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Optimizing Energy

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Imagine a black box with knobs on the outside that you can turn. If you input some fuel, the box produces electricity. By adjusting the knobs you can change the power output, but there’s a catch—you’re not sure how to turn the knobs to produce the most power.

Becoming a Catalyst

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

It’s Engineering Expo day at Oregon State, which means Kelley Engineering Center is teeming with hundreds of students, all eager to showcase their projects, research and ideas. One of them is Mikkel VandeBergh, a senior majoring in environmental engineering, whose mission at the expo – and beyond – is to talk about biodiesel.

Community Conscience

Monday, April 4th, 2011

Before Lauren Fein considered public health as a career, she worked as an AmeriCorps volunteer after graduating from college. She knew that in her position she would be tasked with moving to Hood River, Ore., from her home in Boise, and developing a program designed to prevent teenage pregnancy throughout the county.

Green Education

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

For Matt Shinderman, teaching felt as natural as being outdoors with his grandfather as a child. The senior instructor at OSU-Cascades blends his passion for both in his work.

Listening Post

Friday, March 11th, 2011

Like some peace and quiet? You can find it where scientists listen for earthquakes. On a remote hilltop west of Corvallis, John Nabelek unlocks a door into an underground bunker covered with bushes and blackberry vines. Inside, cold air bathes a rack of electronic gear fed by power cables that lie like snakes along the [...]

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 [...]

The Melting Point

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

The Collier Glacier captured Cody Beedlow’s attention the first time he saw it. He was eight, on his first backpacking trip with his father and sister in the Three Sisters Wilderness. When he laid eyes on Collier he thought, “Look at all that snow. I could ski on it all year long,” he says. Nearly [...]

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 [...]