Learning While Serving in Puerto Rico
By Elizabeth Lopez, Botany & Plant Pathology major, Class of 2024 Gio Soto is an undergraduate student in Crop and Soil science who participated in a recent service-learning trip to…
Oregon State Researcher Leads International Effort to Protect Basking Sharks in Ireland
By Heidi Happonen, Photos courtesy of Dr. Alexandra G. McInturf Dr. Alexandra (Alex) G. McInturf is a postdoctoral fellow with the Big Fish Lab at the Hatfield Marine Science Center…
OSU Collections: Largest Wildlife Specimens
We spent an afternoon capturing footage of the most impressive specimens in our collection. (Behind-the-scenes video above.) More than 250,000 fish are preserved in the basement of Nash Hall at…
Depth of Field: A Set-and-Forget Water Sampler
The OPEnSampler, created by OSU’s Openly Published Environmental Lab, autonomously collects and stores research-grade samples of water or wastewater in the field. 24 airtight containers have valves that seal as…
Research, Readers and Reinvention
A look at what surveying our readers taught us about Oregon’s Agricultural Progress. Oregon’s Agricultural Progress (OAP) has a 66-year legacy of award-winning reporting on the research taking place in…
Treat your Christmas tree to vodka? Only if you want to waste it.
As we take a seasonal look at the holiday tradition of Christmas trees and OSU’s history of supporting Oregon’s Christmas tree industry, we thought we might share a few snapshots…
Collected Curiosities
In the spirit of the Halloween season, Peter Konstantinidis, curator of vertebrate collections at Oregon State University, takes us on a tour of deep-sea fish—and a few scare-inducing mammals and other…
Oregon’s Land-Grant Legacy Timeline
In 1862, at the height of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed the law that created the nation’s first land-grant colleges. This is the story of Oregon’s land-grant university and…
In Search of the Granted Land
In preparing for the 150th anniversary of Oregon’s land grant university, we found ourselves wondering: where’s the land that was granted? Like many people, we’d assumed that the land that…