partnership with Mercy Corp out of Portland for past efforts on disasters. ISOSU has agreed to act as the fund [...]

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All I want for the Holidays…

Friday, December 11th, 2009

This is my wish list for the Holiday season. Hopefully I have been good enough to deserve a few of them. Oh, and yes I am a die hard Beaver fan, alum and current staff member. So my list is pretty biased, but you want what you want, right? I want the Beaver football team [...]

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It’s a Haunted Homecoming

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Homecoming (and Halloween) at Oregon State is upon us! And Oregon State’s Alumni Association is planning a host of events that should be a blast. Some of the most popular are: The tug-o-war, the finals of which involve students trying to pull each other to the ground in front of a full crowd at Reser. [...]