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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 [...]

Every Bit Counts

Monday, November 29th, 2010

For the past two football seasons, OSU Athletics and Campus Recycling have teamed up in an effort to reduce waste and promote recycling at home football games – they recruit and coordinate volunteers to rove through the tailgating areas, as well as collect recycling at stadium gates. This video honors their efforts, and that of [...]

A pioneer honors diversity

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

Cover photo courtesy Ryan K Morris Photography and the National Science & Technology Medals Foundation. *President Obama will be conferring the National Medal of Science upon Warren Washington and several others on Nov. 17 at 2:20 p.m., PST. The ceremony will be streaming live on the White House website. Also, watch an interview with Washington [...]

A Moral Ground

Friday, October 15th, 2010

While the scientific and economic evidence for combating environmental destruction may give us compelling reasons for acting, Kathleen Dean Moore argues that there are also powerful moral reasons to act – reasons based on justice, compassion, and care for future generations. More than 80 global leaders writing on the moral obligation to act to mitigate [...]

How Spinner Dolphins “Dance”

Friday, October 1st, 2010

Kelly Benoit-Bird, a biological oceanographer from Oregon State University, is one of 23 people chosen as 2010 MacArthur Fellows, which are more popularly known as “Genius Awards.” This video animation is part of her fascinating research on spinner dolphins, which documented for the first time how these animals use teamwork to feed more successfully. Dolphin [...]

Real Genius

Tuesday, September 28th, 2010

Kelly Benoit-Bird, a pioneering young oceanographer from Oregon State University, has been selected as one of 23 recipients nationwide of prestigious 2010 MacArthur Fellowships. Popularly called “Genius Awards,” the fellowships include a $500,000 stipend to further the recipient’s scholarship. They are presented annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Benoit-Bird, 34, studies [...]

OSU experts in the Gulf

Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Two Oregon State researchers have headed to the Gulf of Mexico to monitor the effects of April’s Deepwater Horizon spill. Sea Grant director Stephen Brandt is currently in the Gulf – he’s studying how the spill is affecting fish and other marine life there. Brandt will be blogging throughout his trip. Three days ago Brandt [...]

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 [...]