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News Archive
College of Engineering
Aug. 28, 2020
OSU spinoff NuScale passes major regulatory milestone as feds sign off on reactors’ safety
CORVALLIS, Ore. – NuScale Power, founded by Oregon State University Professor Emeritus José Reyes during his time at OSU, has marked a major regulatory milestone on the way to supplying power plant developers with small modular reactors designed by the company.
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College of Liberal Arts
Aug. 28, 2020
OSU’s American Strings webcast presents An Evening with Rosanne Cash on Sept. 15
Singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, eldest daughter of country music legend Johnny Cash, will perform next month as part of the American Strings Series organized by Oregon State University’s College of Liberal Arts and the OSU Alumni Association.
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General OSU
Aug. 26, 2020
Corvallis sewer surveillance: Novel coronavirus still present but trending downward
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Genetic evidence in Corvallis wastewater of the virus that causes COVID-19 has been consistently detected at moderate levels for the past month following a late July spike, said Tyler Radniecki, associate professor of environmental engineering at Oregon State University.
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General OSU
Aug. 26, 2020
Oregon State receives Oregon Health Authority grant to expand Coronavirus Sewer Surveillance
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Oregon State University has received a $1.2 million grant from the Oregon Health Authority to expand its Coronavirus Sewer Surveillance project throughout Oregon to comb community wastewater systems for genetic evidence of the virus that causes COVID-19.
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College of Agricultural Sciences
Aug. 26, 2020
Native desert bighorn sheep in ecologically intact areas are less vulnerable to climate change
The researchers used genetic information from more than 1,600 individuals in 62 populations in and around 10 National Park Service units in four states – Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah.
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College of Engineering
Aug. 24, 2020
Oregon State, University of Washington receive another $5 million to advance nanotech innovation
The National Science Foundation has awarded an additional $5 million to Oregon State University and the University of Washington to continue leading a nanotechnology research partnership that’s already enabled breakthroughs in areas such as glucose monitoring for diabetics, better solar cells, improved battery electrodes and more energy-efficient fiber optic networks
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College of Health
Aug. 24, 2020
Natural disasters must be unusual or deadly to prompt local climate policy change, study finds
Natural disasters alone are not enough to motivate local communities to engage in climate change mitigation or adaptation, a new study from Oregon State University found.
Rather, policy change in response to extreme weather events appears to depend on a combination of factors, including fatalities, sustained media coverage, the unusualness of the event and the political makeup of the community.