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CORVALLIS, Ore. – Like its terrestrial cousins, the world’s most active underwater volcano goes through periods of structural building and collapsing, but new studies show that the cycles of construction and destruction are extraordinarily compressed – in a matter of years instead of millennia.

YACHATS, Ore. – The Oregon State University Extension office in Lincoln County is receiving an increasing number of inquiries from people who want to know what they can do themselves, on a local level, to become energy self-reliant.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A culinary exploration of Southeast Asia and a screening of the award-winning documentary, “War/Dance,” are among the events set for Oregon State University’s observance of International Education Week, Nov. 17-21

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Averill Curdy, V. Penelope Pelizzon and Jeffrey Thomson will read poetry as part of a Symposium of Younger Poets, an event designed to showcase young, diverse poets early in their careers. The event will be held on Friday, Nov. 21, beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Valley Library Main Rotunda at Oregon State University.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Registration has opened for an 11-week course offered for the first time outside Eugene that teaches individuals to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – “Discovering the World Through GIS,” the eighth-annual GIS Day celebration, is set for Wednesday, Nov. 19, at Oregon State University, and organizers say hundreds of students are expected for the highly interactive, kid-oriented event.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Anna Pakenham has been named the 2009 recipient of the Oregon Sea Grant Legislative Fellowship, which places a graduate student with the legislature's coastal caucus to provide technical expertise on marine and coastal issues.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The move towards a degree concept called the professional science masters – a terminal degree that’s a science-oriented version of the MBA – is now picking up speed nationally, as more businesses see the need for graduates who have both business and scientific literacy.