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PORTLAND, Ore. – With just a little help from a medication specialist to help get them started on the right track, low-income patients appear to do just as well at taking and benefiting from important prescription drugs as more affluent people with health insurance, a new study suggests.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University will host a full day of activities as part of OSU Day at the Oregon State Fair on Sunday, Aug. 24.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Efforts to reduce the number of loggerhead turtles killed as bycatch by commercial fisheries should focus on protecting those with the highest “reproductive values,” according to the authors of a newly published study.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Stephen Brandt has been named the director of the Oregon Sea Grant Program, based at Oregon State University.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Dan Peterson, formerly assistant vice president for development at University of Washington School of Medicine, has joined the Oregon State University Foundation staff as assistant vice president for gift planning. He will work from the foundation’s Portland office.

NEWPORT, Ore. – A conference called “Sharing the Coast” – designed for persons who teach others about the natural history of the region and the Pacific Ocean, or are simply fascinated by those topics – will be held Aug. 15-17 at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Douglas-fir, state tree of Oregon, towering king of old-growth forests and one of the tallest tree species on Earth, finally stops growing taller because it just can’t pull water any higher, a new study concludes.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Lawrence R. Rodgers, an associate dean at Kansas State University with a track record of liberal arts advocacy, fundraising, and creating new learning opportunities for students, has been named dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University.