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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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Portland is Powered by Orange

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

Water — Food — Energy — necessary ingredients for a great city. And Oregon State University is working throughout Portland to make a positive difference in all three. Through research and partnerships with people and organizations, we are improving water quality, encouraging locally sourced food and taking sustainable living from idea to reality. Our faculty, [...]

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Balancing Act

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Congratulations to the women’s gymnastics team, who finished eighth at nationals – their best finish since 1996! Senior Mandi Rodriguez medaled at the NCAA Championships’ Individual Event with a third place finish on the vault. Mandi, who is majoring in exercise and sport science, is one of six gymnasts from the College of Health and [...]

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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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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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Oregon State alum receives prestigious graduate fellowship

Friday, April 16th, 2010

Taralyn Tan, a 2008 graduate of Oregon State University in biochemistry and biophysics, has been awarded a Phi Kappa Phi Marcus L. Urann Fellowship, which provides $15,000 toward her graduate study in neuroscience at Harvard University. Tan was the recipient of the 2010 OSU Chapter of Phi Kappa Phi award, which put her in the [...]

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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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Heading home

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Oregon State professor and head of the School of Civil and Construction Engineering Scott Ashford will be in Chile for the next week, as a part of a 30-member scientific team that will be studying the effects of the recent earthquake. Ashford will be reporting on his experiences in the Powered by Orange blog. The [...]

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Why Chile fared better than Haiti

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010