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The Sky’s the Limit

Friday, June 3rd, 2011

In high school, Kristine Wheeler helped raise more than $1,500 for a sister school in El Salvador. To do it, she and her team hosted a dance. They asked local businesses for donations, and sold basketball rosters. Wheeler helped raise awareness in Spanish classes, and started a club to educate students on the country of [...]

Learning better management

Thursday, February 24th, 2011

During mornings throughout last summer, Allison Field left her home in LaGrande, Ore., by 4:30 to get to work by 6. Work, in Field’s case, meant the rugged ridges and steep-sided canyons of the Blue Mountains, about 15 miles from the one-street town of Troy. Field, who had just graduated from Oregon State with a [...]

“Songs for the Blue Ocean” symposium free & open to the public

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

OSU is hosting a major public symposium called “Song for the Blue Ocean” that will feature nationally recognized authors, scholars and scientists exploring the state of the world’s oceans through science, arts and ethics. The free, public event will be held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 18-19, at LaSells Stewart Center on the OSU campus. Speakers [...]

Building Success

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Hyung Seok Lee has always been a hard worker. He learned it from his parents. In his native South Korea, he worked at a KFC, worked 12-hour shifts at a taco stand slinging food. He ran deliveries for the fashion industry. He followed his passion for clothes and worked in retail fashion, and learned how [...]

From Sea to Table

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

If you think about the fact that Laura Anderson grew up in a small fishing town on the coast of Washington and spent her younger years working in restaurants, it’s not a surprise that she co-owns and operates Local Ocean Seafoods, a renowned restaurant and market in Newport, Ore. Her father, after all, was a [...]

Oregon State University’s Top 10 of 2010

Thursday, December 30th, 2010

If you spent the entire year researching glaciers, in Antarctica, this list will give you a recap of what you missed. It probably goes without saying, but this is far from comprehensive. It was an almost impossible task to restrict it to only ten items. These are just some of the incredible moments, events and [...]

Building Momentum

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Who would have imagined that a student working his way through college as a dishwasher would end up winning the National Medal of Science? Or that game-changing technology for the wood-products industry would come from watching mussels grip a rocky shoreline? Over the past 10 years, Oregon State University students, staff and faculty have shown [...]

Urban visionaries

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

John and Scott Fregonese are visionaries. They look at a cityscape and imagine the possibilities. The father-son duo of the Portland-based Fregonese Associates urban and regional planning have carved a niche for themselves by creating innovative software that helps planners visualize potential changes to communities. They also ensure that the members of those communities have [...]

Tomorrow’s Willamette Innovators Night will showcase grassroots entrepreneurship

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Innovation comes in many forms: life-saving robots, microbial fuel cells, carbonated fruit, plant-based lubricants and adhesives, and clothing that adjusts to your lifestyle. These are among the ideas that are fueling start-up companies in Oregon and will be featured at Willamette Innovators Night (WiN), Nov. 11 at Oregon State University. Mixing research, creativity and business, [...]

Fashion, guilt free

Monday, November 1st, 2010

Sitting on a stool in the middle of her downtown Corvallis store, Nancy Kneisel throws back her head and laughs as she banters with a customer who has just entered the store. Kneisel rarely sits, but she always laughs, and her upbeat voice is constantly greeting customers as they walk into Second Glance, the re-sale [...]

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