News Archive

CORVALLIS, Ore. – In the same way that winter is commonly known to be the “flu season,” a new study suggests that the dog days of summer may well be the “bacterial infection” season.

PORTLAND, Ore. – Children who don’t get the food they need are at a high risk for life-long health problems. A new online course has been developed by the Childhood Hunger Initiative of Oregon and Oregon State University’s Ecampus program to help teach health care professionals how to better identify families that are experiencing hunger and poor nutrition.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – “eXtension,” an Internet-based educational partnership of the 74 institutions of the land-grant university system in the United States, has been awarded the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary's Honor Award.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – David S. Luft, the Horning Professor in the Humanities in Oregon State University’s History Department, will give a free public lecture on the humanities on Monday, Nov. 10, at OSU.

DENVER, Colorado – Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized Oregon State University’s commitment to “green power” with a 2008 Green Power Leadership Award to be presented tonight as part of the National Renewable Energy Marketing Conference.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – A new study by researchers in Oregon and British Columbia has found that survival of juvenile salmon and steelhead during their migration to the sea through two large Northwest rivers – the Columbia and the Fraser – is remarkably similar despite one major difference.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The College of Engineering at Oregon State University has named a prominent expert in sustainable forestry and conservation issues as its new director of sustainability programs, an initiative designed to coordinate and expand sustainable construction and engineering concepts throughout the college’s curriculum, collaborative research and outreach programs.

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Helen Diggs, a nationally recognized leader in veterinary medicine and animal welfare, has been named director of the Lois Bates Acheson Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Oregon State University. Diggs, who also will serve as associate dean of OSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, will begin her new duties on Feb. 1 (2009).